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obtusangulate; prozona a little longitudinal (male) or quadrate (female), 

 generally a little (male) or no (female) longer than the finely punctate 

 metazona. Prosternal spine erect, conico-cylindrical, rather long, 

 bluntly pointed, in the female slightly compressed; interspace between 

 mesosternal lobes nearly twice (male) or a little (female) longer than 

 broad. Tegmina surpassing considerably the hind femora, slender, 

 tapering gently in apical half, brownish fuscous, almost the whole dis- 

 coidal area maculate with fuscous with varying distinctness and deli- 

 cacy; wings ample, hyaline, the anterior veins and cross veins fuscous. 

 Fore femora of male tolerably tumid; hind femora rather short and 

 moderately stout and compressed, dull testaceous, rather broadly 

 bifasciate, at least above, with blackish fuscous, the base and apex 

 also infuscated, the under surface a little warmer in tint; hind tibiae 

 very delicate pale green, the spines black from a little before their 

 middle, nine to twelve in number in the outer series. Extremity of 

 male abdomen clavate, upturned, the supraanal plate tolerably flat, 

 triangular with straight sides, acutangulate apex, the median sulcus 

 percurrent, with low bounding ridges which die out apically; furcula 

 consisting of a pair of divergent, flattened, tapering, acuminate ringers, 

 which hardly cross the basal third of the supraaual plate; cerci mod- 

 erately large and broad, compressed, incurved laminae, a little more 

 than three times as long as broad, a very little contracted mesially, the 

 apical portion with its well-rounded tip more or less externally sulcate 

 and narrower than the basal portion, reaching nearly to the tip of the 

 supraaual plate; subgenital plate broad but not so broad as long, 

 apically a little elevated, the apical margin well rounded, a little 

 thickened and entire. 



Length of body, male, 21 mm., female, 23 mm. ; antennae, male, 11.5 

 mm., female, 10 mm.; tegmina, male, 21 mm., female, 22 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 13.25 mm., female, 15.25 mm. 



Four males, 4 females. Fort Wingate, Bernalillo County, New Mexico 

 (U.S.N.M. Kiley collection); Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Arizona, 

 E. Palmer. 



13. KUSTICUS SERIES. 



This is a tolerably homogeneous group in which the prozona of the 

 male varies from quadrate to distinctly longitudinal and in which the 

 mesosternal lobes of the same sex are separated by an interspace 

 which is rarely a little transverse, usually quadrate or subquadrate, 

 and rarely as much as nearly half as long again as broad. The hind 

 border of the pronoturn is usually very obtusangulate, and the tegmina 

 always abbreviate, usually about as long as the pronotum. The 

 hind tibiae are usually red, rarely pale greenish, with usually ten to 

 eleven spines in the outer series, but sometimes nine or twelve, and in 

 one case only seven spines may be found in the female. 



The male abdomen is usually more or less clavate and recurved, the 

 supraaual plate triangular, its median sulcus inclosed by high walls 



