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OETHOPTEBOLOGICAL CONTEIBUTIORS. 
BYP. R.UHLEE. 
GRYLLODEA. 
GEYLL9TALPA, Lat. 
G. oultriger. 
Cinnamon-brown, rather less elongated than G. longipennis Scudder. 
The head fuscescent above; ocelli very large, oblong-oval, placed ob¬ 
liquely, diverging posteriorly; palpi, antennae and cheeks pale cinna¬ 
mon-yellow. Thorax of the ordinary form. Tegmina broad, long, cov¬ 
ering the dorsum of the four basal segments of the abdomen, the ante¬ 
rior flap with no transverse nervures between the obliquely longitudi¬ 
nal ones; wings reaching the tip of the cerci, which are long and very 
slender. The anterior portion of the intermediate coxae and the fosso- 
rial dactyls almost to their bases, and a few prominences upon the an¬ 
terior coxae, black; the dactyls shorter, broader and blunter than in 
G. longipennis. The process of the anterior coxae is rather long, broad, 
acute at tip, cultrate; the posterior tibiae with a row of stout spines, 
beginning at the middle and becoming gradually longer to the tip. 
Lengths 27 millims. Length of thorax 8 millims. Posterior tibia 
6J millims. 
Hah. El Paso. 
The unique specimen, a male, was kindly presented to me by Henry 
Ulke, Esq. 
PHYLLOPALPUS, nov. gen. 
Head depressed, broader than the thorax, front a little convex be¬ 
tween the antennae; eyes large, prominent, subglobose; ocelli not appa¬ 
rent ; antennae at least twice the length of the body, almost capillary, 
situated upon the inferior line of the eyes, a little between them, the 
basal joint cylindrical, longer than broad; maxillary palpi large, the 
joints hairy, the apical one much longer than the others, very broad, 
lamelliform, oval, the preceding joint subtriangular, much broader than 
the middle one, remainining joints subcylindrical, the basal ones gla¬ 
brous : thorax subcylindrical, narrower anteriorly, the anterior and pos¬ 
terior margin truncate, the lateral margin broadly recurved; scutellum 
inconspicuous; tegmina as long or longer than the body, wings nearly 
