136 TETTIGID^E OF NORTH AMERICA 



small. The eyes large, ver\^ projecting, rounded, or depressed, 

 not elevated, triangular in form, above covered by the small 

 supra-ocular lobes of the vertex; the posterior ocelli placed in 

 the median part of the frontal ])ortion between the eyes. The 

 maxillary palpi large with the apical segment more or less 

 wide, depressed, and yellowish colored. The pronotum 

 always tectiform, anteriorly advanced above the head covering 

 the occiput, rounded, obtuse angulate or terminating in a small 

 cusp directed forward between the eyes, posteriorly the pro- 

 cess acute, variable in length; the lateral lobes more or less 

 vertical and bisinuate at the posterior border, the inferior sinus 

 being more often rounded and not angular, the posterior 

 inferior angle straight, or acute angled, directed dow-nwards 

 and not, or scarcely, reflected. The elytra more or less 

 rounded at the extremity and nearly always marked with a 

 light spot near the extremity; the wings vary in length, being 

 shortened in some and prolonged beyond the process of the 

 pronotum in others. The legs entire; the anterior femora 

 having the carina straight, not festooned, above; the posterior 

 femora with the median external surface rather large, of regu- 

 lar form, with the interstices of the oblique folds granular or 

 squamose; the posterior tibia; larger toward the extremity, the 

 carina multispinose, the first segment of the posterior tarsi 

 scarcely longer and sometimes equally as long as the last, the 

 pulvilli of the first segment rounded, not ending in a spine, at 

 the same time being of equal length, or the last may be a little 

 longer. 



Batrachidese, Bol., Ann. Soc. Ent., Belgique, xxxi, 119, 

 120 (1887). 



GEN. PAXILLA, BOL. 



Body rugulose, rather shiny; head broad. Vertex arcuate 

 in front, on each side transversely carinate, middle longitudi- 

 nally carinate. Frontal costa rounded, the base sulcate; 

 antennas short, having twenty to twenty-two articles some- 

 what distinct, inserted in the part inferiorly and between the 

 eyes. Eyes not at all exserted, subtriangular. Pronotum 

 tectiform, angulate in front, ];)osteriorly subacute, not reach- 



