154 FAMILY V.— CEDIPODIN.^. 



There is considerable variety in this species, so much so 

 that several varieties might be formed. Scudder's descrip- 

 tion of living females taken in Massachusetts fit our insect 

 thoroughly well: Prevailing color a light ashy plumbeous, 

 slightly darker above, specked with dark plumbeus, tinged 

 slightlv beneath with reddish. Head uniform ; mouth-parts 



Fig. 90. — Hippiscus tuberculatus. Original. 



uniform and tinted like under surface of body. Eyes dark 

 brown, speckled with yellowish and with a narrow slightly 

 curved transverse median streak of yellowish-brown, turn- 

 ing upwards posteriorly. Antennae dirty yellowish at the 

 base, beyond of the color of the head. Pronotum with a 

 longitudinal dark brown streak with indistinct edges along 



