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and Scudder. Its habits, moreover, are not arboreal, as observed by 

 Bruner, since it was more often found on the ground than on the scant 

 vegetation growing in the area which it inhabited. 

 6. Paroxya Scudderi sp. nov. 



The smallest known member of the genus, the body of the male 

 averaging but 17 mm. in length. Antennae relatively short, 9.5 mm. in 

 both sexes. Tegmina reaching slightly beyond tip of abdomen in male, 

 shorter than abdomen in female. 



Male with posterior lobe of pronotum, tegmina, and upper and outer 

 faces of all the femora a uniform light wood brown ; occiput and anterior 

 lobes of pronotai disc darker. A broad black stripe extends from eye 

 along the upper half of the lateral lobes of pronotum as far as the pos- 

 terior transverse sulcus, where it ends abruptly, the posterior lateral lobe 

 being uniform in colour with the disc. Below this black stripe is one 

 of ivory white, brightest on the head. Metapleurite also ivory white. 

 Face grayish olive, flecked or tinged with yellowish. Proximal two- 

 thirds of antennae the colour of the tegmina ; distal third darker. Palpi 

 and prosternal spine yellow. Sternites of thorax olive brown ; those of 

 abdomen yellow, as also the lower face of all the femora. Hind tibiae 

 pale glaucous (the proximal third sometimes light brown), with a black 

 spot at geniculation ; the spines eleven in number in the outer series, 

 with their distal thirds black. 



Female darker ; the tegmina sometimes obscurely and sparingly 

 flecked with fuscous, covering three.-fourths or more of the abdomen ; the 

 yellow of under side dull or wanting. 



Supra-anal plate of male very short, triangular, with a short, basal, 

 triangular sulcus, in which rest the furcula. These consist of a pair of 

 flattish, oblong, subequal plates with their inner edges attingent except at 

 the apices, where they slightly diverge. Cerci strongly incurved, nar- 

 rowed at the middle, the proximal half stouter than in P. /loosieri, the 

 distal third flattened and rounded apically. 



Average measurements : Length of body, male 17 mm., female 24 

 mm.; antennae, male and female, 9 mm.; tegmina, male 13 mm., female 

 14.5 mm.; hind femora, male 11.5 mm., female 13.5 mm. Five males, 4 

 females. 



This graceful-bodied species was found in small numbers on July 

 27, 1897, about the grassy margins of a pond in the sand dune region 



