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ON SOME BRAZILIAN GRASSHOPPERS— REHN. 



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lonotacri 

 lophophora. 

 Dorsal out- 

 line of head 

 and prono- 

 tum of male 



TYPE. ( < IJ) 



(female) times in the length of the te^i^men; costal lobe well developed, 

 very large and more apparent in the female than in the male, sutural 

 margin nearly straight, apex rotundato-truncate. Wings 

 reacliing to the tips of the tegmina, quite broad in the 

 male, the axillary field with the margin arcuato-lobate, 

 apex of the wing rotundato-truncate. Prosternal spine 

 compressed, slightly retrorse, the apex caudad; interspace 

 between the mesosternal lobes subquadrate in both sexes; 

 interspace between the metasternal lobes transverse. 

 Abdomen moderately compressed ; supra-anal })late of the 

 male acute-trigonal, tectate, the median sulcus narrow 

 and not well marked; cerci of the male small, simple, 

 styliform; subgenital plate compressed, slightly rostrate, 

 the apex veiy acute when seen from the dorsum, moder- 

 ately acute when seen from the side, ventral face of apex 

 with, a slight ridge; dorsal ovipositor jaws of the female fig. it.-cal- 

 with the edges unarmed. Cephalic and median limbs 

 rather slender, moderately elongate. Caudal femora reach- 

 ing to (female) or considerably exceeding (male) the apex 

 of the abdomen, moderately compressed, moderately robust 

 but tapering in the distal four-fifths and wath a ven' 

 slight dorsal concavity in the female, margins well elevated, pattern 

 irregular; caudal tibiae equal to the femora in length, 

 rather robust, very slightly sinuate, spines robust, ten 

 (female) to eleven (male) in number on the external 

 margin, eight in number on the internal. 



General color j)itchy brown, lined along the crest 



with orange-ochraceous and marked on the interocular 



region and fastigium with the same color, bars of which 



cover the region along the supplementary facial carinse, 



reaching to the base of the labrum. Tegmina with 



obliquely transverse series of blotches of cream-buft", 



])reaking up toward the margins and toward the apex. 



Caudal femora with three incomplete annuli of the 



same color; caudal tibiae orange-ochraceous, blackish 



distad and proximad, spines blackish at the bases and 



at the tips. Cephalic and median limbs blackish, wdth 



some obscure markings of dull cream-buff. Wings 



geranium red, margined with blackish, that of the 



NoTA^cRisLip^Ho- ^^nterior field broader than that of the remainder, disk 



PHORA. Dorsal with numbers of quadrate and oblong blotches of 



and'^'^p^onotum brownish black. Abdomen with the sides of the dorsal 



OF FEMALE TYPE, scgments spotted along the edge with ochraceous- 



rufous, a large blotch of the same color at the dorsal 



extremity of each ventral abdominal segment. Antennae tipped with 



buffy; eyes chestnut. 



