96 TETTIGID.E OF NORTH AMERICA 



tor; median carina very prominent, slightly arched; surface 

 arenose; elytra small, well rounded, with shallow punctures; 

 wings not longer than the elytra; hind femora very broad and 

 stout. 



Length body, 9.5 mm.; pronot., 8 mm.; post, fem., 5.2 

 mm. ; elytra 1.6 mm. 



Locality, Maryland. 



Tettix femoratus Scudd., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, ii, 305. 



Tettix femoratus Scudd., Thomas, Syn. ^Acrid. of N. 

 Am. in Rept. U. S. Geol. Survey, 185 (1873). 



Neoteitix femoratus Hancock, Ent. News, IX., 139, 140, 

 141 (1898), Maryland; Scudder, Cat. Orth. U. S., 16(1900), 

 South and West St. 



The type specimen, now lost, was formerly in the collec- 

 tion of the American Entomological Society, and the species 

 has not since been recovered, so the author has been informed 

 by Dr. Scudder. 



NEOTETTIX BOLTERI, HANX. 



Plate VL, Figs. 6-6b. 



Body small, rather robust; strongly rugose scabrous. Ver- 

 tex nearly twice as wide as one of the eyes, the front border 

 very slightly convex, advanced about as far as the anterior 

 border of the eyes; median carina small, obliterated on the 

 crown behind the middle of the eyes, viewed in profile a little 

 produced in front of the eyes, subrotundate; crown mammilate, 

 in profile a little convexo-elevated above the eyes. Frontal 

 costa distinctly furcate. Pronotum anteriorl)- truncate, posteri- 

 orly obtuse, not extended backwards so far as the apex of the 

 posterior femora; median carina of ])ronotum distinct, arcuate 

 longitudinally, higher between the shoulders; dorsum trans- 

 versely convex, between the shoulders strongly rugose, with 

 conspicuous excrescences showing in transverse section or 

 viewed in front, antehumeral carina; ai)pearing very slightly, 

 anterior lateral carina; in front, short, slightly compressed. 

 Elytra elongate, apex subacutely rounded; wings undeveloped. 

 Middle femora with a row of minute swellings between the 



