382 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOL. xx. 



i. PAROXYA ATLANTICA. 

 (Plate XXV, fig. 8.) 



Paroxya atlantica SCUDDER! (pars), Proc. Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1877), pp. 



29,88; (pars), Ent. Notes, VI (1878), pp. 7,29; (pars), Cent. Ortk. (1879), 

 pp. 46-47. 



Dark wood-brown above, luteo-testaceous below, with a broad black 

 stripe on the sides of the head behind the eye and the upper half of the 

 lateral lobes of the pronotuin, sometimes not affecting the metazona; 

 antennae ferruginous, uniform or sometimes slightly infuscatecl apically, 

 in the male slightly less than half as long as the body. Tegrniua uni- 

 form brownish fuscous, just about as long as the body in both sexes. 

 Hind femora luteo-testaceous, the upper inner surface with fuscous 

 median and postmedian bars, the geniculations black, the hind tibiae 

 pale glaucous, with ten to thirteen (usually as many as twelve) spines 

 in the outer row. Supraanal plate of male very short triangular, with 

 a short basal median sulcus with low walls; furcula consisting of a 

 pair of flattened short triangular plates, whose adjacent inner walls 

 are slightly elevated, but which diverge apically; cerci much shorter 

 than in the other species, not extending beyond the tip of the supra- 

 anal plate, compressed laminate, strongly incurved, tapering rapidly 

 at base, then subequal for a short space, ending in a spatulate tip 

 nearly as broad as the base, well rounded apically. 



Length of body, male, 23 mm., female, 29 mm.; antennae, male and 

 female, 11 mm. ; tegmiua, male, 17 mm., female, 18 mm. ; hind femora, 

 male, 13 mm., female, 15.5 mm. 



Nine males, 4 females. Georgia, H. K. Morrison (U.S.N.M. Eiley 

 collection; S. H. Scudder); Fort Eeed, Orange County, Florida, April 

 7, 21, 23, J. H. Coinstock; Sandford, Orange County, Florida, G. B. 

 Frazer. 



2. PAROXYA HOOSIERI. 

 (Plate XXV, fig. 9.) 



Pezotettix hoosieri BLATCHLEY!, Can. Ent., XXIV (1892), pp. 31-33. 

 Paroxya atlantica BLATCHLEY!, Can. Ent., XXV (1893), p. 90; Proc. Ind. Acad. 

 Sc., 1892 (1894), p. 118; Can. Ent,, XXVI (1894), p. 244. 



Dark wood brown with an olivaceous tinge above, varying from fla 

 vous to clay yellow beneath, with a broad piceous stripe on the sides, 

 occupying the upper half of the lateral lobes of the pronotum, in the 

 female often fading out on the posterior part of the metazona. Face of 

 the color of the under surface, but generally more or less obscured with 

 fuscous or fuliginous; antennae uniform ferrugineo-testaceous, in the 

 male much more than half as long as the body. Tegmiua uniform 

 olivaceous brown, less than twice as long as the pronotum. Legs bright 

 olive green, the hind femora more or less embrowned, especially above, 

 the geniculatiou black; hind tibiae pale glaucous, more or less luteous 



