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in profile annulate produced, the crown substraight showing a 

 little above the eyes ; facial frontal co-tal^trong'ly in advance of thi- 

 eve-, as seen in front bifurcating- near the apex, the branches gradu- 

 ally and but little diverging- in their descension, slightly depressed 

 opposite the eyes. Face strongly oblique, the posterior ocelli show- 

 ing just in front of the middle anterior margin of the eye. 

 Antenn;e short, not reaching to the humeral angle. 1'ronotum an- 

 teriorly truncate or barely angulate. the dorsum lectiform. not very 

 broad between the shoulders, median carina distinctly elevated per- 

 current, neirly straight, sometimes rather undulating, a little more 

 elevated near the anterior border, posteriorly long, slender, -ubu- 

 late, passing considerably beyond the posterior femora, humeral 

 angles, strongly obtuse or eubrounded. \Vings well developed. 

 pa>sing beyond the apical process, posterior angle of the latera 1 

 lobes very slightly and obliquely diverging. <trongly obtuse. Ely- 

 tra oblong, apex subacutely rounded external surface minutely 

 punctate. Anterior femora slender, unchanged, middle femora 

 -lender, unchanged, middle femora Avith straight cariiue.lhe poste- 

 rior rather slender, very much reduced near the apex, the lir-t 

 article of tbe posterior tarsus but little longer than the other two 

 united, the pulvilli straight below, the first acute, the -croud about 

 twice as long as the first, the third as long a- the first two united 



llody lenfffh. . s liimm, pronot.. 1 I - |-J-.~>mm.. post. fern. 



5.5-6mm. 



This is Ihr (-(1111111011 form found in inosl collections. A 

 specimen from Northern Illinois in the collection of Mr. A. 

 P>olter. <>f ( 'hicago. measured sixteen millimeters in total 

 length, this being the maximal six.e of any examined. 



A series of specimens from St. Anthony Park. .Minnesota. 

 showed, some departure from the type form. There was va- 

 riation in the angularit y of t lie vertex, some being very obt use ; 

 the median carina of t he pronot um, instead of being st raig'ht . 

 \\as undulating it] its backward course, the dorsum was de 

 cidedly rugose, the posterior tarsus with the first article a 

 little longer than the last two united, the pnlvilli straight be 

 low. the first conieo-aeiite. t he second and third equal in leng! h 

 were a little longer than the first. In this variety \ve see an 

 approach to Tettix luggeri Hancock. 



Yar. '_'. Abbreviated examples with the pnmol mil not ex 

 lending so far back wa rds. 1 he wings being coincident ly shorter. 



The Species above described is named in honor of my friend 

 and co-worker. Prof. A. P. Morse. 



