MORGAN HEBARD 143 



Measurements {in millimeters) 



General coloration of dorsum ochraceoiis-tawny to clay color. Eyes chest- 

 nut brown, with a broad po.stocular band of shining blackish chestnut-brown 

 extending caudad to distal third of abdomen. All portions below these bands 

 and distal portion of male abdomen paler than dorsum, yellowish, sometimes 

 with a greenish tinge. Caudal femora clay color, in occasional females strongly 

 tinged with absinthe green. Caudal tibiae kildare green to absinthe green, 

 spines white with distal half black. (In all features much as in pusillus.) 



In addition to the type and allotype, a series of sixteen males 

 and eleven females, all bearing the same data, are considered 

 paratypes. This series was taken in a boggy area of wire-grass 

 and bog plants, which was not over fifteen yards wide b\^ forty 

 yards long. No sign of the species was found elsewhere, even in 

 areas of similar vegetation. 



Phaulotettix eurycercus new species (Plate VIII, figs. 7 and S.) 



This insect is related to P. compressus Scudder. The major 

 features of difference are the smaller size, distinctive cerci, 

 pallium and subgenital plate of the male and the much smaller 

 size and somewhat less robust form of the female. Unlike that 

 species,^ strongly contrasting green and brown color phases do 

 not appear to be developed in eurycercus. In the fifty-nine 

 specimens before us all are brow-n, one female and a few males 

 being tinged with greenish j-ellow; none show different types of 

 caudal tibial coloration, the caudal til)iae being pink, individually 

 varying in intensity. 



While the distribution of compres.'yus is known to extend in 

 Mexico over the greater portion of Coahuila and over Tamaulipas 

 to northern Vera Cruz, the material at hand shows its distribu- 

 tion in the United States to be coincident witii, l)ut much more 



■• See H(>bard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1917, p. 262, for .synonymy and 

 discussion of the striking color variations in compressus. It should be noted 

 that the first description of adults of that species is by Rehn, for his synony- 

 mous <S'ina/oa brcvispinis, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 19()4, p. 535. 



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