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Prothorax scabrous, slightly widening hindvvard; transverse-impressed lines 

 strongly marked ; borders slightly rounded. Prosternal spine long, slender, 

 acute. Hind femora longer than the abdomen ; hind tibise rather shorter 

 than the hind femora. Elytra a little shorter than the body. 



C. inulica, Walk. Cat. Dermap. Salt., IV, 641. 



Male. — Black. Head thinly punctured ; tip of the vertex flat, hexagonal, 

 with a green stripe ; front with an oblique green streak on each side, pro- 

 ceeding from the socket of the antenna; four slight keels; inner keels con- 

 verging slightly toward the face ; outer keels slightly diverging ; clypeus 

 green. Eyes tawny, elliptical, oblique, prominent. Antennae black, slender, 

 much longer than the head and prothorax together, green at the base. Pro- 

 thorax short, thickly punctured, slightly widening hindward ; hind part green, 

 with a red longitudinal streak on each side ; keel extremely slight; transverse- 

 impressed "lines distinct; fore border and sides slightly rounded ; hind border 

 more rounded. Prosteinial spine green, thick, rounded at the tip. Abdomen 

 piceous. Legs dark-green, pilose; hind femora shorter than the abdomen; 

 hind tibiae a little shorter than the hind femora; spines red, with black tips; 

 hind tarsi red. Elytra reddish, a little shorter than the body, with a piceous 

 costal streak and a pale testaceous streak near the hind border. Wings red, 

 purplish toward the tips ; veins black, red toward the base and along the in- 

 terior border. 



Length of body, 1.16 inches ; expansion of elyti-a, 1.92 inches. 



Mexico (Walker) 



ACRIDIUiTI, «eofi: 

 A. inscriitttiin. 



Syn., Gyrtacanthacris inscripta, Walk., Cat. Dermap. Salt., Ill, 550, 



Female. — Tawny, rather slender. Head smooth, with two lines of black 

 dots converging from the hind border to the hexagonal, depressed compart- 

 ment in front of the eyes ; front almost perpendicular, with four keels, of 

 which the outer pair diverge toward the face (comers), and the inner pair 

 are almost parallel. Eyes oblique, elongate-oval. Antennae piceous, slender, 

 filiform, tawny at the base. Pronotum minutely scabrous, with six black 

 stripes, the inner pair much interrujited, the two outer pair much abbrevi- 

 ated; dorsal ridge slight, most distinct toward the hind border; four trans- 



