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immediately beneath the eyes, distinctly nearer the clypeal suture than to 

 the top of the head. Apical segment of the palpi moderately enlarged 

 apically and triangular in shape as common in manygryllid genera. Ovi- 

 positor approximately equaling the hind femora in length and almost 

 straight . 



Type: Trigonidomimus belfragei, new species. 

 Trigonidomimus belfragei, new species. 



Head large; eyes small, broadly oval, and set far apart. Pronotum 

 nearly quadrate, narrower than the head or the width across the base of 

 the elytra. Elytra shorter than the abdomen, about three times as long 

 as the pronotum; wings caudate, extending half their length beyond the 

 tip of the abdomen. Anal cerci very long. Legs moderately slender, 

 hind femora moderately swollen and tapering to the very tip, the hind 

 tibia; slender. 



General color brownish yellow, the tip of the ovipositor and the eyes 

 and the base of the antenna blackish; the legs are clear honey yellow and 

 the elytra are darker. The antenna? grow paler towards the tip. 



Length, antenna?, 15-)- mm.; pronotum, 1.25 mm.; elytra, 3.75 mm.; 

 wings, 11 mm.; hind femora, 4.75 mm.; ovipositor, 4.5 mm.; anal cerci, 

 5.5 mm.; width, pronotum, 1.5 mm. 



Two females, Texas, Belfrage. 



Type: Coll. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Mass.; paratype, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. 

 C.(Cat. No. l"5389). The type bears the following written label : 

 "59 Quite rare specimens, coming to light at night Sept. -Oct." 



At the conclusion of his paper, Mr. Caudell said he did not 

 quite understand the significance of No ."59" which appeared 

 on Belfrage's label. 



Mr. Schwarz explained that Mr. Belfrage had the habit 

 of numbering those species of each order which he collected 

 himself in Texas and to distribute them always under the same 

 number among his numerous correspondents and customers 

 in the United States and in Europe, so that should these num- 

 bers be preserved it would add considerably to the identifi- 

 cation of his specimens. Among the orthopterists in Europe 

 he had a good customer in Professor Stal in Stockholm. Bel- 

 frage collected only at two points in Bosque County, Texas, 

 viz, Waco and Clifton, although in his letters he constantly 

 speaks of proposed trips to other parts of the State. At the 

 instance of Dr. Le Conte he commenced about the year 1875 

 to write up a list of the insects collected in Bosque County. 



