166 FAMILY V.— CEDIPODIN^. 



nate stripes of pale and fuscous. Elytra fuscous at the base, 

 becoming transparent a little beyond the middle, where the 

 netted nervules suddenly cease ; a narrow whitish line along 

 the angle ; the lower field has two sub-quadrate black spots 

 separated bj^an elongate whitish spot. Wings transparent ; 

 base greenish-yellow ; a narrow fuscous band across the 

 middle; apex pellucid, with a few fuscous dots at the tip- 

 Posterior femora ash-colored, with three black spots on the 

 upper margin of the outer face ; base and a band on the in- 

 side black. Posterior tibiae with a broad white ring near 

 the base, rest blue. Tarsi yellow. Venter and pectus white. 



Dimensions. — Length, 25 mm.; tegmina, 23 ram.; poste- 

 rior femora, 14 mm. ; posterior tibiae, 12 mm. 



This insect, shown in Fig. 99, is quite different from any 

 other orthopterous insect found in Minnesota. 



GENUS Psinidia Stal. (1873). 



Head large; antennae flattened; pronotum granulated, 

 acute angled behind, very much compressed before the mid- 

 dle; median carina distinct with two notches; lateral carina 

 distinct on posterior lobe, broken on the anterior lobes; 

 wing-covers narrow, hind wings broad, both extending be- 

 yond the body. 



LONG-HORNED LOCUST. 



Psinidia fenestralis Serville. 



This beautiful insect is not common in Minnesota, and 

 only a single specimen was found late in August in a dying 

 condition upon the hot sands of a sand bar in the Missis- 

 sippi River opposite Gray Cloud Island. The insect is small, 

 and when resting on the ground it is so much colored like it 

 that it is not readily seen ; when flying, however, it is a 

 very conspicuous object with its large and crimson-colored 

 winsfs. 



