1 38 TETTIGID.E OF NORTH AMERICA 



able to figure measures: j, length to end of ovipositor, four- 

 teen millimeters, to end of pronotum, twelve millimerters. 

 Mr. A. Bolter, of Chicago, found this specimen on the banks 

 of the Halifax River at Port Orange, Florida, in April, 1875, 

 and as he relates "in the neighborhood of a swampy place." 

 The other specimens so far as known were taken by H. K. 

 Morrison in Georgia, as given by Dr. Scudder. 



Following is the translated description of Bolivar: 

 Black, 2, or obscure fuscous, above plumbeous, front of 

 head and sides of pronotum obliquely streaked with pale; f, 

 somewhat shiny, granulate. Pronotum with the median carina 

 regularly arcuate, dorsum somewhat rugulose-cicatrate, pos- 

 terior process subacute. P'lytra nearly smooth. Wings 

 shorter than the pronotum. Anterior femora incostate, above 

 obscurely sulcate, intermediate femora above sulcate, bicos- 

 tate, external pagina longitudinally costate, incrassate, and 

 subcrennulate, posterior femora with the external pagina 

 covered with little scales. Valves of the ovipositor subscab- 

 rous. 



Body length, f $, 10-15 mm.; post, fem., 6-8.5 "^ni- 

 Tettigidea obesa, Scudder, Ent. Notes, VI., 12; Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIX., 1877-78. 



Locality, Georgia, Morrison (coll. of M. Bruner, of Boli- 

 var, in Mus. Stockholm and in Geneva). 



GEN. TETTIGIDEA, scudder. 



Body granulose-rugulose; front moderately obli(|uc. V'er- 

 tex strongly wider or equal in width to one of the eyes; 

 antero-lateral carina: terminating obliquely or rounded, mid- 

 dle carinate, more or less compresso-elevated. Frontal costa 

 largely compressed, advanced before the eyes and above 

 coalescing with the median carina of the vertex, viewed in 

 front narrowly or moderately sulcate. Eyes in dorsal view 

 more or less elyptic, conoidal in profile. Antennas short, con- 

 sisting of twenty-two articles. Pronotum obtuse tectiform 

 between the shoulders, anterior margin rounded, angulate, 

 acute, or cuspidate, posteriori}- acute, more or less extenuate, 



