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arched cephalo-caiulad, cephalic angle of the disk considerably 

 produced, caudal angle veiy greatly produced. Tegmina ample in 

 the male, rather short in the female; costal lobe well developed. 

 Wings well developed; axillaiy area slightly inflated in the male. 

 Caudal tibia? with the spines of the two margins subequal in length; 

 apical spine present on the external margin. 



The sui)erficial resemblance of tliis genus to the (Edipodine genera 

 Tropidoloplius and Pyrgodera is considerable. 



Type. — Callonotacris lophophora, new species. 



CALLONOTACRIS LOPHOPHORA/' new species. 



Types. — Male and female. Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil. Janu- 

 aiT (female), April (male). (H; H. Smith.) Cat. No. 12087, 

 U.'S.N.M. 



Size moderately large; surface of the head smooth, of the pronotum 

 and pleura rugulose-punctate. Head with the exposed dorsal length 



Fig. l.i.— CALLONOTACRIS LOPHOPHORA. LATERAL VIEW OF MALE TYPE. ( X 1 J) 



equal to half (female) or two-thirds (male) the width across the eyes; 

 occiput very slightly rounded, dipping sharply into the fossulate 

 disk of the fastigium in the male, less sharply so in the female; disk of 

 ,the fastigium moderate fossulate in the male, slight!}^ so in the female, 

 a veiy slightly raised margin surrounding the lateral and caudal 

 borders of this area, in addition to which there is also a trace of a 

 medio-longitudinal line of a similar structure, this latter being dis- 

 tinctly marked in the male and hardly appreciable in the female; 

 cephalic portion of the fastigium with a slight medio-longitudinal 

 sulcus, cephalic margins of the fastigium sharply compressed and 

 passing ventrad as the lateral margins of the frontal costa; lateral 

 foveolae prominent, set in a subtrigonal area; fastigio-facial angle 



aAo(poi, signifying crest; (popa, signifying carrying. 

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