HANCOCK 99 



Tettix quadriundulatus, ]3runer, v., Wattenwyl and J. 

 Redtenbacher, Orth., Isl. St. Vincent, Froc. Zool. Soc. 

 (1892), fig. 10, pi. 16. 



Neotettix quadriundulatus Redt., Hancock, Can. Ent., 

 xxxii, 25 (1900), Haiti. 



Neotetti.x quadriundulatus Hanc, Scudder, Index N. 

 Am. Orth., Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vi, 20S (1S91). 



In 1892 Redtenbacher described the above species as 

 Tettix qiiadrijiiidiilatus, his specimens coming from the Island 

 of St. Vincent. Hancock (1900) mentioned the species as oc- 

 curring on the Island of Haiti, at the same time placing the 

 species in the genus Neotettix. A more recent critical study 

 of specimens having the slender, fragile antenna; still intact, 

 shows that this species cannot be ascribed to any existing 

 genus, hence the new genus created to receive it. 



APOTETTIX GEN. NOV. 



Body rather small, rugose-scabrous, minutely tuberculose. 

 Head somewhat crowded into the pronotum; antenna; stout, 

 consisting of thirteen articles; ej'es small, globose. Vertex 

 much wider than one of the eyes or nearly twice the width, 

 the front border not, or a little, advanced before the eyes, con- 

 ve.xo-truncate; middle of vertex carinate rather conspicuously 

 forwards, a little projecting anteriorly, disappearing backwards 

 between the middle of the eyes; the front border is formed of 

 little concave carinee, which take their origin on either side 

 of the mid-carina of the vertex and are elevated and flexed 

 backwards at the inner side of the anterior half of the eves; 

 between the anterior half of the eyes, on either side of the 

 mid-carina fossulate, posteriorly the crown becomes ajijire- 

 ciably wider between the eyes. Facial costa viewed in front 

 rather widely sulcate, or moderately narrow, subparallel, in 

 profile advanced beyond the eyes, between the eyes more or 

 less slightly concave, between the antenna; convex. Antennjc 

 inserted a little before and scarcely below the anterior inferior 

 border of the eyes. Pronotum anteriorly truncate, posteriorly 

 subulate, passing the knee of the hind femora or abbreviated 



