EAMONA.— SPHINGONOTUS. 187 



rather long and narrow, the former sparsely veined on their apical two-thirds, where they are semi- 

 membranous, the intercalary vein entirely wanting ; wings without a fuscous band or other markings. 

 Hind femora long and slender ; tibiae coarse and provided with unusually long, nearly straight, apical 

 spurs, the spines few and prominent, eight in number on the outer edge. Mesosternal lobes widely 

 separated. 



l. Ramona deserticola, sp. n. 



General colour pale cinereo-testaceous, slightly varied on the pronotum, tegmina, and hind femora with brown 

 blotches. Wings very pale ceeruleous basally, becoming vitreous apically, the veins pale, except along 

 the costal field, where some of them are more or less dark. The brown markings of the pronotum 

 are v-shaped, one on the anterior lobe of the disc, a narrow line along the upper edge of the sides and 

 another anteriorly towards the lower edge; on the tegmina a series of rather large elongate patches 

 anteriorly, and a number of scattered smaller ones along the posterior edge. The hind femora show 

 traces of a basal, median, and prseapical bands ; the hind tibiae are testaceous, with a plumbeous tinge 

 about the base of the pale dark-tinged spines. 



Length of body, $ , 31 ; of pronotum 6, of tegmina 32, of hind femora 16 millim. 



Hab. Noeth Ameeica, Indio, California (H. F. Wickham, coll. L. Brimer). 



A single female. This insect, while bearing a general resemblance to the different 

 species of Anconia, is at once separable from all of them by its longer and more slender 

 loosely jointed legs, the longer and deeper head, with more elevated occiput, and the 

 deeply and coarsely pitted pleura of the meso- and metathorax.] 



SPHINGONOTUS, Fieber. 



(Edipoda, auctt. (in part.). 



Sphingonotus, Fieber, Syn. Europ. Orthopt* p. 24 (1845). 



Sphinconotus, L. H. Fischer, Orthopt. Eur. p. 401 (1854); Stal, Recens. Orthopt. i. p. 118 

 (1873). 



The Old- World genus Sphingonotus is represented by at least three species in 

 the central regions of America. They are all small and inconspicuous insects that 

 might readily be overlooked by collectors. The following table will aid in their 

 determination: — 



Table for separating the Species of Sphingonotus. 



A. Wings neither fasciate nor maculate, either hyaline or with the base 



caerulean. (Cuba.) [1. ccerulans, Sauss.], 



AA. Wings varied with fuscous, their disc pale blue. 



b. Wings not banded, but with a fuscous patch beyond the middle, or 



the apex fuscous. (Jamaica.) [2. jamaicensis, S&us§.] 



bb. Wings provided with an interrupted arcuate fuscous or cloudy band. 



(West Indies and Mexico.) 3. haitensis, Sauss. 



2Bb2 



