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where it is turned down to a vertical position ; cerci of male 

 cylindrical, simple, about four times as long as broad, apically 

 suddenly constricted to a sharp naked inwardly directed spine ; 

 ovipositor short and stout, moderately curved upward and 

 gradually tapered to a sharp point, the whole about twice as 

 long as the pronotum and unarmed above and below, the 

 ventral margin apically very minutely undulate. 

 Type, Hoplotettix iconnicoffi, new species. 



Hoplotettix iconnicoffi, new species. (PI. II, fig. 19.) 



Description { $ ,9 ) . — Characters mostly stated in the gen- 

 eric description. General color dark brown, the legs, antennae, 

 and ovipositor somewhat lighter ; the whole insect is sprinkled 

 with inconspicuous yellowish dots, that being the color of the 

 thoracic tubercles ; the cerci and subgenital styles of the male 

 light brown ; wings moderately fuliginous, much shorter than 

 the elytra but fully as broad ; tympanum of right tegmen of 

 the male with transparent speculum, that of the left one opaque, 

 both of moderate size and projecting beyond the inner margin 

 of the tegmen, the stridulating vein stout and forming a 

 rounded angle with a triangular notch just beyond it, as com- 

 mon in this type of insect and described in other words under 

 the genus Arrhenotettix and figured here. (PI. 11, fig. 19.) 



Measurements. — Length : pronotum, $ , 5.5 mm., 9 , 6 mm. ; 

 anterior femora, $ , 10 mm., 9 , 11 mm. ; posterior femora, 

 <^ , 9 , 20 mm. ; tegmina, $ , 10 mm., 9,11 mm. ; ovipositor, 12 

 mm. Width : pronotum posteriorly, S ,9 , 3 mm. ; tegmina 

 mesially, S , 3.5 mm., 9 , 4 mm. ; posterior femora at widest 

 point, S , 3.75 mm., 9 , 4 mm. ; ovipositor at the base, 3 mm., 

 mesially, 2 mm. 



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

 29, 1906, Iconnicoff. Allotype, 9 , December 1, 1906, I'conni- 

 cofif. Paratypes a and b, November 13 and December 15, 1906, 

 Iconnicoff. 



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

 Museum ; paratypes in the collection of Iconnicoff. 



Cat. No. 21336, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



The paratypes are of about equal size and average slightly 



