SI.T.FAMII.Y II. OEDII'ODIX.IO. 



b. Hind tibiae yellow or greenish-yellow, rarely with a pinkish tinge; 



frontal costa distinctly silicate at point of union with vertex; 

 head, lateral lobes of pronotum and hind femora rarely suffused 

 with white. 120. MAKITIMA. 



bb. Hind tibiae with apical two-thirds scarlet, the basal third mostly 

 white; frontal costa but feebly sulcate at point 'of union with 

 vertex; head, lateral lobes and outer face of hind femora usu- 

 ally strongly suffused with hoary white. 12Ca. ACTA. 

 on. Tegmina with two or three well defined, almost solid fuscous cross- 

 bars, these sometimes faint on account of the slight contrast be- 

 tween them and the ground color; disk of prozona behind the first 

 notch more or le^s convex and subtectiform; inner face of knees of 

 hind femora fuscous. 



c. Hind tibiee in great part red; lower sulcus of hind femora yellow 



with two dark bands. 127. CITRIXA. 



cc. Hind tibise greenish-yellow tinged with fuscous; lower sulcus of 



hind tibias black with one preapical pale band. 

 (1. Metazona almost smooth; fuscous cross-bars of tegmina and 

 hind femora very distinct; basal third and dorsal area of 

 tegmina with numerous fuscous spots; saxicolous in habits. 



128. SAXATILIS. 



(Id. Metazona densely granulate-punctate; fuscous cross-bars usu- 

 ally poorly developed, often subobsolete; dorsal area of teg 

 mina almost immaculate; ammophilous in habits. 



129. IITROMANA. 



126. TRIMEROTROPIS MARITIMA (Harris), 1841, 143. Seaside Locust. 



Rather large, compressed, the male distinctly the smaller. General 

 color light to dark gray, or pale reddish-brown, mottled with brown or 

 fuscous; sides of head, lower parts of thorax, abdomen and front legs, 

 often in part white. Tegmina as in key, the fuscous spots usually scat- 

 tered along the sides, being most abundant on the basal third. Wings with 

 disk pale yellow, the greatest width of curved black band one-fifth to one- 

 sixth the length of wing, the apical fourth or more transparent. Inner 

 face of hind femora pale yellow with three black bands; lower sulcus pale 

 with a black bar at apical third; outer face rarely with spots or bands of 

 fuscous. Frontal costa silicate throughout its length. Antenna? almost as 

 long as hind femora, male, one-fourth shorter, female. Pronotum with 

 median carina low throughout; metazona about twice as long as prozona, 

 its disk flat, with a number of scattered minute rounded tubercles, hind 



margin ob- 

 tusely angu- 

 late. Wings 

 twice as long 

 as wide. 

 Lent;! h o f 



body, j . 19 

 25. 9, 2G 35; 

 of antennae, $ 

 1113, $, 11.- 

 5. 14; of pro- 

 Fig. 109. -Male. (After Lugger.) notum. 5, 



