798 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [UeC, 



wire-grass. I found many in the locality which yielded the large series 

 ofGymnoscirtetes pusillus. (M. H.) 

 Ceuthophilus virgatipes n. sp. 



Types: cJ* and ? ; Thomasville, Thomas county, Georgia. August 

 13, 1903. Collection of Morgan Hebard. 



Closely allied to C. secretus Scudder, but differing in the longer 

 median internal calcaria and the much shorter ovipositor. Relation- 

 ship also exists with C. varicator Scudder, but that species has the 

 first tarsal joint as long as the others united, as well as having a long 

 ovipositor. 



Size medium; body compressed. Head with the occiput declivent, 

 vertex somewhat flattened; interspace between the eyes equal to the 

 long diameter of one of them; ej^es inverted subpyriform; antennae 

 rather short and rather heavy, but slightly longer than the body; 

 terminal palpal joint distinctly longer than the third. Pronotum 

 strongly compressed ; anterior margin wnth a slight median emargina- 

 tion, posterior margin truncate ; lateral lobes slightly longer than high, 

 inferior margin moderately arcuate, the anterior angle by no means as 

 apparent as the posterior; surface of the pronotum as well as the 

 mesonotum and metanotum obscurely tuberculate, more pronounced 

 in the female than in the male. Abdomen strongly compressed, the 

 exposed portion of each segment roughened and picked. Cerci short, 

 thick basally, tapering. Ovipositor short, thick basally, apical half 

 subequal, margins almost straight, superior angle produced into a dis- 

 tinct spiniform process, internal valves with five apical spines. Ante- 

 rior femora a third as long again as the pronotum, armed on the ante- 

 rior inferior margin with 3-0 spines, unarmed on the posterior margin. 

 Median femora about equal to the anterior in length, armed on the 

 anterior margin with three spines which are larger in the female than 

 in the male, and increase in size distally, posterior margin armed with 

 two or three spines. Posterior femora thick and short, strongly bullate, ■ 

 the apical third slender, inferior margins with irregularly disposed 

 serrations, intervening sulcus comparatively broad; posterior femora 

 distinctly more than a tenth longer than the femora, not bowled, spurs 

 large, median calcaria extremely long, the internal equalling the meta- 

 tarsus; second and fourth tarsal joints subequal, third decidedly less 

 than half the length of second; metatarsus shorter than the other 

 joints united. 



General color cinnamon overlaid with bistre, the superior surface 

 of the posterior femora with distinct diagonal bars of the two tints; 

 under surface wdth little of the overlying tint. 



