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17. GEnus MUCROMETOPIA MeELIcHAR 
Figure 121 
Oncometopia subgenus Mucrometopia Melichar, 1925a:403. Type-species: Tettigonia caudata 
Walker, by original designation. 
Length of male 14.0-15.0 mm, of female 15.5 mm. 
Head moderately produced, median length of crown one-half or slightly 
more than one-half interocular width and approximately one-third trans- 
ocular width in male, approximately three-eighths transocular width in 
female, anterior margin broadly rounded in dorsal view, without a carina at 
transition from crown to face, ocelli located on a line between anterior eye 
angles, each about equidistant from median line of crown and adjacent an- 
terior eye angle, crown with a slight transverse concavity across ocelli, without 
a median fovea and without sculpturing or setae, lateral clypeal sutures ex- 
tending onto crown, attaining ocelli or not; antennal ledges not protuberant, 
in lateral view with anterior margins obliquely convex; clypeus convex, muscle 
impressions distinct, transclypeal suture not entire, clypellus pubescent below, 
with profile continuing contour of clypeus. 
Thorax with pronotal width less than transocular width of head, lateral 
margins parallel, dorsopleural carinae complete, posterior margin shallowly 

FIGURE 121.—Mucrometopia caudata (Walker) (a from specimen from Monsén 
Valley, Peru; c-e, g, h, from Chanchamayo, Peru; 1, p, from Bogota, Colom- 
bia; A from lateral view): p, Forewing apex. 
