6o TETTIGID.'E OF NORTH AMERICA 



appear translucent when held to the light. Dorsal front mar- 

 gin of pronotum much advanced upon the head, projecting 

 over it a distance nearly or quite e(]ual to one-half the dis- 

 tance between the lateral carina;, with the sides strongly con- 

 cave, cristatus projecting but one-fifth to one-third the above 

 distance and with the sides less concave. 



Length of body, $, 8.4 mm.; pronotum, 7.8 mm.; hind fem., 

 5-6 mm.; antennae, 2.5 mm. $, 9-9.5 mm.; pronot., 8.5-8.8 

 mm.; hind fem., 5-6 mm.; antennae, 2.8 mm." 



After describing this species Morse was not confident it was 

 racial or specific. 



Nomotettix compressus, Morse ? 



Morse, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. III., 15 (1895). 



Locality, North Carolina (Atkinson and Morse); Indiana, 

 Maryland, Georgia (Morse). 



Scudd., Cat. Orth., U. S., 15 (1900); Scudd, Index N. 

 Am. Orth., 209 (1901). 



NOMOTETTIX CRISTATUS, MORSE. 



Body small, brachypterous, a little compressed; granulate, 

 subrugose, polyornate, light fuscous variable, frequently pre- 

 senting triangular black spots on the disc of the pronotum, 

 either in pairs or merging together or wanting. Crown mammil- 

 late on each side between the posterior third of the eyes. 

 Vertex about twice the width of one of the eyes, having a dis- 

 tinct scarcely convex median carina, in profile advanced 

 beyond the eyes a little less than one-half the length of one 

 of them; the front border of the vertex viewed from above 

 convex, from in front concave, the median carina projecting 

 as a little tooth. Frontal costa in j^rofile deeply angulato-sinu- 

 ate between the eyes, between the antenn.-E a little protuber- 

 ant, but not so far as the vertex; viewed in front the frontal 

 costa is distinctly and suddenly furcate, the rami moderately 

 separated and parallel. Eyes rather small, subelliptic from 

 above, subconico-globose in jjrofile. Antenna? in profile inserted 

 a little below the antero-inferior border of the eyes, filiform, 

 with twelve to thirteen articles. Pronotum having the antero- 

 dorsal margin angulate produced (usually about one-third the 



