1916] 



Morse — A Neiv England Orthopferan Adventive 



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the mediastinal vein. Wings as long as tegmina. Hind femora 

 plump, stout, a little less than three times as long as broad. Hind 

 tibiae armed with four spines on outer side, usually five (some- 

 times six) on inner side, with numerous short rigid teeth between 

 them. Ovipositor slightly shorter than the hind femora, straight 

 or gently curved upward at base, the tip armed at base with a 

 prominent, dull tooth which is succeeded by a diminishing series 

 of four or five smaller ones toward the apex. Cerci short, less than 

 one-third as long as ovipositor, tapering acuminately from a 

 stout base to a delicate point and clothed with long, soft pubes- 

 cence. 



The ground color is a pale yellowish brown thickly and irregu- 

 larly spotted and in places washed with darker brown and fuscous, 

 particularly in an hour-glass or X-shaped mark on the middle of 

 the pronotum above, the entire area of the lateral lobes, the dorsal 

 part of the lateral field of the tegmina, and the outer face of the 

 hind femora. The dorsal field of the tegmina of the female often 

 shows a series of three .or four oblique dusky lines running back- 

 ward and inward from the canthus along irregular raised venules ; in 

 the male a variable number of irregular fuscous spots is distributed 

 chiefly along the canthus and about the speculum, with a larger 

 stigmatal blotch. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Described from the type (9), allotype {&), and several para- 

 types of both sexes; the material also contains several nymphs 

 in various stages. Collection of A. P. Morse. 



This species was first recorded by Scudder (Psyche, September, 

 1900, 105) under the name Apithes agitator, from the greenhouse 

 of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, Mass. The specimens on 

 which the description is based were collected there in alcohol in 

 September and October, 1902. Recently, on pinning them up, 

 it was seen to be quite distinct from agitator. Mr. Morgan Hebard 



