1K64.] • f)48 ORTHOPTEROLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. H Y P. W . V II I, ER. GRYLLODP]A. GRYLLOTALPA, Lat. G. cultriger. Cinnamon-brown, rather less elongated than G.longipennis Scudder. The head fusceseent above ; ocelli very large, oblong-oval, placed ob-liquely, diverging posteriorly ; palpi, antennas and cheeks pale cinna-mon-yellow. Thorax of the ordinary form. Tegmina broad, long, cov-erin<>-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 coxge 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 coxfe is rather long, broad, acute at tip, cultrate ; the posterior tibite 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 6| millims. Hah. El Paso. The unique specimen, a male, was kindly presented to me by Henry Ulke. Esq. PHYLL9PALPUS, nov. gen. Head depressed, broader than the thorax, front a little convex be-tween the antennas; eyes large, prominent, subglobose; ocelli not appa-rent; antennas 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
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