October, 1901] 



PSYCHE. 



lobes of pronotum broadly margined beneath with pale color; tetrniina 

 longer than head and pronotum together, the mediastinal vein one-branched 



saiissiirci. 

 Ir. Disk of pronotum mainly light, witli transverse dark stripes: hind tibiae dis- 

 tinctly, though but slightly, more than two thirds as long as hind femora: medi- 

 astinal vein of tegmina one- or two-branched .... transversaiis. 

 '■. Auditory foramen on inner side of fore tibiae distinct though small . sicaiius. 



Miogryllus capitatus sp. nov. 



A stout species, conspicuoush- inarketi. 

 Head large, tumid, glistenins^, daik fuscous 

 above, conspicuously striped loiigitudinallv 

 with testaceous, there being three stripes on 

 either side, while all the lower pai't of the 

 head is testaceous, iucUuIing the mouth parts; 

 eyes black; antennae luteo-testaceous. Pro- 

 notum half as broad again as long, increas- 

 ing slightly but distinctly and regularly in 

 size from behind forwards, both margins 

 truncate, with a median impressed line, the 

 disk and upper half of lateral lobes mottled 

 with blotches of fuscous and ferrugineo- 

 teslaceous in about equal amounts, the lower 

 half or more of the lateral lobes testaceous but 

 narrowly edged with fuscous. Tegmina about 

 as long as the head and pronotum together, 

 apically subtruncate, testaceous, the medias- 

 tinal vein one-branched. Legs testaceous, 

 the fore tibiae with the auditory foramen 

 of inner side very feebly indicated, the hind 

 tibiae sliglitly more than two thirds as long 

 as hind femora, with live spines on either 

 margin above. 



Length of body, 12.5 mm.; pronotum, 3 

 mm.; breadth of head, 4.75 mm.; of prono- 

 tum in front, 4.5 mm.; length of tegmina. 

 5.75 mm. ; hind femora, 9.5 mm. ; hind tibiae, 

 6.5 mm. 



t J', 2 immature. Gulf coast of Texas 

 (Aaron). 



The large head is the noticeable feat- 

 ure in this species. 



Miogryllus lineatus. 



Gryllodcs lineatus Scudd., Ann. rep. 

 chief eng., 1S76, 499 (1876). 



The hind femora are 6.5 mm. long and 

 the hind tibiae 4.25 mm. 



Between Virgin River and Ft. Mohave, 

 Ariz., Aug. (\V. Somes). 



Miogryllus saussurei. 



Grylliis stnissurci Scudd., I'roc. Bost. 

 soc. nat. hist., xi.x, 35-36 (1877). 



The measurements of the hind legs 

 are: femora, $, 9.5 mm., 9, 9 mm.; 

 tibiae, J", 9 , 6 mm. 



Georgia (Morrison) ; Rosewell, Geo. 

 (King); Sandford, Fla. (G. B. Frazer) ; 

 Key West, Fla. (Morrison). 



Miogryllus transversalis sp. nov. 



A relatixely slender species, testaceous, 

 transver.sely marked with fuscous. Head 

 rather small, testaceous, marked with a large 

 fuscous patch between the ocelli and for an 

 equal space behind them, as well as down the 

 front ni-arly to tlie clypeus on either side 

 next the antennal scrobes ; eyes and a patch 

 belowthem fuscous ; antennae tliree or four 

 times as long as body, ferrugineo-tcstaceous, 

 the basal joint lutcous. Pronotum about 

 half as broad again as long, subequal but 

 broadest in the middle, both margins trun- 



