ZOOLOGY: C. T. BRUES 
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? Lepidoscelio viatrix sp. nov. 
9 Length 4 mm. Black; legs, including coxae, and antennae, except 
club, honey-yellow; tegulae rufous, apical margin of first abdominal 
segment fuscous; wings hyaline, venation very pale. Head strongly 
narrowed below the eyes, as high as broad above, but only half as broad 
at the base of the clypeus. Eyes one-half the head-height^ with a very 
few short hairs. Ocelli in a low triangle, the lateral ones removed by 
FIG. 1. SPECIMENS OF LEPIDOSCELIO VIATRIX SP. NOV. ATTACHED TO THE BODY OF 
THE DECCAN GRASSHOPPER {COLEMAN I A SPHENARIOIDES). 
less than their diameter from the eye-margin. Front on each side 
below the eyes with fine longitudinal aciculations, medially raised, 
the raised portion with sharp parallel sides anteriorly and projecting 
forward between the antennae beyond the margin of the head; front 
between the eyes with somewhat irregular longitudinal striae which 
run together above to form a smaller number above the median ocellus. 
Head behind with a carina extending from the occiput to the cheeks 
where it ends at the level of the lower eye-margin in a sharp tooth; 
just behind the eye is another weaker carina. Mandibles rather long. 
