218 JAMES A. G. REHN. 



RB9IARKS OX K09IE I?IRXICAi\ ORTHOPTERA, WITH 

 DENC RII*TIO.\S OF MEW SPECIES. 



BY JAMES A. G. KEHN. 



The specimens — the study of which forms the present paper — 

 were collected by Mr. Otis W. Barrett, formerly of Tacubaya, 

 Mexico. A former collection made by him was published on previ- 

 ously (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxvii, pp. 85-99). The types of the 

 species described as new are in the possession of the writer. The 

 use of the family name Tettigonidae in place of the time honored 

 Locustidse is in accordance with the proper relations of the Lin- 

 naean genus Locusta, for a discussion of which see a recent paper 

 by the writer (Canad. Ent., xxxiii, pp. 118-121). 



Localities represented are as follows : Orizaba, Jalapa, Teoeelo, 

 Presidio and Xico in Vera Cruz; Tacubaya, Tizapan and Eslava in 

 Distrito Federal (D. F.) ; Cuernavaca, Nepautla and Yan tepee in 

 Morelos. A note on the genus NeoharreUia will be found at the 

 end of the paper. 



Family FORFICULID^. 

 Sparatfia deiitirera n. sp. 



Type : one male; Orizaba, Vera Cruz, June 6, 1899. 



This specimen resembles S. columbiana DeBormans (Ann. Soc 

 Ent Belg., xxvii, p. 66, pi. 2, fig. 7) in color, but differs in the form 

 of the anal segment and forceps. The description of *S'. bormami 

 Kirby (Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., xxv, p. 528) is so poor 

 and insufficient that comparison with it is almost impossible. The 

 antennse of bormansi are described as having the two basal joints 

 blackish, the others brown, while in the specimen before me the 

 three basal segments (all that are present) are blackish brown. 

 The form of the forceps is so distinctive that had bormansi pos- 

 sessed the same, it seems hardly likely that Kirby would not have 

 mentioned them. 



Size small. Head coarsely punctate, posteriorly with a triangular eniargina- 

 tion. Pronotum slightly longer than broad, central portion somewhat produced 

 anteriorly, posterior margin broadly rounded, the whole somewhat depressed 

 centrally and punctate posteriorly, medium carina undeveloped and indistinct 

 iiuteriorly. Elytra and wings scabrous, the anterior and posterior angles rounded. 



