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Color (recent specimens dried). — Female somewhat darker than the 

 male ; face pale purplish, dotted with fuscous ; occiput and pronotum 

 fuscous brown, the latter with a carneous stripe along each lateral carina, 

 which connect at the anterior sulcus and fade out near the posterior 

 extremity ; the disk of the posterior lobe dark brown. Elytra pale dirty 

 yellow, slightly tinged with rufous, crossed by three irregular bands formed 

 of dark fuscous spots, the middle one broadest and usually the best 

 defined ; apex with irregular cellular fuscous spots, those next the costal 

 margin most distinct. Wings pellucid, with a narrow marginal, rather 

 pale, fuscous band, commencing behind the sub-costal area, where it is 

 broadest, narrowing and fading toward the anal angle ; the nerves and 

 nervules, except in the apical portion of the subcostal area and in the 

 fuscous band, pale yellow or white. Posterior femora crossed externally 

 and internally by three oblique fuscous bands ; posterior tibiae pale yel- 

 low, spines tipped with black. 



One male and one female from Sierra Valley, California, furnished by 

 Mr. J. G. Lemmon. 



This species approaches very near Mr. Scudder's Tracliyrliachys, but 

 appears to belong to CEdipoda as at present limited ; if Mr. Scudder's 

 genus Dissosteira (of which he has given but an incomplete diagnosis) 

 stands, this species will scarcely find a lodging place in any of the 

 numerous genera of this group. 



In his paper on the Orthoptera collected by Lieut. Wheeler's Survey, 

 published in 1876, where he first proposes this genus, he makes the fol- 

 lowing statement : " Stal's limitations of the genus CEdipoda, in his 

 " Recensio Orthopt. I., forces us to consider Gryttus coerulescens Linn, as 

 " the type, and not, as stated by Thomas, CEdipoda Carolina (Burm.)." 



He alludes to a statement made in my paper on Orthoptera in a pre- 

 vious report of the same Survey, where I simply remarked that Stal has 

 retained our (E. Carolina and that this " appears to be his typical 

 [species] " (by typographical or clerical error, " genus "). By reference 

 to Proceedings Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. 1, 1876, page 257, it will 

 there be seen that I made the following statement in reference to the 

 genus CEdipoda as given by Stal : " In my opinion CE. coerulescens Linn. 

 " is the proper type of CEdipoda." Tin's paper was published in June 

 and July, 1876, the entire manuscript having been forwarded to Mr. Put- 

 nam some time previous thereto. I can not give the exact date of pub- 



