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OETHOPTEEA. 



1. Tettigidea bruneri, sp. n. 



Eyes prominent, globose. Vertex blunt, nearly truncate, equal to ( tf ), or wider than ( $ ), one of the eyes, 

 horizontal, the crown a little elevated in the female ; the mid-carina well-developed, extending but little 

 backward. Facial costa prominent, widest below, rather widely sulcate. Pronotum granulate, tectiform, 

 distinctly depressed at the shoulders ; front margin little advanced, angulate ; hind process abbreviated, 

 not reaching the apex of the hind femora, depressed, sometimes a little reflexed at the tip, sides straight • 

 scapular area barely indicated or lacking entirely ; median carina prominent, sharp, subcristiform ; lateral 

 carinse well-developed near the front margin, parallel, arcuately divergent behind, obsolete in front of the 

 principal sulcus ; posterior sinus of the lateral lobes shallow, one-third to two-thirds as deep as the anterior 

 lobes. Hind femora robust, margins of the apex concave, genicular and femoral lobes well-developed. 



General colour brown ; face, venter, and apex of abdomen pale yellow ; mid-carina of pronotum sometimes 

 spotted with fuscous. A notable colour-variation is that presented by one female, in which the eyes, the 

 top of the head, and the anterior portion of the pronotum (in the form of a triangle whose apex reaches 

 the first sulcus) are yellow. 



Total length, d 1 9-10-5, $ 13-14: pronotum, c? 7-5-8-3, ? 10-5-11; post, fern., tf 6-6-5, 5 7-5-8; 

 antennas, S 3-5-4, § 4-4-5 millim. 



Hob. Mexico (colls. Bruner & Scudder). 

 Five males and seven females. 



2. Tettigidea chichimeca, Sauss. 



Tettix chichimeca, Sauss. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1861, p. 400 \ 

 Tettigidea chichimeca, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxi. p. 296 \ 



Hal. Mexico 1 , Ciudad in Durango 2 . 



Among the material collected by Mr. H. H. Smith are two specimens which probably 

 belong here — a short-winged male from Teapa, Tabasco, and a long- winged female from 

 Atoyac, Vera Cruz. Saussure 1 gives the habitat as " Mexico calida." 



3. Tettigidea nicaraguse, Bran. 



Tettigidea nicaraguce, Bruner, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa, iii. no. 3, p. 62, t. 3. figg. 3 a, 3 b 

 (1895) \ 



Total length, short-winged 6 11, $ 14-16; long-winged S 12-8-13-5, $ 17-18: pronotum, short-winged 

 S 10-3-10-4, $ 13-2-14; long- winged 6 10-5-12, $ 15-16-2; post, fern., c? 5-6-7'3, $ 7'8-9; 

 antennae, c? 4, $ 4-5 millim. 



Hah. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; Nicaragua 

 (coll. Bruner 1 ). 



Of this species I have had the types for comparison, and I refer to it the four males 

 and ten females obtained by Mr. H. H. Smith in Eastern Mexico, the only difference 

 worthy of note being that. in the Nicaraguan insects the hind femora, especially of the 

 male, are distinctly smaller than in the others. It should be noted here that in the 

 drawing of the lateral aspect of the female type (loc. cit.) the pronotum is represented 

 too much arched longitudinally. 



This is the largest species of the genus that I have seen from Central America and 

 is noticeably dimorphic in wing-length. 



