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cinereous, with piceous and rufo-piceous nervures ; and at the base is a 

 longitudinal mesal series of black spots ; the legs are rufo-testaceous, with 

 the summit of the thighs and the spines black ; the posterior thighs above 

 are clouded with the same colour. 



[Synonymous with Caloptcnus bivittatus Say. This species is found in 

 Canada and the New England States, as far south as Maryland and 

 Texas, westward to Nebraska and Minnesota, and northward to Lake 

 Winn ep eg. 



345. Locusta verruculata Kirby. — Length of body 12^ lines. 

 A single specimen taken in Lat. 57 . 



[251.] Body cinereous, sprinkled with black dots or punctures, and 

 indistinct spots. Head punctured ; palpi white at the tip ; mandibles 

 piceous ; antennae shorter than the trunk, pale, black at the tip and 

 longitudinally concavo-convex ; prothorax with an entire longitudinal 

 dorsal ridge, wrinkled, and warty from the wrinkles • tegmina with a 

 reddish tint, irregularly reticulated \ wings with a black mesal band, and 

 reddish-yellow nervures ; abdomen pale underneath. 



[Belongs to the genus CEdipoda Latr. Is taken in Canada and the 

 New England States ; has been found also at Lake Winnepeg.] 



FAMILY ACRYDIADiE. 



346. Acrydium granulatum Kirby.— Length of body 5 lines. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



Body black, sprinkled with numberless very minute elevated points or 

 granules. Prothorax cinereous, clouded obscurely with black, three- 

 ridged ; with middle ridge straight, and the lateral ones curved at the 

 base j rudiments of the tegmina cinereous, ridged, punctured with 

 excavated punctures • nervures of the wings black, those of the costal 

 area white ; the four anterior tibiae are reddish, obscurely banded or 

 rather annulated with white. 



[Belongs to the genus Tettix Latr. Taken by White in Sir J. Richard- 

 son's Arctic Searching Expedition, on the borders of the Mackenzie and 

 Slave Rivers, and Fort Simpson. Found also in N. E. States and 



Minnesota. 



[252.] III.— NEUROPTERA. 



FAMILY AGRIONID/E. 



347. Agrion puella Linn. 



