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]ioint, reaching to the upper base of the frontal earina of the head. 

 Tegmina flat with very few and very indistinct granulations, and exces- 

 sively minute and crowded punctulations. Wings very short, claws 

 sharply spurred at the base ; valves of ovipositor rather stoutly 

 serratulate. 



Length of body, 17.5 mm.; of pronotal shield, 13 mm.; of hind 

 tibias, 8 mm. 1 ?, Eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes. 



PHASMIDA. 



36. Bacteria nigripes nov. sp. 



Head short, obovate, smooth, pale testaceous, gibbous, with a slight 

 dusky medio-dorsal line, and sometimes with longitudinal dashes on 

 the sides; basal joint of antennje pale testaceous, depressed, largest 

 just before the apex, the remainder black. Pronotum of the color of 

 the head, sometimes iufuscated, the anterioi- an;:les a little produceil 

 aterally. the sides delicately emarginate ; all the legs blackish, the 

 coxae testaceous and very large, so that the fore femora are straight 

 throughout; middle femora with a slight apicid lobe posteriorly. 

 Body, excepting at the posterior extremity of the nieso- and nuta- 

 thorax. blackish, but the terminal three segments of the abdomen 

 again testaceous. Abdomen with a slender medio-dorsal yellowish 

 line; joints of abdomen a little dilated at the distal and a little con- 

 stricted near the proximal extremity, the last three joints greatly 

 swollen. Styles almost straight, rather stout, cylindrical, roundly and 

 very bluntly terminated. 



Length of body, G3 mm.; of himl tibire, 37 mm.; of middle tibiae, 

 52 mm. ; of fore tibiie, 32 ram. 2 d, Eastern slope of the Peruvian 

 Andes. 



37. Bacteria exigua nov. sp. 



Testaceous; very slender. Head subcylindrical, half as long again 

 as broad, with a few distant minute points scattered about, a little 

 appressed anteriorly above, producing a slight, blunt, curved, trans- 

 verse ridge between the eyes, uniting the posterior bases of the 

 antennal sockets ; basal joint of antenuie depressed, of equal width 

 beyond the base. Pronotum of the width of the head, and of equal 

 size throughout, excepting a slight ex^iansion above the coxae; the 

 front and sides broadly and very slightly emarginate, the anterior 

 half separated from the posterior by a deep sulcation and with a 



