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as loug as the others or as the spurs, but much shorter than the first 

 tarsal joint. Hind tarsi about two fifths the length of the tibia, the 

 first joint shorter than the others together, the second twice as long 

 as the third and with it as long as the fourth. Cerci rather slender, 

 regularly tapering, slightly longer than the femoral breadth. Oviposi- 

 tor gently tapering on proximal, equal on distal half, rather slender, 

 very slightly arcuate, two thirds the length of the hind femoi'a, the 

 tip acute but not produced, the armature of the inner valves a dull 

 and nearly obsolete serration. 



Length of body, J" 14 mm., 9 15.5 mm. ; pronotum, ^ 3.9 mm., 

 9 4.5 mm.; fore femora, ^ 5.5 mm.. 9 6 mm.; hind femora, ^ 11 

 mm., 9 13 mm.; hind tibice, ^ 12 mm., 9 13.5 mm. ; ovipositor, 

 8.4 mm. 



3 ^,3 9. Grand Menan Isl., Me., A. E. Verrill ; Vigo Co., Ind., 

 October, Blatchley. Specimens are in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology from St. Johns, N. B. 



Provancher gives it from Canada with a query, and it appears, but 

 wrongly, in Bruner's list of the Orthoptera of Nebraska (Publ. Nebr. 

 Acad. Sc, iii. 32, 1893). 



16. Ceuthophilus lapidicola. 



Phalangopsis lapidicola Burm., Handb. d. Ent., ii. 723 (1838). 



Locusto. {Rhaphidophorus) lapidicola De Haan, Bijdr. Kenn. Orth., 

 178 (1842). 



Body glabrous, blackish above and on upper part of sides, with a very 

 broad dark rufous mediodorsal stripe, narrowing on the abdomen and 

 disappearing in the middle of the same, the black portions sprinkled, 

 especially on the abdomen where it covers all the sides, with rufo-lute- 

 ous dots or small roundish spots, the lower portion of the sides of the 

 thorax and especially of the pronotum luteous, flecked and clouded to a 

 greater or less degree with fuscous ; antennse fuscous, very distantly and 

 narrowly annulated with luteous ; legs luteous, infuscated more or less 

 — and in this very variable — especially at the distal extremity of the 

 femora, the hind femora almost wholly blackish fuscous externally, 

 flecked, streaked, or stained, especially below, with sordid luteous. 

 The antennee are very slender and at least three and a half times as 

 long as the body, and the legs slender and pretty long. Fore femora 

 barely stouter in the basal half than the middle femora, somewhat less 

 than half as long as the hind femora, nearly a half ((?) or almost a 

 third (9) longer than the pronotum, the inner carina with two rather 

 short spines. Middle femoi'a with 2-3 rather short spines on the front 



