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the strongly rugulose pronotmn, the distmctly elevated median 

 carina of the pronotimi, and in having seven outer tibial spines 

 instead of eight. 



LEPTOMERINTHOPRORA iEQUALIS, new species. 



Type. — Female. Bahia, Brazil. March 21, 1883. (A. Koebele.) 

 Cat. No. 12094, U.S.N.M. 



This new species differs from Leptomerinthoprora hrevipennis from 

 Pozo Azul, Costa Rica, in the less angnlate fastigium, the less sulcate 

 frontal costa, the more compressed pronotmn with siibparallel 

 lateral angles and obtuse-angulate caudal margin, the longer and 

 less trigonal tegmina, and slenderer ovipositor jaws. 



Size medium; form moderately robust, slightly compressed; sur- 

 face of the pronotum and plem-a strongl}'^ punctate, the dorsum of 

 the prozona with the punctations weak; head and abdomen sparsely 

 and very shallowly punctate. Head with the exposed dorsal length 

 about tlu-ee-fiiths the dorsal length of the pronotum; occiput moder- 



FlG. 32.— I-EPTOMERINTHOPRORA ,EQUALIS. LATERAL VIEW OF TYPE. (X 3) 



ately arcuate, hardly elevated dorsad of the level of the pronotum, 

 gently declivent in the interocular region to the fastigium, the width 

 of the interocular region two-thirds the greatest fastigial width; 

 fastigium very slightly acute-anguiate in shape, the apex rather 

 broadly subtruncate, the length of the fastigium about equal to the 

 width of the interocular space, surface of the fastigium very slightly 

 depressed within the margin; fastigio-facial angle obtuse, the inter- 

 antennal region somewhat produced, the angle of the face distinctly 

 retreating, the inter-antennal portion rounded; frontal costa moder- 

 ately broad, subequal dorsad, regularly narrowed at its junction with 

 the fastigium, distinctly but not sharply constricted ventrad of the 

 ocellus, very slightly inflated immediately dorsad of the clypeal 

 suture, sulcate from the ocellus ventrad, plane and punctate dorsad; 

 lateral facial carinse prominent, regularly but not greatly divergent 

 ventrad; eyes prominent, subovate in outline, the length about half 

 again that of the infra-ocular portion of the gen?e; antennas about 



