HANCOCK 115 



apex acute; the median carina slightly more distinct through- 

 out. The middle and posterior femora a])pear a little stouter. 



Length of body, J, 10-11.5 mm.; pronot., 8.5-9.7 mm.; 

 post, fem., 6-7 mm.; 7, body, 8-8.5 '"mn-; pronot., 7. 1-8 

 mm.; ]jost. fem., 5.5 mm. 



Locality, Paige, Texas; Opelousas, La. 



Scarcely distinguished from the short-wing form Paratcttix 

 uicxicanus abortus. 



PARATETTl.X MEXICANUS, BOL. 



Plate VIIL, Figs. 12 and 13. 

 Variety Figs, i and 2. 



Body not quite as large as tcxaitiis. Grayish or light 

 yellow clouded or spotted with fuscous, back of shoulders often 

 with two subtriangular dark spots, anterior and middle tibise 

 with two bands of fuscous, one near the middle, the other at 

 the extremity. Some black spots frequentU* arranged in series 

 along the pronotal carina;. Surface of body granulate-scab- 

 rous. Vertex equal to one of the eyes or little narrower, the 

 front border truncate, advanced almost as far as the anterior 

 border of the eyes, concave anteriorly, median carina scarcely 

 at all elevated, barely projecting as a minute tooth; on either 

 side of the median carina of the vertex narrowly canaliculate 

 longitudinally, abruptly ending by a transverse ridge posteri- 

 orly; fronto-lateral carinje bent at right angle to the front 

 margin, extending straight backwards about one-third of the 

 inner border of the eyes; lateral margins of crown scarcely 

 sinuate. Frontal costa barely advanced before the eyes, sub- 

 sinuate, between the antennae scarcely convex, facial profile 

 lightly sinuate below; viewed in front the rami rather widely 

 separated, moderately divergent to the median ocellus. Pro- 

 notum anteriorly truncate, posteriorly subulate, rather sud- 

 denly narrowed but not long extenuate, apex acute, passing 

 the knee of posterior femora; dorsum between the shoulders 

 transversely subflattened, frequently with little short secondary 

 carinae, posteriorly subdepressed; median carina of pronotum 

 very little elevated, thin, subcompresso-elevated anteriorly, 



