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Not separable from specimens from St. Vincent, Vera Cruz 

 and Costa Rica. The species has previously been recorded 

 from Grenada and St. Vincent, in the Lesser Antilles, as well 

 as from Trinidad. 



Orphnlella balloai n. sp. (PI. viii, Figs. 2 and 3). 



Types : $ and 9 ; Bay Estate, Barbados, West Indies, Sep- 

 tember 9, 1902 {$) and September 30, 1902 (9). (H. M. 

 Lefroy.) [A. N. S. Phila.] 



Allied to O. punctata (DeGeer) but differing in the slenderer form, the 

 more retreating face, the narrower excavation of the fastigium, the longer 

 eye, narrower costal expansion of the tegmina and the much slenderer 

 caudal femora. 



Size medium ; form elongate, slender. Head with the occiput and 

 vertex hardly rounded, the interspace between the eyes slightly less than 

 the greatest width of the fastigium ; fastigium acute in both sexes, the 

 margins raised and cingulate, excavation limited to a narrow depression 

 caudad of the margins in the female, the greater portion of the dorsal 

 aspect of the fastigium depressed in the male and without any very dis- 

 tinct excavation ; lateral foveolae elongate trigonal ; frontal costa strongly 

 constricted dorsad, regularly and gradually expanding ventrad ; lateral 

 ocelli rather large, placed by the eye at the ventro-caudal angle of the 

 lateral foveola ; eye acute ovate, the apex directed dorso-cephalad, 

 length over half again that of the infra-ocular portion of the gense ; anten- 

 nae depressed, subensiform, slightly shorter than the head and pronotum 

 together. Pronotum slightly less than twice as long as the greatest dorsal 

 width, slightly tectate, median and lateral carinse distinct, the lateral 

 parallel on about the cephalic half, slightly and gradually diverging on 

 the caudal half ; cephalic margin subtruncate, caudal margin obtuse- 

 angulate ; metazona slightly shorter than the prozona ; lateral lobes with 

 the ventro-caudal angle rectangulate. Tegmina elongate, considerably 

 exceeding the apex of the abdomen and slightly exceeding the femora ; 

 apex rounded, costal expansion low. Interspace between the mesoster- 

 nal lobes very distinctly (male) or slightly (female) longitudinal ; inter- 

 space between the metasternal lobes very narrow and strongly longitudi- 

 nal in the female, the lobes contiguous in the male. Cephalic and median 

 limbs little inflated. Caudal femora slender, over four times as long as 

 the greatest width, which is in the basal third, genicular region very 

 slightly arched, lobes narrowly rounded ; caudal tibiae with eleven spines 

 on the external and twelve on the internal margins. 



General color varying from wood brown to russet, overlaid with the 

 usual markings found in the brown phase of species of the genus ; the male 

 type having the base color buff on the head and pronotum. Postocular 

 bars and rather weak longitudinal occipital bars bistre ; eyes raw umber. 



