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pronotum, (J 4.6 mm., ? 5 mm. ; fore femora, ^ 6 mm., ? 5.5 mm. ; 

 hiud femora, J" 9 14 mm,; hind tibiae, ^ 14.5 mm., ? 14 mm. ; ovi- 

 positor, 9 mm. 



7 c?, 6 9 . Ithaca and Endfield Falls, N. Y. (Cornell Univ., Morse) ; 

 Vigo Co., lud. (Blatchley) ; Texas, Belfrage. Originally described 

 from Illinois. Said by Bruner to be found in Eastern Nebraska, but 

 I have seen no specimens from so far west. 



28. Ceuthophilus meridionalis, sp. nov. 



Whole dorsal surface of body dark, being mostly almost piceous 

 with dark mahogany brown markings consisting principally of a broad 

 mesial stripe of irregular width on the thorax, fully as broad as the 

 basal joint of the antenute and on the abdomen made up of numerous 

 spots and short longitudinal or oblique bars, which toward the sides 

 become tinged with luteous ; the sides dingy luteous, the femora fuseo- 

 luteous, the hind pair externally striped with clearer luteous above 

 and spotted below ; hind femoral geniculations blackish ; all the tibige 

 and antenna? dark luteous. The antennae are moderately slender, the 

 legs rather long. Fore femora scarcely stouter than the middle 

 femora, fully one fourth longer than the pronotum but only two fifths 

 the length of the hind femora, the inner carina with two spines, the 

 outer of which is hardly subapical but pretty stout. Middle femora 

 with three pretty stout spines on the front carina, and on the hind 

 carina from 1-4 small spines besides a long genicular spine. Hiud 

 femora of the length of the body, about two and a half times as 

 long as the fore femora, very stout, the ajiical fourth subequal, about 

 three and a quarter times as long as broad ; the upper half very 

 faintly but closely scabrous in the darker portions, the outer carina 

 elevated, with 5-6 unequal and inequidistant large or very large 

 spines, the largest just beyond the middle, coarse, especially at base, 

 and much longer than the tibial spurs, besides one or two spinules 

 in the constricted portion of the femora, the inner carina rather dis- 

 tantly and rather regularly spinulate throughout, the intervening sulcus 

 very broad. Hind tibiae gently arcuate on basal third, much longer 

 than the femora, not very slender, armed beneath apically with two or 

 three spines besides the apical pair ; spurs subalternate, the basal at 

 end of proximal third of the tibia, slightly longer than the tibial depth, 

 set at an angle of 45° with the tibia and divaricating about 100°, the 

 apical half incurved r (calcaria and hind tarsi lost in the only specimen 

 known). Cerci slender, gently tapering, about two thirds as long as 

 the femoral breadth. 



