io<} ri'.TTIGW.E OF NORTH AMERICA 



knee of posterior femora. First and second femoral margins 

 entire; posterior femora robust; first article of the posterior 

 tarsi as long as the last two united; all three pulvilli acute. 



Locality, Paige, Texas (Fickiessen). 



Described from numerous specimens. 



Length of body, ':i 8.5 mm.; pronotum, 8 mm.; hind fern., 

 5.5 mm.; $, 7.5 mm.; pronotum, 6.7 mm.; post fern., 5 mm. 



This species might easily be mistaken for Ncotcttix. It is 

 probablv the short-winged form of Apotcttix curyccplialus. 



.APOTETTIX RUGOSUS (sCUDD.'l, BOL. 



Plate VL, Figs. 1^1 a. 



Body rugose-scabrous, dark or gravish fuscous variegated. 

 Vertex wider than one of the eyes in both sexes, front border 

 truncate advanced almost as far as the anterior border of the 

 eyes, on either side of the median carina fossulate. F'rontal 

 costa viewed in profile scarcely sinuate, between the antennje 

 moderatclv protuberant. Pronotum anteriorly truncate, pos- 

 teriorly long subulate passing the posterior femora, between 

 the shoulders transverselv convex, strongly rugose, median 

 carina vcrv little elevated, interrupted a little in front of the 

 shoulders, uneven in its course; posterior angle of the lateral 

 lobes obtuse, inferior margin oblique. Elytra oblong; wings 

 passing the apical process of pronotum. Middle femora dis- 

 tinctly undulate; the third pulvilli of posterior tarsi about 

 ei|ual in length to the first and second together, the first and 

 second spiculate, the third straight below. 



Length of body, y, 15 mm.; pronot., 12.5 mm.; post, 

 fem., 6.5 mm.; /, bodv 14 mm.; pronot., 12 mm. 



Locality, Port Orange, F'la. (Bolter) Hancock; F'ort Reed, 

 Fla. (Scudder); Mexico (Bolivar); liruner records it from 

 Nebraska; Ormand, Fla. (Blatchley). 



Tettix rugosus, Scudd., l^ost. Jour. Nat. Hist., vii, 476 

 (1862); Paratettix rugosus, Bol., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xxxi, 

 273, 274 (1887); Brun., Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc. iii., 29 (1893); 

 Scudd., Cat. Orth. U. S., 18 (1900); Scudd., hidex N. Am. 

 Orth., 241 (1901). 



