74 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



sweeps to an inferior slight spiniferous swelling just before the middle 

 of the distal half ((?), shorter than the femora in both sexes, armed 

 beneath on the distal half with a series of about three recumbent 

 spines (in the ^ arising from slight elevations) besides the apical pair; 

 spurs subopposite, the basal well beyond the end of the distal third of 

 the tibia, hardly more than half as long as the tibial depth, set at an 

 angle of about 45° with the tibia and divaricating about as much; 

 inner middle calcaria somewhat longer than the outer, twice as long 

 as the others or as the spurs but much shorter than the first tarsal 

 joint. Hind tarsi less than two fifths the length of the tibiae, the first 

 joint nearly as long as the rest together, the second fully twice as long 

 as the third and with it as long as the fourth. Cerci very short, not 

 very slender, rapidly tapering, hardly more than half as long as the 

 femoral breadth ( 9 ) or developed basally as a single stout sub- 

 clavate apically upturned blunt joint, surmounted by a brief conical 

 multiarticulate appendage, the only portion which surpasses the supra- 

 anal plate (S)- Ovipositor brief and slight, no longer than the fore 

 femora, tapering in proximal, equal in distal half, the apex and arma- 

 ture as in G. inquinatus. 



Length of body, $ 13.5 mm., 9 12 mm.; pronotum, J 4 mm., 

 9 3.8 mm.; fore femora, ^ 4.5 mm., 9 3.6 mm.; hind femora, 

 ^ 10.5 mm., 9 8.5 mm. ; hind tibiae, $ 9.6 mm., 9 8 mm. ; oviposi- 

 tor, 3.5 mm. 



2 ^,2 9' West Point, Nebr. ; McPherson Co., Kans., Run^strom, 

 all from L. Bruner. Subsequently to the description of the above 

 I received from the U. S. National Museum 3 (J, 1 9? from Dallas, 

 Texas, of considerably larger size, like that described by Brunner, 

 also from Texas. 



34. Ceuthophilus valgus, sp. nov. 



Dark luteo-testaceous, more or less infuscated especially along the 

 hind borders of all the segments and the front border of the pronotum ; 

 occasionally a few indistinct luteous dots occur in a transverse series 

 on the abdominal segments, but most of the varied markings are con- 

 fined to the pronotum, where they are not pronounced and consist of 

 a dull luteous mediodorsal stripe and vague and irregular streaks or 

 clouds of luteous upon either side, more or less extensive ; the legs 

 are generally lighter than the body, but are more or less infuscated 

 beyond the base of the femora, the hind pair of which scarcely show 

 any scalariform markings. The antennae are not very slender, two to 

 three times as long as the body, and the legs are moderately long and 



