382 PJWrEEDIXGS OF THE yjIKiXAL MrSEVM. v.l xx 



I. PAROXYA ATLANTICA. 



(Plate XXV, tig. 8.) 



Paroxija atlantica feci'DDF-R! (pare), Proc. Bust. Sof. Nat. Hist., XIX (1877). pp. 

 'J'J,HH; (pars), Ent. Notes VI (1878), pp. 7,29; (pars), Cent. Orth. (1879). 

 pp. 46-47. 



Dark wood-brown above, luteo-testaeeous below, with a broad black 

 stripe on the aides of the head behind the eye and the upper half of the 

 lateral lobes of the pronotuni, sometimes not affecting the metazona: 

 antennae ferruginous, uniform or sometimes slightly infuscated apically, 

 in the male slightly less than half as long as the body. Tegmina uni 

 form brownish fuscous. Just about as long as the body in both sexes. 

 Hind femora luteo testjiceous, the upper inner surface with fuscous 

 median and ])ostmedian bars, the geniculatioDS Wack, the hind tibiae 

 pale glaucous, with ten to thirteen (usually as many as twelve) spines 

 in the outer row. Supraaual plate of male very short triangular, with 

 a short basal median vsulcus with low walls; furcula consisting of a 

 pair of flattened short triangular plates, whose adjacent inner walls 

 are slightly elevated, but which diverge apically; cerci much shorter 

 than in the other species, not extending beyond the tip of the supra 

 anal plate, compressed laminate, strongly incurved, tapering rapidly 

 at base, then subeoual for a short space, ending in a si)atulate tij) 

 nearly as broad as the base, well rimnded apically. 



Length of body, male, 23 mm., female, 20 mm.; antennae, male and 

 female, 11 mm.; tegmina, male, 17 mm., female, 18 mm.; hind femora, 

 ujale, 13 mm., female, 15^5 mm. 



Nine males, 4 females. Georgia, H. K. Morrison (U.S.X.M. — Riley 

 collection; S. H. Scudder); Fvyrt Reed, Orange County, Florida, April 

 7, 21, 23, J. H. Comstock ; Sandford, Orange County. Florida, G. B. 

 Frazer. 



2. PAROXYA HOOSIERI. 



(Plate XXV, fig. 9.) 



Pezotettix hoosieri Blatchley!, Can. Ent., XXIV (1892), pp. 31-33. 

 Paroxija atlantica BlatciileyI, C'au. Eut., XXV (1893). p. 90: Proc. Inrt. Acad. 

 Sc. 1892 (1894), p. 118; Can. Ent., XXVI (1894), p. 244. 



Dark wood brown with an olivaceous tinge above, varying from tla 

 vous to clay yellow beneath, with a broad piceous stripe on the sides, 

 occupying the upper half of the lateral lobes of the prouotum, in the 

 female often fading out on the posterior part of the metazona. Face ot 

 the color of the under surface, but generally more or less obscured with 

 fuscous or fuliginous; antennae uniform ferrugineo-testaceous, in the 

 male much more than half as long as the body. Tegmina uniform 

 olivaceous brown, less than twice as long as the pronotum. Legs bright 

 olive green, the hind femora more or less embrowned, especially above, 

 the geniculation black; hind tibiae pale glaucous, more or less luteous 



