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a subcostal and dorsal yellow lines, remaining portion brownish cinere- 

 ous, becoming translucent beyond the basal third ; veins and cross- 

 veins brown. There are also a number of rather large dim fuscous 

 blotches arranged along the middle field and a few smaller ones above 

 and below. Posterior femora with the upper half of the outer face, to- 

 gether with the upper inner face, dusky ; there is also a row of small 

 dark spots along the lower outer edge; apex fuscous above; posterior 

 tibia? light red, inclining to pinkish in the female, their spines black on 

 the outer half. Antenna? testaceous, lightest in the female. Besides 

 the markings already mentioned there are, in some specimens of the 

 female, small cresent-shaped black marks on the face below the ocellus, 

 and interrupted bands of brown reaching from the lower edge of the 

 eyes down the cheeks. Also a dim broad band just below the lower 

 lateral edges of the pronotum. 



Length of body, $ , 36 ,nra , 9,46-52 mm ; of antenna?, $ , 21 mm , 9 , 15 mi " ; 

 of pronotum, $ , 5.85 mm , 9 , 8 ram ; of tegmina, S , 27 mm , 9 , 37 mm ; of hind 

 femora, S , 21.5 mm , 9 , 31 mm ; of hind tibia?, $ , 21 mm , 9 , 29 mm . 



Hab.— San Antonio, Tex., in June (M. Newell); Carrizo Springs, 

 Dimmit County, Tex., also in June (A. Wadgymar). 



Syrbula acuticornis sp. nov. 



Very closely resembling 8. admirabilis (Uhl.) in its general appear- 

 ance and size, but differing from that species in its somewhat slenderer 

 form and in several other respects. 



Antenna? acuminate, the basal joints flattened and wider than long, 

 reminding one not a little of the different members of the genus Mer- 

 miria, not quite as long as the head and pronotum combined. Vertex 

 between and in advance of the eyes as in admirabilis, but with the 

 carina? much more strongly developed ; the lateral foveola? inconspicu- 

 ous; frontal costa of only medium width, the sides straight and diverg- 

 ing but little towards their lower end, continuous to and upon the cly- 

 peus, sulcate at upper end and below the ocellus; lateral facial carina? 

 straight and nearly parallel with those of the frontal costa; eyes sim- 

 ilar in form to those of admirabilis, but larger and slightly more promi- 

 nent than there. Pronotum with the lateral carina? greatly arcuate, 

 heavier and more prominent than the median, all three severed by the 

 single transverse impressed liue upon the disk a little back of the mid- 

 dle, the lateral lobes slightly deeper than in the other species. Teg- 

 mina and wings as in admirabilis. Posterior femora moderately heavy, 

 reaching slightly beyond the tip of the abdomen. 



General color grass-green, marked upon the pronotum and tegmina 

 as in admirabilis, with this possible difference, that these members, to- 

 gether with the wings, are more deeply infuscated here than there. 



Length of body, 9 , 34 mm ; of antenna?, 8.5 mm ; of prouotum, 5.75 mm ; 

 of tegmina, 24-25 mm ; of hind femora, 22 mm . 



Described from 3 female specimens. Male not known to me. 



Hab.— Southwestern Texas (F. G. Schaupp). 



