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slightly (male) or considerably (female) short of the apex of the 

 abdomen, robust, somewhat compressed, pagina regularly and closely 

 patterned, genicular lobes slightly acute-angulate; caudal tibiae 

 slightly shorter than the femora, lateral margin with seven to eight 

 spines, internal margin with nine to ten spines; caudal tarsi slender, 

 elongate, second joint very slightly more than half the length of the 

 proximal one. 



General color of the dorsum russet in the male, mars browTi in the 

 female. The broad postocular bar extending caudad over the dorsal 

 half of the lateral lobes and dorsum of the pleura bistre; face drab; 

 genae and ventral portions of the lateral lobes and of the pleura naples 

 yellow. Tegmina of the dorsal color in the male, Vandyke brown in 

 the female, the surface entirely covered \nth a mottled lighter and 

 darker pattern of small subquadrate blotches; wings very pale 

 brownish hyaline, very faintly clouded at the apex. Abdomen with 

 its dorsal and lateral aspects brownish black; entire venter tawny- 

 olive, darker on the nieso- and metasternum. Caudal femora yellow 

 with the entire external face more or less distinctly clouded "wdth 

 very dull brownish purple; internal face with three spots of dark 

 brown, one median, one pre-apical, one genicular; caudal tibiae very 

 dull glaucous becoming dark brownish distad, spines tipped with 

 blackish brown. Eyes raw umber; antenntie dull rufous. 



Mcasurcmentfi. 



Three paratypic specimens have been examined in addition to 

 the types, one being a male, the others females, the months repre- 

 sented being August and November. There is no variation of impor- 

 tance except some slight difference in color, the paratypic male being 

 quite yellowish. 



Genus JODACRIS Giglio-Tos. 



JODACRIS FERRUGINEA (Giglio-Tos). 



Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil. September, October, and NoA^em- 

 ber; one specimen labeled as taken in campo. (H. H. Smith.) One 

 male, five females. 



These specimens have been compared with Paraguayan repre- 

 sentatives and prove to be inseparable. The male individual is 

 more strikingly colored than any of the females, the yellowish ochre 



