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tip truncate; sides of last ventral segment with rufous hair. Body 

 moderately coarsely punctate, about as in C. nigrcsccns. 



Length 12 mm. 



From Fargo, North Dakota, September, on Solidago 

 (Stevens). 



Differs from C. nigrcsccns in absence of large ventral spots, 

 in the dark stigma, and in the longer marginal cell. 



The types of both species are in the writer's collection. 



A new Species of the Genus Gammarotettix from 

 California (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae). 



By MORGAN HEBARD, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Gammarotettix cyclocercus new species. 



Closely related to the genotype, G. bilobatus (Thomas), dif- 

 fering in the somewhat more slender form and strikingly dif- 

 ferent male cerci, which in bilobatns are awl-like, but in the 

 present species are longer and strongly incurved. In cyclocer- 

 cus the male supra-anal plate is similar, but somewhat more de- 

 cidedly produced. The somewhat more slender form appears 

 to be the only character available in separating females of the 

 two species. 



All previously definitely recorded material of bilobatns, as 

 well as other specimens of that species before us, were taken 

 in the coastal region and coast ranges of California, while 

 the present species is known from a locality on the lower west- 

 ern slopes of the Sierras. 



Type: $ ; Placerville, Eldorado County, California. May 

 20, 1913. (E. O. Essig). [Hebard Collection Type No. 407.] 



Description of Type. Size small for the group; form compact and 

 robust, but not as stout as bilobatus. Body cask-shaped ; narrowing 

 cephalad and caudad, truncate. Vertex strongly declivent : fastigium 

 with two small tubercles, deplanate between and briefly below these. 

 Eyes small, suborbicular. Maxillary palpi short: first and second 

 joints subequal in length, the two slightly longer than third joint ; 

 fourth slightly longer than second; fifth or ultimate joint nearly as 

 long as third and fourth joints taken together, gently and evenly ex- 

 panding to the truncate, very slightly oblique, apex. Pronotum ex- 

 panding slightly caudad, cephalic and caudal margins transverse, lat- 

 eral lobes with ventral margin very weakly convex, ventro-cephalic 

 angle sharply rounded obtuse-angulate, ventro-caudal angle broadly 



