DEC. 4, 1921 caudeIvL: the phaneropterae 493 



variegation as exhibited by some of our species of Phaneroptera, 

 though the second segment of the antenna does not show such con- 

 spicuous enlargement as is present in the young of some species of 

 the latter genus. The legs are dotted with black and the posterior 

 femora have some larger black markings on the upper surface and on 

 the outer face; the abdomen is ornamented with numerous short 

 narrow red dashes, the lateral lobes of the pronotum are centrally 

 reddish with yellowish lower margin and with some black markings. 

 The pronotal disk of the nymphs, at least the only two examined, 

 does not show the absolute flattening of the posterior fourth as is so 

 conspicuously true of the adult form. 



Measurements of adult. — Length, pronotum, 4 mm. ; tegmina, 

 21 mm.; posterior femora, 20 mm. Width, tegmina at widest point, 

 4 mm. ; pronotum across the posterior flattened portion, 2.3 mm. 



Type, d', Durant, Miss., July 15, 1921. C. J. Drake, collector; 

 paratypes, one adult cf and two immature d'd', one nearly full grown 

 and one about half grown, Pickens, Miss., July 16, 1921, taken by the 

 same collector. 



Type and paratypes in collection of the United States National 

 Museum. 



Catalog No. 24952, U. S. N. M. 



In addition to the above four specimens Prof. Drake distinctly 

 recalls having seen specimens, adults and nymphs, at the following 

 localities in Mississippi: Fulton, Columbus, Vicksburg, Natchez and 

 Port Gibson. Not realizing their interest and importance he un- 

 fortunately kept but the above described specimens, though many, 

 he says, might easily have been secured. 



Prof. Drake, who is to be congratulated on the discovery of this 

 unusually interesting addition to our native orthopterous fauna, 

 found this beautiful little katydid to occur quite common on cypress, 

 where he often took them while beating the foliage of that tree for 

 Hemiptera. He also on one occasion swept a few adults from weeds 

 and grass in the immediate vicinity of cypress. The adults aroused 

 his interest by the nicety with which their colors blended with those 

 of the host plant. 



