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indistinct ; sides of the disk ascending. Elytra and wings pass the abdomen 

 about one-tbird their length. 



Color. — Dark reddish-brown. Lower half of the head and a broad band 

 along the posterior edge of lie pronotum a clay-yellow, sprinkled with a few 

 fuscous dots. Elytra mottled somewhat uniformly with fuscous blotches and 

 dots, which form three irregular bands, one at the base, which is broad, the 

 middle one narrowest, the apical one sometimes lost in the nearly equal 

 mottling of the tip. Wings pale-yellow at base ; a broad median black band 

 occupying the middle third, crossing the wing at right angles, decreasing 

 along the posterior margin, around which it curves to the anal angle, throwing 

 out a short, blunt, sub-frontal spur about one-third the distance to the base ; 

 apical portion transparent, nerves dusky, and tip clouded or with dusky spots. 

 Hind femora clay-yellow, with two bands and apex fuscous externally and 

 black internally; hind tibise reddish. Antennse fuscous at the apex. 



Dimensions. — 9 Length, 1.25 inches; elytra, equal the body ; hind femora, 

 0.7 inch; hind tibife, 0.64 inch. <? Length, 0.9 to 1 inch. 



Nebraska (Dodge, Scudder) ; Colorado (Thomas). 



<E. tequalis, Uhler, Harr., Rep., 178. 



Syu., Gryllus wqualis, Say, Eut., II, 237. 

 Locusta wqualis, Harr., Eep., 178. 



Vertex of moderate width; foveola very shallow, especially in the female, 

 slightly elongate, and in the male divided by a dim carina; lateral foveolse 

 almost obsolete; frontal costa sulcate, slightly in the female, more distinctly 

 in the male, reaching nearly or quite to the clypeus. Median carina of the 

 pronotum prominent oia the anterior lobes, distinct but less prominent on the 

 posterior lobe, severed once near the middle, with a notch; front part com- 

 pressed as usual, but less wrinkled than many other species; posterior lobe 

 nearly flat on the disk, shghtly rugulose, especially the female; anterior mar- 

 gin slightly angled; posterior extremity about a right angle; lateral carinse 

 sub-distinct, rounded. Elytra and wings passing the abdomen about one- 

 fourth their length. Posterior femora in the female about as long as the 

 abdomen. Antennse passing the thorax. 



Color. — Ash-gray mottled with dusky-brown and white. Face white 

 mottled with fuscous, or fuscous mottled with white; occiput dark-fuscous. 

 Pronotum dusky-brown, with a dim, pale, broad stripe along the margins ot 



