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other; almost horizontal; center depressed and sinooth. Frontal costa 

 moderately broad, sides parallel or nearly so ; margins somewhat acute ; flat, 

 with a slight depression at the ocellus; lateral cariuse distinct, acute. Pro- 

 notum but slightly expanded posteriorly ; median carina somewhat distinct ; 

 densel}^ punctate, posterior lobe shagreened. Prosternal spine cylindrical, 

 slightly bent bachward. Elytra and wings extend beyond the extremity of 

 the abdomen about one-fifth their length. Posterior femora scarcely reach- 

 ing the tip of the abdomen ; the upper carina minutely serrate. 



Color. — Olive-green, with fuscous dots. An irregular stripe of fuscous 

 dots extends from the eye down the cheek ; antenna^ yellow. A yellow stripe 

 extends along the occiput and median carina of the pronotum, bordered each 

 side with fuscous ; a yellowish stripe also along the humerus of the pronotum, 

 not always present. Elytra fuscous, the upper margin pale-yellow, forming a 

 sutural stripe when closed. Wings transparent, yellowish. A yellow stripe 

 reaches from the base of the wings to the middle coxa. Legs olive-green or 

 blackish ; anterior pair palest; the posterior femora have short, oblique, fuscous 

 lines on the disk, the inferior lobes of the apex yellow ; posterior tibiae blackish, 

 spines yellow, tipped with black. Posterior margins of the abdominal 

 segments tipped with yellow, and marked with a ring of regularly-placed fus- 

 cous dots. 



Dimenswns. — 9 Length, 2 inches; elytra, 1.75 inches; hind femora, 

 1.15 inches; hind tibiae, 1.08 inches. $ Length, 1.35 inches. 



South Carohna (Burmeister) ; Carolina (De Haan) ; North America 

 (Gu^rin-Mdneville) ; Texas (Scudder) ; Florida (Glover). 



A. ^hof^hone, Thos., Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1873, p. 296, 



Large size ; green, without dorsal stripe. 



Female. — Vertex nearly horizontal, distinctly hexagonal ; sides angularly 

 expanding in front of the eyes ; flat. Frontal costa prominent ; sides par- 

 allel; sulcate from the ocellus downward, above this somewhat gibbous and 

 punctured ; lateral carinse very prominent, parallel. Pronotum slightly 

 expanding posteriorly, coarsely and reticulately punctured ; median carina 

 distinct, severed by the three transverse incisions. Elytra and wings passing 

 the abdomen. Ceixi very short, broad at base, narrowed and rounded at the 

 tip. Posterior femora much enlarged at the base , posterior tibiae consider- 

 aljly enlarged at the apex. Prosternal spine robust, cylindrical, and nearly 



