156 ■ TETTIGID.E OF NORTH AMERICA 



margin, parallel, acutely divergent behind, obsolete in front 

 of the principal sulcus; posterior sinus of the lateral lobes 

 shallow, one-third to two-thirds as deep as the anterior lobes. 

 Hind femora robust, margins of the apex concave, genicular 

 and femoral lobes well developed. 



General color brown; face, vertex, and apex of abdomen 

 pale yellow; mid-carina of pronotum sometimes spotted with 

 fuscous. A notable color variation is that presented by one 

 female, in which the eyes, the top of the head, and the anterior 

 portion of the pronotum (in the form of a triangle whose apex 

 reaches the first sulcus) are yellow. 



Total length, $, 9-10.5 mm., 5, 13-14 mm.; pronot., $, 

 7.5-8.3 mm., 5, 10. 5-1 I mm.; post, fem., ,-f, 6-6.5 mm-. ?. 

 7.5-8 mm.; antennae, t, 3.5-4 mm., 5, 4-4.5 mm. 



Locality, Mexico (colls. Bruner and Scudder), Morse. 



Tettigidea bruneri, Morse, Biol. Cent. Am. Orth.. II., 15, 

 16 (1900), Mex.; Scudder, Index N. Am. Orth., 314 (1901). 



TETTIGIDEA CHICHIMECA, SAUSS. 



Fuscous, frequently pale; femora marked with yellow, tibia 

 reddish; granulose. Vertex anteriorly obtuse angulate. 

 Pronotum anteriorly obtuse angulate, posteriorly acute, apex 

 not passing the femora; median carina towards the head dis- 

 tinctly arcuate-declivitous; lateral carinae behind the anterior 

 margin distinct, backwards subdiverging; dorsum longitudi- 

 nally rugulose. Elytra externally rufescent, marked near apex; 

 wings abbreviated. Posterior femora broad, granose-stri- 

 gate; first article of posterior tarsi with the pulvilli subequal 

 in length. 



Length of body, ^7, 10 mm.; pronot., 9 mm.; post, fem., 

 6 mm. 



Locality, Mexico. 



Tettix chichimeca, Sauss., Rev. et. Mag. de Zool., xiii, 

 400 (1S61); Tettigidea chichimeca, Bol.. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bel- 

 gi([ue, xxxi, 296 (1887); Morse, Biol. Cent. Am. Orth., ii, 

 15, 16 (1900). 



