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cre.sted, posterior portion arcuate, anterior portion nearly straight on top 

 anterior margin somewhat angled at the middle; posterior margin acute- 

 angled. Elytra and wings passing the abdomen about one-third their length. 

 Posterior femora shorter than the abdomen. 



Color. — Dull ashy-brown, sjmnkled with small, dusky spots. Spots on 

 the head and thorax minute, sometimes absent; on the elytra a little larger, 

 sometimes aggregated in the middle portions, sometimes almost or quite 

 obsolete. Wings deep-black, except the outer margin, M'hich is pale green- 

 ish-yellow ; the apex dusky, with a few spots Posterior femora mostly 

 black inside; a pale annulation near the apex. 



Dimensions. — 2 Length, 1.5 to 1.75 inches; elytra, length of the body; 

 posterior femora, about half the length of the body. $ Length, 1 to 1.25 

 inchesi 



Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut (Scudder); North America, (Lin- 

 naeus); New York (Fitch) ; South Carolina (De Haan); Pennsylvania, Ten- 

 nessee, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Dakota, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, 

 New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Illinois (Thomas) ; Georgia, 

 Indiana, Vancouver's Island (Walker). 



<E. fenestralis, Serv., Hist. Orthop., 726. 



Male. — Head pale in advance and on the sides ; brown above. Prono- 

 tum brownish ; dorsal carina a little elevated, cut near its anterior part. 

 Elytra of the length of the abdomen ; opaque and brown for the basal half, 

 rest transparent ; the anterior or lower border brown, with small, hyaline 

 spots ; costal border uncolored. Wings a little shorter than the elytra ; 

 interior portion next the base vermilion-red ; this color occupies more than 

 one-third of the wing; the rest is black, except near the apex there is a 

 lounded, transparent space, with dusky nerves ; front border with a short, red 

 band at the base, which is separated from the red disk by an internal arm of 

 the black. Abdomen yellowish. The four anterior legs varied with brownish 

 and yellowish ; femora of the posterior pair have both faces yellowish, with 

 two transverse, dusky bands, those of the internal face prolonged upon the 

 channel beneath ; posterior tibiae yellowish, having two broad, bluish annu- 

 lations, one near the base, the other at the apex. Antennae fuscous, of a 

 remarkable length, almost equaling that of the entire body. With the 

 exception of the color of the wings, it is miuli like CE. eucerata, Harr. 



