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  1124. 
  BE 
  VIS 
  I 
  OX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MEL 
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  UDDER. 
  3 
  7 
  

  

  and 
  stout, 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  of 
  tlie 
  liiud 
  tibiae 
  with 
  nine 
  or 
  ten 
  sjiines. 
  

   Extremity 
  of 
  abdomen 
  bluntly 
  rounded 
  (whence 
  the 
  generic 
  name), 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  straight 
  from 
  the 
  verj^ 
  base, 
  in 
  

   DO 
  way 
  angulate 
  on 
  meeting 
  apically, 
  but 
  protruding 
  beyond 
  the 
  apex 
  

   of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  by 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  latter; 
  cerci 
  

   conical, 
  acuminate, 
  sometimes 
  with 
  an 
  inferior 
  median 
  tooth; 
  furcula 
  

   wholly 
  wanting. 
  

  

  Three 
  species 
  occur 
  in 
  northern 
  ^Mexico 
  and 
  southern 
  Texas. 
  

  

  C. 
  histrigata 
  may 
  be 
  taken 
  as 
  the 
  type. 
  C. 
  rahja 
  is 
  somewhat 
  aber- 
  

   rant, 
  and 
  should 
  i^erhaps 
  be 
  separated 
  geuerically. 
  

  

  ANALYTICAL 
  KEY 
  TO 
  THE 
  SPECIES 
  OF 
  CYCLOCERCIS. 
  

  

  A.' 
  Interspace 
  Ijetwcen 
  mesosterual 
  lobes 
  of 
  male 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad; 
  

  

  anal 
  cerci 
  of 
  male 
  slender, 
  simjile. 
  

  

  J.' 
  Hind 
  femora 
  relatively 
  stout; 
  npper 
  surface 
  of 
  body 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  bright 
  

   stripe 
  riiuniug 
  from 
  the 
  upper 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  eye 
  backward 
  over 
  the 
  region 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  lateral 
  carinae 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  1. 
  histrir/ata 
  (p. 
  37). 
  

  

  h.'- 
  Hind 
  femora 
  relatively 
  slender; 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  body 
  with 
  at 
  most 
  an 
  ol>scure 
  

   stripe 
  in 
  the 
  region 
  specified 
  2. 
  accola 
  (p. 
  38). 
  

  

  A.' 
  Interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  of 
  male 
  subquadrate; 
  cerci 
  of 
  male 
  stout, 
  

  

  with 
  an 
  inferior 
  median 
  tooth 
  3. 
  vah/a 
  (p. 
  39). 
  

  

  I. 
  CYCLOCERCUS 
  BISTRIGATA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  III, 
  fig. 
  4.) 
  

  

  Dark 
  almost 
  blackish 
  chocolate 
  brown, 
  striped 
  with 
  bright 
  yellow 
  

   testaceous. 
  Head 
  testaceous, 
  often 
  clouded, 
  occasionall}- 
  mottled, 
  with 
  

   fuscous, 
  the 
  summit 
  to 
  below 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  eyes 
  posteriorly 
  blackish 
  

   brown, 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  but 
  widening 
  testaceous 
  stripe 
  behind 
  the 
  upper 
  

   half 
  of 
  the 
  eyes 
  ; 
  lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  fastigium, 
  i)articular]y 
  between 
  

   the 
  eyes, 
  elevated 
  to 
  a 
  rounded 
  ridge, 
  more 
  prominent 
  and 
  rounded 
  in 
  

   the 
  male 
  than 
  m 
  the 
  female, 
  reversely 
  arcuate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  moderately 
  

   broad, 
  subequal, 
  sulcate 
  (more 
  deeply 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female), 
  

   above 
  feebly 
  punctate 
  at 
  the 
  sides, 
  occasionally 
  obsolescent 
  at 
  base 
  in 
  

   the 
  female; 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  of 
  face 
  distinct, 
  slightly 
  divergent; 
  antennae 
  

   testaceous. 
  Both 
  prozona 
  and 
  metazona 
  ruguloso-punctate 
  in 
  the 
  

   male, 
  the 
  prozona 
  coarsely, 
  bluntly 
  and 
  rather 
  sparsely 
  punctate 
  in 
  

   the 
  female; 
  pronotum 
  with 
  the 
  postocular 
  testaceous 
  stripe 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  

   continued, 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  as 
  a 
  slender, 
  sharply 
  defined 
  stripe 
  across 
  both 
  

   prozona 
  and 
  metazona, 
  m 
  tlie 
  female 
  as 
  a 
  slightly 
  broader 
  stripe 
  across 
  

   or 
  nearly 
  across 
  the 
  prozona 
  only, 
  fading 
  posteriorly 
  and 
  less 
  sharply 
  

   defined 
  above; 
  episterna 
  testaceous; 
  meso- 
  and 
  metathorax 
  and 
  abdo- 
  

   men 
  of 
  male 
  blackish 
  above, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  mediodorsal 
  testaceous 
  stripe, 
  

   and 
  testaceous 
  below; 
  of 
  female 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  blackish 
  along 
  the 
  middle 
  

   of 
  the 
  sides, 
  sometimes 
  margined 
  above 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  posteriorly 
  

   evanescent, 
  often 
  broken, 
  testaceous 
  stripe, 
  generally 
  almost 
  or 
  quite 
  

   obsolete, 
  the 
  dorsum 
  proper 
  brown. 
  Interval 
  between 
  the 
  mesosterual 
  

   lobes 
  of 
  male 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad. 
  Tegmina 
  slender, 
  linear, 
  

   very 
  slightly 
  and 
  regularly 
  enlarging 
  to 
  the 
  well 
  rounded 
  tip, 
  about 
  as 
  

  

  