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  riiOCEEDJNGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  rowly 
  above 
  witli 
  wbite. 
  Tegmina 
  uuiform 
  greenish 
  fuscous, 
  short 
  

   o^ 
  ate, 
  less 
  tliau 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  shorter 
  than, 
  sometimes 
  hardly 
  

   more 
  tlian 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as, 
  the 
  pronotuiii. 
  llind 
  femora 
  dark 
  testaceous 
  

   ■with 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  light 
  testaceous, 
  its 
  distal 
  third 
  blackish 
  and 
  a 
  

   premediau 
  ungulate 
  blackish 
  bar 
  (on 
  greenish 
  specimens 
  almost 
  wholly 
  

   green, 
  enlivened 
  on 
  upper 
  surface 
  with 
  a 
  ruddy 
  tint); 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  fusco- 
  

   glaucous 
  or 
  glaucous, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  tipped. 
  Su])raanal 
  plate 
  of 
  

   male 
  triangular, 
  the 
  sides 
  feebly 
  and 
  angularly 
  emarginate, 
  the 
  

   apex 
  acute, 
  with 
  a 
  basal 
  median 
  sulcus 
  of 
  similar 
  shape 
  not 
  reaching 
  

   the 
  middle, 
  the 
  intersi)aces 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  very 
  shallowly, 
  broadly 
  and 
  

   roundly 
  suh-ate, 
  and 
  a 
  slender 
  tolerably 
  deep 
  median 
  sulcus 
  apically; 
  

   furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  slightly 
  projecting, 
  subattiugent, 
  rounded 
  

   lobes; 
  cerci 
  slender, 
  tapering 
  gently 
  in 
  basal 
  half, 
  beyond 
  equal 
  or 
  very 
  

   feebly 
  expanded, 
  the 
  tip 
  rounded 
  but 
  slightly 
  produced, 
  the 
  apical 
  half 
  

   feebly 
  incurved; 
  apical 
  tubercle 
  of 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  feeble, 
  blunt, 
  seen 
  

   from 
  behind 
  broadly 
  rounded. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  18 
  mm., 
  female, 
  22.5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  10 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  7 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  3.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  4 
  mm.: 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  12 
  mm., 
  female, 
  12.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Two 
  males, 
  8 
  females. 
  Los 
  Angeles, 
  California, 
  October 
  27, 
  Coquillett 
  

   (U.S.N.M.[No. 
  709.] 
  — 
  Riley 
  collection); 
  Los 
  Angeles, 
  California, 
  Koebele 
  

   (L. 
  Bruner); 
  San 
  Buenaventura, 
  California 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  [No. 
  709. 
  J— 
  Riley 
  

   collection). 
  Koebele 
  reports 
  it 
  from 
  the 
  Shasta 
  district 
  in 
  northern 
  

   California. 
  

  

  The 
  abdomen, 
  which 
  is 
  carinate, 
  sometimes 
  has 
  the 
  carina 
  distinctly 
  

   lighter 
  than 
  the 
  body. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  most 
  resembles 
  H. 
  festivus 
  of 
  the 
  longer 
  winged 
  forms, 
  

   but 
  is 
  very 
  different 
  from 
  it. 
  

  

  5. 
  HESPEROTETTIX 
  CURTIPENNIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  HeaperoteUix 
  curtipeiinix 
  BiiunerI, 
  MS. 
  

   Body 
  feebly 
  and 
  rather 
  briefly 
  pilose; 
  general 
  color 
  green 
  with 
  an 
  

   olivaceous 
  tinge. 
  Head 
  with 
  a 
  yellow 
  front 
  margin 
  to 
  the 
  geuae, 
  bor- 
  

   dered 
  posteriorly 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  dark 
  greenish 
  or 
  bluish 
  green 
  bar 
  below 
  

   the 
  eyes; 
  behind 
  the 
  eyes 
  is 
  a 
  broad 
  dark 
  green 
  stripe 
  (not 
  so 
  dark 
  as 
  

   the 
  bar) 
  margined 
  with 
  yellow, 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  passing 
  along 
  the 
  

   upper 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  eye; 
  summit 
  sometimes 
  with 
  a 
  dark 
  green 
  median 
  

   stripe; 
  fastigium 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  pit 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  and 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   sulcate 
  on 
  the 
  expanded 
  portion 
  in 
  front; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  of 
  somewhat 
  

   irregular 
  breadth, 
  but 
  about 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  interval 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  

   distinctly 
  sulcate; 
  antennae 
  testaceous, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  head 
  and 
  

   pronotum 
  together 
  in 
  thefemale. 
  Pronotum 
  rounded 
  tectiform, 
  scarcely 
  

   enlarging 
  from 
  in 
  front 
  backwards, 
  the 
  carina 
  and 
  carinal 
  markings 
  as 
  

   in 
  i/.^rt(///c».9, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  similarly 
  marked, 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  yellow- 
  

   bordered, 
  blackisli 
  green 
  bar 
  crossing 
  the 
  prozona, 
  its 
  lower 
  margin 
  

   slightly 
  oblique; 
  hind 
  margin 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  scarcely 
  augulate, 
  the 
  

  

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