io6 TETTIGID.E OF NORTH AMERICA 



niucli less so than in Ncotcttix. P'irst article of ]josterior tarsi 

 clistincti\- longer than succeeding ones united, puUilli straight 

 or rounded below, acutel\- pointed, the third nearl\- as long as 

 the others combined. 



Length of body, ,/, 6.5-7.5 nmi.; ])ronot., 6-7 mm. ; post, 

 fern., 4.5-5 mm.; y, body, 8-g mm.; pronot., 7.7-9 mm.; 

 jjost. fern., 6 mm. 



Locality, .San Domingo, California ( AL A. Frazen. 



The above description somewhat modified from Morse. 



A t\pe sijecimeii in the author's collection presented by 

 Professor Morse. 



This species resembles in general appearance Criolcttix 

 piilliis, ])ol., from the Philippines. 



Merotettix pristinus, Morse, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vii., 

 igg, 200 (1899); Scudd., Index N. Am. Orth., 196 (1901). 



0CHET0TP:TTL\, mokse. 



Related to and resembling Ncotctti.x, but differing from 

 that genus in the wider furcation of the facial frontal costa, 

 which approaches that of the Cladonotina-; in the [jresence of 

 supernumerar)- carina; between the humeral angles and the 

 median carina, and in having the humero-apical carina; joined 

 to the lateral carin;v, leaving no scajnilar area. 



Ochetotettix, Morse, Biol. Cent. Amer. Orth., ii.. 9 

 (1900). 



DISPOSITION OF SPECIES. 



I. Lateral lobes of pronotum with the superior sinus 

 shallow; wings absent. barrctti, Hanc. 



I A. Lateral lobes of pronotum with the superior sinus 

 of normal size; wings and pronotum fully developed. 



vola/is, Morse. 



