NO. 1530. 



THE DECTICINJ^ OF NORTH AMERICA— CA UDELL. 



377 



much swollen on the basal two-thirds, the apical third rapidly tapering 

 in the basal portion, apicall}" pointed; cerci of the male rounded, 

 apically slightly depressed with the tip attenuate, bent inw^ards and 

 slightly pointed, on the outer side about the middle furnished with a 

 blunt shoulder or short projection (lig. 61). Ovipositor almost straight, 

 very slightly curved upwards and as long, or ver^^ nearly as long, as 

 the posterior femora. 



Color dark or light yellowish brown; the sides of the pronotum just 

 below the short blunt lateral carina is usually shiny ))lack. The 

 tegmina of the males are generally yellowish brown with a round black 

 spot on the outer apical margin of each. 



MeaKMrei) lents. — L e n g t h , 

 pronotum, male, 4.5-5.5 

 mm., female, 5.25-6; elytra, 

 male, 3.5-5, female. 1-1.5; 

 posterior femora, male, 

 18-21, female, 20-25: ovi- 

 positor, 20-21. 



Ti/pes.—CwX. No. 101S3, 

 U. S. National Museum, and 

 in the collections of S. H. 

 Scudder and A. P. Morse. 



Specimen s examined. — 

 Various specimens f I'om Cal- 

 ifornia and a female from 

 Arizona. All the types are 

 from California. Besides a 

 female type from Cahon 

 Pass, California, the National Museum contains two males and two 

 females, all from Los Angeles County, California, except one male 

 which is labeled simply California. One adult female from Clare- 

 mont, California, and two immature females from San Bernardino 

 County, California, taken in May, are also in the National collection. 

 Bruner has recently contributed a female specimen from Arizona 

 (Dunn). 



An immature male in the Morse collection shows the elytra not pro- 

 jecting beyond the pronotum but with cerci essentially as in adult 

 individuals. The innuature female often has the ovipositor considerably 

 longer than the posterior femora, one in the Morse collection having 

 the ovipositor 22 mm. in length while the posterior femora measures 

 but 17.5 mm. 



61 02 



Figs. 60, 61, 62.— Idiostatus ^qualis. 60, adult male. 

 61, cercus of male. 62, last dorsal abdomis.il seg- 

 ment of male. 



