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twice as long as the pronotum, generally twice as 



long as head and pronotum together ; face more de- 



cliveut than in Melauoplus ; prozoua only about a 



third longer than the metazoiia . . . Paroxya. 



¥. Inferior genicular lobe of hind femora wholly pallid, 



with no dark basal spot or transverse band; cerci of 



male conical or subconioal or basally bullate, always 



apically pointed. 



V: Subgenital plate of male terminating in a pro- 

 nounced tubercle ; prosternal spine slender. 



Poecilotettix. 



%^. Subgenital plate of male, even when apically angu- 

 late, not furnished with an apical tubercle ; prosternal 

 spine stout. 

 j^. Relatively heavy bodied ; dorsal disk of the 

 prozona tumid independently of the metazona ; 

 pronotum distinctly angulate or convex behind ; 

 the portion of the metasternum lying behind the 

 lobes laterally extended, reaching to the coxas ; 

 tegmiua fully developed or abbreviate but over- 

 lapping, with many longitudinal veins ; cerci of 

 male very stout and bullate on basal half or more ; 

 abdomen of female bluntly rounded apically, the 

 posterior segments much abbreviated ; ovipositor 

 but slightly exserted (Edaleonotus. 



p. Relatively slender bodied ; dorsal disk of pro- 

 zona not tumid independently of the metazona ; 

 pronotum truncate posteriorly ; portion of meta- 

 sternum lying behind the lobes laterally abbre- 

 viated, much narrower than the width between 

 coxa3 ; tegmina linear, lateral, distant, with only a 

 few longitudinal veins ; abdomen of female taper- 

 ing regularly to a pointed tip ; ovipositor normally 

 exserted Asemophis. 



/-. Tegmina wanting; sides of first abdominal segment with 

 no tympanum Philocleon. 



e-. Face rather strongly oblique, the angle it makes with the 

 fastigium varying about from 55° to 67° ; eyes elongate, almost 

 or quite twice as long as broad ; portion of metasternum lying 



