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11. Caloptenus FASCIATUS. 



Mas el foem. Picevs, sat validus, subtus fulvus; caput et prothorax 

 nigricante bivillata, lateribus fulvis; fastigium fusiforme; frons 

 fulva ; antenna fulva;, capite et prothorax ad imum longiores, apices 

 versus picecB ; prothorax subtilissime scaber, sublricarinalus, margine 

 pustieo valde rotundato ; prosterni spina conica, crassa ; femora 

 postica piceo Irifusciala, subtus rufa, abdomini aquilonga ; tibicB 

 posticce rufce, nigro spinosce ; al(B anticce fulva, piceo maculatee, 

 corpore breviores, 



Acridium fascia luiu, Barnston, MSS. 



Male and female. Piceous, inoderalely stout, tawny beneath. Head 

 and prothorax with two broad blackish stripes : exterior part tawny. 

 Head short, smooth ; tip of the vertex depressed, fusiform ; front tawny, 

 thinly punctured, with lour well-defined keels ; inner keels parallel; outer 

 keels diverging towards the face. Eyes livid, much rounded on the hind 

 side. Antennae lawny, piceous towards the lips, longer than the head and 

 the prothorax together. Prothorax very finely scabrous, slightly widening 

 hiudvvard ; disk nearly flat, with three slight keels; transverse impressed 

 lines distinct; fore border straight; sides slijjhtly rounded ; hind border 

 more rounded. Prosternal spine conical, thick, broader and more obtuse 

 in the female than in the male. Legs lawny; hind femora as long as the 

 abdomen, with three irregular piceous bands, red beneath; hind tibia; red, 

 shorter than the hind femora; spines black ; hind larsi red. Fore wings 

 tawny, shorter than the abdomen, with some small indistinct piceous spots; 

 veins piceous. Hind wings pellucid-cinereous; veins whitish, black along 

 the costa and towards the lips. Male. — Prothorax with a testaceous oblique 

 streak on each side in front. Length of the body 9 — 11 lines; expansion 

 of the fore wings 10 — 14 lines. X} ^ ^ ^ '**'■ ' *** ' 

 «, b. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by Dr. 



Barnston. 



12. Caloptenus scriptus. 



Foem. Patlide flavus, sat gracilis ; caput et prothorax nigro late bivittata; 

 caput breviusculum, rufo varium, fastigio elliplico ; antenna fulvcE ; 

 prothorax subtilissime scaber, disco piano subtricarinato, margine 

 postico subproducto vix angulato ; prosterni spina robustn, longi- 

 conica, sublransversa ; femora postica supra nigricante triplagiata, 

 extus rufescentia nigricante triplagiata ; tibia postica rufa; alee 

 antica marulis guttisque plurimis nigris. 



Female. Pale yellow, rather slender. Head and prothorax with two 

 broad black stripes, which in the prothorax are much excavated and do not 

 extend bejond the fourth transverse line. Head smooth, rather short, 

 partly tinged with red ; tip of the vertex flat, elliptical ; front with four 

 slijiht keels which diverge sli;:htly towards the face. Eyes ferruginous, 

 subellipiical, straight on the fore side, much rounded on the hind side. 

 Antennae tawny, slender. Prothorax very finely scabrous ; disk flat, with 

 three very slight keels ; transverse impressed lines well defined ; fore 

 border nearly straight ; sides slightly rounded; hind border slightly elon- 



