HANCOCK 153 



rated. Eyes prominent and globose. Antenna- slender, 

 reddish, inserted a little above and in front of the anterior 

 inferior border of the eyes. Pronotum anteriorly angulate, 

 the sides substraight, posteriorly long and subulate; the ajjex 

 acute, passing the posterior femora; dorsum smoothly granu- 

 late, with no longitudinal wrinkles, or scarcely a vestige of 

 vein-like arrangement of the granules between the shoulders; 

 median carina distinctly elevated, nearly straight or gradually 

 arched a little higher between and a little before the shoul- 

 ders; humeral angles strongly obtuse; dorsum between the 

 shoulders tectiform; the anterior carinae near the margin 

 curved, becoming a little divergent posteriorly; the borders 

 of the posterior angle of the lateral lobe nearly form a right 

 angle, acute at the apex; the posterior margin straight and 

 vertical. Elytra nearly smooth externally, with a short, 

 thick, oblique, pale Sjiot near the apex. Femora entire; the 

 anterior and middle femora somewhat slender; the posterior 

 femora rather broad, the first article of the posterior tarsi 

 equals the third in length; the pulvilli subrounded below, the 

 third little the longest. 



Length ot body, i;, 14.5 mm.; pronot., 12 mm.; post, 

 fem., 7 mm. The wings extend beyond the apical process 

 of the pronotum one millimeter. 



Locality, Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico, elevation 4,000 feet 

 (Barrett), Hancock. 



Tettigidea jalapa, Hancock, Can. Ent., xxxii, 25, 26 

 (1900), Mex.; Scudder, Index to N. Am. Orth., 314 (1901). 



TETTIGIDEA CHICHIMEC-i AUSTRALIS, VAR., HANC. 



Body rather small, fuscous, above ferruginous obscurely 

 clouded with fuscous; face below the eyes light, spreading 

 laterally over the lower portion of lateral lobes, pale under- 

 neath the abdomen; femora light, obscurely clouded; tibia a 

 little more distinctly striped with fuscous. Vertex scarcely 

 narrower than one of the eyes, obtuse, angulate, little 

 advanced before the eyes, the front marginal carina- directed 

 obliquely backwards and ending near the anterior inner angle 



