THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 329 



NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN CALIFORNIAN ORTHOPTERA. 



BV SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



The species here brought together were most of them collected by Mr. 

 A. P. Morse, in the summer of 1897, and as they belong to miscellaneous 

 genera, none of which require special revision, the descriptions are here 

 collected for publication. 



Loboptera ainericana Scudd. 



The single original specimen of this species was taken in Arizona, and 

 was apparently collected in alcohol, as two fresh specimens taken by Mr. 

 Morse at Cahon Pass, Cal., July 18, differ in colour and in the shape of 

 the pronotum, requiring its partial re-description. The pronotum is 

 fusco-castaneous, only less obscure than the abdomen, very faintly and 

 delicately mottled with luteocastaneous ; it has no mesial constriction 

 (due in the original specimen to contraction in drying), but a regular 

 parabolic curve, and is feebly margined laterally. The tegmina are 

 castaneous, either with the inner half fuscous or with a fuscous median 

 streak. The antennae are of the length of the body, fusco-luteous. 

 gradually becoming paler distally, very sparsely and delicately verticillate. 

 The legs are uniform luteo-castaneous, the spines concolorous. The form 

 of the whole body is not so oval as indicated in the original figure, but 

 nearly parallel-sided, the abdomen with an independent fullness, and both 

 extremities, but especially the posterior, broadly rounded. The figure 

 also represents the legs as stouter and shorter than they are. 



MiCROTES, Gen. nov. (/xi/cporj/^). 



Allied to Spharagemon and Tomonotus. Moderately robust, but of 

 small size. Head normal, the summit without carination ; fastigium 

 of vertex oval, rather deeply impressed, completely margined with 

 elevated walls ; lateral foveolse triangular, a little elongate, but not 

 reaching the tip of the vertical fastigium ; frontal costa not very broad, 

 deeply sulcate, subequal but enlarging below ; eyes rather small and 

 prominent ; antennae rather coarse, not tapering, blunt-tipped, in the male 

 only a little longer than the head and pronotum together. Pronotum 

 moderately stout, mesially compressed, the median carina moderately 

 high, cut only by the principal sulcus, the lateral canthi distinct, 

 distinctly cut by the principal sulcus and fading in advance of it, the 

 process of the metazona subrectangulate ; interspace between both 

 mesosternal and metasternal lobes distinctly transverse in both sexes. 



