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die femora moderately expanded, in the male about one-third 

 as broad as long; the posterior femora rather slender, the first 

 article of the posterior tarsi longer than the second and third 

 together, the first pulvilli small, the second about twice as 

 long as the first, the third as long as the first and second 

 together, flat below. 



Length body, 5, 12-12.5 mrn.; pronot., 10. 3-10. 8 mm.; 

 post, fern., 5.5-6 mm.; body ,^, 10. 2-10. 5 mm.; jjronot., 9 

 mm. ; post, fern., 4.3-4.4 mm. 



Distribution, temperate and boreal regions. 



Locality, Chicago, Keniiworth, Bloomington, Riverside, 

 Grossdale, VVinnetka, in Illinois (Hancock); northern Illinois 

 (Brues); Atherton, Mo. (Adams); What Cheer, la. (Han- 

 cock); St. Anthony Park, Minn. (Lugger); Ames, la. (Ball); 

 Garden City, Kan. (Kahl); Lawrence, Kan. (Kahl); Kansas 

 (Westcott); Colorado (Baker); Wellesley, Mass. (Morse); 

 Brattleboro, Vt. (Morse); Montello, Wis., L. Puckaway 

 (Hancock). 



From the preceding localities 33 j's and 21 $'1, repre- 

 sented in the author's collection. Also recorded from N. Y., 

 Me., N. H., Vt., Conn., Mo., Ind., Nova Scotia, S. C, Can., 

 Nebr., Brit. Am., N. Mex., Tex., Quebec, Staten Is., N. J., 

 Ky., Miss. 



HABITS. 



At the edjje of the woods, a few hundred feet from a marsh, a ^'reat many Tettix were 

 found among the wooded debris, such as dried leaves, twigs, and moss. The moss in these 

 situations formed a compact carpet covering the ground, and upon this floor I found 

 most of the Tettigids. Beyond the woods, in a damp, abandoned field which had formerly 

 been ploughed where the rich soil had become covered with weeds and moss, Tettix ornatits 

 were found scattered about in numbers.— Near Montello, Wis., September 30, iQoi. 



On the sun-exposed cement walks facing open lots near Lake Michigan nearly full- 

 grown pupa and mature Tettix ornatns and triangttlarjs were found by the score. At tliis 

 time of year (Augusti a large percentage of Tettix have made their last molt, and the 

 author found many in which the body was still soft and yielding. The colors at this stage 

 and time are fresh and strongly marked; the varieties being almost limitless.— .At Kenii- 

 worth, 111., August 7th. 



On sandy soil where the light vegetable mold was sprinkled with fine gravel I found 

 eight specimens of Tettix ornatits. These specimens vary in the following particulars: 



1. Dorsum of the pronotum with pale white marginal lines, one on each side; obscure 

 triangular black spots on the disk, 



2. Color gray, speckled, and with triangular black spots on the dorsum. 



3. Dorsum of the pronotum with clear white marginal lines, one on each side; with 

 black triangular spots. This example is clearly "bilineate." such as described by Harris. 



4. Dorsum fuscous, femora with a transverse obscure yellowish bar. 



