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marked with Ijlack above; area of metathorax rugose, but apically 

 with a pair of shining bosses; tegula? large, pale testaceous, black 

 at base, and with a yellow mark posteriorly; wings clear, with a 

 brownish apical cloud; stigma pnd nervures ferruginous; b. n. 

 going well basad of t. m.; second s. m. extremely broad, receiving 

 first r. n. far be\ond middle; third s. m. above about half as broad 

 as second; tibiie and tarsi bright red, the anterior and middle 

 tibiffi with a black spot behind; anterior and middle femora red, 

 largely black beneath and at base; hind femora black, with apex 

 and more than apical half above black; abdomen clear ferruginous; 

 first segment with basal half black except a V-shaped red mark 

 in middle; band on first segment, notched in middle, extremely 

 large but widely separated patches on second, large patches on 

 third (pointed and approaching in middle), and bands on 4 to 6, 

 bright yellow, the bands enclosing or nearly enclosing red spots 

 at sides posteriorly; apical plate notched; venter red, with a large 

 deeply bilobed black basal patch, and a small yellow spot beyond 

 middle. 



Hab.— Vernon, British Columbia, April 15, 1902 {Miss 

 Ricardo), Brit. Mu&6um. A relative of A^. illinoensis Rob., but 

 much larger, and with the abdomen richly coloured. In the table 

 of Rocky Mountain species it runs to 47, but is not related to the 

 species there indicated. 



SOME NORTHERN GEORGIA ACRIDIIIX^.* 



BY H. A. ALLARD, BUREAU OF FLANT INDUSTRY, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Of the musical Orthoptera, the Acridiidie in many respects 

 represent a less highly specialized group. Their limited musical 

 abilities, at least, would rank them far below the more highly 

 specialized and musical Locustida? and Gryllida?. At best, their 

 stridulations are hardly more than a brief lisping, or a noisy 

 crepitation. Some of the Acridiida^ while at rest produce, at 

 intervals, a few monotonous lispings by sawing the hind femora 



*Mr. A. N. Caudell; of the U. S. National Museum, has kindly attended to the 

 identification or verification of all Orthoptera collected and listed in this 

 paper. 

 August, 1916 



