﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEFISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELJNOPLI—SCUDDEIi. 
  41 
  

  

  rounded 
  acuminate 
  at 
  tip, 
  fully 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  

   flavo 
  testaceous, 
  the 
  angulate 
  incisures 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  rather 
  broadly 
  

   fuscous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  flavous 
  or 
  flavo-testaceous, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  except- 
  

   ing 
  their 
  base. 
  Supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  short 
  triangular, 
  with 
  feebly 
  

   convex 
  sides, 
  rectangulate 
  apex, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  short, 
  oblique, 
  rather 
  

   prominent, 
  rounded 
  ridges 
  before 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  either 
  

   side; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  cylindrical, 
  equal, 
  blunt 
  fingers 
  fully 
  a 
  third 
  

   the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  compressed 
  laminate, 
  rather 
  

   slender, 
  narrowed 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  by 
  the 
  arcuation 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  margin, 
  

   bluntly 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip, 
  gently 
  incurved 
  throughout, 
  and 
  hardly 
  so 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  apex 
  of 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  a 
  little 
  angulate, 
  

   extended 
  no 
  great 
  distance 
  beyond 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  16.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  25 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  9.25 
  

   mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  3 
  mm., 
  female, 
  4 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  11 
  mm., 
  

   female, 
  15 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  1 
  female. 
  Sinaloa, 
  Mexico, 
  collected 
  by 
  Koels; 
  received 
  

   from 
  J. 
  Behrens, 
  of 
  San 
  Francisco, 
  after 
  whom 
  it 
  is 
  named. 
  

  

  12. 
  PARAIDEMONA. 
  

   {Ttapa, 
  beside; 
  Aidemoua, 
  a 
  genus 
  of 
  Melanopli.) 
  

   Paraidemona 
  Brunner 
  (pars), 
  R^\. 
  Syst. 
  Ortb. 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  145. 
  

  

  Body 
  compact, 
  not 
  slender, 
  subcylindrical, 
  a 
  little 
  compressed, 
  slightly 
  

   enlarged 
  at 
  the 
  metathorax, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  the 
  abdomen 
  of 
  

   the 
  male 
  feebly 
  clepsydral, 
  the 
  apex 
  tumescent 
  and 
  rounded, 
  and 
  some- 
  

   what 
  recurved. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  the 
  vertex 
  well 
  rounded, 
  the 
  

   eyes 
  separated 
  narrowly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  not 
  widely 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  rather 
  

   jn'ominent, 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  large, 
  much 
  larger 
  than 
  the 
  

   infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae, 
  subangulate 
  above 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  

   antennae 
  very 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  head 
  and 
  pronotum 
  together, 
  especially 
  

   in 
  the 
  male. 
  Pronotum 
  truncate 
  at 
  both 
  extremities, 
  enlarging 
  very 
  

   slightly 
  posteriorly, 
  more 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  the 
  male, 
  with 
  slight, 
  per- 
  

   curreut, 
  median 
  carina, 
  no 
  lateral 
  carinae; 
  prozoua 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  metazona, 
  both 
  equally 
  and 
  somewhat 
  similarly 
  punctato-rugulose, 
  

   the 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  lightly 
  impressed, 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  

   dividing 
  the 
  prozona 
  in 
  equal 
  halves 
  and 
  percurrent. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  

   moderate, 
  blunt, 
  conical, 
  erect; 
  interval 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  of 
  

   male 
  longer, 
  sometimes 
  much 
  longer, 
  than 
  broad; 
  of 
  female 
  (where 
  

   known) 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad; 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  narrowly 
  attin- 
  

   gent. 
  Apterous 
  in 
  both 
  sexes. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  of 
  male 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  tumescent; 
  hind 
  femora 
  not 
  very 
  long. 
  Lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  

   subgenital 
  i)late 
  straight 
  from 
  the 
  base, 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  ampliate 
  and 
  is 
  

   concealed 
  behind 
  the 
  preceding 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  styliform, 
  conical; 
  fur- 
  

   cula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  parallel, 
  attingent, 
  cylindrical 
  processes, 
  

   terminating 
  bluntly. 
  

  

  As 
  here 
  restricted, 
  Pezotettix 
  pnnctatns 
  Stal 
  is 
  the 
  type. 
  

  

  The 
  genus 
  is 
  confined 
  to 
  Texas 
  and 
  northern 
  Mexico, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  known. 
  

  

  