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CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. 



[Bull. 



Female 

 Male 



Measurements. 



Body Antennae Tegmina 



21-25 6 17-21 



16. 5-18. 7 6-7 14-17 



Hind Femora 

 12. 5-14 

 IO -IO.5 



This species was described by Prof. Morse from specimens 

 which he took at Greenwich and Stamford, August nth to 28th. 

 It has also been taken at New Haven (B. H. W.). In regard 

 to its occurrence Morse says, " This species, though not widely 

 spread, was locally very plenty in the salt marshes, its green 

 and olivaceous tints closely matching in color the marsh grasses 

 in which it made its home. The ground beneath was often over- 

 flowed at high tide and offered a retreat to myriads of fiddler 

 crabs, being much wetter and of a wholly different character 

 from the situations frequented by pelidna and speciosa." 



Chloealtis Harris. 



Head with the vertex triangular, the margins but little raised. 

 Median carina faint, but present. Foveolae absent. Antennae 

 flattened at base, nearly one and one-half times (females) or twice 

 (males) the length of head and pronotum. Pronotum with the 

 three carinae present and cut much behind the middle by the 

 principal sulcus. Lateral carinae but little incurved in the male, 

 slightly more so in the female. Lateral lobes of the pronotum 

 a little longer than deep, the front and hind margins straight, 

 both strongly and equally oblique. The lower margins with the 

 back portion nearly horizontal and the front portion ascending. 

 Tegmina of female usually abbreviated and wings abortive, 

 while those of the male are well developed, with the scapular area 

 well developed and with many cross veins. Hind femora of 

 medium size and banded on the upper face. Ovipositor short, 

 the upper valves enlarged and strongly toothed at base (Fig. 22). 



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fclG. 32. Chloealtis conspersa, female. 

 Tip of abdomen, from side. 



Fig. 23. Chloealtis conspersa, male. 

 Tegmen. 



