354 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



than the males in their coloration. They are also much larger as 

 seems to be the rule in the various representatives of the genus. 

 These latter specimens also belong to x^ccession No. 2306. 



90. Jamaicana superba sp. nov. 



Size large, form robust. Spine characters as given ^_ synoptic 

 table. Head and pronotum sub-glabrous, the rugae of the pronotum, 

 although fairly numerous, small and inconspicuous, the transverse 

 sulci inconspicuous, not deeply impressed. General color including 

 the tegmina flavo-testaceous. Occiput and disc of pronotum largely 

 brunneo-piceous. There are four rather large spots or patches on 

 the pleura and the sides of the basal abdominal segment are also 

 black. Apical half of the ovipositor more or less piceous. 



Length of body, 9, 46 mm., of pronotum, 11. 5 mm., of tegmina, 

 46 mm., width of tegmina, 11 mm., length of hind femora, 30 mm., 

 of ovipositor, 20 mm. 



Habitat. — The type and only specimen examined comes from the 

 Island of Jamaica, West Indies, where it was collected by F. Klages. 

 It is deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh and forms part 

 of the collection of Dr. \V. J. Holland, Accession L. No. 131. 



Genus Meroncidius Serville. 



Meroncidius Serville, Rev. Meth., Ann. Sci. Nat., XXII, p. 53 (1831); lb.. Hist. 



Orth., 448 (1839); Brunner, Mon. PseudophylL, pp. 17, 148 (1895); Kirby, 



Syn. Cat. Orth., II, p. 322 (1906). 

 Meroncidium StAl, CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Forh., XXX. (4), p. 46 (1873). 



All the representatives (eleven) of the genus Meroncidius excepting 

 M. fusciis recorded in Kirby's Synonymic Catalogue of the Orthoptera 

 are credited to strictly South American territory. In the material 

 now being studied I find several specimens of a species which apparently 

 should be located in this genus. It seems to be distinct from the 

 described forms. 



91. Meroncidius insularis sp. nov. 



Related to M. ochraceus Burmeister, but differing from it in several 

 respects, as noted in the following brief description. 



Size large, the antennae excessively long, in the male fulh' three 

 times, in the female more than twice, the length of the body including 

 the ovipositor. Pronotum somewhat rugulose, but nowise tubercu- 

 late, the hind transverse sulcus profound, the disc back of this sulcus 



