546 
[March 
near the city of Baltimore, during the months of September and Oc¬ 
tober. The male is rather smaller than the female, his posterior legs 
are shorter and the veins of the dorsal area of the tegmina being very 
few, the fuscous interruptions are also much less numerous. Speci¬ 
mens have also occasinally been taken upon the Oak. 
HAPITHUS, nov. gen. 
Form short and robust, the males a little more elongated. Head 
almost globose, narrower than the base of the thorax, hairy above, face 
very oblique, cranium very convex, front with a broad longitudinal 
ridge; eyes globose, deeply seated, ocelli small, placed as in Nemohius^ 
Serv. Antennae thrice the length of the body to tip of abdomen, seta¬ 
ceous, becoming capillary at the tip, situated within the lower line of 
the eyes, a little between them, the basal joint very much thicker than 
the succeeding ones, cylindrical. Maxillary palpi stout, longer than 
the face, the apical joint as long as the 2d and 3d together, subdola- 
briform at tip, moderately obliquely truncated, the third and fourth 
cylindrical, the former about one-third longer than the fourth. Thorax 
clothed with long hairs above, with no carina at the superior boundary 
of the sides, the inferior margins of the sides strongly rounded, and 
the sides a little depressed anteriorly and posteriorly interior to the 
edge, the dorsal surface somewhat rounded, its anterior margin trun¬ 
cated. Tegmina not covering the apex of the abdomen, the reticula¬ 
tion of the discoidal field very ramose % , and the apical portion like¬ 
wise in the 9 > the latero-dorsal nervure very carinately elevated, the 
longitudinal nervures beneath it also very prominent, wings rudimental. 
Cerci very long, slender, clothed with very long hairs; the ovipositor 
of the normal shape, slender, curved upwards. Legs very hairy, the 
posterior femora robust, compressed, the anterior femora very slightly 
compressed below the knee, with the tympanal cavity small and incon¬ 
spicuous, posterior tibiae with long slender spines which are curved at 
the tip, and between them each side is a continuous row of short den¬ 
ticles; spurs of the basal joint of the posterior tarsi at least 6 in num¬ 
ber, the apical one each side reaching the tip of the second joint, the 
last joint slender. 
H. agitator. 
Pale dull fulvous, face yellowish-white, dotted and sprinkled with 
fuscous points, cranium fulvous, densely clothed with yellowish pubes- 
