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elongate, narrow, straight and parallel proximad, at the middle with a 

 short mesad curve, and near the apex with a distinct caudad bend, the 

 apex acute and slightly depressed. Cephalic and median femora short, 

 inflated, the tibiae of the same limbs not exceeding the femora in length. 

 Caudal femora slightly exceeding half the tegmina in length, tapering 

 evenly but not gracefully to the genicular region, dorsal carina with 

 several sub-obsolete dentiform serrations ; tibise with eight spines on the 

 external margin, ten or eleven spines on the internal margin, external 

 apical spine present on one tibia and absent on the other ; metatarsi over 

 twice the length of the second tarsal joint. 



General color ochraceous, the genae, ventral part of the pronotum and 

 the pleura gamboge yellow, a post-ocular streak, which is indistinct on 

 the head and well marked on the pronotum and pleura, blackish ; eyes 

 and dorsal surface of pronotum tawny ; antennae with the apical half in- 

 fuscate. Tegmina hyaline with a faint greenish yellow tinge, the costal 

 region with the veins obscurely yellowish, the base of the discoidal field 

 with several distinct quadrate spots of blackish, and the axillary field 

 saffron yellow. Abdomen with the lateral face of each segment with a 

 diagonal blackish marking, which in form is crudely oval. Limbs of the 

 general color, the caudal femora with blackish blotches along the carinae ; 

 tibiae saffron yellow, washed with blackish at the very apex, spines 

 blackish apically, those of the internal margin with the whole internal 

 face blackish. 



MEASUREMENTS : 



Length of body, 39. mm. 



Length of pronotum, 7 5" 



Greatest width of pronotum, 4.5 ' 



Length of tegmina, 28. "' 



Greatest width of tegmina, 4-5 " 



Length of caudal femora, 16.5 " 



The type only has been examined. 



Schistocerca infnmata Scudder. 



One male (January 15, 1903), one female. 



This species has only been recorded from Montevideo, 

 Uruguay and Brazil. This species is closely related to S. 

 flavofasciata , of which a pair from Demerara have been ex- 

 amined, and with it possesses a pale flavous bar of the proxi- 

 mal portion of the costal margin of the tegmina. The form 

 of the cerci of this species is quite different from that seen in 

 ^. flavofasciata. 



Dichroplas bergii Sial. 



One female (January 27, 1903). 



This specimen was compared with females from Rosario and 



