16 - THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Bradynotes nio>ita?nis, n. sp. 



Small, comparatively slender, dark reddish brown, with livid yellow 

 and white markings ; tegmina sometimes obsolete, when present as in 

 Pezotettix gracilis. 



Vertex between the eyes very broad, slightly deflected, scarcely sul- 

 cate, with a very faint though perceptible transverse depressed line joining 

 the upper extremities of the eyes, this line bending forward so as to form 

 a gentle arc with the convexity to the front. Frontal costa moderate, 

 nearly equal throughout, expanding a little at the ocellus, where it is very 

 shallowly sulcate. Pronotura simple, expanding equally and rapidly pos- 

 teriorly in the female, nearly equal in the male j front margin straight, 

 -posterior margin slightly but broadly truncate ; median carina of the pro- 

 notum slight, visible throughout, on the anterior lobe as a mere smooth 

 line not elevated in the least, in some specimens represented by a very 

 faint depressed hair line, on the posterior lobe slightly elevated, the sides 

 gently tapering ; lateral caringe obsolete, except in some specimens where 

 they are visible on the extreme front edge of the anterior lobe as blunt 

 shoulders. Anterior lobe coarsely and somewhat distantly, and the pos- 

 terior minutely and thickly punctate, rugulose. Abdomen carinate, taper- 

 ing gently and evenly backward. Tegmina situated low on the sides, 

 small, straight, narrow, three times as long as broad, the apex rounded. 

 Posterior femora short, somewhat tumid, nearly (female), or just reaching 

 the tip of the abdomen (male). Last ventral segment of the male abdo- 

 men upturned, prow-shaped, entire ; cerci elongate conical, with the tips 

 directed backward and gently downward, reaching a trifle beyond the tip 

 of the supra-anal plate. This latter very similar to that of B. obesus, but 

 proportionally broader apically. Female cerci mere rudiments, while in 

 B. ohesus and B. opimus they nearly equal those of the male. 



The general color is dark reddish brown with livid yellow and white 

 markings above, flavous beneath. Face griseous yellow, becoming darker 

 above, the vertex and occiput brownish fuscous ; a very narrow but sharply 

 defined yellow line commencing near the upper posterior angle of the 

 eye, separating the occiput from the gen^e and extending backward on to 

 the pronotum, where the lateral caringe would be if present ; in some 

 specimens a third line of a similar nature is present, beginning at the ver- 

 tex and extending backward along the middle of the occiput. Sides of 

 pronotum yellowish white, with a broad brownish piceous band extending 

 from near the middle of the anterior lobe obliquely upward to the posterior 



