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testaceous flecked with fuscous on the disk, which is broadly convex, 

 passing by a rounded but still distinct shoulder into the lateral lobes, 

 where each half of the prozona but e.^pecially the anterior half is feebly 

 and independentlv tumid; median carina distinct and percurrent, 

 more distinct on the metazona, sometimes obsolescent between the 

 sulci; front margin faintly convex, hind margin feebly angulate ; pro- 

 zona longitudinal, about a third as long again as the more distinctly 

 and more finely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine short, erect, 

 blunt conical; interspace between raesosternal lobes nearly three times as 

 long as broad (c?) or (juadrate ( ? ) , the metaster nal lobes subattingen t (cJ^ ) 

 or approximate ( ? ). Tegmina abbreviate, a little shorter than the pro- 

 notum,attingent, broad ovate, apicallysubangulate,fusco-testaceous, pale 

 testaceous in the anal field, which is thus slightly contrasted. Fore and 

 middle femora feebly tumid in the male; hind femora moderately 

 slender, testaceous, broadly and obliquely bifasciate with fuscous, 

 sometimes blended on the outer face, ferruginous beneath, the genicu- 

 lation fuscous; hind tibiae blue, often more or less testaceous at base, 

 with a narrow black postgenicular annulus, the spines black, lo-ii in 

 number in the outer series. Abdomen testaceous, subflavous beneath, 

 the sides more or less piceous, the extremity in the male a little clav- 

 ate, slightly recurved, the supraanal plate triangular with scarcely ele- 

 vated margins, the median sulcus moderately coarse, percurrent, be- 

 tween distinct walls considerably elevated basally; furcula consist- 

 ing ot a pair of flattened, tapering, acuminate fingers, diverging at 

 right angles and nearly a third as long as the supraanal plate; cerci 

 forming moderately broad, gently tapering, compressed laminae, less 

 than three times as long as middle breadth, two-thirds as broad api- 

 cally as basally, the apex broadly convex and the apical half gently 

 incurved and externally rather deeply sulcate; subgenital plate small, 

 of nearly equal length and breadth, the apical margin slightly elevated, 

 thickened and entire. 



Length of body, d' , 16.5 mm., 9 , 20 mm.; antennae, c?' , 6.25 

 mm., 9,6 mm.; tegmina, cf, 3.25 mm., 9, 5 mm.; hind femora, 

 cf , 9 mm., ? , 1 1 mm. 



14 cJ" , 6 ?. Tehachapi, Kern Co., California, August 2, A. P. 

 Morse. 



This species is very distinct from any other by the considerable 

 twist and deep sulcation of the male cerci. 



