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Description. — Female. Head small, not prominent, inserted deeply 

 into the pronotum; vertex moderately broad, nearly as broad as the 

 int^rocuiar space; front nearly straight, broadly convex. Eyes of 

 moderate size, scarcelj^ prominent, nearly round, slightly flattened 

 anteriorly. Antennae slender, more than two times as long as the 

 body. Pronotum scarcely produced posteriorly over the basal seg- 

 ment of the abdomen; lateral lobes shallow, not more than one-half 

 as deep as long, nearly vertical below, above rounded into the disk 

 without indications of lateral carinte at any point; humeral sinus 

 slight, very shallow and broad; pronotal disk broadly rounded above, 

 with a slight but distinct transverse sulcus on the anterior fifth ; pos- 

 terior margin broadh' and shallowl}" concave, the 

 anterior margin subtruncate, very slightly con- 

 cave. Legs long and moderately slender; anterior 

 coxal spines long and sharp; posterior femora 

 moderately heav^}^, apically parallel for a little more 

 than one-fourth of their length, armed below on 

 the inner carina only with a few small stout sharp 

 l>lack spinules; anterior tibise armed above on the 

 outer margin only with three spines. Elytra con- 

 cealed beneath the pronotum, mere lateral pads, 

 black in color with light veins. Abdomen plump, 

 not carinate; cerci simple, conical, acute, about 

 three times as long as the basal width; supraanal 

 plate small, triangular, entire; last abdominal seg- 

 ment mesially incised apicall3^ Ovipositor slightly 

 curved upward, longer than the posterior femora, 

 the tip smooth. 



The color is described b}' Scudder as follows: 



Apple green, conspicuously marked with a pair of latero- 

 dorsal white stripes, edged on both sides with dull pink, 

 running from behind the upper edge of the eyes across the 

 prothorax and abdomen, on the prothorax converging to 

 the anterior sulcus and thereafter subparallel (marking the 

 position of the lateral carinse, were they present) on the 

 abdomen parallel, but at first diverging feebly and then 

 converging a little more; the lower margin of the lateral lobes of the pronotum 

 edged as broadly with white, the white margined above with pink, and this white 

 stripe continues forward upon the head embracing the lower margin of the eye; 

 the vertical sides of the fastigium are white basally, edged above with pink; eyes 

 yellow with a large dark purplish patch; antennae with the basal joints green, 

 beyond luteous, soon passing into testaceous. Legs green, the fore and middle 

 femora faintly infuscated. Dorsal scutes of abdomen edged posteriorly and infe- 

 rioriy with white, the white margined within with pink. Ovipositor green, becoming 

 testaceous apically. 



Measiu'ements. — Length, pronotum, 7 mm.; anterior femora, 8; pos- 

 terior femora, 27; ovipositor, 29. Width, pronotum at the posterior 

 border, 5.5. 



Fig. 40.— Eremopedes 



ALB0FASCIAT.4. ADULT 

 FEMALE (after SCUD- 

 DER). 



