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wanting. The lateral foveol^ are wanting. The frontal 

 costa is more or less rounded above the ocellus, ])lain 

 or very faintly sulcate below with the sides sub-parallel. 

 The antennte are decidedly flattened at the base and 

 much longer than the head and pronotum together, 

 in the male as long as the hind femora. The face seen 

 from the side is nearly straight. The pronotum has the 

 disk plain with the three carince equally distinct and cut 

 much behind the middle with the last transverse sulcus. 

 The lateral carinae are plainly (male) or strongly (female) 

 curved. The posterior margin of the metazone is straight 

 or gently curved, not angulate. The lateral lobes of the 

 pronotum are longer than high, with the anterior and pos- 

 terior margins straight and strongly and equally oblique, 

 and with the lower margins horizontal or slighth^ descend- 

 ing posteriorly, more decidedly ascending anteriorly. 

 Mesosternal lobes separated by a space much broader than 

 long, the metasttrnallobes by a space broader than long 

 (female) or about as broad as long (male). The tegmina 

 a.re generally abortive (female) or well developed (male). 

 The scapular area is unusuallyexpanded, especially near and 

 beyond the middle in the male (and in the female to a less 

 extent when the tegmina are not abortive), and is filled 

 with a series of strong oblique cross-veins. The discoidal 

 is as broad as the ulnar area, and the intercalary vein is 

 present. The posterior femora are rather slender or moder- 

 ately robust and more or less distinctly banded above. The 

 posterior tibiee have the apical spurs on the inside about 

 equal. 



THE SPRINKLED LOCUST. 



{Chloealtis conspersa Harr.). 



Light reddish-brown, sprinkled with black spots; a 

 black line on the head behind each eye, extending on each 

 side of the thorax on the lateral elevated line; wing-covers 

 oblong-oval, pale 3^ellowish-brown with numerous small 



