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diverging caudad; frontal fastigium narrowly in contact with the fas- 

 tigium of the vertex; eyes globose, nioderateh' prominent; infraoeular 

 region with a flattened, rugiilose impressed area, longer than lu'oad, 

 but of indetinite shape; antennae in length about equal to the head, 

 pronotum and tegmina together, first and second joints rather large, 

 remainder slender and filiform, scrobes large and extending almost 

 to the level of the ventral portion of the e^^es. Pronotum deplanate 

 dorsad, lateral angles distinct but rounded cephalad, caudal half of the 

 dorsum Avith a slightly depressed reniform shagreened area; cephalic 

 margin arcuato-emarginate, caudal margin arcuate with a very slight 

 median emargination; lateral lo})es deeper than long, the margins 

 rounded and with a distinct but rather shallow humeral 

 sinus. Tegmina elongate-ovate, the greatest width being 

 contained three times in the length, cephalic and caudal 

 margins arcuate, the latter slightly more than the for- 

 mer, apex narrowly rounded; mediastine vein ])ut fainth' 

 indicated proximad, median vein with its forks reach- 

 ing the caudal margin. Wings moderately slender, the 

 greatest width distinctly less than half the length. Pro- 

 sternum unarmed. Mesosternum with distinct trian- 

 gular lobes, the caudal margin with an obtuse-angulate 

 emargination. Metasternum with the caudal margin 

 subtruncate, the lobes subrotundate laterad. Ovipositor 

 small, broad, bent proximad, straight distad, apex acute, the margins 

 serrate, the dorsal serrato-dentate. Cephalic femora armed ventrad 

 with three spines on the cephalic margin; median femora armed on 

 the same margin with three to five spines. Cephalic tibise slender 

 except for the inflation over the auditory foramina, rounded, slighth' 

 depressed dorsad, but without distinct sulcation; foramina elongate 

 reniform. Caudal femora not exceeding the body in length, moder- 

 atel}' inflated in the proximal half, the inflation principally dorsad 

 of the median line, distal portion slender, subequal; tibife distinctly 

 exceeding the femora in length. 



General color apparently apple-green, now present only on a few 

 small areas, the remainder faded to dull greenish white. Cephalic 

 and lateral mai'gins of the reniform marking on the pronotum. and a 

 short arcuate line at the base of the dorsal field of the tegmina, ])lack- 

 ish, the pronotal maculation generally dull olive-green. 



Measurements. 



Fig. 2.— Turpilia 

 GRANDis. Dor- 

 sal VIEW OF 

 HKAD AND PRO- 

 NOTUM. (X3.) 



j Length of body 



I Length of pronotum 



I Length of tegnien 



I Greatest widtli of tegmen 



I Length of caudal femur 



Length of ovipositor 



The type only has been examined 



Win). 

 •24.0 



5.5 

 37.5 

 12.5 

 18.2 



6.0 



