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male, than head and pronotum together. Pronotum with both 

 median and lateral carinse, the latter straight in our eastern spe- 

 cies, becoming obsolete near hind margin which is broadly ob- 

 tuse-angulate ; prosternal spine rather slender, pyramidal with 

 rounded apex; interspace between the mesosternal lobes much 

 longer than broad in both sexes; tegrnina as described in generic 

 key, narrowly separated or slightly over-lapping; hind femora 

 very long; subgenital plate of male without apical tubercle; ab- 

 domen of female tapering, valves of ovipositor slender, strongly 

 exserted, their lateral edges sinuous, without teeth. 



Two species are known, one, P. ~brunneri Scudder (1897, 118), 

 ranging from Dakota and Arkansas to Texas, the other known as 

 vet onlv from North Carolina. 



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155. PARATYLOTROPIDIA BEUTENMUELLERI Morse, 1907a, 14. Beutenmiil- 



ler's Locust. 



"Reddish-brown above, the abdomen varied with yellow. Under sur- 

 face, sides of head, pronotum and metepisterna dull yellow; hind tibia? 

 deep red, the spines tipped with black. Facial costa rather deeply sulcate, 

 narrowed above at meeting with vertex; the latter subacute in profile, flat 

 above, its front margins angulate over shallow foveolee open below to the 

 antennal fossas. Pronotum evenly tectiform above, the sides plane, meet- 

 ing dorsum at an angle less pronounced behind. Lateral lobes smooth 

 above, longitudinally rugulose below on prozona, coarsely punctate on meta- 

 zona, flavescent save for a narrow fuscous border below lateral carinse. 

 Metepisterna with distinct rugae. Tegmina, short, nearly as broad as long, 

 truncate, apex broadly rounded, dorsal field broad, scarcely angulate with 

 the lateral one. Hind femora of moderate size, olivaceous, rufo-flavescent 

 above. Cerci small, triangular, one and one-third times as long as broad, 

 acutely pointed. Abdomen keeled above. Length of body, 9, 27.5; of hind 

 femora, 13. G; of prozona, 4; metazona, 3; of tegmina, 5 mm. Width of 

 metazona, 5; of tegmina, 4 mm." (Morse.) 



The above is the original description, omitting the points cov- 

 ered under the generic diagnosis. It is so far known only from 

 three females taken by Beutenmiiller near Black Mountain, N. 

 Car., Aug. 30, 1900, and July, 1912, one being in the Davis col- 

 lection and another in that of the American Museum. 



IX. PAROXYA Scudder, 1877b, 28. (Gr., "near" -f "sharp.") 



Medium sized, subcylindrical species, having the head moder- 

 ately large; face distinctly not strongly oblique; eyes large, prom- 

 inent, more than half as long again as the cheek beneath them; 

 vertex strongly narrowed between the eyes, the narrowest portion 

 about three-fourths the width of frontal costa, male, as broad as 

 costa between the antenna^, female; fastigium widened and with 

 a broad lengthwise sulcus in front of eyes, male, or shallow angu- 



