PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 94 Washington: 1944 No. 3176 



TWELVE NEW SPECIES OF CHINESE LEAF-KATYDIDS 

 OF THE GENUS XIPHIDIOPSIS 



By Ernest R. Tinkham 



This paper is based on a study of 52 specimens of Chinese leaf- 

 Iratydids belonginof to the o:enns Xiph'/diopnis in the United States Na- 

 tional Museum, and in the Hebard collection at the Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences of Philadelphia. Only one of them was found to belong 

 to a previously described species; the remaining 51 specimens repre- 

 sent 12 species new to science, several of these being represented by 

 unique types. 



Family TETTIGONIIDAE 



Genus XIPHIDIOPSIS Redtenbacher 



Xiphidiopsis Redtknb acher. 1891, p. .131. — Hebvrd. 1922, p. 27.3. — Kar?>'y, 192.3. 

 p. 178; 1926, p. 1.30.— Chang, 193.1, p. 42.— Tinkham. 1936, p. 410: 1941, p. — . 



The genus Xiphidiopsis is one of several genera of small and inter- 

 esting katydids comprising the subfamily Meconeminae, which Dr. H. 

 Radcliffe Roberts (1941) has shown must be corrected to Meconema- 

 tinae. The genus is remarkable for the specialization of the male su- 

 praanal plate and cerci and for the form of the female subgenital plate 

 and eighth abdominal .'^ternite. The cerci and supraanal plate are 

 often of bizarre and intricate form and make the identity of males a 



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