NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDIID^E. 53 



Tegmina obovate, two-thirds as long as- pronotum. Hind femora 

 stout, very obliquely bif asciate with fuscous. Hind tibiae glaucous, 

 flavescent at base and tip, with black-tipped spines. 



" Male abdomen subclavate, the subgenital plate and preceding 

 segment tumescent, broader than deep, and greatly elongated, the 

 former elongate scoop-shaped, bluntly rounded at apex, its sides a 

 little convex, especially at base. Supra-anal plate broader than 

 long, somewhat trilobate at end by reason of deep, subapical lateral 

 emarginations, the apex acutely pointed with straight sides, the 

 basal three- fourths of each side smoothly convex, curving abruptly 

 into the subapical emarginations. Its upper surface bears strongly 

 raised edges and a prominent transverse ridge midway of its length, 

 crossing two-thirds of its width. To this ridge extend, lying upon 

 longitudinal ridges, the processes of the furcula; these are very 

 broad at base, tapering equally to digitate, apically sinuate, tips 

 which rest upon the ends of the transverse ridge, and enclose be- 

 tween them the shallow median sulcus, wide apically, narrow 

 anteriorly. The base of the furcula and median portion of the seg- 

 ment bearing it are distinctly depressed ; the median portion of the 

 preceding segment is depressed to fit into this hollow, slightly 

 elongated, widely and shallowly sulcate longitudinally, the sulcus 

 transversely rugulose, with apical margin carinate opposite base of 

 furcula. Cerci short and slender, about two-thirds as long as supra- 

 anal plate, nearly three times as long as basal width, tapering evenly 

 in basal half to one-fourth the basal width, distally bent gently up- 

 ward and inward, the tip slightly expanded to about one-third the 

 basal width, obliquely excised, the upper angle rounded, the ventral 

 acute, the ventral margin convex or sinuous, the dorsal margin 

 concave. 



" General color deep reddish brown above, whitish or flavescent 

 beneath. Post-ocular fuscous stripe indistinct in female, deep black 

 in male, percurrent, extending to abdomen, even suffusing the 

 metepisternal pale fascia. 



"Length of body : male, 15; female, 17.5-22; hind femora: 

 male, 10; female, 11.5-13; antenna: male, 6; female, 7; tegmina: 

 male, 2X2.7; female, 2.5X3.5, 2. 7X4 mm." 

 (See Figs. 12, 13, p. 51.) 



South Carolina : Denmark, Aug. 15. 



Florida : De Funiak Springs, Aug. 5. 



Ivower Austral zone. A very few specimens of this peculiar 

 species were secured among shrubbery in open pine woods. (See 

 PI. 6, Fig. i, type locality.) 



