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cc. Tegmina always more dusky, with the light band opposite the 

 black wing-band white or nearly so, the tegmen beyond this 

 plain or feebly marked. Posterior lobe o£ the pronotum 



twice the length of the anterior one 6. cyaneus, Ckll. 



bb. The sexes decidedly very equal in size ; the tegmina somewhat 



irregularly banded 7. glaucipennis , Scudd. 



1. Leprus elephas, Sauss. 



(Edipoda {Leprus) elephas, Sauss. Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2) xiii. p. 398(1861) l ; Orthopt. Nov. Am. ii. 



p. 28 (1861) \ 

 Leprus elephas, Walk. Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 795 (1870) 3 ; Thomas, Syn. Acrid. N. Am. 



p. 219 (1873) 4 ; Sauss. Prodr. CEdip. pp. 95, 96 (1884) 5 ; Scudd. Psyche, ix. p. 75 (1900) 6 ; 



Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1904, p. 525 \ 

 Leprus corpulentus, Scudd. Cat. U.S. Orthopt. p. 36 (1900) 8 . 



Hab. North America, Texas 67 . — Mexico (Saussure 12b ), Sonora, San Luis Potosi, 

 &c. {Scudder, Eehn 67 ). 



I have separated L. elephas and L. corpulentus, notwithstanding that they were 

 united by Scudder. 



2. Leprus corpulentus, Sauss. 



Leprus corpulentus, Sauss. Prodr. CEdip. pp. 95, 96 (1884) l ; Addit. Prodr. (Edip. p. 29 (1888) a ; 



Scudd. Cat. Orthopt. U.S. p. 36 (1900) 3 ; Psyche, ix. p. 75 (1900) 4 . 

 Leprus elephas, Scudd. Psyche, ix. p. 75 (1900) (in part.) 5 . 



Hab. Noeth America, Texas and Arizona 25 . — Mexico (Saussure 1 , coll. U.S. Nat. Mas.). 



Scudder, in writing of what he calls L. elephas, says : " the small female (a single 

 specimen) coming from Arizona . . . . " This particular specimen, with the tegmina 

 26 millim. in length, would refer to the present species. 



[3. Leprus intermedius, Sauss. 



Leprus intermedius, Sauss. Prodr. GEdip. p. 96 (1884) \; Scudd. Cat. Orthopt. U.S. p. 36 (1900) 2 ; 

 Psyche, ix. p. 75 (1900) 3 . 

 Hab. North America, British Columbia 3 , California 1 2 3 .] 



[4. Leprus wheeleri, Thomas. 



(Edipoda wheeleri, Thomas, Rep. U.S. G-eol. Surv. W. 100th Merid. v. p. 879, t. 44. fig. 1 (1875) l . 

 Leprus wheeleri, Sauss. Addit. Prodr. CEdip. p. 169 (1888) 2 ; Cockerell, Ent. News, xiii. pp. 305- 



307 (1902) 3 ; Caudell, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxvi. p. 788 (1903) 4 . 

 Leprus wheeleri (in part.), Bruner, Science, xxi. p. 133 (1893) 5 ; Scudd. Cat. Orthopt. U.S. p. 36 

 (1900) G ; Psyche, ix. pp. 75, 76 (1900) 7 . 

 Hab. North America, Colorado and New Mexico 1-7 . 



This form seems to be rather restricted in its distribution.] 



