MORGAN HEBARD 153 



Specimens Examined: 112; 49 males, 61 females and 2 immature males. 



Texas: Beeville, Corpus Christi, Katherine, Lyford, Laguna del Gato in 

 Hidalgo County, Piper Plantation in Cameron County, Lake Lomalta in 

 Cameron County, Point Isabel, Benavides, Carrizo Springs, Cotulla and Laredo. 



A series of eighteen males and twenty-eight females from Ly- 

 ford, bearing the same data as the type, are here designated as 

 paratypes. All but eight specimens of fratercula were taken by 

 Rehn and Hebard, between July 28 and August 14, 1912. Two 

 females at hand, from Corpus Christi Bay, were taken in Decem- 

 ber. 



The species was found generally distributed in grassy areas, 

 where at Lyford it was present in very large numbers. Its dis- 

 tribution in the United States is seen to be much wider than that 

 of latifurcula, but by no means as extensive as that of mimica. 

 The fourth species of the genus, punctata (Stal) , shows the highest 

 specialization of the male genitalia and is known to us only from 

 Dallas, Texas. 14 

 Eotettix davisi 15 new species (Plate VIII, fig. 13.) 



The two species of this genus here described differ widely from 

 the three previously known species, in their brown general colora- 

 tion and male cerci, which are in each differently specialized, not 

 simple and acute conical. Their general coloration never shows 

 greenish yellow or green in the adult and, though somewhat 

 shining, has in life none of the pearly and distinctive luster which 

 in the field so strikingly distinguishes the other species. 



Both davisi and quercicola, here described, agree closely in 

 general; the characters for separating them are given under the 

 latter species. In general appearance these insects suggest rather 

 strongly a very large and exceedingly smooth development of 

 the Scudderi Group of the genus Melanoplus. The general struc- 

 ture, however, satisfies us that they must be assigned to Eotettix. 



Type. — cf; De Funiak Springs, Walton County, Florida. 

 August 30, 1915. (Rehn and Hebard.) [Hebard Collection, Type 

 No. 478.] 



u Described from "Texas." Scudder has, in his revision, misidentified as 

 punctata females of mimica from Goliad and Carrizo Springs and of fratercula 

 from Corpus Christi Bay. 



15 In honor of our good friend Mr. William T. Davis, of Staten Island, New 

 York, whose careful collecting trips in Florida and publications have helped 

 greatly in the proper understanding of the Orthoptera of that state. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLIV. 



