EUPJSTGODES — ZAPATA. 103 



This genus, which is closely related to the next, so far as known to the writer, is 

 represented by a single species. It is found in California and possibly also in the 

 adjoining portions of Mexico. 



1. Eupnigodes megacephala, McNeill. 



Pnigodes megacephala, McNeill, Proc. Dav. Acad. Nat. Sci. vi. t. 6. figg. 28 a, b, p. 267 (1897) \ 

 Eupnigodes megacephala, McNeill, Pysche, viii. p. 71 (1897) 2 ; Scudd. Cat. Orthopt. U.S. p. 27 

 (1900) 3 . 



Eab. Noeth Ameeica, Yuba and Butte Counties, California 1_3 (coll. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus.).] 



ZAPATA, gen. no v. 



Related to Eupnigodes and Ageneotettix, as well as to Aulocam, but differing from all of them in several 

 respects. The single species at hand has the hind tibiae red in the § and glaucous in the <S (?), short 

 tegmina, with broadly rounded apex, and a short, scarcely constricted pronotum. 



Head short, broad, rounded, slightly wider than the front edge of the pronotum. Eyes subglobular, quite 

 prominent in the c? , less so in the $ , nearly as long as ( $ ), or a trifle longer than ( J ), that portion of 

 the cheeks below them ; vertex depressed, profoundly sulcate, the lateral carinae meeting in front in less 

 than a right angle, the lateral foveolse visible from above, about twice ( d 1 ) or one and one-half times ( $ ) 

 as long as the greatest width, subtriangular, plainest in the cf ; frontal costa sulcate in the J and with 

 the sides nearly parallel, in the £ scarcely at all sulcate and with the sides considerably divergent below 

 the ocellus ; face, viewed in profile, broadly rounded and subperpendicular in the $ , moderately oblique 

 and nearly straight in the <$ . Pronotum short, broad, only gently constricted at the middle, the anterior 

 lobe nearly twice as long as the posterior ; lateral carinas nearly obliterated, median carina faint but 

 visible throughout ; anterior and posterior edges nearly straight, the latter slightly rounded, sides a little 

 deeper than long; last transverse sulcus profound, almost straight, the others less prominent and 

 somewhat tortuous. Tegmina abbreviate, lobate, the apex broadly rounded and the dorsal edges just 

 about touching. Hind femora moderately heavy, about reaching ( $ ) or considerably surpassing ( c? ) the 

 tip of the abdomen. Hind tibiae with nine spines in the outer row ; the inner apical spurs very unequal, 

 those of the <$ more decidedly so. 



1. Zapata brevipennis, sp. n. (Aulocara brevipennis, Tab. I. llgg. 22, 22 a, $ .) 



General colour dull wood-brown, above with a slight indication on the tegmina of scattered fuscous dots, below 

 paler. Hind femora testaceous, crossed above and on the inner face with a median and post-median 

 dusky band, apex and base of the tibiae also dark ; the latter red, a little paler basally. In the cf the 

 sides of the pronotum are broadly black on the front lobe, less so on the hind lobe, the dark colour being 

 greatly narrowed towards the hind margin ; the hind tibiae glaucous (instead of red) ; and the median 

 dusky band of the femora appearing on the outer face as an oblique patch. 



Length of body, 6 11*5, $ 17 ; of pronotum, cf 2, $ 3 ; of tegmina, 3 3'25, $ 4-5 ; of hind femora, 3 8, 

 $ 10 millim. 



Hob. Mexico, Lerdo in Durango, Camacho in Zacatecas (L. Bruner). 



One male and one female, both captured in November. It is barely possible that 

 these two insects belong to distinct species and to different genera as well. If this 

 should prove to be the case, the male might readily be referred to the genus Aulocara, 

 where it could bear the same specific name. The female insect is the one that has 

 been kept in mind as the type of the genus Zapata. 



