212 FAMILY V.— ACRIDIIN^. 



22 mm.; antennae, male, 10 mm., female, 8 mm.; tegmina, 

 male, 10 mm., female, 9.75 mm.; hind femora, male, 10 mm., 

 f(?male, 11.75 mm. 



GENUS Phoetaliotes* Scudder. 



Body elongate, rather slender, a little compressed, very 

 feebly pilose, including faintly the tegmina and legs. Head 

 large, full, prominent, relatively elongate, nearly half as long 

 again as the prozona, the space behind the eyes fully half as 

 long as the breadth of the eyes, the genee a little tumescent, 

 the head apart from the eyes slightly broader than the pro- 

 notum; vertex prominent and well arched both longitudi- 

 ally and trans versly; face a little oblique; eyes rounded, 

 broad oval, moderately prominent, sub-truncate anteriorly-, 

 moderately distant, somewhat farther apart than the great- 

 est width of the frontal costa; fastigium ver\^ faintl}' sul- 

 cate. almost plane; frontal costa prominent, markedly nar- 

 rower above than below the ocellus; antenna slender, 

 rpoderately long, but shorter than the hind femora, though 

 fully twice as long as the pronotum. Pronotum of moderate 

 length, faintly sub-sellate but otherwise equal, feebly flaring 

 in front to receive the head ; disk rounded sub-tectate, with 

 broadly rounded very indistinct lateral carinee, and a sharp, 

 equal, and percurrent median carina; prozona longitudinal, 

 nearly half as long again as the metazona, w^ith indistinct 

 transverse sulci; front margin sub-truncate, hind margin ex- 

 tremely obtuse-angulate. Prosternal spine rather large, 

 erect, conical, blunt. Tegmina either abbreviate, broad 

 lanceolate, acuminate, attingent, slightly longer than the 

 pronotum, or fully developed, surpassing the hind femora, 

 rather broad and equal, well rounded at tip, hardly tapering 

 in the distal half. Hind femora long and slender, hind tibiae 

 glaucous, with eleven to thirteen spines in the outer series. 

 Abdomen compressed, recurved in the male, the sub-genital 

 plate narrow and long, with lateral margins ampliate at 



' *A roamer. 



