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the top is cut through in the middle by a transverse fissure. Elytra marbled 

 with large whitish and black spots, and semi-transparent at the end. Wings 

 light-yellow on tlie half next the body, transparent near the end, with two 

 black spots on the tip, and a broad intermediate black band, which, narrowed 

 and curving inward on the hind margin, nearly reaches the inner angle. Hind 

 femora pale-yellow, black at the extremity, and nearly surrounded by two 

 broad black bands; hind tibite coral-red, with a black ring immediately below 

 Ihe knee, and followed by a white ring, black at the lower extremity also, 

 with the tip of the spines black. In some individuals there is an additional 

 black ring below the white one on the tibiae ; is marked on the wings some- 

 what like CE. (squaiis, but is invariably smaller, with the thorax much moi'e 

 contracted before the middle. 



"Dimensions. — Length, 0.75 to 1.25 'inches; expansion of the elytra, 1.1 

 to 2.75 inches." 



Massachusetts (Harris). 



I have not seen this species, nor does it appear to have been noticed by 

 any one except Dr. Harris. 



€E. costalis, Scudd., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist,, VII, 473. 



Female. — Brownish-yellow, profusely mottled with reddish-brown; a 

 broad yellowish band extends from each eye to the opposite outer posterior 

 angle of the pronotum, crossing at the middle of the pronotum, bordered out- 

 side with a broad band of black, narrowing posteriorly to a line, and inside, 

 behind the intersection, by a broad black band, which has another narrow 

 short black line parallel to it at the hind border of the pronotum ; median 

 carina of pronotum equal, lather sharp, not high. Elytra as in CE. sordlda. 

 Wings pellucid, with a taint cloudy patch at the middle of the outer border, 

 and a dark streak along the costal border toward the apex. Hind femora 

 yellowish, with two transverse dark annulations; the tips brown; hind tibiae 

 bluish, with black spines, and a yellowish annulation at the base. It differs 

 from CE. sordlda in the markings and lowness of the median carina of the 

 pronotum, and in the shorter and fuller wings. 



Dimensions. — Length, 1.05 inches; expansion of wings, 1.75 inches; 

 depth, 0.46 inch. 



Texas (Scudder). 



