302 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxn. 



Measurenients. — Length, proiiotuni, !» mm.; posterior femora, 16; 

 width of pronotum at widest point, 6.5; posterior femora on basal 

 half, 3.5. 



2v//^('.— Colleetion of A. F. Morse, Wellesley, Massachusetts. 

 SpeciuK'UK ejunitned. — One male, the t3'pe, Mount Wilson, Altadena, 

 California, July 27, A. P. Morse. 



1 take plrasure in naming this structurally distinct species in honor 

 of the collector, Frof. A. P. Morse, of Wellesley, 

 Massachusetts. 



This is the specimen mentioned by Doctor 

 Scudder." While museum pests have done nuich 

 damage to the specimen, the most important charac- 

 ters are fortunately intact or not materially iniured. 

 SKI. Tii'OF ABDOMEN 1 hc thrcc tollowing genera are based on the 

 OF ADULT MALE FROM jj^^j^. g^.^ Only, thc fcmales of none of the species 



ABOVE. 1 • 1 



l)oing known. 



NEOBARRETTIA Rehn. 



Neoharri'ltia Rehn, Ent. News, XII (M>01), p. 16.— Kirhy, Syn. Cat. Orth., II, 

 1906, p. 182. 



Deseripthn. — Head medium ; eyes small. Thorax saddle-shaped, 

 posteriorly abruptly elevated, much more so than anteriorly, subtrun- 

 cate both before and behind and scarcel}^ produced posteriorl3\ 

 Lateral lobes of the pronotum vertical, posterior border scared}'- 

 sinuate ; lateral and median carinse not indicated except on the elevated 

 posterior portion where they are present but very rounded. Pro- 

 sternum armed with a pair of long, sharp spines. Mesosternum also 

 armed with a stouter pair of spines. Wings apparently al)orted, or 

 scarcely developed, the elytra almost twice as longs as the pronotum, 

 very broad and somewhat swollen, apically rounded, the transverse 

 vein of the t3"mpanum verj^ stout. Posterior femora more than three 

 times as long as the pronotum and much swollen on the basal half; 

 anterior til)ije armed above on the outer side only with three spines; 

 posterior tibiae armed below with but two spurs. Plantula very short, 

 not prominent. Supraanal plate scarcely visible beneath the last 

 al)dominal segment, which is short and broad, mesially emarginate; 

 ceri broad and stout, about twice as broad as the basal width and 

 apically abruptly bent inwards, the tips forming a blunt, back tooth; 

 subgenital plate short and broad, with two triangular, pointed apical 

 styles. 



Type. — Capnohotes i7npe7]fecta Rehn. 



This genus, like the two preceding ones, is a member of Brunner's 

 division Rhacoclees, distinguished by having but two apical spurs 

 below on the posterior tibite. Unlike Aylaotho'rax and Neduha how- 



«Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., XXXV, 1899, p. 87. 



