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NOTES ON SPECIES OF THE TETTIGIAN GROUP OF 



ORTHOPTERA. 



BV J. L. HANCOCK, CHICAGO. 



An interesting addition to Orthopteran distribution in the West 

 Indies is the finding by Mr. R. |. Crew of the species Neotettix quadri- 

 undulatus, Redtenbacher, on the Island on Haiti. 



Eight specimens, kindly presented to me, were taken around Port au 

 Prince, and, as Mr. Crew informs me, were "swept from plants along the 

 banks of a small stream." I have identified this species, which was first 

 described by Brunner and Redtenbacher, 1892, from the Island of St. 

 Vincent, West Indies, in " Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London," and an excellent figure is to be found on Plate xvi., fig. 10. 

 Here it is recorded as a Tettix, but subsequent study has shown its closer 

 ai)proximation to Neotettix, Hancock. Species of the latter genus occur 

 on the mainland of the southern United States and Mexico. The above 

 species was recorded " numerous " on the Island of St. Vincent. Mr. 

 H. H. Smith found it at Chateaubelais, also at the south end of the 

 island, near the sea, under decaying leaves. Brunner, 1893, again records 

 this species from the Island of Grenada, at Mount Gay Estate, Caliveny 

 Estate, Balthazar, in " Orthoptera of the Island of Grenada," Proceedings 

 Zoological Society of London. 



From a series of Tettigidae kindly furnished me from Mexico by Mr. 

 O. W. Barrett, I am able to describe two new species of the genus 

 Tettigidea, Scudder : 

 Tettigidea jalapa, sp. nov. 



Rather large. Eyes prominent. Above fusco-ferruginous, dark fuscous 

 over entire face and the sides, the last few segments at the end of the 

 abdomen pale, legs pale throughout, the maxillary palpi a little depressed 

 apically and very light, below the edges of prominent points and abdom- 

 inal rings light. Body long, granulate. Vertex a little wider or sub- 

 equally broad with an eye ; nearly flat, hardly advanced in front of the 

 eyes, widening posteriorly, the front border very little convexed, passing 

 latterly into small rounded and somewhat elevated carinse ending 

 abruptly near the anterior inner border of the eye ; on either side and 

 just behind are the very small lobes situated about the middle inner 

 margin of the eyes in small sunken fossae ; mid-carina rather thin, 

 extending backwards only as far as the ending of the lateral carinpe, but 

 very little elevated, in front insensibly coalescing with the frontal costa ; 



