TETTIGONIA. 247 
_ tegminibus amplis rufis griseo irroratis, clavo plerumque dilutiori; abdomine supra fusco, subtus 
testaceo, ad partem rufo marginato ; pedibus testaceis, tarsis ad partem fuscis: 
A short, robust species, broadest at about the middle; head and pronotum testaccous, figured with black and 
brown, metopidium deep black, with testaceous markings, and a large round black spot surrounded with 
testaceous just below the vertex, which appears to be constant; head short, triangular, with the eyes not 
prominent; pronotum very gently sinuate above the scutellum; scutellum with two ocellate spots at the 
base and testaceous behind, the colour being a little interrupted, and usually forming a sort of face; 
tegmina red, clavus lighter, sometimes reddish-testaceous, the whole being scantily sprinkled with small 
greyish spots, which are sometimes indistinct ; abdomen dark above, testaceous below, with part of the 
upper segments red; legs testaceous, tarsi in part pitchy. 
Long. 7 millim. ; lat. ad hum. 2-22 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme and Xucumanatlan in Guerrero 7000 to 8000 feet (HT. H. 
Smith). 
31. Tettigonia appropinquans, sp.n. (Tab. XVI. fig. 3.) 
Antice latior, postice sensim angustata, testacea ; metopidio plus minusve nigro ; capite pronotoque nigro notatis, 
illo producto, triangulari, oculis vix prominulis, hoe postice plus minusve obscuriori, antice maculis quatuor 
nigris transversim dispositis, interioribus sepe minoribus nonnunquam fere deficientibus instructo, basi 
vix sinuata ; scutello fere toto testaceo sed variante ; tegminibus plumbeo-rufis, colore obscuriori ad venas 
plus minusve distincte oblique lineatis ; corpore subtus testaceo, ad medium et antice ad latera nigro 
notato ; pedibus testaceis, femoribus plus minusve nigro-maculatis. 
An obscure-looking species, testaceous, with darker markings, and the tegmina of a leaden-red colour, with 
the veins and the space bordering on them usually darker; head produced, triangular; metopidium usually 
in great part black and always with a testaceous band just before the vertex, in the centre of which is 
a distinct black spot, vertex shallowly compressed at the centre and sides; pronotum with the hinder 
part darker, but sometimes unicolorous testaceous, except just at the base, with four spots arranged 
transversely in front, the centre pair being often smaller, sculpture fine but distinct; scutellum mostly 
testaceous ; tegmina gradually narrowed behind; wings smoky; abdomen dark above, testaceous at the 
sides, breast testaceous, marked with black; legs testaceous, femora more or less marked with fuscous. 
Long. 7 millim.; lat. ad hum. 2 millim. 
Hab. Muxtco (Boucard, in Mus. Holm.; Mus. Vind. Ces.), Omilteme and Chilpancingo 
in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Schumann). 
In the Vienna Museum there are two specimens referred to T. uniguttata, Walk., 
one of which appears to belong to this species and another to a variety of it, but 
neither of them answers to Walker’s description of 7. wuniguttata. 
A specimen from Chilpancingo is figured. 
32. Tettigonia transfuga, sp.n. (Tab. XVI. fig. 4.) 
Sat robusta, rufescens; capite producto, obtuse triangulari, oculis vix prominulis, vertice maculis quinque 
nigris magnis; pronoto capite paullo longiori, maculis quatuor nigris ante basim, duabusque alliis 
majoribus ad apicem instructis; scutello nigro-maculato; tegminibus brunneo-rufis unicoloribus ; 
abdomine supra fusco, rufo-variegato ; corpore subtus flavescente vel rufo-flavescente, sterno ad partem 
nigrescente ; pedibus rufo-flavis. 
A rather stout species, with the front parts red; head produced, obtusely triangular, eyes scarcely prominent, 
vertex with five large black spots, and the usual round spot at the tip; metopidium black, with the 
central portion red; pronotum a little longer than the head, with four black spots arranged in a transverse 
