A. P. Morse.
A New England Orthopteran Adventive.
Psyche 23(6):178-180, 1916.

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178 Psyche [December
haps closer to H. elegantula than it is to the other species assigned to Hesperapis, and its rank as a genus appears doubtful. I think we must call it Hesperapis (Zacesta) rufipes (Ashm.). Panurgomia Viereck, 1909, was based on P. fuchsi Viereck, from Arizona. The unique specimen, a female, was unfortunately in bad condition. Mr. J. C. Crawford recently wrote me (February, 1916) that he considered the genus identical with Hesperapis, and the type species at least extremely close to H. eumorpha Ckll. This led me to reexamine the type, and I found that it possessed , the essential characters, so far as could be seen, of the group of Hesperapis which includes the majority of the species. The en- tirely dull area of metathorax agrees with the minor group of H. eumorpha, etc. The stigma is too large for typical Hesperapis. '
The clypeus is large, strongly convex, polished and shining. Hence it appears that Panurgomia is a valid subgenus (or genus?) for the group of Hesperapis which excludes the typical species. A NEW ENGLAND ORTHOPTERAN ADVENTIVE.
BY ALBERT P. MORSE,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Hapithus vagus sp. nov.
A large and rather stout member of the genus. Rostrum of the vertex as broad as the basal joint of the antennae. Antennae,
except the basal joint, long and extremely slender, two or three times as long as the body, pale brown, annulate with dusky on alternate joints, every third annulus darker; this pattern is very noticeable near the base and becomes indistinct apically. Max- illary palpi with last joint slender at base, a little securiform, twice as long as the width of the broadened tip. Pronotum transverse, narrowed anteriorly, the front margin straight or slightly concave, the hind margin a little convex medi-' ally; lateral lobes twice as long as deep, smoothly convex below, the anterior and posterior angles rounded. Tegmina nearly or quite covering the abdomen, those of male flat above; of female a little convex, with densely and irregularly reticulate venation, the lateral field crossed by about seven parallel oblique branches of



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19161 Morse-A New England Orthopterun Adventive 179 the mediastinal vein. Wings as long as tegmina. Hind femora plump, stout, a little less than three times as long as broad. Hind tibiae armed with four spines on outer side, usually five (some- times six) on inner side, with numerous short rigid teeth between them. Ovipositor slightly shorter than the hind femora, straight or gently curved upward at base, the tip armed at base with a prominent, dull tooth which is succeeded by a diminishing series of four or five smaller ones toward the apex. Cerci short, less than one-third as long as ovipositor, tapering acuminately from a stout base to a delicate point and clothed with long, soft pubes- cence.
The ground color is a pale yellowish brown thickly and irregu- larly spotted and in places washed with darker brown and fuscous, particularly in an hour-glass or X-shaped mark on the middle of the pronotum above, the entire area of the lateral lobes, the dorsal part of the lateral field of the tegmina, and the outer face of the hind femora. The dorsal field of the tegmina of the female often shows a series of three or four oblique dusky lines running back- ward and inward from the canthus along irregular raised venules; in the male a variable number of irregular fuscous spots is distributed chiefly along the canthus and about the speculum, with a larger stigmata1 blotch.
MEASUREMENTS.
Body. 1 Hind ism.
\ Tcgrnina. 1 Antenna. 1 Cereus. 1 Ovipositor. I I I I I
1 Length. 1 Width. 1
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Described from the type ( 9 ), allotype ( $), and several para- types of both sexes; the material also contains several nymphs in various stages. Collection of A. P. Morse. This species was first recorded by Scudder (PSYCHE, September, 1900, 105) under the name Apithes agitator, from the greenhouse of the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, Mass. The specimens on which the description is based were collected there in alcohol in September and October, 1902. Recently, on pinning them up, it was seen to be quite distinct from agitator. Mr. Morgan Hebard



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