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median stripe. Black band behind eye, broadest on pronoium, ending at 

 last sulcus. Yellow spots behind the eye on both sides of black stripe 

 and below the same on side of pronotum. Cheeks bordered behind with 

 yellow. Sometimes face yellow, mottled with blue. A yellow spot at 

 base of antennce, and a yellow stripe following the lateral caringe of pro- 

 notum on hind lobe, runs obliquely across base of elytra to insertion 

 of hind femora. Elytra brown, with a few dusky dots along the disk. 

 Wings tinged with blue. Upper outside face of hind femora dark blue, 

 the upper edge crossed by the usual dark bands. Hind tibia; red with 

 black spines. Antenna light red. Entire under side of insect yellow. 



Length of body ^, i.oo inch. ; ^, .85 inch. (3f hind femora, male 

 and female, 0.50 inch. Elytra ^ , -75 ; ? , -So inch. 



Two ^ , four $ . Found in low grounds during the month of Sept., 

 at Glencoe, Nebraska. Possibly a local variety of fenim'-rubrum. 



Pezotettix abdituin, n. sp. 



Medium size. Frontal costa punctured, depressed at ocellus. Vertex 

 sulcate. Occiput faintly carined. Median carina of pronotum slight, cut 

 by last transverse incision. Lateral carinae obtuse. Elytra short, oval, 

 pointed. Last segment of male abdomen acuminate. Cerci short, broad 

 at base, of equal width from middle to apex. Tip broadly rounded. 



General color dark brown. Antenna red, darker at apex, sides of face 

 and pronotum yellow. The usual black stripe behind the eye ; narrow 

 on pronotum and ending at last sulcus. Elytra dark brown, spotted 

 obscurely and irregularly with black. Hind femora dusky without, with 

 three indistinct black bands that cross over the upper edge and appear on 

 the inside, the one nearest the knee usually broadest and crossing the 

 inner face. Inside and below yellow. Hind tibiae red, spines black. 

 Under side of whole insect bright yellow. 



Length of body $,.70 inch.; ^, .65 inch. Elytra ^,.27 inch.; 

 ^, .23 inch. Hind femora ^, .45 inch. ; ^, .40 inch. 



Three ^ , three ^ . Taken at Glencoe, Nebraska, where it is usually 

 abundant in August. It occurs upon hill sides, near damp ground, among 

 the rank herbage common in such situations. 



