HANCOCK 1 1 1 



rather flat above, long subulate; median carina 

 distinct, but low, in front of the shoulders subcom- 

 pressed and elevated. dunts, Morse. 



8B. Pronotum with the shoulders more elevated; median 

 carina higher, acute, compressed throughout, sub- 

 cristate in front of the shoulders; posterior process 

 abbreviated. form sinuatiis, Morse. 



PARATETTIX CUCULLATUS, MORSE. 



Plate VIII., Figs. 6 and 7. 



Body moderately large, depressed, rather smoothly granu- 

 late. Vertex viewed from above equal to or a little wider 

 than one of the eyes, not projecting in advance of them, the 

 front border truncate, middle carinate; the median carina 

 projecting very feebly from the middle of the front border; 

 on each side of the median carina the vertex longitudinally 

 fossulate for about two-thirds the length of the eves. Frontal 

 costa in profile slightly sinuate, scarcel\- advanced at all 

 before the eves, moderately protuberant between the antenn.e, 

 viewed in front the rami moderately separated, ver\- little 

 divergent. Eyes globose, large and prominent. Antennal 

 articles distinct. Pronotum anteriorly truncate, posteriorly 

 subulate extenuate, nearly horizontal; dorsum between the 

 shoulders transversely lighth' convex, posteriorh' depressed, 

 antero-dorsal margin advanced upon the head to the eyes, in 

 front of the shoulders little constricted, humeral angles 

 obtuse; median carina of pronotum low, feebly elevated, fre- 

 quently a little sub-compressed anteriorly before the shoulders; 

 lateral lobes of pronotum posteriorly bisinuate, the posterior 

 superior or elytral sinus quite shallow, posterior inferior angle 

 strongly rounded below. Elytra moderately large, elongate, 

 towards the apex acuminate. Femora appreciably slender; 

 anterior femora indistinctly sinuate or sublobate near the 

 outer third below; middle femora slightly subsinuate above, 

 more distinctly though by no means strongly sinuate below, 

 first article of posterior tarsi a little longer than the third, 

 the first and second pulvilli spiculate. 



