AMERICAN ORTHOPTERA. 305 



Descriptions of new species of ORTHOPTEHA, 

 in the collection of the American Entomological Society. 



BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 



Xiphidinm attennatnm. 



Green, mottled with reddish-brown ; a reddish-brown median stripe 

 extends from the tip of the vertical tubercle backwards to the posteri- 

 or border of the pronotum, broadening posteriorly ; the color is more 

 distinct upon the head ; tubercle of vertex nearly as long as the first 

 antennal joint, well rounded in front, laterally hollowed. Tegmina 

 nearly twice as long as the body ; wings extending considerably beyond 

 the tegmina. Ovipositor exceedingly long, fully twice the length of 

 the body. Length of body S 12 mm., 9 12.5 mm.; of antennae S 48 

 mm., 9 54 mm.; of tegmina S 17 mm., 9 20 mm.; of wings % 20 

 mm., 9 23.5 mm.; of hind femora % 12 mm., 9 14 mm.; of ovipositor 

 27.5 mm. 



One S , one 9 . Illinois. 



Opomala aptera. 



Head streaked with reddish testaceous and dull yellowish; upper 

 edge of clypeus bordered with whitish ; clypeus and labrum dotted with 

 fuscous; joints of palpi blackish at base ; antennae brownish; prolon- 

 gation of vertex as long as the eye, the sides parallel, the front well 

 rounded. Prothorax, abdomen and appendages brownish, the median 

 and lateral carinae of pronotum distinct, rather sharp. Tegmina slen- 

 der, lanceolate, nearly abortive; wings wanting. Length of body 35 

 mm.; of antennae 7.5 mm.; of hind femora 15.5 mm.; of tegmina 6 mm. 



One 9 • Pennsylvania. 



Gomphocerus simplex. 



Front of head dark brownish yellow, spotted with fuscous ; clypeus 

 and labrum dirty olivaceous, flecked with fuscous ; median carina on 

 summit of head and approximate lateral carinse slight but distinct, tes- 

 taceous ; between the two brownish fuscous ; a broad blackish fuscous 

 streak from the upper edge of the eye backward, bordered above by a 

 black line lying next to the lateral carinae; another broad dull blackish 

 fuscous band runtiing backward from the lower edge of the eye; anten- 

 nae testaceo-fuscous at base, blackish fuscous at tip, the terminal eight 

 or nine joints depressed, forming an elongated club. Median carina of 

 pronotum slight, testaceous; lateral carinae rather prominent, yellow, 

 bordered on either side, but especially interiorly, with black; top of pro- 

 notum brownish-fuscous, deepening in tint toward the lateral carinae ; 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. 80C. (40) APRIL, 1869. 



