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ing the apex of femora; dorsum rugulose, with no longitudinal 

 ruga;, lateral carina; in front of the shoulders wanting, l-.lytra 

 narrow, wings abbreviated. Anterior femora with straight 

 entire carinas; posterior femora rather broad, external pagina 

 subsquamate, pinnate, femoral lobe small, posterior tibije 

 multispinose, externally sulcate; first article of the posterior 

 tarsi sulcate above, elongate, little longer than the third 

 article, pulvilli below rounded subequal in length. 



Paxilla, Bolivar, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belgique, XXXI., 120 

 (1887). 



Tettigidea, Scudder. 



PAXILLA OBESA, SCUDD. 



Plate II., Figs. 3-33. 



Shining nigro-fuliginous, the dorsum of pronotum some- 

 times dull plumbeo-testaceous; lower two-thirds of face of 

 male and lower third of deflected lobe of pronotum pale clay 

 brown; legs and elytra black, the posterior femora sometimes 

 with an inferior premedian and preapical minute testaceous 

 spot. Body very robust, unusually smooth, the entire head 

 and pronotum being depressed, rugulose, and shining; all the 

 angles rounded. Fastigium of vertex broadly rounded in 

 front, scarcely projecting beyond the eyes, the median carina, 

 continuous with the frontal carina, conspicuous and prominent, 

 compressed though with rounded surface. Frontal costa very 

 prominent, broadened slightly below, very narrowly sulcate; 

 viewed from the side, projecting beyond the eyes fully half 

 their width and broadly convex. Pronotum reaching the tip 

 of the abdomen only, produced and very convex in front, its 

 sides considerably deflected, the median carina being ele- 

 vated and equal throughout, though obtuse and in profile some- 

 what arched. Elytra almost smooth; wings scarcely longer 

 than the pronotum. 



Length, $, 9 mm., ^, 12 mm.; of antenna;, ,j~, 3.75 mm., 

 5, 4 mm.; of hind femora, .t., 6 mm., 5, 8 mm. 



I can add very little to the excellent description above 

 after Dr. Scudder. The type specimen which I have been 



