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brown, somelinies with a l)lack streak extending back from the eye. Front 

 of the head yellowisli-brown or yellow. Front and middle legs greenish, 

 tinged with reddish-brown; posterior femora greenish-yellow; tibise fuscous, 

 spines tipped with black. Female varies in color from almost entire pale- 

 green to dark-brown, with a dark stripe running back from each eye along 

 the upper margin of the sides of the pronotum ; disk of the elytra marked 

 with two or three fuscous dots; hind tibiae reddish-brown. 



Dimensions. — 9 Length, 1 inch; pronotum, 0.21 inch; hind femora, 

 0.6 inch; elytra, 0.42 inch. 3 Length, 0.6 inch; pronotum, 0.14 inch; hind 

 femora, 0.4 inch ; elytra, 0.3 inch. 



Connecticut (Scudder), Southern Illinois, Nebraska (Thomas). Fig- 

 ured, Glover, Ills. Am. Ent. Orth., PL x. Fig. f). 



CIb. coBisperssaiii, Thos. 



Syn., Ghloi'altis connpersa, Harr. Report, 184. 

 ahortiva, Harr. Eeport, 184. 

 O" Stenohothrus melanojyleurus, Scudd., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., 1862, vol. vii, 456. 



Vertex broad, expanded to a blunt point on each side in front of the 

 eyes, from which the sides converge so as to form little less than a right angle, 

 blunt at the tip ; edges a little upturned ; a very slight median carina ; frontal 

 costa with a shallow sulcus two-thirds its length. Eyes not large or 

 prominent, slightly elongated. Antennae slender, slightly flattened, reaching 

 to the middle of the elytra in the male. Pronotum with the sides nearly 

 straight, or slightly converging in the middle ; median carina sharp, rather 

 more distinct than the lateral ; front and posterior margins straight. Elytra 

 in the male reaching nearly to the tip of the abdomen, obovate, lanceolate, 

 suddenly swollen on the costal border about two-thirds of the way from the 

 apex to the base, internal border full and curved evenly from the base to 

 the tip ; in the female the elytra reach about the middle of the abdomen. 



Color. — Male : head above, dorsum of the pronotum, sides of the meso- 

 and meta-thorax, the face and sides of the head below the eyes, and the elytra 

 light lilac-brown, varying in intensity in different specimens ; sides of the 

 head behind the eyes shaded with black. AntenucB dark-brown, darkest at 

 the tips. Sides of the pronotum and of the first two or three abdominal 

 segments shining black. Abdomen light-brown al)ove, banded with black; 

 light-yellow beneath; sides, except on the first tv>o or three segments, dark 

 reddish-brown. Fore and middle legs brown ; liind femoi-a light yellowish- 



