Grasshoppers of Kansas. 



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Measurements rx Millimeters. 



Body. Tegmina. Post, femora. 



Female 23.0-28.0 27.5-24.5 15.0-14.0 



Male 22.0-16.5 23.0-21.5 13.0-10.0 



Fig. 85. — Arphia arcta Pc. 



Arphia carinata Sc. 

 CEdipoda carinata. Trans. Amer. Ento. Soc, vol. 2, p. 306. 



Head blackish, profusely streaked and spotted with dull bluish white ; 

 frontal carina? and upper border of clypeus edged with whitish; palpi 

 blackish, the joints tipped with luteous. Pronotum dull dark brownish 

 fuscous, with a short pale streak behind the lower edge of the eye; hinder 

 edge of the pronotum forming less than a right angle; median carina 

 very prominent, whole, sharp, rounded. Basal third of tegmina dark 

 brownish fuscous; beyond ash gray, profusely and rather regularly 

 sprinkled with smajl brownish spots; basal half of wings pale dull 

 orange, bordered by a broad blackish fuscous band, occupying the rest of 

 the wing, excepting the apex, and encroaching on the orange near the 

 costal margin, as in CE. xanthoptcra; apex stmipellucid, a little fuligi- 

 nous, darker at the very tip. Hind femora dull dirty hoary without, 

 black with three transverse white bands within near the base. 



Length of body, 30 mm.; of tegmina, 30 mm.; of hind tibia?, 14.5 mm. 

 One male; no locality. I have specimens in my own collection from Iowa. 



This is a very dark brown species with a strikingly high-arched carina. 

 It is not present in the state in extremely large numbers. 



