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mate, feebly wider below. Eyes prominent, globose. Pro- 

 notum smooth granulose, anteriorly truncate, sulci nearly 

 obliterated before the shoulders, posteriorly little extenuate, 

 acute, passing the posterior femora about one to one and a 

 half millimeters; dorsum between the shoulders narrow, 

 scarcely elevated, transversely' little convex, humeral angles 

 widely obtuse, not at all prominent; median carina very thin 

 throughout, not perceptibly elevated, posteriorly nearly hori- 

 zontal; posterior angle of lateral lobes of pronotum subacute, 

 little rounded below, the inferior margin viewed from above 

 not dilated. Elytra elongate, acuminate towards the apex; 

 wings fully developed, passing the posterior femora from one 

 and a half to two millimeters. Femora slender, entire; first 

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

 and second pulvilli acute, together their length not quite equal 

 to the third. 



Length of body, $, 12. 9-14. 5 mm., pronot.. 10-11.9 mm.; 

 post, fem., 5.1-6 mm.; $, body, 11.5 mm.; pronot., 9 mm.; 

 post, fem., 4.9 mm. 



Locality, Balsas and Cocula, in Guerrero, Mex. (Barrett) 

 Hancock. Described from six specimens. 



TELMATETTIX AZTECUS (SAUSS.), BOL. 



Plate IX., Figs, i and 2. 



Body slender, sabulose-granulose. Color, blackish or 

 fusco-cinereous, frequently the inferior lateral margins of the 

 pronotum yellow. Vertex strongly narrowed anteriorl)', 

 equal to about one-half the breadth of one of the eyes (little 

 more in female, little less in male], breadth of the crown 

 between the antero-lateral carina; contained two and a quarter 

 to three times in the length, front border subsinuato-truncate, 

 not advanced quite so far as the front margin of the eyes, 

 median carina subdistinct, on either side narrowly longitudi- 

 nally canaliculate. Frontal costa obtusely depressed, barely 

 advanced before the eyes, viewed in front strongly narrowed, 

 compressed, very feebly wider below. Eyes moderately 

 prominent, globose. Pronotum sabulose-granulose, anteriorly 



