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on the caudal femora, (lorsuiu of the proiiotiun, gena^, and ventral 

 portions of the lateral lobes being (jiiite striking, relieved as it is by 

 the otherwise dull color of the insect. Two of the females are quite 

 uniformly colored, the dark femoral bars being represented only by 

 the faintest suggestion and the usual pale bars on the head and 

 lateral lobes of the pronotum are not at all indicated. The general 

 shade of one of the uniform specimens is very dull purplish red. 



This species is now known to range from Chapada to Villa Rica, 

 Paraguay. 



JODACRIS FURCILLATA, new species. 



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

 July (male) and August (female). (H. H. Smith.) Cat. No. 12093, 

 U.S.N.M. 



Allied to J. ferruginea but differing in the slightly smaller size, 

 the proportionately slenderer form, and in the shorter and more 

 distinctly incurved cerci of the male. 



Fig. 30.— JoDACRis furcillata. Lateral view of male type. (X 41) 



Size rather small; form moderately slender; surface punctate, the 

 abdomen of the female much smoother than that of the male. Head 

 with its dorsal length about equal to (female) or slightly exceeding 

 (male) the length of the prozona; occiput very slightly rounded; 

 interocular region narrow, slightly (female) or distinctly (male) more 

 than half the greatest fastigial width; fastigium rounded obtuse 

 angulate, the greatest width more than the length, the apex sub- 

 truncate, the surface when seen from the side somewhat declivent, 

 slightly excavate mesad and in the intermarginal region; fastigio- 

 facial angle obtuse, the line of the face considerably retreating 

 ventrad, the interantennal portion very slightly inflated; frontal 

 costa of moderate breadtli dorsad, slightly expanded between the 

 antennae, not sulcate, strongly punctate, immediately ventrad of the 

 ocellus the costa is strongly and sharply constricted, ventrad of 



