150 FAMILY V.-CEDIPODIN^. 



species, and if occurring in the state it is found in its winged 

 condition as early as July 1, and it does not disappear until 

 the middle of September. Its flight is silent or but slightly 



Fig. 88. — Camnula pellucida, male. Original. 



rustling, usually low, short and direct. The illustration 

 (Fig. 1) shows this insect and its eggs. Its life-historv is 

 given elsewhere. 



GENUS Hippiscus Saussure (1861). 



Large or medium sized, robust, glabrous. Top of the 

 head with a small central ridge ; pronotum with a granular 

 surface, truncate in front, acute-angled behind, compressed 

 centrally on the sides, and above on each side of the median 

 carina; this last with one notch; lateral carinse prominent 

 only in the middle. Wing-covers extending considerablv be- 

 yond the end of the abdomen. 



This is a large genus, and has been subdivided into a 

 number of sub-genera by Scudder and Saussure. 



Hippiscus rugosus Scudder. 



Head and thorax brown; two yellowish bands run from 

 behind the eye backward and inward, nearly or quite meet- 

 ing one another a little in advance of the middle of the pro- 

 notum, where they diverge and strike the hinder edge of the 

 pronotum at the outer angles; there are two yellowish 

 spots, one below the other, on the sides of the pronotum ; 

 wing-covers marked with large dark blotches, generally oc- 

 cupying the larger portion of the wing; the tip of the vving- 

 cover pellucid, nearly free from spots; wings with the basal 

 color pale yellowish or red, and the apical portion dusky. 



