134 TETTIGID.E OF NORTH AMERICA 



TELMATETTIX MINUTUS, SP. X. 



Plate VII., Figs. 5-6a. 



Body .small, slender, rugose-tuberculose. Color variable 

 grayish or fu.scous, with two indistinct subdepressed dark 

 spots behind the shoulders; male frequently with the face 

 below the eyes, lateral parts of body, and external portion of 

 femora white. Crown of head between the eyes narrowed 

 anteriorly, between the fronto-lateral carina; the width is con- 

 tained in the length about twice in the female, a little more 

 than twice in the male; vertex about three-fourths the width 

 of one of the eyes in the female, about one-half in the male, 

 frontal margin sinuato-truncate not advanced quite so far as 

 the anterior margin of the eye.s, median carina moderately 

 distinct, little projecting, on either side of median carina 

 longitudinally canaliculate. Frontal costa in profile depressed, 

 scarcely advanced before the eyes, viewed in front narrowly 

 furcate, little compressed, separated very little wider opposite 

 the median ocellus, in the male subjjarallel. Eyes globose. 

 Antenna slender. Pronotum rugose-tuberculose or some- 

 times sabulose-tuberculose, less rugose in male, anteriorly 

 truncate, subconstricted before the shoulders, posteriorly the 

 pronotal process passing the femoral knees from one-half to 

 one and a half millimeters; dorsum nearly horizontal sub- 

 depressed, between the shoulders distinctly rugose-tuberculose, 

 narrow, transversely scarcely convex, indistinctly bicarinate 

 over the scapular portion of shoulders, the short anterior 

 carina: subcompresso-elevated; median carina of pronotum 

 distinct, subsinuate, scarcely subcompressed anteriorly; scapu- 

 lar area narrow; elytral sinus of lateral lobes of pronotum 

 shallow, posterior inferior angle distinct, the inferior margin 

 subangulato-rounded. Elytra elongate-acuminate; wings fully 

 developed, passing the pronotal process from one-half to one 

 and eight-tenths millimeters. Femora entire, slender. First 

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

 third pulvilli nearly as long as the first and second together, 

 the first and second pulvilli acute, the third flat below. 



Length of body, §. 10.5-1 1.9 mm.; pronot., 9-9.5 mm.; 



