240 



Section 2. — Pronotum rounded in front, e?narginate, posteriorly carinated : 



R. pedes, Sauss., Rev. et Mag. ZooL, XI (1859), 392. 



Grreen. Antennae black, yellow at the base. The vertex and front of the 

 head with two yellow stripes. Pronotum with two spots, and the margins 

 yellow. Legs banded with yellow. Elytra slender at the apex, and tessel- 

 lated with black. Wings black ; posterior portion roseate ; margin black, 

 and two roseate fasciae or spots at the apex. 



Length, 1.75 inches. 



Mexico calida (Saussure). 



I am of the opinion that this is the Locusta {Rutioderes) miles, Drury, 

 111. Exot. Ent., II, p. 89, PI. 42, Fig. 2 ; but not the Romalea miles, Burmeis- 

 ter, which is a South American species. I therefore add the description of 

 Drury, with the probable synonyms : 



Gryllus {Locusta) miles, Drury, 111. Nat. Hist., II, 79, PL 42, Fig. 2. 



Goeze, Ent. Beytr., II, 102. 

 Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat., I, iv, 2082. 

 Locusta {Rutioderes) miles, Westw., Drury, 111. Exot. Ent., II, p. 89, PL 42, 



Fig. 2. 



" Head green. Face striped on each side with yellow. Antennae black. 

 Thorax dark-green ; the posterior edges yellow. Abdomen black, but when 

 the insect is living probably green. Tegmina (elytra) entirely reddish-brown. 

 Wings black, with a scarlet patch near the tips, running from the anterior 

 almost to the posterior edges ; another considerable part of the wings is like- 

 wise scarlet, running from the body to the middle, and from thence to the 

 abdominal corners, the posterior and anterior edges being black. Legs dark- 

 green, almost black, and various-ly spotted with yellow, the fore and middle 

 ones having a spot on each femur and tibia, the hinder ones having three on 

 each femur and two on each tibia." 



The size, from the figure, appears to be about 1.75 inches in length ; 

 the expansion of the wings is given at 3.75 inches. The elytra and wings as 

 long as the abdomen. Antennae filiform. 



Bay of Honduras (Drury). 



R. pecticornis, Walk., Cat. Dermap. Salt., Ill, 538. 



Male and female. — Deep-green. Head minutely punctured, with two 

 keels, which converge between the antennae, and are approximate and parallel 



