Vol. xxv ] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 293 A New Species of True Katydid from Western Texas (Orthoptera ; Tettigoniidae). By JAMES A. G. REHN and MORGAN HEBARD. Pterophylla excelsa new species. General appearance and form similar to P. camellifolia (Cyrtophyllus perspicillatus of authors) ; general form of pro-notum similar to that species but resembling that of Paracyr-tophyllns robustus in the caudal margin of the disk, which is subtruncate, and in the length of the same which is less than the greatest width ; ventral margins of lateral lobes of pronotum differ from all other North American species in being moderately oblique, declivent cephalad. Subgenital plate of males distinctive in form and reaching beyond the tips of the tegmina, but apparently showing a development of the type found in Paracyrtophyllus robust us. Cerci of male distinctive but showing nearest affinity to Lea flori-densis. Type. Male; Moss Well, foot of Pulliam Bluff, Chisos Mountains, Texas. September 5-8, 1912. Elevation 4700-5000 feet. (Rehn and Hebard.) [Hebard Collection.] Size and general form similar to camellifolia. Head larger and broader than in that species, with fastigium of the vertex more de-cidedly produced in a spine which projects distinctly beyond the plane of the face; face much flattened, with lateral margins distinctly denned in weak ridges, these ridges subobsolete dorsad; labrum dis-tinctly broader than in camellifolia. Pronotum similar to camellifolia in contour, transverse sulci and lateral canthi, but with length of disk less than greatest (caudal) width and with caudal margin subtrun-Fig. i. Pterophylla excelsa n. sp. Lateral outline of type, (x 2.)
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