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most tfie entire tegmen, transverse vein moderately robust. Abdomen 

 inflated ; terminal dorsal abdominal segment semi-elliptically depressed, 

 medio-longitudinally sulcate, distal margin slightly obtuse-angulate ; 

 cerci straight, rather robust, apex bluntly pointed, rnternal face with 

 a pre-apical and a median tooth, of which the former is slightly re- 

 curved and distally spiniform; sub-genital plate* with a pair of 

 slightly divergent styliform processes, between which the margin is 

 sub-truncate. Cephalic, median and caudal femora unarmed on ventral 

 surface and without genicular spines ; cephalic tibiae with the tympanum 

 open, all four margins of median and distal sections of tibiae armed 

 with spines ; median tibise with the margins spined ; caudal tibiae very 

 slightly longer than the femora ; all tarsi without arolia between the 

 claws. 



General color apple green laterad, becoming olive green on the sides 

 of the head and face and bistre on the dorsum of head and pronotum. 

 Dorsum of abdomen with a moderately broad medio-longitudinal stripe 

 of velvety black, reaching to the terminal abdominal segment. Teg- 

 mina with the costal field blackish narrowly edged with ferruginous, 

 the area of the principal veins slightly ferruginous, discoidal field oil 

 green, tympanum varied with rufous, seal brown and pale greenish. 

 Antennae black, more or less ferruginous proximad ; eyes chestnut. 

 Limbs burnt, umber, more or less lined and washed with seal brown ; 

 caudal femora with a broad lateral area of seal brown, proximal ex- 

 tremity of the same apple green ; caudal tibiae largely seal brown. 



Measurements. 



Length of body 22. mm. 



Length of pronotum 4-5 mm. 



Greatest dorsal width of pronotum 3-8 mm. 



Length of tegmen 5-5 "iitl 



Width of tympanum of tegmen 3-8 mm. 



Length of caudal femur 20.5 mm. 

 The type of this species is unique. 



Scaphura nigra CThunberg). 



Puerto Bertoni. — November, 1909. One immature male, one 

 immature female. (Bertoni). 



Gymnocera fasciata (Brunner). 



Puerto Bertoni. — October, 1904. One female. (Bertoni. 

 No. 411). 



There is some uncertainty regarding the determination of 



♦This is considerably mutilated in the type, but its structure is evi- 

 dent. 



