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differing only in this, tliat the anterior transverse incision is less distinct, and 

 the impressed line on the side of the pronotum near the front is more dis- 

 tinct; foveoia of the vertex very shallow, divided into two parts by a slight 

 median carina ; frontal ridge convex, sparsely punctured. 



Color (dried after immersion).— Yellow, varied with brown. Head 

 yellow; lower angles of the face black; a very distinct yellow line, starting 

 from the upper corner of each eye, extends back to the posterior margin of 

 the pronotum, bowing inward near the middle, bordered on each side by an 

 irregular, dark-brown line ; a dark line borders each eye posteriorly. Median 

 carina of the pronotum dark-brown or piceous; the transverse incisions 

 blackish ; rest of the pronotum brownish, palest on the sides. Elytra formed 

 as in B. 7iubUum, brown, a pale-yellow stripe near the upper and lower mar- 

 gins of each, the upper one having a notch on its lower margin ; three oblong 

 yellow spots in a row along the middle, and a few smaller spots of the sanje 

 near the apex ; they reach the tliird abdominal segment. Wings transparent, 

 dusky at the apex. A brown stripe along each side of the abdomen, near the 

 dorsum ; a yellow spot in it on each segment, near the upper border. Ven- 

 ter yellow. Male unknown. 



Dimensions. — Length, 1.5 inches; pronotum, 0.38 inch; elytra, 0.5 inch; 

 hind femora, 0.85 inch ; hind tibia?, 0.70 inch. 



Southeastern Colorado, Northern New Mexico (Thomas). 



BRACHYPEPHS, Charp. 



Body very robust, acridoid. Occiput broad, convex, smooth ; vertex 

 margined ; frontal costa broad, short, slightly sulcate, expanding below ; 

 lateral carinse distinct, with a sulcus beliind them ; antennal foveolae deep, 

 oblong ; cheeks prominent. Pronotum large, elongate ; tricarinate ; carinae 

 equally distinct, slightly elevated, continuous ; widest below and expanding 

 posteriorly; sides straight, flat; disk shagreened; sides glabrous; no transverse 

 incisions on the disk; anterior margin rounded, extending slightly on t'^'' 

 occiput; jjosterior margin i-ound. Elytra and wings rudimentary (in 1 

 known species). Legs very robust ; posterior femora as long as the abdomc 

 swollen ; tibiae strongly spined nearly their entire length. Antennae filiform 

 joints distinct ; long as the head and thorax. Sub-anal plate of the mal 

 tumid, entire; cerci very short; female appendages stout, broad. Palpi 

 short, joints all enlarged at the tip ; the three outer joints of the maxillary 



