166 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xv. 



tex, latter straight across on top. Thorax dull brown, no distinct pale marks; abdo- 

 men brown ; legs pale, tips of tibice and the tarsi darker. Wings brownish fumose ; 

 the pterostigma rather darker, a black dot at its base, and one at end of the anal 

 vein ; venation blackish, the vein closing the cell, the one connecting to hind mar- 

 gin, the lower one fourth of the outer side of cell and the fork of the radial sector 

 hyaline white. Pterostigma elongate, rounded behind ; discal cell long, with a long 

 pedicel from radial sector, almost as long as lower side of cell, which is barely one 

 half as long as the upper side ; outer side one third longer than upper side. Length 

 6 mm. 



Mt. Katahdin, Maine. 



Elipsocus occidentalis, new species. 



Head blackish ; antennae pale brownish ; thorax black ; abdomen (dry) black ; 

 legs yellowish brown. Wings hyaline, a dark cloud in middle, a spot on pterostigma, 

 and the upper edge of the first posteri-or cell margined with brown. Sometimes some 

 or all of these markings lacking (perhaps freshly transformed specimens). Antennae 

 rather heavy, third joint about as long as width of the head, eyes rather prominent, 

 as high as vertex, which is straight across. Venation as usual, pterostigma long and 

 slender ; first posterior cell high, but not very near to median vein ; radial sector and 

 median vein united only a short distance before the fork, which is sudden, and very 

 wide at base. Length 2.5 mm. 



Several from Victoria, Vancouver Island (Bergroth. ) 



Class I, Hexapoda. 



Order XI, ORTHOPTERA. 



ON SOME FORFICULIDiE OF THE UNITED 

 STATES AND WEST INDIES. 



By a. N. Caudell, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Pyragra buscki, new species. 



One male, Baracoa, Cuba, October 14, 1901 (Busck). 



Description. — Male. Entire insect considerably flattened, microscopically 

 pubescent and uniformly reddish brown except the base of the wings where the color 

 is mueh lighter. Antennae of at least 29 segments, the first and third elongate and 

 equal, the second short ; beyond the third segment the joints are short, growing longer 

 and smaller towards the apex of the antenna. Pronotum nearly square, narrowing 

 very abruptly anteriorly, posteriorly broadly rounded. Elytra almost twice as long as 

 broad, not quite as long again as the pronotum, laterally extending well down the 

 sides of the thorax as in the type species ; posteriorly the elytra are truncate. Wings 

 extending beyond the elytra a distance equal to scarcely one third the length of the 



