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front portion nearly smooth ; hind part scabrous, wider, and witli a well- 

 defined carina ; transverse-impressed lines very strongly marked ; front 

 border slightly notched in the middle; sides rounded; hind border much 

 rounded. Prosternal spine long, slender, slightly acute and oblique. Hind 

 femora generally longer than the abdomen ; hind tibia? a little shorter than 

 the hind femora. Elytra generally as long as the body. 



C. eolorala, Walk, Cat. Dermap. Salt., IV, 644. 



Syu., Acridium coloratum, Serv., Hist. Orthop., 674. 



Male. — Body of an olive-green ; the head of this color. Prouotum 

 notched at the middle of the anterior border; the transverse impressions 

 very distinct upon the dorsum, which has a small spot of yellow on each side ; 

 the posterior lobe with a median carina ; posterior border margined with 

 yellow. Elytra much longer than the abdomen, almost linear, of a somber- 

 green, nerves yellow. Wings nearly as long as the elytra ; base to the middle 

 rosaceous, rest fuscous ; at the anterior border near the extremity, there is a 

 rosaceous sj^ot. Legs the color of the body ; posterior femora with a yellow 

 ring near the middle and a small spot of the same on the disk. Antennae 

 long, their two first joints greenish; the eight or ten following yellowish; the 

 others black. 



Dimensions. — Length, 1 inch. 



South Carolina (Serville). 



ACRIDIUITI, Geom 



Gryllus, Linn., Fabr. ; Locusta, Leach. 



Body elongate, sub-cylindrical, or somewhat compressed. Occiput short 

 convex ; vertex depressed, somewhat hexagonal ; face nearly vertical, tricari- 

 nate; the carinas reaching the clypeus, the middle one broad, sometimes deeply 

 sulcate, appearing as two carinte ; eyes oblong-oval, prominent; antennae fili- 

 form ; the penultimate joint of the palpi shorter than the ultimate. Pronotum 

 of medium length, sides somewhat compressed on the anterior lobes, the 

 posterior expanding more or less ; lateral carina? obliterated, the dorsum 

 ascending to the rather prominent median carina ; the three transverse 

 incisions not always distinct; a fourth sometimes present, near the anterior 

 margin ; front sub-truncate; apex terminating in a rounded angle. Elytra 

 and wings equal to or longer than the abdomen. Extremity of the male 



