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a type B scutellum of the vertex (fig. 48), and' by the metazona being 



longer in proportion to the pronotum than in the type A group (fig. 50). 



(For type A, see figs. 47 and 49, pages 72, 73.) 



Measurements in Millimeters. 



Blue-legged variety. 



Body. Tegmina. Post, femora. 



Female 53.0-42.5 45.0-41.0 25.5-21.5 



Male 42.0-35.5 38.0-34.0 22.0-19.5 



Measurements in Millimeters. 

 Red-legged variety. 

 Body. Tegmina. Post, femora. 



Female 51.5-40.0 44.5-36.0 25.0-20.0 



Male 40.0-33.0 36.0-29.5 20.0-15.0 



Hippiscus montanus. Th. 



CE. montana Th. Ann. Rep. U. S. G. S., vol. 5, 462; 1871 (1872). 



Female. In form and size much like OS. corallipes, but a very distinct 

 species. Vertex broad; central foveolae subcylindrical, transverse, its 

 interior surface more or less interrupted by small tubercles; the two 

 lateral foveolae distinct; tip depressed, sometimes forming two small 



Fig. 96. — H. montanus Th. 



foveolae, but these are irregular, sometimes running into one and sometimes 

 wanting. Frontal costa vertical, broad, expanding at the ocellus and at 

 the base, more or less sulcate. Pronotum rugose, tuberculate, but not so 

 broad as in either of the two species just named. 



Color (dried after immersion in alcohol), reddish brown. Elytra 

 brownish at the base, paler and semipellucid toward the apex, with dim, 

 brown, cellular spots scattered somewhat equally over it, growing paler 

 and dimmer toward the apex; in some specimens these spots are quite 

 distinct, somewhat fuscous and partially run together. The wings are 

 pale red at the base (but when living they are of a bright red) ; a 

 narrow, somewhat broken, cellular, dark band crosses beyond the middle, 

 curving round the posterior margin, decreasing rapidly; it does not 



