IO.J124. liKVlsKiN OF TItt: MELAMn'l.l—Si'VlUiEi:. 31 



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soiiii. <liviile(l in tin* inicMlo by a feeble, strai^rbt, transverse sulcus, 



followed at scarcely less than lialfway to the nuiazona by a siniihir 



julcus. i'rosternal spine erect, riither Ion;;, pyra aiilal. acuminate; 



ntrrval between inesosteniiil lobes lecbly transversa, alitiost as wide as 



;li<' lohes themselves, the metasternal lobes subconti^iuoiis. Te^imina 



*lliptical, about as Ion;; as the prozonji. I'ore and middle tenHua tumes- 



*v\\\ in a sli;;ht de;;ree; hind femora short and moderately stout, the 



^ind tibiae with nine spines in the outer series. Kxtremify «»f the 



biloMien subclavate, well rounded, upturui'd, the nuir;;ins of tin' sub- 



;enital plate of male with no basal ampliation, strai-^ht, tlu' ajH'X 



roadl.v !<)unde<l, pi'otrudin;:^ beyond the tip of the supiaanal plate by 



)bs than iialf tin; len;;th of the latter; fun-ula want in;;; cerci com- 



essed, slender, subequal and nearly strai;;ht. 



The Icmalc bein;; unknown, the ileacription is based wholly upon the 

 le. 

 The ;;enu8 is represented by a sin;;le species found in Mexico, 



CEPHALOTETTIX PARVULUS, new species. 



(Plate III, \\\r. 1.) 



rtzoteitix parruhi»'iilCi^VA\A.\, MS, 

 I'tzotetiix vUvacfii" liiivyvAi'., MS. 



lackish or fuscous bronze ;;reen above, olivaceous yellow below, 

 her sparsely and not briefly i)ilose. Head above and sides to the 

 lower level of the eyes bronze green, becoming blackish above, with 

 tb© feeblest sign of a light-colored stripe behiiul the upi)er margin of 

 the eye; rest of head with face olivaceous yellow, feebly infuscated and 

 sparsely punctate; antennae olivaceous at base, testaceous beyond and 

 infnscated at tip. Pronotum wholly and almost iiniforndy dark bronze 

 ^reen, a little darker above than on the lateral lobes, and slightly 

 larker on i)rozoua than on metazona. Abdomen above fusco-oli vaceous, 

 incffe or less ferruginous at the ends of the segments. Tegmina testa- 

 3eo«s. Fore and middle legs and hind femora olivaceous yellow, the 

 ipper surface of the latter becoming fuscous in the apical half, the 

 whola geniculation blackish; hind tibiae green, the spines blackish 

 brown excei)t at base. Supraanal i^late of male triangular, broadly tec- 

 iform except apically, the sununit of the tectate i)ortion with a rather 

 le^), slightly narrowing, basal sulcus half as long as the plate; furcula 

 ibaent; cerci slender, compressed but not laminate, tapering slightly at 

 :hebase, beyond equal, straight, feebly incurved and bluntly rounded 

 it ^e tip, angulate below. 



Bingth of body, male, 13.25 mm.; antennae, 6.75 mm.; tegmina, 2.5 

 um.; hiiul femora, 8.5 mm. 



Two males. Otoyac, Vera Cruz, Mexico, 2,700 feet, December ( L. Bru- 

 lerJi Orizaba, Mexico, 4,000 feet, W. S. Blatchley (J. McNeill). 



Ikave preferred McNeill's name to Bruner's because the latter has 

 u<H;he former has not been employed in closely related genera. 



