FAMILY v.— ACRIDIIN.-E. 



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Measurements. — Male: Length of body, 28-32 mm.; 

 wing-covers, 25-27 mm.; hind femora, 16-20 mm. Female: 

 Lengthof body, 48 mm. ; wing-covers, 39 mm. ; hind femora, 

 24 mm. 



Schistocerca emarginata Uhler. 



This species occurs with alutacea, but is decidedly more 

 common. Both species are so closely allied, that forms occur 



that seem to belong as much 

 to the one species than to 

 the other. It is shown in 

 Fig. 104. 



Color, a pale reddish- 

 brown, tinged with green. 

 A distinct median yellow 

 stripe reaches from the ver- 

 tex to the tip of the prono- 

 tum, and extends upon the 

 sutureof the e/j'tra. A row 

 of distinct black punctures 

 on each margin of the fron- 

 tal costa, and a row across 

 the upper part of the cly- 

 peus. Palpi and antennae 

 yellow, and the sides of the 

 the pronotum sparsely 

 sprinkled with yellow dots. 

 Elytra translucent, pale reddish-brown; nerves darkest. 

 Wings transparent, tinged with greenish-yellow at the base; 

 nerves and nervules dull yellow, darkest near the middle of 

 the outer border, slightly tinged with red near the anterior 

 border. Anterior and middle legs greenish externally; 

 striped with black internally. Posterior femora pale green; 

 upper margin of the disk marked with a row of black dots. 

 Posterior tibiae with the inner face black; outer face green- 

 ish-purple. Posterior margin of each abdominal segment 



rked with a ring of black dots. Same size as alutacea. 

 ma 



Fig. 104.. — Schistocerca emarginata, 

 female. Original. 



