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Phoenix, Arizona, shows unquestionably that consuetipes is no more 

 than a geographic race of elegans, in that the majority of the speci- 

 mens from that locahty are absolute intermediates between the 

 two, while there are a few specimens which closely approach consue- 

 tipes and a number which show a still closer affinity to elegans. 

 The geographic race may be distinguished from typical elegans 

 in its more slender structure, gradually narrowing marginal field 

 of the tegmina, much less sharply bent ovipositor in the female, 

 and in the tegminal coloration which is immaculate. 



Types.— 2 d"; Indio, California. July 9, 1897. (A. P. Morse.) 

 [Morse and Scudder Collections.] 



Lectotype here selected : — o^ , in Morse Collection bearing the 

 data given above. The original description shows clearly that the 

 measurements given are taken from the specimen in the possession 

 of Professor Morse, and we have consequently selected that speci- 

 men as the type. 



Description of Pnratype. — Size near that of /. elegans, form more slender. 

 Head with greatest width contained about one and one-half times in great- 

 est depth, similar to that of elegans; eyes also as in that species. Pronotum 

 with dorsal length about one and six-tenths times the greatest (caudal) dor- 

 sal width; dorsum of pronotum deplanate, lateral margins as in elegans but 

 much less strongly divergent, making the disk not twice as narrow mesad as 

 it is caudad, so that they appear but moderately arcuate to the naked eye ; 

 cephalic and caudal margins of dorsum of pronotum as in elegans; lateral 

 lobes of pronotum with length slightly greater than depth, otherwise as in 

 elegans except that the raised callosity is not so distinct. Tegmina as in ele- 

 gnns except that the marginal field of the same narrows gradually distad 

 from proximal third. Disto -dorsal segment of abdomen, supra-anal plate, 

 cerci and subgenital plate as in elegans. Limbs and armament of same as in 

 elegans but with form slightly more slender. 



A female, taken from a place nearest the type localit}^ at which 

 that sex of the present species has been captured, is here chosen as 

 the Allotype. 



Allotype. — 9 ; Colorado, Imperial County, California. October 

 1, 1910. Elevation, 130 feet. (R. & H.) [Hebard Collection.] 



Description of Allotype. — This sex differs from that of elegans in the 

 differential characters which are common to both sexes given above and also 

 in the much less sharply bent and consequently longer ovipositor. 



