PSYCHE. 



NO TEON THE ORTHOPTERAN GENUS LEPRUS SAUSSURE. 



BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



In my recent Catalogue of the Orthop- L. interiiiediHS, des.c\\he(X from one 



tera of the United States I have given, sex (?) by Saussure as coming from 



p. 36, three species of Leprus as found CaUfornia, I had not recognized when 



in the west: L. corpulcntus Sauss., my Catalogue was printed. My only 



L. intermedins Sauss , and L. xvJiecl- Californian specimens of Leprus belong 



er/ Thom. sp. to a species, noted below, allied to Z. 



L. cor/«/e«/«j- was given on account rvhee/eri, with blue hind wings, antl 



of a single specimen from Texas in my which do not difl'er from L. elcpJias in 



collection, which I had referred to that the way L. ii/tci-iiicdins is said to diHer 



species. A closer study of my material, from it. Latferly I have recognized Z. 



maiidy from Mexico, leads me to tiie interinediiis in specimens from British 



conclusion that Saussure's two species' Columbia collected by Crotch, which 



L. elepJias and L. corpiileiittis are the are somewhat smaller tliiin Saussure's 



same, my specimens, twenty-six in specimen, a female having the length of 



number, varying considerably in all the the tegmina only 25 mm. 

 points on which he relies to separate the L. w/ieelcrih-di, been determined l>oth 



two forms, and by no possibility resolv- by Prof. L. Bruner and myself from 



able into two series. The name L. Thomas's type, and in life has the disk 



corpidentiis of my Catalogue should of the hind wings blue and not yellow 



therefore be replaced by the older name as heretofore described. Saussure evi- 



Z. elephas Sauss. My males vary in dently never saw it, as he redcscribes it 



length of tegmina from 25 to 29 mm., from Thomas's description, vvliich. was 



my females from 26 to 43 mm., the based on alcoholic specimens. It varies 



small female (a single specimen) com- but little in size, the tegmina of the 



ing from Arizona. My United States male varying from 26 to 28. 5 mm. in 



specimens come from Fort Whipple, length, and of the female from 32 to 



Ariz. (E. Palmer), forty miles east of 35.5 mm. Mv specimens come from 



Tucson, Ariz. (Palmer), and Ringgold Humboldt Station, Nevada. July 29, 



Barracks on the lower Rio Grande, Salt Lake Valley, Utah (Bruner) , Pueb- 



Tex. (Scliott). My Mexican speci- lo, Col., Aug. 30-31 and Dripping 



mens come from Sonera (Schott), San Springs, Organ Mts., N. Mex. (Cocke- 



Luis Potosi (Oct. 15, E. Palmer ; Oct. 6, rell). It was originally described by 



G. Barroeta), Mountains twelve leagues Thomas as taken bv Wheelei's expedi- 



east of San Luis Potosi (Palmer), and tions in the west without speciiication of 



Sierra Nola, Dec. 3-6 (Palmer). locality. Saussure gives it as from New 



