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and with a small inner subapical tooth ; ovipositor stout, about 

 one and one-half times as long as the pronotum and moderately 

 curved upward, apically very minutely serrate on each margin. 



Type, Arrhenotettix calcaratus, new species. 

 Arrhenotettix calcaratus, new species. (PI. II, fig. 18.) 



Description ( $ ). — Structural characters as given in the 

 generic description. General color reddish brown, the elytra 

 with a more yellowish cast ; spines of the legs with the extreme 

 tips blackish ; tympanum of the male with the speculum trans- 

 parent on the right tegmen and coriaceous on the left. 



( $ ). Scarcely differing from the male except as noted in 

 the generic description. The ovipositor is slightly darker in 

 the apical half, especially along the margins. 



Measurements. — Length : pronotum, $ ,9 , 5.5 mm. ; an- 

 terior femora, 5 , $ , 7.5 mm. ; posterior femora, $ , 18 mm., $ , 

 17 mm. ; tegmina, $ , 15 mm., 9 , 15.5 mm. ; penultimate ventral 

 spine of the posterior femora, $ , 4 mm., $ , 1.25 mm. ; oviposi- 

 tor, 10 mm. Width : pronotum posteriorly, S ,9 , 3.25 mm. ; 

 tegmina mesially, $ , 4 mm., $ , 3.75 mm. ; posterior femora at 

 widest point, $ , 4.5 mm. ; 9 , 4 mm. ; at base of penultimate 

 ventral spine, S, 2 mm., 9, 1.5 mm.; ovipositor at middle, 

 2.25 mm. 



Described from two S S and one 9 . Type, $ , November 

 25, 190(), Iconnicoff. Allotype, 9 , December 3, 1906, Icon- 

 nicoff. Paratype, $ , December 6, 1906, Iconnicoff. 



Type and allotype in the collection of the U. S. National 

 Museum ; paratype in the collection of Iconnicoff. 



Cat. No. 21335, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



The cerci of the paratype are truncate apically instead of 

 rounded, but this is obviously due to shrinkage in drying. 

 Hoplotettix, new genus. 



This is apparently most nearly allied to Nannotettix but the 

 armed basal segment of the antennae and spined geniculations 

 of the femora will serve to separate it readily from that genus. 



Description. — Head of moderate size, no broader than the 

 pronotum ; fastigium of the vertex elongate triangular, twice 

 as long as broad, apically pointed, dorsally sulcate, not quite 



