HANCOCK 125 



wide, acuminate towards the apex, surface punctate; wings 

 extended beyond the pronotal process in the female from two 

 to three millimeters. Anterior femora compressed, superior 

 marginal carina cristate, below in front of the anterior half 

 sublobate; middle femora distinctly clypeate, the inferior 

 marginal carina towards the extremity subsinuato-lobate or 

 sometimes dentate; posterior femora compresso-ampliate, the 

 su|)erior marginal carina arcuato-cristate, near the apex acute- 

 bilobed, margins of posterior tibiie spined, towards the extrem- 

 ity distinctly ampliate; first article of posterior tarsi scarcely 

 longer than the third, the tliird |julvilli about as long as the 

 first and second combined, flattened below, the first pulvilli 

 spinose, the second acute. Valves of ovipositor strongly 

 serrato-dentate. 



Length of body, J, i 5-16.2 mm.; pronot., 1 1.3-13. i mm. ; 

 post, fern., 6.1-7 mm.: ,T, body, 11. 5-13. 9 mm.; pronot., 

 9-10.8 mm.; post, fem., 4.9-5.9 mm.; antennae J, 3.4 mm. 



Described from numerous specimens in author's collection. 



Bolivar gives the following measurement; Body, $ j, 

 8-10 mm.; pronot., 10-12 mm.; post, fern., 5.5-6 mm. 



Morse gives total length, $, 10. 7-13. 5 mm., 5, 14-17. 5 

 mm.; pronotum, ^, 8.6-1 1 .3 nmi., j, 1 1 .5-1 5 mm; post, fem., 

 $, 4.5-6 mm., 5, 6-7.5 nim.; pronotum passing beyond post, 

 fem., $, 2-2.5 mm., J, 2.5-3.5 mm.; wings passing pronotum, 

 $, 1-2 mm., 5, 1.5-3 mm. 



Locality, Cuernavaca Morelos, Mex., Yantepec Morelos, 

 Mex., Bolsas Guerrero, Mex., Rio Cocula, Gro. (Barrett) 

 Hancock; Guatemala and Mexico (Bolivar); Colima, Me.x. 

 (Scudder) Morse; Chilpancingo, Rincon, and Xucumanatlan, 

 all in Guerrero, 2,800 to 7,000 feet (Smith); Jalapa (Bruner); 

 Guatemala (Champion); Nicaragua Chontales (^Janson); Ome- 

 tepe (Shimek in coll. Bruner) Morse. 



Paratettix schocki, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xxxi., 

 274 (1887); Brun., Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa, iii., 

 pt. 3, 62 (1895); Morse, Biol. Cent. Am. Orth., ii., 11, 12 

 (1900); Scudd. , Index N. Am. Orth., 242 (1901). 



