FAMILY v.— ACRIDIIN^:. 



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then a narrow yellow stripe directed obliquely upward ; 

 lower margin yellow^ The wing-covers opaque and reddish 

 at base, rest semi-transparent; a narrow white stripe on 

 the lower margin, next the base; the disk and apical half 

 marked with large, cellular, fuscous spots. Wings trans- 

 parent, nerves at the base and inner portion yellow^ish- 



Fig. 106. — Scbistocercn americana, female. Original. 



white, of the other portions black. Legs bright vermilion. 

 Posterior femora have a row of black dots along the 

 upper and lower margins of the disk and one through the 

 middle; spines of posterior tibia yellow, tipped with black. 

 Each section of the abdomen has a ring of dusky dots on its 

 posterior margin. 



