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basal angles, the median line, a dot on either side, and the impressed line 

 brown. Tergum fuscous, testaceous on the sides, the segment, edged 

 with pale. Elytra fuscous-brown, nervures conspicuous, white, brown at 

 apex. Wings smoky, iridescent, nervures brown. Legs pale testaceous, 

 claws and tip of the rostrum piceous. 



Mississippi. Described from two female examples kindly sent me by 

 Mr. Howard Evarts Weed. 



This very distinct species is quite anomalous in the genus in which I 

 have placed it by its dark colouring and conspicuous markings, thus 

 allying it with Limotettix parallelus. In most of its characters, however, 

 it is closely related to Chlorotettix tergatus, near which it must be placed. 



4. Athysanus extrusus, //. sp. 



Form of A. variegatus, Kirschb., broad and short ; pale greyish-yel- 

 low, vertex with a transverse blackish band, elytral nervures pale. 

 Length, 4^ mm. 



Vertex longer and more pointed than in obsoletus, nearly ]A, longer on 

 the middle than next the eye ; a broad transverse band on the disc and 

 an angular spot at apex blackish, each bisected by the longitudinal 

 median pale line. Face pale, front black with about eight pale arcs or 

 pale with as many blackish arcs, sutures of the face and a double longi- 

 tudinal line on the middle of the clypeus black ; antennae pale, set on a 

 black cloud. Clypeus slightly narrowed to the truncated apex, its base 

 arquated. Cheeks feebly angled without, exterior to the outer line of the 

 lorae longitudinally wrinkled ; tip of the rostrum black. Pronotum 

 hardly longer than the vertex, mottled with dusky and showing four or 

 five pale longitudinal lines, more or less obsolete ; hind edge strongly 

 concave, surface transversely wrinkled, broad anterior margin smooth and 

 calloused ; sides longer than in obsoletus, carinated ; latero-posterior mar- 

 gins very oblique, almost continuous with the posterior margin. Scutelum 

 with four or five brown spots, the posterior sometimes obsolete. Elytra 

 short and broad, hardly exceeding the tip of the abdomen, pale, the 

 areoles more or less heavily edged with fuscous. Abdomen brown or 

 almost black, edge fulvous, with a few fulvous clouds beneath ; pleural 

 pieces brown, pale margined ; legs pale, the femora banded with brown 

 and the tibiae dotted at the base of the spines. Valve of the male broad'y 

 triangular, apex obtuse ; plates irregularly quadrangular, widely spreading, 

 touching only at base ; outer angles produced, subacute, armed with a 

 few long bristles ; inner angles rounded ; styles very long, extending for 



