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Paracyrtophyllus robustus, new species (PL I. figs, i and 6). 



Robust; thorax heavy and broad, disk flat, considerably elevated in the posterior 

 third, less so in the female ; transverse sulci moderately distinct, the anterior one less 

 so; lateral carina; persistent and moderately acute, usually somewhat obscured in 

 front of the anterior transverse sulcus. Elytra about twice as long as broad in the fe- 

 male, in the male about one and one half times as long as broad ; wings considerably 

 shorter than the elytra. Supraanal plate of both sexes convex above on the basal 

 two thirds or three fourths and longitudinally sulcate, the apical portion flattened and 

 apically broadly rounded or sometimes subtruncate ; subgenital plate of the male 

 longer than the thorax, slightly and gradually tapering, the tip split, the two parts 

 distinct and apically subcompressed ; cerci of the female slightly broader than thick, 

 about five times as long as the basal width, somewhat incurved and apically incised ; 

 that of the male divided into two long parallel branches, incurved apically, the lower 

 branch with about [he apical half bent inwards and backwards (Fig. 6). Oviposi- 

 tor broad and about two and one half times as long as the length of the thorax. 



Length, pronotum, male, 6-7 ; female, 6-7 ; elytra, male, 28-29 '■> 

 female, 28-30; posterior femora, male, 22-23; female, 22-25; sim " 

 genital plate, male, 13 ; ovipositor, 17 mm. Width, pronotum, male, 

 8.5 ; female, 8-9 ; elytra, male, 19 ; female, 14-16 ; subgenital plate, 

 male, 2.25-2.5 ; ovipositor, 3-5-3.75 mm. 



Type no. 9143, U. S. National Museum. 



Five specimens are before me, three males and two females, all 

 from Texas without definite locality except one female, the largest 

 specimen, which is from Tiger Mills. Other specimens are in the 

 Scudder collection at Cambridge, Mass. 



The broader thorax with its more distinct lateral carinas, the 

 dorsally armed anterior tibial and the shorter elytra and wings make 

 this insect easily distinguishable from related forms. The song and 

 habits are very probably similar to those of the species belonging to 

 the following genus. I had thought to construe the Cyrtophyllits per- 

 spicillatus of Fabr. , to be this form but was prohibited from doing so 

 by the pronotum of his species being described as posteriorly rounded, 

 which is not true of this species. 



Genus CYRTOPHYLLUS Burmeister. 



Cyrtophyllus Burm. Handb. Ent., II, 697 (1838). 



Superficially closely resembling the previous genus but is readily 

 distinguished from it by the general form, which is less robust, and by 

 the distinctly more elongate elytra. Structurally there are a number 

 of correlated characters separating this genus from its allies. Lateral 

 carinas of the pronotum distinct only behind the principal transverse 



