Hoplotettix iconnicoffi, new species. (PI. II, fig. 19.)
Description (male, female).—Characters mostly stated in the generic description. General color dark brown, the legs, antennae, and ovipositor somewhat lighter; the whole insect is sprinkled with inconspicuous yellowish dots, that being the color of the thoracic tubercles; the cerci and subgenital styles of the male light brown; wings moderately fuliginous, much shorter than the elytra but fully as broad; tympanum of right tegmen of the male with transparent speculum, that of the left one opaque, both of moderate size and projecting beyond the inner margin of the tegmen, the stridulating vein stout and forming a rounded angle with a triangular notch just beyond it, as common in this type of insect and described in other words under the genus Arrhenotettix and figured here. (PI. II', fig. 19.)
Measurements.—Length : pronotum, male, 5.5 mm., female, 6 mm.; anterior femora, male, 10 mm., female, 11 mm.; posterior femora, male, female, 20 mm.; tegmina, male, 10 mm., female, 11 mm.; ovipositor, 12 mm. Width: pronotum posteriorly, male, female, 3 mm.; tegmina mesially, male, 3.5 mm., female, 4 mm.; posterior femora at widest point, male, 3.75 mm., female, 4 mm.; ovipositor at the base, 3 mm., mesially, 2 mm.
Described from three males and one female. Type, male, November 29, 1906, Iconnicoff. Allotype, female, December 1, 1906, Iconnicoff. Paratypes a and b, November 13 and December 15, 1906, Iconnicoff.
Type and allotype in the collection of the U. S. National Museum; paratypes in the collection of Iconnicoff.
Cat. No. 21336, U. S. Nat. Mus.
The paratypes are of about equal size and average slightly smaller than the type. Otherwise they offer no variation from the type.
[p. 52, layout slightly modfied, genus description under genus]
