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Length of body, ^, i6 mm., if, 22 mm.; antennas, ^ 9) 6.25 mm.; 

 pronotum, ^, 3.25 mm., 9, 4.25 mm.; tegmina, ,$ , 14 mm., 9, 16.25 

 ram.; hind femora, ^, 10.5 mm., 5, 13-5 nim. 



26 ^,19 9- Pah"n Springs, Cal., July 10-13; Vuma, Ariz., July 

 5, A. P. Morse. 



Orphulell.\ decora. 



Orphula decora McNeill, Free. Dav. Acad. Nat. Sc, VI., 239-240, 

 pi. 4, fig. I yd (1897). 



I have specimens which I refer to this species taken by Belfrage in 

 Bosque Co., Tex., and by myself at Pueblo, Col. It was originally 

 described from Arkansas. 



Orphulella obliquata, sp. nov. 



Green or brown, marked with fuscous. Head moderately large, 

 fiavo-testaceous with a greenish tinge, often green or brownish testaceous 

 above, witfi a broad postocular fuscous or greenish fuscous stripe, 

 deepest in colour above ; vertex well arched, the fastigium rectangulate 

 ( ^ ) or obtusangulate ( 9 ) i'l front, with raised margins, before which the 

 surface is depressed ; lateral foveolse faint, linear ; face arcuate, not very 

 strongly retreating ; frontal costa percurrent, rather narrow, faintly 

 enlarging from apex to base, plane or in the female sometimes faintly 

 sulcate ; eyes moderate ; antennse castaneous, sometimes apically 

 infuscated, scarcely depressed basally, in the female shorter than head 

 and pronotum together. Pronotum of moderate length, the hind margin 

 very obtusangulate, the lateral carinae usually flavous, and cutting the 

 generally broad fuscous postocular stripe, which lies anteriorly below, 

 posteriorly within them, gently arcuate, the disk narrowest in advance 

 of the middle, but here fully ihree-fourths as wide as posteriorly. 

 Tegmina extending about as far back as the hind femora, the discoidal 

 area of the basal half narrowing a little distally, and in this distal 

 portion occupied by only a single row of cells, and much narrower than 

 the widest part of the ulnar area, the latter occupied in the male by only 

 a single row of cells, the anterior ulnar vein distally much nearer the 

 radial than the lower ulnar vein ; median area in basal two-thirds 

 marked interruptedly with fuscous. Hind femora surpassing the 

 abdomen, slender, compressed, green or brown, the outer face more or 

 less infuscated. 



