REHX AND HEBARD 225 



STUDIES IN AMERICAN TETTIGONIIDAE 

 (ORTHOPTERA) 



VI. 



BY JAMES A. G. REHX AND MORGAX HEBARD 



A SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS 

 CONOCEPHALUS FOUND IN AMERICA SOUTH OF 

 THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED 



STATES 1 



In a recent paper,- the authors have studied the species of the 

 genus Conocephalus found in North America north of Mexico; 

 in that paper the generic references, genotype, description and 

 discussion of the history of the genus and its then recognized 

 subgenera have been fully treated. We were obliged at that 

 time to examine our series of the genus from the other portions 

 of America, and, finding that we had material of the great major- 

 it}^ of the species before us and the opportunity to correct many 

 misconceptions, to give man}" important but hitherto wholly 

 neglected or hurriedly considered characters, as well as to establish 

 a number of very confusing names as synon^ans, we determined 

 to study all of the American forms of the genus. The present 

 paper is bj^ no means as complete as the first portion of the study, 

 for in much of the territory considered there has been little or no 

 collecting accomplished and the series before us, though far 

 larger than any others previously studied, contain few specimens 

 of some species and none of several of which the types are inac- 

 cessable to us and the original descriptions of the same vague 

 and uncertain. Our efforts are here concentrated in defining the 

 species known to us as accurately as we are able, with the hope 

 that by so doing many of the difficulties and misconceptions of 

 the past may be eradicated from future study of the American 

 forms of the genus. 



1 Published with the aid of the Orthoptera Fund. 



2 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xH, pp. 155 to 224, (1915). 



• TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLI. 

 1.5 



