Oct., '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 343 



A new species of the genus Paroxya from Bermuda 



(Orthoptera). 



By JAMES A. G. REHN. 



Included in a very interesting collection of Orthoptera made 

 in Bermuda in the winter and spring of 1908 and 1909 by Mr. 

 Frank Morton Jones, is a remarkable new species of the genus 

 Paroxya. It is not at all closely related to any of the previously 

 known species of the genus, with specimens of all of which 

 it has been compared except the Bahaman P. dissitnilis 

 Morse. In the form of the cerci the new form is distinctly dif- 

 ferent from the other members of the genus, while the 

 brachypterous condition is only shared by the otherwise very 

 different P. hoosieri. 



Paroxya bermudensis n. sp. 



Types : $ and $ taken in coitu ; South Shore, Warwick 

 Parish, Bermuda, January 15, 1909. Coll. by F. M. Jones. 

 (Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila.) 



Size rather small for the genus ; form moderately elongate. Head 

 with the occiput well rounded, hardly (' $ ) or distinctly ( 9 ) ele- 

 vated dorsad of the level of the disk of the pronotum, considerably 

 and regularly declivent from dorsad of the middle of the eyes to 

 the apex of the fastigium, the interspace between the eyes slightly 

 less than half the fastigial width ; fastigium with the margins very 

 slightly acute-angulate, the immediate apex sub-truncate, narrowly 

 rounding into the frontal costa, the interocular space and the fas- 

 tigium broadly and shallowly sulcate ; the angle of the fastigium and 

 face obtuse when seen from the side, the portion of the facial line 

 dorsad of the antennae sub-vertical when seen laterad, the portion 

 ventrad considerably retreating; frontal costa subequal in width, 

 though slightly narrowed dorsad in the male, reaching the clypeal 

 suture, roughly biseriate punctate dorsad of the ocellus, deeply and 

 broadly sulcate ventrad, eyes rather protuberant in both sexes, though 

 slightly more so in the male than in the female, broad ovate in 

 shape, flattened cephalad, the length nearly twice ( $ ) or more 

 than half again (?) that of the infra-ocular sulcus ; antennae about 

 one-half ($) to four-fifths (' $ ) as long as the caudal femora. 

 Pronotum with the cephalic margin of the disk arcuato-truncate, cau- 

 dal margin very broadly obtuse-angulate, the greatest (caudal), 

 width of the disk contained nearly twice ( $ ) or one and three- 



