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distinct sub-pentagonal fovcolse, the sharper angle directed obliquely back- 

 ward toward the eye; lateral foveolse small; frontal costa flat or convex 

 above the ocellus, scarcely sulcate in the lower part ; face seen from the side 

 arcuate. Antennas of the female small, not reaching apex of the pronotuni ; 

 those of the male flattened and longer. Pronotum rugose, with small tubercles 

 and raised lines ; less so in the male ; median carina distinct, but not elevated, 

 cut rather behind the middle ; posterior lobe with the disk flat; lateral carinae 

 sub-dislsnct on the anterior and posterior lobes. Wings and elytra a little 

 longer than the abdomen. Posterior femora very broad, aljout as long as the 

 abdomen in the female. 



Color. — Yellowish-brown, varied with fuscous. Hca<l and thorax jjrown, 

 mottled with darker brown; males sometimes reddish-brown, not mottled. 

 Two yellowish bands run from behind the eyes backward and inward, 

 nearly or quite meeting one another a little in advance of the middle of the 

 pronotum, where they diverge and strike the hind margin of the pronotum 

 at the outer angles; two or three dull-yellowish spots on the sides. Elytra 

 pale ash-brown, with large fuscous spots, and a narrow pale stripe along the 

 dorsal angle. Disk of the wings yellow, varying in different specimens from 

 pale-transparent to orange-yellow ; a moderately broad dusky band across the 

 middle, curving round the hind margin nearly to the anal angle, and extend- 

 ing up the sub-frontal space to the base; apex transparent; veins dusky. 

 Posterior femora crossed externally and internally by three black bands ; 

 posterior tibiae reddish-yellow, with a broad, pale ring near the base. 



Dimensions. — s Length, 1.4 to 1.5 inches ; elytra, 1.28 inches ; posterior 

 femora, 0.90 inch ; posterior tibiae, 0.82 inch. <? Length, 1 to 1.12 inches- 

 Maine (Packard) ; Massachusetts (Scudder) ; New Jersey, Vancouver's 

 Island (?) (Walker) ; Illinois, District of Columbia, Nebraska, Dakota, Missouri 

 (Thomas). 



The specimens marked by Walker (Cat. Dermap. Salt., IV, 731) 6E. 

 corallipes, from Indiana and Massachusetts, probably belong to this species ; 

 the tvro ai-e closely allied, and probably but varieties of one species. 



«E. discoMlea, Serv. Hist. Orihop., 724. 



Syii., Acridium tuberculatum, Pal. Beauv. Jus., 145, PI. 4, Fig. 1. 

 Female. — Of large size. Vertex broad, the slightly elevated margins 

 suddenly curved outward opposite the eyes ; a slight median liue, with 



