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Elytra about half as long as the abdomen, oblong-ovate; wings min¬ 
ute. Abdomen compressed, pisciform. Posterior femora passing the 
abdomen slightly. Prosternal spine of moderate length, very broadly 
transverse, the width nearly equaling the length, blunt and rounded 
at the apex. 
Color. —Reddish-brown throughout, varying slightly in depth of 
color. Elytra unspotted. The hind femora have the spaces between 
the ribs of the disk marked with minute, elongate, red spots, which 
are surrounded by testaceous rings; (these can be distinctly seen only 
with a magnifier). The posterior lobe of the pronotum and a ring 
round the front sub-margin rather coarsely punctured; the sides gla¬ 
brous. 
Dimensions. —Length, 0.88 inch; elytra, 0.26 inch; posterior femora, 
0.55 inch; posterior tibiae, 0.46 inch. 
26. PEZOTETTIX MINUTIPENNIS, Thos. 
Female. —Head short, eyes approximate above; the vertex very nar¬ 
row between them, suddenly expanding to lateral angles just in front 
of them, slightly, sometimes scarcely, sulcate. Face, seen from the 
side, oblique and arcuate; frontal costa somewhat prominent, continuous 
nearly or quite to the clypeus, sides parallel, not, or very slightly, 
sulcate. Pronotum, cylindrical, the median carina distinct, though it 
is but a very slender line; lateral carinae wholly obliterated; sides 
nearly parallel, expanding very slightly posteriorly; anterior margin 
squarely truncate; posterior truncate, with a slight notch at the middle, 
sometimes scarcely distinct; the posterior transverse incision is situated 
much behind the middle, reducing the posterior lobe to but one-third 
the length of the pronotum; the posterior later angle rounded, and the 
margin from thence up to the middle rounded with no inward curve 
or notch except the one at the middle of the dorsum. 
Elytra minute, not meeting on the back, the space between them 
being more than the width of one of them; narrow, spatulate, width 
about one-third the length; extending over the second abdominal seg¬ 
ment; longitudinal nerves prominent and similar. Abdomen somewhat 
prominent and carinated at the base, but suddenly decreasing in size 
posteriorly, so that near or a little beyond the middle it becomes cyl¬ 
indrical. Anterior femora slender; posterior femora about as long as 
the abdomen; upper carina distinct, and the upper external angle dis¬ 
tinct and somewhat sharply defined; the tibiae distinctly expanding 
below. Prosternal spine broad at base, transverse, bluntly rounded at 
the tip. 
