16 SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS CHLOROTETTIX 



longer than last ventral segment, apices slightly produced and 

 divergent, outer margin clothed with a few short spines and soft 

 hairs. Pygofers ligulate, about twice as long as the valve, whitish 

 hyaline and thin in texture. 



Specimens are at hand from Ohio, New York, New Jersey, 

 Mississippi, Michigan, Virginia, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, 

 South Carolina and Tennessee. It has also been reported for 

 Kansas, Arkansas, Maryland, Alabama, Florida and Jamaica. 

 The species seems to be quite widely distributed throughout the 

 southern, and part of the middle western, states. Its northern 

 limit is apparently attained in Michigan and New York. 



Chlorotettix curvidens n. sp. Osborn. 



(Figs. 12: a, b, c.) 



Light stramineus, a darker arc on the pronotum and the 

 elytral veins whitish. Excavation of the female genital segment 

 with prominent curved teeth on the borders. Length, 9 6.5 mm., 

 d 1 6.25 mm. 



Head short, vertex rounding, faintly angulate in front, scarcely 

 longer at middle than next the eye; front convex, narrowing 

 sharply to the clypeus; pronotum with a strongly curved, 

 impressed arc on anterior third behind which the surface is 

 faintly striate. Elytra concolorous, the veins faintly lighter. 



Genitalia: Female last ventral segment at border nearly twice 

 as long as preceding the central part deeply excavated, an acute 

 notch reaching nearly to the base of the segment and the inner 

 border with a strong slightly curved tooth outside of which is a 

 deep curved emargination, the border of which is black. Male 

 valve triangular, obtusely angulate behind, plates elongate tri- 

 angular, three times as long as width at base, tips acutely angular 

 slightly acuminate and divergent. Finely ciliate and with about 

 seven stronger spines on the border. 



Described from a number of specimens collected at Santa 

 Lucia, Gualan, and Los Amates Guatemala, and San Pedro, Hon- 

 duras, by J. S. Hine in January and February, 1905. Types and 

 paratype are in the Ohio State University collection. 



This species is about the size of vittatus but slightly darker 

 and lacks the brown stripes but is most> positively separated by 

 the very distinct toothed excavation of the female genital segment. 



