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Color. —Head and thorax varying in different individuals from dull 
greenish white to brown, with a clearly defined shining black line 
extending on each side, from the eye to the posterior margin of the 
pronotum. Posterior femora bright pea-green, unspotted except the 
tip, which is black; tibiae greenish, with the spines black. 
Male. —Much smaller than the female; eyes very prominent, and so 
closely approximate above that the portion of the vertex between 
them is.reduced to a mere thread; the antennae comparatively large 
and reaching back to about the tip of the tip of the second abdominal 
segment. Tip of the abdomen strongly curved upward; cerci some¬ 
what elongate, slender, and narrowed in the middle; tip of the last 
ventral segment somewhat conical, entire. Face quite oblique and 
arcuate. 
Color —(of the single specimen seen).—Face and disk of the prono¬ 
tum dull ash-brown; cheeks and space of the pronotum below the 
black stripe pale ash-brown, or rufous; posterior femora greenish-yel¬ 
low, deeply tinged with bright-rufous above. 
Dimensions. —Female, length .90 inch; male, length .65 inch. 
27. PEZOTETTIX VIOLA. Thos. 
Female. —Rather large and robust, resembling somewhat a short¬ 
winged Caloptenus bivittatus , excepting the stripes. 
Vertex and frontal costa not, or but slightly sulcate. Pronotum 
with the median carina slight; lateral carinae, or rather lateral angles 
(not being true carinae) somewhat distinct; disk flat; sides flattened 
and perpendicular; posterior margin obtusely rounded; posterior lat¬ 
eral margins with a distinct inward curve or rounded notch at the 
humerus, the portion below the notch perpendicular. Elytra ovate- 
lanceolate, the externo-median nerve distinct; not always meeting at 
the base, but overlapping more or less toward the apex; varying in 
length from about one-third to more than one-half that of the abdo¬ 
men, occasionally almost as long as the abdomen. 
' Color .—Varying from a dull olive-brown to ash-brown. Head and 
thorax brown; elytra with the upper field, or dorsal portion pale yel¬ 
lowish brown; lower fields, or lateral portion brown, varying from 
light to very dark browm; sometimes almost black; the paler speci¬ 
mens usually have a few dark brown, rather small spots along the 
disk or near the tip; the posterior femora reddish with oblique brown¬ 
ish bands; posterior tibiae rufous. 
Dimensions —Length, 1 to 1.2 inches. 
