1878.] 95 [SS der. 
of the middle. A few tolerably stout spines on the under surface of 
fore and middle femora; hind femora rather stout, armed beneath 
with rather frequent spines ; hind legs rather short, the tibie less 
than half as long as the wings, ovipositor broader than usual and 
only as long as the hind tibiae. 
Length of body, 40 mm. ; of fastigium beyond the front edge of 
eyes, 2.8 mm.; of pronotum, 9.5 mm.; of tegmina, 51.5 mm.; of hind 
tibiae, 22.5 mm.; of ovipositor, 22.5 mm. 1 ? (from alcohol). Jalasco, 
Mexico, Dr. Berendt (Smithsonian Institution). 
In closing this series of descriptions of Orthoptera, which have 
appeared at intervals during the past ten years, it will be well to in- 
dicate a few changes of nomenclature which are necessary. 
No. 3. Saussure corrects the spelling of the generic name Ha- 
pithus to Apithes, deriving the name (correctly, as its deviser Mr. 
Uhler informs me) from dzenI7¢. 
No. 11. ‘The generic name Stalia, named in honor of the late Dr. 
C. Stal of Stockholm, was preoccupied by its use in Hemiptera by 
Reuter a short time previously. I would therefore propose for 
Stalia foliata, the generic term Eustalia. 
Nos. 23-30 and No. 61, for reasons given in the Proceedings of the 
Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. x1x, pp. 281-86, should be 
referred for the present to Melanoplus. Further change may be re- 
quired when I have completed the revision of the Calliptenoid series 
of N. American Acridii, upon which I have been for some time en- 
gaged. The name of Caloptenus fasciatus being preoccupied, I have 
replaced it (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xrx, 289) by M. Packardu. 
No. 65. Hippiscus lineatus. ‘This species I had formerly described 
(in MSS) under the new generic name Cratypedes, but before pub- 
lishing, considered it best to include it in Hippiscus. I do not 
recollect that I have ever mentioned this name to any one and have 
never seen more than the single specimen of the species upon which 
I had proposed to found it, and which has never left my collection. 
It was therefore a complete mystery to me to find a closely 
allied species described by Mr. Thomas (Proc. Davenp. Acad. Nat. 
Se., 1, 257-58) as Cratypedes Putnami, with the remark ‘I have 
placed this species in this genus with some hesitancy, yet it cer- 
tainly agrees very closely with it.” I disclaim any proprietorship in 
the generic name, and do not know to what Mr. Thomas refers. 
This remark is offered simply to aid any future student who may 
search for the origin of the name. 
