HANCOCK 105 



The measurement of the male above given was taken from 

 the tvpe generously loaned by Dr. Scudder. 



MEROTETTIX, morse. 



Body small relatively compressed, rugose-scabrous. Ver- 

 tex ecjual in width or slightly less than one of the eves. Frontal 

 costa narrowly forked, the branches straight and evenly 

 divergent. Pronotum anteriorly truncate, posterior process 

 with straight sides, acute; dorsum transversely between the 

 shoulders narrow; humeral angles strongly obtuse; superior 

 lateral sinus of pronotum shallow. 



Morse, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, viii., igg (1899); Hancock 

 Psyche, 6 Jan. \ 1900). 



MEROTETTIX PRISTINUS, MORSE. 



Bod\' small, rugose-scabrous. Vertex equal in width to 

 one of the eyes or slightl}- less, front border somewhat convex, 

 projecting very little in advance of the eyts, narrowly sulcata 

 on each side of the median carina at its union with ihe frontal 

 costa; crown between the eves broadly and shallowly fossulate 

 on each side of high median ridge, rapidh' widening backwards 

 from the middle of the eyes. Face in jjrofile ijuite retreating 

 below antenna;; the frontal costa roundly protuberant, scarcely 

 sinuate above, rami viewed in front straight, slightly and 

 evenly divergent. Pronotum scabrous or rugose; disk nearly 

 flat, slightU' elevated in front of the shoulders, the front mar- 

 gin truncate; median carina of pronotum distinct throughout, 

 highest and almost subcristate midwa\' between front margin 

 and shoulders, undulate behind; lateral carina; distinct, their 

 anterior portions converging behind; dorsum transversely 

 between the shoulders narrow, humeral angles strongly obtuse; 

 posterior process of pronotum with straight sides, acute, the 

 apex sometimes deflected, about reaching posterior knees; 

 superior lateral sinus very shallow. Wings two-thirds or three- 

 fourths as long as the pronotal process, but apparently abortive. 

 Anterior and middle femora slender, with entire or slightly 

 sinuate margins; posterior femora onl\- nioderateh- stout. 



