Grasshoppers of Kansas. 



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Measurements in Millimeters. 



Body. ■ Tegmina. Post, femora, 



Female 30f0-25.0 22.0-18.0 16.0-14.0 



Male 22.0-17.0 18.5-13.5 14.0-10.0 



Fi«. 89. — E. cos talis Sc. 



Hippiscus Sauss. 



Prodromus CEdipodiorum, pp. 82. 



Species robust; at least moderately heavy, smooth. Antennae of the 

 male robust, scarcely attenuate at the point. Posterior part of head and 

 between the eye's carinulate. Pronotum in the middle of the prozona 

 coarctate, laterally constricted; lateral canthi angulated within near this 

 place; typical sulcus vanishing in the lateral lobes. Elytra attenuated 

 at the tips, maculate, fascia in anal veins pale. Wings at apex broadly 

 transparent, or cloudy dark veined, on the apical margin dirty; black 

 fascia divides lobes four and five freely on the posterior external margin, 

 humeral bands widely distributed, costal margin at this place narrowly 

 colored, dark fascia interrupted in anal veins. Posterior femora on the 

 inside reddish-yellow striped. Posterior tibiae blood red, in dried form 

 for the most part reddish-yellow. Color of the body ochraceous or 

 griseous, black and white marble-like, dorsum sometimes palely divided 

 crosswise, or with two oblique pallid fascia. Dusky insects inhabiting 

 North America. 



The classification of the genus Hippiscus at the present time is in a 

 hopeless condition. In a letter Dr. Morgan Hebard, of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Science, writes: "True Hippiscus appears to include but 

 rugosus and ocelote. After these come, however, an array of question- 

 able species which at the present day is positively staggering. ... I 

 feel sure it is beyond the power of any one to arrange a collection of 

 these insects properly with the literature in its present condition." It is 

 not expected, therefore, that the present arrangement will be entirely 

 satisfactory, but it is believed that it will not make the condition any 

 more confusing, and it is hoped that it may at least eliminate some of 



