Bruner: Saltatorial Orthoptera. 19 



CO. Wings hyaline-orange or cupreous. Anterior and middle legs 



rufous brevipennis Burr. 



A A. Cerci of the males simple, not forked. 



b. Wings white nigra Scudder. 



bb. Wings hyaline orange. Thorax and abdomen in part striped with 

 yellow on the sides. Scutellum of the face fiavomaculate. 

 c. Cheeks immaculate. 



d. Eighth segment of the abdomen with its margin above two- 



spined Iccla Gerst. 



dd. Eighth segment of the abdomen above emarginate, in the 



middle sinuose personata Burr. 



cc. Cheeks and between the eyes ornamented with yellow. 



d. Front and cheeks with a transverse yellow band. Antennee 



black tceniata Sauss. 



dd. Front and cheeks largely yellow. Base of antennae yellow. 



e. Larger (cT, 29 mm..; 9 . 29 mm.). Antennae largely rufous 

 or vinaceous red, only at extreme apex infuscated. 

 Front with its lower margin and a narrow arcuate 

 transverse band below the antennae black. 



piciifrons sp. nov. 



ee. Smaller (cf , 15 mm.). Antennae, except basal segments, 



black. Front entirely yellow facialis Sauss. 



27. Paramastax pictifrons sp. nov. 



Related to the species P. tceniata and P. facialis of Saussure, but 

 considerably larger than either. A beautiful insect, conspicuously 

 ornamented with yellow and white on the head and sides of the meso- 

 and metathorax. 



General color of the male olivaceo-testaceous; the anterior and 

 middle legs rufous; carina? of the hind femora and spines of the hind 

 tibia; black; head on the occiput, hind and lower margins of the cheeks 

 and lower edge of the front, together with the base of the clypeus, 

 black, remainder yellow; antennae with two basal joints yellow, 

 remainder reddish, becoming infuscated apically. Sides of the 

 abdomen and thorax back of the pronotum conspicuously banded 

 with creamy white, this band placed between upper and lower in- 

 fuscated borders, becoming gradually narrower toward its posterior 

 end. Tegmina fuscous, their veins testaceous; wings slightly hyaline 

 with a cupreous tinge basally. Apex of the hind femora rather 

 lengthily infuscated. The general color of the female is a dark wood- 

 brown with the sides of the meso- and metathorax and three basal 

 abdominal segments conspicuously and broadly ornamented with a 



