64 TETTIGID.-E OF NORTH AMERICA 



NOMOTETTIX FLOKIDANUS, SP. N. 



Body small, a little compressed, rugose scabrous, some- 

 times light reticulate with fuscous, with two obscure black- 

 spots on the pronotum. Vertex nearly twice as wide as one of 

 the eyes, median carina distinct, in profile low, scarcely ele- 

 vated above the eyes, anteriorly rounded angulate, viewed 

 from above distinctly projecting at the middle of the front 

 border; on either side of the median carina of vertex anteriorly 

 distinctly fossulate between the eyes; front border convexo- 

 subtruncate; frontal carina: compressed laterally, rounding 

 into sides, lateral margins of crown subparallel. Frontal costa 

 in profile produced in front of the eyes about one-fourth to 

 one-third their length, deeply angulato-sinuate between the 

 eyes; face rather strongly retreating. Pronotum rugose, sca- 

 brous; antero-dorsal margin strongly angulate; sides of angle 

 scarcely concave, in profile acute, advanced over the head a 

 little more than one-half the length of the eyes; dorsum 

 between the shoulders narrow, transversely strongly tectiform, 

 between the carina; subconcave; posteriorly apical process 

 obtuse, not reaching so far as the apex of posterior femora; 

 median carina of pronotum subarcuate, highest between the 

 shoulders; median lobule of lateral lobes almost obliterated; 

 scapular area above the elytra distinct, nearly as high as the 

 exposed portion of the elytra. Wings very little develojjed; 

 elytra very small, their length a little more than twice their 

 breadth. Femoral margins entire, compressed; posterior 

 femora ampliate. rugose; first article of posterior tarsi as long 

 as the second and third combined. 



Length of body, ^;, 8 mm.; pronot., 6.9 mm.; post, fem., 

 4.7 mm. 



Locality, Port Orange, Florida; Enterprise, Florida 

 (Bolter). 



Described from two females. One of the specimens in 

 the author's collection received from the late A. Bolter, Chi- 

 cago; the other in the collection of the University of Illinois. 

 This species is allied in cotitprcssns, but is distinguished by the 

 vertex, it being as viewed from above more convexo-subtrun- 



