MORGAN HEBARD 365 



Cayamas, Oriente, Cuba, II, 2 and 11, (E. A. Schwarz), 2 9 , (1 small, abl)re- 

 viate tegmina), [U. S. N. M.]. 



San Carlos Estate, Guantanamo, Cuba, X, 4 to 8, 1913, (F. E. Lutz), 1 9, 

 (large), [A. M. N. H.]. 



Isle of Pines, 1 c?, [M. C. Z.]. 



Syinploce morsei*^ new species (Plate XVIII, figs. 11, 12, 13.) 



This insect represents the Bahaman development of the pres- 

 ent group, showing nearest relationship to »S'. capitata in the male 

 subgenital plate, which, however, is distinctly more highly special- 

 ized. In general apparance, *S. jamaicana, ynorsei, flagellata and 

 occasionally rather slender and less reddish examples of capitata, 

 are very similar. 



Type. — cf ; Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas. Feb- 

 ruary 3, 1904 (M. Hebard.) [Hebard Collection, Type no. 124.] 



Description of Type. — Size small, nearly as small as depauperate examples 

 of capitata; form moderately slender for the group, much as in jamaicana. 

 Head with eyes of normal size, as in capitata. Interocular space slightly 

 narrower than that between ocelli. Ocelli small, with surfaces of ocellar areas 

 rounding evenly into interocellar area, as in capitata. Pronotum as in 

 that species. Tegmina and wings as given in generic description, structure 

 of same deUcate. Median segment decidedly specialized, exactly as in 

 capitata. Sixth segment with latero-caudal angles acute-angulate produced 

 so that the distal margin is deeply concave, entire surface deeply concave, 

 but with a high medio-longitudinal carina and a bulbous swelling laterad 

 on each side; seventh segment concealed; eighth segment with brief distal 

 portion showing, distal margin deeply concave and latero-caudal angles 

 produced to base of cerci, this segment slightly raised for a brief space 

 mesad, where it is clothed with a heavy fringe of long hairs. Supra-anal 

 plate with surface ascending to a distinct, rounded, proximal, transverse 

 ridge opposite the elevation of the eighth segment, in this region supplied 

 laterad with rather numerous short hairs; free margins straight and 

 weakly oblique produced, then suddenly produced in meso-distal half 

 with margins briefly straight divergent, then convex convergent to a point 

 forming a weak mesal emargination, this produced portion more than twice 

 as wide as long. Subgenital plate showing an evident decidedly greater 

 specialization of the type found in capitata; dextral free margin moderately 

 oblique from base of cercus to mesal point, there the plate is produced in a 

 delicate rounded scute with ventral surface decidedly concave, this occupying 

 half of the remaining free margin of the subgenital plate, at its dextral base 



*^ We take great pleasure in dedicating this interesting species to Dr. Albert 

 P. Morse, whose Orthopterological work stands on a plane of exceptional 

 excellence and accuracy, and to whom we are indebted for one of the few con- 

 tributions on Bahaman Orthoptera. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 



