HANCOCK 



'35 



post, fern., 5-5.2 mm.; f,, body, 7.9-8.6 mm.; pronot., 6-7.5 

 mm.; post, fern., 3.7-4.1 mm. Intermediate form: 5, bod}-, 

 7.8-9.5 mm.; pronot., 6.6-8 mm.; post, fem., 4.2-5 mm. 



Six females and eight males in the author's collection. 

 One specimen from Soledad, V. C, Mex.. is still smaller 

 than given above, with the elytra narrower. 



Locality, Cordova and Soledad, V. C, Mex. (^Barrett) 

 Hancock. 



TELMATETTIX MINUTUS RUGOSUS, N. FORM. 



Similar to the preceding Tcliiiatcttix ntiinitus, distin- 

 guished by the slightly broader vertex, the median carina 

 more projecting; the less tuberculose dorsum being lightly 

 rugose-tuberculose; median carina hardly subobtusely com- 

 pressed anteriorly; wings little passing the pronotal process, 

 but the pronotal process abbreviated and not passing the apex 

 of posterior femoral knees. 



Length of body, 5, to end of ovipositor, g mm.; pronot., 

 6-7.5 mm.; post, fem., 5-5.5 mm. Two females. 



Locality, Cuernavaca Morelos, Mex. (Barrett) Hancock. 



BATRACHIDIN/E. 



This section contains four genera with which we are here 

 concerned, namely: Faxilla, Bol.; Tettigidea, Scudd.; Plectro- 

 notus, Morse; and Scaria, Bolivar. General characters: body 

 slightly rugulose, granulose, or scabrous; the front vertical 

 or slightly oblique; the vertex generallv large and truncate 

 in front, or slightly projecting; the frontal costa sometimes 

 continued without sudden transition with that of the middle 

 of the vertex, other times the vertex not being at all carinate; 

 the frontal costa begins at the base or even frontal region, 

 always sulcate from the base to the median ocellus, sometimes 

 rather widely separated, usually narrow. Antennae inserted 

 on a line with the anterior inferior border of the eyes, and 

 between the eyes, slender, generally moderately long, com- 

 posed of sixteen to twenty-two segments, the first article 

 being much larger than the others, the second globular and 



