350 Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 



A A. Process of the anterior trochanters rather small, rounded. 



b. Wings elongate, passing, or about reaching, the apex of the abdomen. 



c. Wings extending beyond the apex of the abdomen. Color pallid, fulvous. 

 Size medium, 30 mm. or more. [West Indies, Mexico, Central and 



South America] hexadaclyla^ Perty. 



cc. Wings about reaching the apex of the abdomen. Color dark fulvous. 

 Size small, 23-26 mm. [Mexico, Central America, and West Indies] 



intermedia Saussure. 

 bb. Wings abbreviated or missing, never reaching the apex of the abdomen. 

 Tegmina of moderate length. 

 c. Larger, about 30 mm. Both sexes alvvaj^s provided with wings. An- 

 terior tibiae with the dactyls moderately elongate. [West Indies] 



borealis Burmeister. 

 cc. Smaller, about 25 mm. The male usually without wings. Anterior 

 tibiae with the dactyls short and obtuse. [Argentina] 



claraziana Saussure. 



2. Neocurtilla minor sp. nov. 



Slender, minute, without wings, and witli much abbreviated 

 tegmina. 



General color dark brown, the terminal tergites of the abdomen 

 plainly longitudinally fasciate with testaceous on each side of the 

 middle. Legs above paler than the almost uniformly colored pro- 

 notum, below and at base dirty testaceous or ochraceous. Claws of 

 anterior tibiae and tarsi robust, piceous, the outer tibial claw longest, 

 the inner shortest. Process of the anterior trochanters moderately 

 large, roundly triangular, the lower margin studded with graduated 

 tooth-like spines or bristles, the longest being at the apex; auditory 

 apparatus large and prominent, elliptical, located abov^e and back of 

 the center of the first tibial dactyl at a distance equal to its longest 

 diameter. Pronotum minutely velvety, elliptical, the center pro\ided 

 with a depressed longitudinal area, widest anteriorly; the front margin 

 roundly emarginate. Head elongate, narrowing forward, the front 

 quite prominently and angulately ridged from a little in advance of 

 the ocelli to between the base of the antennae. Ocelli prominent, 

 slightly transverse, the vertex between them transversely tumid. 

 Eyes fairly prominent, one and one-half times as long as broad, the 

 facets prominent. The hind legs scarcely saltatorial, the tibiae sub- 

 fusiform. 



Length of body, d^ (?), iiS mm.; of i)ronotum, 5.5 mm.; width of 

 pronotum, 4 mm.; length of tegmina, 4 mm.; of hind femora, 4.1 mm. 



2 iV. hexadaclyla var. spinosa Chopard has a single spine at the middle of the 

 inner margin of the hind tibiae according to that author. 



