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straight. AnteniiEe passing the proiiotum slightly. Posterior femora passing 

 the abdomen. 



Color (dried after immersion in alcohol). — Nearly uniform greenish-yel- 

 low. Face and pronotum sprinkled with dusky dots. The elevated lines 

 of the pronotum pale-yellow ; depressed portions in the alcoholic sj^ecimens 

 testaceous-green, bat in the living insect may be colored quite differently; 

 some specimens have the middle carina and portions of the pronotum tinged 

 with red ; posterior femora pale-reddish along the upper edge. Elytra a 

 transparent green ; wings pellucid. 



Dimensions. — $ Length, 1.06 inches; elytra, 0.63 inch; posterior femora, 

 0.72 inch; posterior tibisB, 0.66 inch. $ Length, 0.82 inch; elytra, 0.5 inch. 



Kansas (Dodge). 



A. iinilincatniu, Thos. 



Syn., Cyrtacanthacris unilineata, Walk., Cat. Dermap. Salt., IV, Oil. 



Male. — Dull-green, rather slender. Head and pronotum with a slender, 

 yellow stripe. Head smooth, short ; vertex piceous, tip depressed, hexagonal ; 

 face tawny, coarsely punctured ; caringe well defined, the frontal pair (the 

 frontal costa sulcate, and counted as two carin?e) nearly parallel, slightly 

 curved inward in the middle, the lateral diverging. Eyes lurid, fusiform. 

 Antennae tawny, rather stout. Pronotum scabrous, with a well-defined 

 median carina, five or six fuscous patches on each side ; transverse-impressed 

 lines distinctly marked ; front border and sides very slightly rounded ; hind 

 border much rounded. Prostemal spine pale-yellowish, stout, oblique, ex- 

 tending to the meso-sternum. Legs tawny ; hind femora longer than the 

 abdomen, whitish, with testaceous ridges on the outer side ; hind tibios 

 almost as long as the hind femora ; spines whitish, with black tips. Wings 

 cinereous, a little shoi'ter than the body ; veins piceous. 



Dimensions. — Length, 0.84 inch ; elytra, 0.75 inch. 



Indiana (Walker). 



A. riibi^inoi^uiu, Harr., MSS. (Scudd., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., VII, 467). 

 Syu., A. damnificim (?), Sauss., Eev. et Mag. Zool., L\l ser., XIII (1861), 104. 



Facial carinse prominent, diverging but slightly; frontal costa sulcate its 

 entire length, thickly punctured. Pronotum with a prominent median carina, 

 continuous and slightly arched ; scarcely expanding posteriorly ; transverse 



