234 OETHOPTEEA. 



2. Taeniopoda picticornis, Walker. (Tab. II. fig. 17, s .) 



Rhomalea picticornis, Walk. Cat. Dermapt. Salt. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 538 (1870) l ; Thomas, Acrid. N. 



Am. p. 240 (1873) 2 . 

 Taniopoda picticornis, Caudell, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxvi. p. 795 (1903) 3 . 



Hab. Noeth America, Texas 3 , Southern Arizona (L. Bruner). — Mexico, at various 

 localities in Northern and Central Mexico (Townsend, Ward, Rehn, &c), Villa Lerdo 

 in Durango (L. Bruner), Mesquitic in Jalisco (U.S. Biol. Survey), Jalisco (Schumann). 



This seems to be the most widely distributed species of the genus, as it occurs from 

 Texas and Arizona to Morelos in Southern Mexico, and is fairly abundant wherever 

 found. It is an insect of the tablelands and drier mountain-regions, rather than of 

 the low, wet, and heavily-timbered portions of Mexico. Specimens were found in 

 November at Viila Lerdo and at Mesquitic in August. 



3. Taeniopoda Stali, nom. n. (Tab. II. fig. 18, 6 .) 



Taniopoda picticornis, Stal, Reoens. Orthopt. i. p. 51 (1873) 1 ; Pict. et Sauss. Cat. Acrid, i. p. 17 

 (1887) 2 ; Bolivar, Bol. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 1901, pp. 265, 267 3 ; Rehn, Trans. Amer. Ent. 

 Soc. xxviii. p. 97 (1900) 4 . 



Hab. Mexico 1 " 4 , Amula in Guerrero, 6000 feet (H. H. Smith), Guerrero (O. TV. 

 Barrett), Territory of Tepic (coll. Calif. Acad. Sciences). 



T. stall, especially in the female, is more graceful in form than the same sex of 

 T. picticornis, Walk., and is also more restricted in its distribution. Some specimens 

 have the apical portion of the tegmina infuscated. Those with the infuscation of the 

 tegmina come from Tepic. 



4. Taeniopoda citricornis, sp. n. (T. centwio, Tab. II. figg. 19, 19<?, 6 .) 



Taniopoda centurio, Bruner, MSS. (nee Drury). 



This insect is of the same general form and colour as T. stali, but it can at once be recognized from that species 

 by its bright lemon-yellow antennae (the apices of the joints of which are not black), and by its lower, 

 nearly straight, median carina of the pronotum, which is shiny black throughout, as are also the prominent 

 lateral carinse. The anterior and posterior extremities of the disk of the pronotum of T. citricornis are 

 a trifle blunter than in the species to which it has just been compared. Its hind femora are without the 

 black genae and upper and lower edges of these members as usually found in T. st&li. 



Length of body, 3 , 41 ; of pronotum 12, of tegmina 37, of hind femora 21 millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Venta de Peregrino in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 



5. Taeniopoda tamaulipensis, Rehn. 



Tatniopoda tamaulipensis, Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1904, pp. 531, 532 \ 

 Hab. Mexico, Altamira in Tamaulipas 1 . 



Unknown to me, but apparently distinct from all the other forms tabulated in the 

 preceding synoptic table. 



