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Size medium; form robust, moderately compressed; surface polish- 

 ed. Head with the occiput roundly declivent to the subvertical fasti- 

 gium, which is slightly broader than the proximal antenna! joint; 

 margin bluntly acute-angulate ; antennse over twice the length of 

 body, proximal joint elongate, cylindrical; eyes not at all prominent, 

 pyriform; apex ventrad. Pronotum with the greatest width con- 

 tained about one and one-third times in the length ; cephalic and 

 caudal margins, subtruncate ; lateral lobes arcuate- angulate ventrad, 

 ventral angles rounded. Cerci moderately elongate, slightly tapering, 

 apex acute; subgenial plate rectangulate emarginate caudad, styles 

 flanking the emargination and of fair length. Cephalic and median 

 limbs similar in size and spine development. Caudal femora very 

 robust, the proximal three-fourths inflated, margins unarmed, external 

 face with a regular pattern of oblique arcuate dorso-caudad impressed 

 lines; caudal tibiae nearly straight; principal internal caudal spur 

 reaching to the apex of the third tarsal joint, claws without arolia. 



General color deep tawny ochraceous, ventrad becoming buflfy and 

 dorsad becoming suffused with seal brown; a medio-longitudinal line 

 on the abdomen is deep ochraceous rufous ; pronotum with the seal 

 brown narrowed and much of the dorsum deep ochraceous, a narrow 

 median line and large lateral patches of this color being present ; eyes, 

 black ; antennae ochraceous ; fastigium, and dorsum of head of the dor- 

 sal color; face dirty clay color with the ocelli clear buflf. 



Measurements. 

 Length of body 19.5 mm. 



Length of pronotum 7.2 mm. 



Greatest width of pronotum . 6.2 mm 



Length of caudal femur 18. mm. 



The type is the only specimen of the species seen by us. 



GRYLLIDAE. 

 Khipipterjrx brullei Serville. 



Puerto Bertoni. — Two females. (Schrottky, No. 4). 



Eneoptera surinamensis (DeGeer). 



Puerto Bertoni. — October 5, 1909. One female. (Bertoni. 



No. 406). 



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Abundance of Cost.\ Rican Butterflies. — Mr. William Schau? re- 

 ports that he took 150 species of Thecla in Costa Rica (64 are men- 

 tioned in the Biologia as from that country) and over 300 species of 

 Hesperidae. 



