HANCOCK 133 



TELMATETTIX ARIDUS, SP. N. 



Plate VI., Figs. 3-33. 



Similar to Tclinatcttix a::tccits, distinguished by the 

 slightly stouter body with the humeral angles a little more 

 prominent; transversely between the shoulders less convex; 

 the posterior angle of lateral lobes of pronotum more widely 

 rounded below; viewed in front the facial costa not so nar- 

 rowed and less compressed. Color cinereous. 



Length of body, 5, 12 mm.; pronot., 10 mm.; post, 

 fem., 5.5 mm.; ,^, body, 10.2 mm.; pronot., 8.5 mm.; post, 

 fern., 4.5 mm. 



Locality, Palm Springs, California (Morse) Hancock. 



TELMATETTIX FALLAX, BOL. 



Grayish cinereous. Vertex strongly narrowed forwards; 

 frontal costa little compressed, between the antennae obtusely 

 depressed, not produced before the eyes. Pronotum 

 depressed, granulate, apex acute, barely extended beyond 

 the posterior knees, between the shoulders sometimes fusco- 

 bimaculate, median carina anteriorly subgibbose; posterior 

 angle of the lateral lobes with apex widely rounded, inferior 

 margins subreflexed. Elytra oblong, fusco-punctate, apex 

 subacuminate; wings extended, passing the apical process. 

 Anterior femora compressed, carinae obscurely undulate, below 

 at the middle with small lobe; third article of posterior tarsi 

 little shorter than the first; pulvilli rounded below, first and 

 second united shorter than the third. 



Length of body, 5, 9 mm.; pronot., 8 mm.; post, fem., 

 4.5 mm. 



Locality, Guatemala (Bolivar). 



Paratettix fallax, Bol., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., XXXL. 282 

 (1887); Morse, Biol. Cent. Am. Orth., ii., 12, 13, 14 (1900); 

 Scudder, Index N. Am. Orth., 241 (190 1). 



