40 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



above and with the geniculations unarmed except the caudal 

 ones of the intermediate and posterior femora, which are dis- 

 tinctly spined ; anterior and intermediate femora armed be- 

 neath on the cephalic margin only with three or four triangular 

 spines ; posterior femora armed beneath on the outer margin 

 with seven stout spines, those toward the apex the larger and 

 curved slightly backward. Organs of flight fully developed ; 

 tegmina five times as long as the pronotum, apically somewhat 

 narrowly rounded, the radial veins very close together except 

 near the base where they are separated by a space something 

 over twice the width of one of them ; wings about the same 

 length as the tegmina and nearly as broad as long and very 

 slightly fuliginous. Supraanal plate broadly triangular, apically 

 rounded and dorsally shallowly and broadly concave ; sub- 

 genital plate elongate and apically deeply cleft; cerci cylin- 

 drical, simple and moderately stout, about four times as long 

 as broad, gently tapered to a point, and gently incurved, ovi- 

 positor moderately slender, three times as long as the pronotum, 

 gradually tapering from the base to the sharply pointed apex, 

 the upper margin very finely and bluntly serrate in the apical 

 half. 



General color yellowish brown ; the femoral spines are 

 piceous basally with the tips generally reddish yellow, the spines 

 of the tibis are reddish yellow with infuscated tips. 



Measurements. — Length : pronotum, 6.5 mm. ; anterior fe- 

 mora, 9 mm. ; posterior femora, 19 mm. ; tegmina, 32 mm. ; ovi- 

 positor, 18 mm. Width : pronotum posteriorly, 5.5 mm. ; elytra 

 mesially, 8.5 mm. ; ovipositor mesially, 2.5 mm. 



Described from one 9 , type, November, 1908. Schunke. 



Type in the collection of the U. S. National Museum. 



Cat. No. 21332, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Cocconotus angustatus Brunner. 



Cocconotus angustatus Brunner, Monogr. Pseudoph., p. 210 

 (1895) ; Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., vol. ii, p. 336 (1906). 



One S , January, 1909. Schunke. 

 Cocconotus variabilis, new species. 



This is a somber-colored species running to section 1' of 



