Bufotettix alpha, new species.
One of the smallest Pseudophyllids known.
Description (male, the female unknown).—The characters given in the generic description will serve to distinguish this remarkable little species from all other described members of the subfamily known to me. The tympanum of the tegmina are about one-fourth as long as the tegmina and about twice as long as broad; the stridulatory vein is stout and does not project at all beyond the inner margin, which is thickened and forms a notch just above the termination of the above vein. The entire surface of the insect, including the elytra, is rugose, the femora and pronotum, especially the latter above, also tuberculate.
General color brown with darker mottlings; sides of pronotum, especially along the sites of the lateral carinae, blackish and the femora with three illy defined but broad and distinct blackish bands; the tip of the abdomen, including the last dorsal segment, the supraanal and subgenital plates, and the cerci clear yellowish, the dorsal sulcation of the supraanal plate black and the last dorsal segment of the abdomen with a round black dot on each side of the upper surface; the antennae are irregularly banded with light yellowish and dark brownish.
Measurements.—Length : pronotum, 5 mm.; anterior femora, 4 mm.; posterior femora, 8 mm.; tegmina, 10 mm.; wing, 9 mm. Width: pronotum, posteriorly, 3.25 mm.; tegmina, at middle, 4 mm.; wing, at middle, 8 mm.; posterior femora, at widest point, 3.5 mm.
Described from one male, type, August, 1908. Schunke.
Type in the collection of the U. S. National Museum.
Cat. No. 21327, U. S. Nat. Mus.
[from pp. 26/27, see also the more detailed genus description]
