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above by a broad, slightly oblique, fusco-piceous patch which fails to 

 reach the anterior border; pleural incisures and metathoracic epimera 

 marked in black. Tegmina black on more than the lower half, above 

 pallid luteous. Fore and middle legs luteo- testaceous; hind femora 

 pallid luteous, the entire geniculatiou except most of the lower lobe 

 black; hind tibiae long pilose, brownish luteous excepting the under 

 surface which is brownish fuscous, the spines black excepting their 

 inner bases. Abdomen with a narrow mesial black stripe widening on 

 each segment at its extremity ad cut by the testaceous carina ; sides 

 of some of the apical segments partly blackish fuscous. 



Length of body, female, 19 mm. ; antennae, 7.5 mm. ; tegmiua, 3 mm. ; 

 hind femora, 12 mm. 



One female. Lower California, G. Eisen, collection California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences (L. Bruner). 



7. PHAULOTETTIX, new genus. 

 (<pavA.o<3, good-for-nothing; Terric, grasshopper.) 



Body compact, compressed, pilose. Head not prominent, not wider, 

 including the eyes, than 'the broadest part of the thorax, the vertex 

 gently arched, not elevated above the pronotuin, the fastigium rapidly 

 descending, the face retreating slightly; eyes large but not very prom- 

 inent, more than half as long again as broad in the male and nearly 

 twice as long as the anterior infraocular portion of the geuae, separated 

 above by a very narrow space; frontal costa narrow, but wider than 

 the space between the eyes, equal, percurrent, silicate; antennae only 

 a little longer than head and pronotum together. Pronotum truncate at 

 each extremity, barely broader behind than in front, transversely 

 convex, the disk passing insensibly into the vertical lateral lobes, a slight 

 median cariua; prozona transverse, slightly less than twice as long as 

 the inetazoua, divided in the middle by a distinct transverse sulcus, 

 followed at a short distance behind by a less distinct sinuous sulcus, 

 very feebly and sparsely punctate in distinction from the densely 

 though not sharply punctate metazona. Prosternal spine short, blunt, 

 conical, retrorse; interval between inesosternal lobes subquadrate, the 

 metastemal lobes attingent over a short space. Tegmina present as 

 minute pads scarcely extending beyond the prouotum, situated high 

 upon the sides. Fore and middle femora scarcely tumescent; hind 

 femora very short and moderately stout, the hind tibiae with 9 spines 

 in the outer series. Abdomen strongly compressed, the tip scarcely 

 enlarged as seen from above, upturned only by its inferior curve; 

 margins of the subgenital plate not ampliate at the base, straight, well 

 rounded and entire apically, extending beyond the tip of the supraanal 

 plate by about half the length of the latter; furcula minute; cerci 

 simple, compressed laminate, tapering, inferiorly angulate at apex. 



As only the male is known to me, the description is - necessarily based 

 on that sex only. 



A single species is known, from Mexico. 



