116 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Feb., 



Nearly all the collecting at Albuquerque was accomplished near 

 the river in low grassy fields and areas of cultivated ground. In 

 this location Orthoptera were found in great numbers, but collecting 

 was made difficult by the swarms of mosquitoes which were every- 

 where very active and vicious. On areas of short grass were found 

 Encoptolophus texensis, Litaneutria skinneri, Paropomala calamus and 

 virgata and Mermiria bivittata, while in the higher and more succulent 

 growths of heavy weeds, clover and grasses many Melanoplus bivit- 

 tatus, M. femur-rubrum, M. differentialis and Nemobius utahensis were 

 found. A single specimen of Telmatettix aztecus was captured by a 

 pool beside the river and one other specimen was seen. In the arid 

 foothill section but two specimens of Trimerotropis fascicula and one 

 or two T. vinculata were found. 



BLATTID^E. 



BLATTELLA Caudell. 

 Blattella germanioa (Linnaeus). 



A specimen of this cosmopolitan species was attracted to light at 

 Deming, July 20. 



TEMNOPTERYX Brunner. 

 Temnopteryx desertae n. sp. 



Type: 9 ; Johnstone, Valverde Co., Texas. July 8, 1907. M. 

 Hebard. [Hebard Collection.] 



A very peculiar species with lateral, non-attingent tegmina. Its 

 relationship is closer to T. limbata Saussure from eastern Mexico and 

 T. lobipennis Saussure from Brazil than to any other species of the 

 genus, differing from the former in the more elongate and non-attin- 

 gent tegmina, which reach to the apical margin of the first abdominal 

 segment, and in the shorter and thicker cerci; from the latter in the 

 proportionately shorter tegmina and much smaller general size. 



In general appearance the resemblance of the species to those of the 

 genus Loboptera is very great, but the wings are present as distinct, 

 articulate though functionless appendages, which is not the case with 

 Loboptera. 



Size small; form depressed, ovate. Head with the occipital outline 

 arcuate and distinctly projecting beyond the pronotum; space between 

 the eyes great, slightly more than that between the ocellar spots. 

 Pronotum slightly broader than longer, moderately arcuate transversely, 

 lateral and cephalic margins slightly thickened, cephalic margin 

 arcuato-truncate, lateral margins moderately arcuate, caudo-lateral 



