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black; posterior abdominal segmental margins pale casta- 

 neous; body beneath and legs brownish ochraceous; base of 

 face, a transverse fascia between face and eyes, apex of 

 rostrum, and bases of ventral segmental margins, black; 

 tegmina and wings pale hyaline; tegmina with the venation, 

 basal cell, and claval area black ; costal membrane and area, 

 about inner half of basal cell, longitudinal veins to lower 

 ulnar area, and oblique vein at apex of radial area pale 

 ochraceous ; wings with the venation black, basal area 

 piceous, some of the longitudinal veins on basal area pale 

 ochraceous, and the apical half of the abdominal area pale 

 lacteous. The body beneath and legs are thickly and finely 

 ochraceously pilose ; head (including eyes) considerably 

 broader than base of mesonotum ; eyes projecting beyond 

 anterior angles of pronotum ; posterior pronotal angles 

 lobately produced. 



In a second female specimen from Bolivia the colour of 

 the body above is paler, inclining more to ochraceous or pale 

 castaneous than black. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? 25 mm. ; exp. tegm. 83 ram. 



Bab. Central Brazil: Chapada {Robert, Brit. Mus.) ; 

 Bolivia {Steinbach, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to A. albiplicaf Walk. 



Genus FiDiciNA. 

 Fidicina, Amy. & Serv. Hist, des H^m. p. 472 (1843). 

 Type, F. mannifera^ Fabr. [Tettigonia] . 



Fidicina Roberti, sp. n. 



^ . Head, pronotum, mesonotum, cruciform elevation, and 

 body beneath brownish ochraceous ; abdomen above black ; 

 legs pale castaneous ; body ochraceously pilose ; head with 

 the area of the ocelli indefinitely extending on each side 

 towards eyes, and margins of front, black; pronotum with 

 the anterior margin, the incisures, and a narrow central 

 transverse spot in front of posterior margin, black ; meso- 

 notum with four obconical spots, the two central shortest, and 

 one on each lateral area longest, a large triangular spot in 

 front of cruciform elevation, with a small rounded spot on 

 each side and two similar spots in front of it, black ; poste- 

 rior margins of abdominal segments above obscurely casta- 

 neous, those of the first and sixth segments more prominently 

 so ; face (excluding base), fascia between face and Qycs, spots 

 to coxre and trochanters, and apex of rostrum, black ; tegmina 



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