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rowly above with white. Tegmina uuiform fjreenish fuscous, short 

 ovate, less than twiee as long as broad, shorter than, sometimes hardly 

 more than half as long as, the pronotuni. Hind femora dark testaceous 

 with the outer face light testaceous, its distal third blackish and a 

 premedian angulate bhukisii bar (on greenish specimens almost wholly 

 green, enlivened on upi)er surface with a ruddy tint); hind tibiae fusco- 

 glaucous or glauccms, the si)ines black tipped. Sui)raanal ])late of 

 male triangular, the sides feebly and angularly emarginate, the 

 apex acute, with a basal median sulcus of similar shape not reaching 

 the middle, the intersi)aces on cither side very shallowly, broad. y and 

 roundly sulcatc, and a slender tolerably deep median sulcus apically: 

 furculaccmsistingof a pair of sliglitly projecting, subattingent, rounded 

 lobes; ccrci slender, tapering gently in basal half, beyond equal or very 

 feebly e\i>andcd, the tip rounded but slightly luoduced, the ai)ical half 

 feebly incurved; apical tubercle of subgenital plate feeble, blunt, seen 

 from behind broadly rounded. 



Length of body, male, 1«S mm., female, 22.5 mm.: jintennae, male, 10 

 mm., female, 7 mm.; tegmina. male, 3.5 mm., female, 4 mm.: hind 

 femora, male. 12 mm., female, 12.5 mm. 



Two males, 8 females. Los Angeles, California, October 27,Coquillett 

 (U.S.N.M. [No. 709.J — liiley collection) ; Los Angeles, California, Koebele 

 (L. liruner); San Buenaventura. California (U.S.N.M. [No. 700.] — Riley 

 collection). J\oebele reports it from the Shasta district in northern 

 California. 



The abdomen, which is carinate, sometimes has the carina distinctly 

 lighter than the body. 



This species most resembles H. festivus of the longer winged forms, 

 but is very different from it. 



5. HESPEROTETTIX CURTIPENNIS, new species. 



. Hesperotettix ciirtipennix Bhi'xeuI, MS. 



Body feebly and rather briefly pilose; general color green with an 

 olivaceous tinge. Head with a yellow front nmrgin to the genae, bor- 

 dered posteriorly with a short dark greenish or bluish green bar below 

 the eyes; behind the eyes is a broad dark green stripe (not so dark as 

 the bar) margined with yellow, the inner margin i^assing along the 

 upper edge of the eye; summit sometimes with a dark green mediau 

 stripe; fastigium with a slight pit between the eyes and more or less 

 sulcate on the expanded portion in front; frontal costa of somewhat 

 irregular breadth, but about as wide as the inteT*val between the eyes, 

 distinctly sulcate; antennae testaceous, about as long as head and 

 pronotum together in the female. IVonotum rounded tectiform, scarcely 

 enlarging from in front backwards, the carina and carinal markings as 

 in U.pavijicus. the lateral lobes similarly marked, with a broad, yellow 

 bordered, blackish green bar crossing the prozonu, its lower margiu 

 slightly oblique; hind margiu broadly rounded, scarcely angulate, the 



