117 



Male. — Vertex not very broad; middle foveola elongate, elliptical, with 

 a slight median carina, ojjen in front; frontal costa rather narrow, slightly 

 expanded at the ocellus, sulcate, not expanding below. Median carina of the 

 pronotum somewhat crested, as in CE. Carolina, cut near the middle by the 

 last transverse incision, the two parts arcuate ; anterior margin angled, ex- 

 tending slightly on the occiput ; posterior extremity rather sharply angulate ; 

 apparently without punctures on the disk. Elytra narrow, straight, sides 

 parallel, longer than the body ; wings about the same length. Posterior 

 femora not channeled below. Cerci rather long, sub-cylindrical, terete. 

 Antennffi longer than the head and thorax. 



Color (dried after immersion in alcohol). — Reddish-yellow. Head and 

 pronotum, especially on the u])per portions, pale-reddish, dotted with pale- 

 brown. Elytra reddish-yellow next the base, apical portion pellucid ; marked 

 throughout with dark-brown spots somewhat in the form of bands. Wings 

 transparent-yellow for a little space at the immediate base ; a triangular 

 space at the apex, reaching inward about one-third the length, pellucid, 

 sprinkled at the immediate apex with fuscous dots ; the posterior margin 

 pellucid ; disk dark, fuliginous. Posterior femora with two oblique, bi'ownish 

 bands on the external face; within are two black bands; apex black inter- 

 nally. Venter and pectus dull yellowish-white. Antennae pale at base, 

 apical portion dusky. 



Dimensions. — Length, 1.14 inches; elytra, 1.27 inches; posterior femora, 

 0.64 inch ; posterior tibise, 0.55 inch. 



Kansas (Thomas, through the Agricultural Department). 



Female unknown. 



<E. Carolina, Serv., Hist. Orthop., 722. 



Syn., Gri/llus {Locusta) Carolina, Liun., Syst. Nat., I, 2, 701. 

 caroUnus, Fabr., Ent. Syst., II, 58. 

 Acrydium caroUnum, Deg., Ins., Ill, 491, PI. 41, Figs. 2, 3. 



caroiinianum, Pal. Beauv., Ins., 147, PI. 4, Fig. 6. 

 Locusta Carolina, Harr., Kep., 176, PI. 3, Fig. 3. 



caroUniana, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Car., II, 89, Tab. 89. 



Vertex rather broad; foveola slightly elongate, opfen in front, with a 

 sHght depression at the tip ; lateral foveolse minute, shallow ; frontal costa 

 sulcate from the ocellus down; slightly contracted iainiediately below the 

 ocellus. Pronotum contracted and wrinkled in front ; last transverse incision 

 distinct, severing and notching the median carina ; median carina slightly 



