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independently uiched, mncli more elevated in front than behind. 

 Length of body, about one and one-fourth inches. 



Mr. Scudder has described a species under the name of D. haltea- 

 tum; but Saussure considers it only a variety of the above species. 



DissosTEiRA MARMORATA. Harris. 



The Marbled Grasslwirper. 



Ash-colored, variegated with pale yellow and black ; thorax sud- 

 denly narrowed before the middle, the slightly raised longitudinal 

 line on the top cut tln-ough in the middle by a transverse fissure ; 

 wing covers marbled with large whitish and black spots, and semi- 

 transparent at the end ; wings light yellow on the half next the 

 body, transparent near the end, with two black spots on the tip, 

 and a broad intermediate black band, which, narrowed and curv- 

 ing inwards on the hind margin, nearly reaches the inner angle ; 

 hind femora pale yellow, black at the extremity, and nearly sur- 

 rounded by two broad black bands ; hind tibiae coral red, with a 

 black ring below the knee, and followed by a white ring, black at 

 the lower extremity also, with tips of the spines black. lu some 

 individuals, an additional black ring below the white one on the 

 tibiae. Length, from three-fourths to one inch. 



Genus PsiNiDiA Stal (1873). 



Antennae of the male elongated, somewhat stout and flattened ; 

 pronotum with a granulated or tuberculated surface, rounded in 

 front, acute angled behind ; median carina with two notches, 

 lateral carinas distinct on the posterior lobe. 



PSINIDIA FENISTRALIS. ScrviUe. 



The Long-horned Grasshopper. 



Ash-colored, variegated with gray and dark brown ; antennae 

 nearly as long as the body, and with flattened joints ; thorax very 

 much compressed laterally before the middle ; wing covers and 

 wings long and narrow ; the former variegated with dusky spots, 

 and semi-transparent at the tip ; wings next to the body Ver- 

 million red, yellow, sometimes pale, sometimes deep and almost 

 orange-colored, at other times uncolored and semi-transparent ; 

 with a broad black band across the middle, Avhich is narrowed and 

 prolonged on the hinder margin, and extends quite to the inner 

 angle ; beyond the baud, the wings are transparent, with the tips 

 black or covered with blackish spots ; hind tibiae whitish, with a 



