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proximal fourth of the tibia, less than twice as long as the tibial depth, 

 set at an angle of 70-80° with the tibia and divaricating about 90° 

 (^) or 150-170° (9)5 their tips incurved; inner middle calcaria 

 distinctly longer than the outer, much more than twice as long as the 

 others or as the spurs and as long as the first tarsal joint. Hind tarsi 

 much less than half as long as the tibise, the first joint as long as the 

 rest together, the second more than twice as long as the third and 

 nearly as long as the fourth. Cerci short, being hardly longer than 

 half the femoral breadth. Extremity of the abdomen roundly truncate 

 in the male. Ovipositor straight beneath, the upper margin broadly 

 arcuate, nearly two thirds as long as the hind femora, tapering in basal, 

 equal and slender in distal half, the tip upcurved and finely acuminate, 

 the teeth of the inner valves aculeate, only the last one arcuate. 



Length of body, ^ 12 mm., 9 16 mm.; pronotum, ^ 3.5 mm., 

 9 5.25 mm.; fore femora, ^ mm., 9 6.1 mm.; hind femora, ^ 10.9 

 mm., 9 16 mm. ; hind tibiae, ^^ 11 mm., 9 16.3 mm. ; ovipositor, 10.5 mm. 



3 $,7 9. Dallas and Crawford Cos., Iowa (J. A. Allen) ; "West 

 Point, Nebr (L. Bruner). 



13. Ceuthophilus terrestris, sp. nov. 



Rhaphidophoi-a lapidicola Scudd. ! , Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 viii. 7 (1861). 



Ceuthophilus lapidicolus Scudd. !, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., vii. 435 

 (1862); Walk., Catal. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., i. 201 (1869); Glov., 

 111. N. A. Entom., Orth., pi. 7, figs. 4, 5 (1872); Prov., Nat. Canad., 

 viii. 75 (1876); Ril., Stand. Nat. Hist., li. 184 (1884); Smith, Cat. 

 Ins. N. J., 409 (1890) ; Osb. ?, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sc, ii. 119 (1892) ; 

 Blatchl., Proc. Ind. Acad. Sc, 1892, 147-148 (1894). 



Phalangopsis lapidicola Bess., Rep. Iowa Agric. Coll., vii. 206 

 (1877). 



Glabrous, mottled with luteous and blackish fuscous, both colors 

 varying in tint in different individuals ; there is often, but not always, a 

 mediodorsal light stripe on the thorax bordered by dark tints, and the 

 lower portions of the sides are always lighter than the rest ; the inter- 

 vening portions of the thorax may be described as fuscous, heavily 

 sprinkled and blotched irregularly with luteous, sometimes one, some- 

 times the other prevailing ; on the abdomen the darker colors prevail 

 and the lighter appear as a tolerably regular and profuse sprinkling of 

 often confluent luteous dots, most abundant on the posterior portions 

 of the segments ; the hind femora have the usual markings, and are 

 feebly and narrowly iufuscate apically. The antenniB are slender, 



