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tip truncate; sides of last ventral segment with rufous hair. Body
moderately coarsely punctate, about as in C. nigrcsccns.
Length 12 mm.
From Fargo, North Dakota, September, on Solidago
(Stevens).
Differs from C. nigrcsccns in absence of large ventral spots,
in the dark stigma, and in the longer marginal cell.
The types of both species are in the writer's collection.
A new Species of the Genus Gammarotettix from
California (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae).
By MORGAN HEBARD, Philadelphia, Pa.
Gammarotettix cyclocercus new species.
Closely related to the genotype, G. bilobatus (Thomas), dif-
fering in the somewhat more slender form and strikingly dif-
ferent male cerci, which in bilobatns are awl-like, but in the
present species are longer and strongly incurved. In cyclocer-
cus the male supra-anal plate is similar, but somewhat more de-
cidedly produced. The somewhat more slender form appears
to be the only character available in separating females of the
two species.
All previously definitely recorded material of bilobatns, as
well as other specimens of that species before us, were taken
in the coastal region and coast ranges of California, while
the present species is known from a locality on the lower west-
ern slopes of the Sierras.
Type: $ ; Placerville, Eldorado County, California. May
20, 1913. (E. O. Essig). [Hebard Collection Type No. 407.]
Description of Type. Size small for the group; form compact and
robust, but not as stout as bilobatus. Body cask-shaped ; narrowing
cephalad and caudad, truncate. Vertex strongly declivent : fastigium
with two small tubercles, deplanate between and briefly below these.
Eyes small, suborbicular. Maxillary palpi short: first and second
joints subequal in length, the two slightly longer than third joint ;
fourth slightly longer than second; fifth or ultimate joint nearly as
long as third and fourth joints taken together, gently and evenly ex-
panding to the truncate, very slightly oblique, apex. Pronotum ex-
panding slightly caudad, cephalic and caudal margins transverse, lat-
eral lobes with ventral margin very weakly convex, ventro-cephalic
angle sharply rounded obtuse-angulate, ventro-caudal angle broadly
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