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Dimensions. — ■? Length 1.10 inches; elytra, long as the body ; posterior 

 femora, 057 inch ; posterior Idbiae, 0.5 inch. <? Length, 0.9 to 1 inch. 



Maine (Smith) ; New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Canada (Scudder) : 

 United States (Walker) ; British America (Kirby). 



O:. sordida, Burm., Handb. Ent., II, 643. 



Syn., Locusta periscelidis, Say, MSS. Harr., Cat. Ins. Mass., 56. 

 nebulosa, Harr., Harr., Eep., 181. 

 Acridium sordidum, De Hann, Bijdr. Kenn. Orthop., 143. 

 (Edipoda nehidosa, Uhler, Harr., liep., 181. 



sordide, Walk., Oat. Dermap. Salt., IV, 732. 



Form of the head and pronotum much as in CE. sulphwea. Central 

 foveola of the vertex broad, slightly transverse in the female, triangular and 

 closed in front, median carina sub-distinct; lateral foveolae shallow, slightly 

 enlarged, elongate-triangular, indistinct in the male ; frontal costa prominent, 

 narrow, sulcate, obliterated before reaching the clypeus ; face, seen from the 

 side, arcuate. Median carina of the pronotum prominent, sub-cristate, severed 

 about the middle and slightly notched, anterior portion in the .female arcuate, 

 both parts somewhat arcuate in the male ; lateral carin£e sub-distinct on the 

 front and posterior lobes; anterior margin slightly angled, and extending 

 slightly upon the occiput ; apex right-angled. Elytra and wings passing the 

 abdomen ; wings rather narrow. Antennne short, somewhat flattened, and 

 enlarged near the apex. 



Color. — Dusky-brown. Head and thorax varied with patches of lighter 

 and darker shades. Elytra fuscous, with two pale fasciae on the middle por- 

 tion, sometimes only crossing the lower half, at others crossing the entire 

 width. Wings transparent-yellow on the inner half; apical half fuliginous; 

 front margin dusky. Posterior femora indistinctly banded with yellowish 

 and brown ; posterior ( ibiae dusky-brown, with a pale ring near the base. 

 Antennae pale at base, fuscous at the apex. 



Dimensions. — 9 Length, 1.2 inches; elytra, 0.95 inch; posterior femora, 

 0.67 inch ; posterior tibiae, 0.56 inch, s Length, 0.88 inch ; elytra, 0.75 inch. 



Maine (Packard) ; Massachusetts (Scudder) ; Connecticut (Smith) ; 

 Tennessee (De Haan); Nebraska (Dodge); Nevv^ York (Emmons). 



CE. long-iiK'nni!^, Thos., Geol. Surv. Terr., 1871, 463. 



Elytra and wings longer tiian the body ; elytra spotted ; wings black at 

 tlie biise. 



