130 TETTIGID.'E OF NORTH AMERICA 



the shoulders, posteriorly nearl\- horizontal; the posterior 

 margin of lateral lobes strongly bisinuate, the elytral sinus 

 quite deep, posterior inferior angles obtuse, the inferior lateral 

 margin viewed from above not dilated. Elytra elongate, 

 acuminate at apex; wings fully developed, passing the [)ro- 

 notal process from one to two millimeters. First article of 

 posterior tarsi slightly longer than the second and third 

 together, the pulvilli flat below, the first and second small, 

 acute pointed, together about equal to the third. 



Length of body, 5, 14. 9-15. 5 mm.; pronot., 12. 5-13. 2 

 mm.; post, fem., 6.3-6.6 mm.; $ body, 12. 5-13. 5 mm.; 

 pronot., 10.9-11.5 mm.; post, fem., 5.6-5.9 mm. 



Three males and three females in the author's collection 

 received from Professor Morse. 



Morse gives the total length: t, 12-14 nim., ^, 14-16. 3 

 mm.; pronotum, .t , 10. 3-1 1.8 mm., J, 12-14. 5 mm.; body, 

 $, 7.5-9 mm., $, 9-1 I mm.; jjost. fem., ,/, 5-6 mm.. 5, 6-7.5 

 mm. 



Locality, Glendale, Oregon (Morse) Hancock. Reported 

 from California. 



Paratettix hesperus, Morse, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vii., 

 198 (1899); Scudd., Cat. Orth. U. S., 17 (1900); Scudd., 

 Index N. Am. Orth., 241 (1901). 



TEL.M.-\TETTIX PAKVIVERTICIS, VAR. N. 



Plate L\., P'igs. 3 and 4. 



Dark fuscous varying to pale ferrugineous. Body slender, 

 smoothly granulose. Vertex strongly narrowed anteriorly, 

 between the antero-lateral carina; the breadth about equal to 

 one-half or a little more than half of one of the eyes, the 

 crown being about two and one-quarter to two and a half times 

 longer than the breadth; front border of vertex sinuato-trun- 

 cate, not advanced quite so far as the eyes, median carina 

 thin, minutely projecting, on either side of median carina 

 narrowly longitudinally canaliculate. Frontal costa in profile 

 depresso-subconvex, scarcely advanced beyond the eyes, 

 viewed in front narrowly furcate, the rami closely approxi- 



