18 SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS CHLOROTETTIX 



Head scarcely wider than pronotum, vertex subangulate, about 

 one-third longer at middle than next the eye, front tumid, convex 

 in lateral view: pronotum strongly arched in front, the impressed 

 line very near its margin and very faint, striae very faint and 

 irregular. 



Color: Light straw, the vertex with a narrow transverse 

 slightly curved line, the median impressed line posteriorly, and 

 two dots near hind border brown. 



Genitalia: Female ventral segment with a deep notch rounded 

 nearly to the base, the lateral part of the segment forming a 

 broad lobe nearly twice the length of the preceding segment. 



Described from a single female specimen collected at Gualan, 

 Guatemala, by Prof. J. S. Hine, Jan. 14, 1905. Type in the 

 Ohio State University collection. 



Chlorotettix scutellatus n. sp. Osborn. 



(Figs. 15: a, h.) 



Dull straw color, head obtusely angulate, vertex with a diffuse 

 dusky transverse band, scutellum with an elongate dark spot 

 each side extending under the border of the pronotum. Length, 

 9 6.3 mm. 



Head distinctly wider than the prothorax; vertex obtusely 

 angulate, nearly one-half longer at middle than next the eye; 

 front slightly tumid. Pronotum with a faint arc near the anterior 

 border behind which the surface is distinctly but irregularly 

 striate. 



Color: Dull straw with a dusky transverse band on the vertex, 

 some faint dusky spots on the front of the pronotum, two blackish 

 spots on the scutellum extending forward and showing through 

 the semi-transparent border of the pronotum; elytra uniform in 

 color with pronotum, and scutellum with faint dusky spots 

 bordering the suture, veins whitish; wing veins dusky. 



Genitalia: Female last ventral segment deeply excavated in a 

 triangular notch reaching two-thirds the way to the base, the 

 hind border sinuate produced (see figure), pygofers long, widened 

 near base with coarse bristles on the central part and finer hairs 

 at the tip. 



Des'cribed from a single female specimen collected by the 

 author at Brownsville, Texas, in February, 1910. Type in Osborn 

 collection. 



