FAMILY v.— ACRIDIIN^. 211 



(male) or feebly transverse (female), a very little longer 

 than the minutely rugulosemetazona. Prosternal spine short, 

 stout, blunt, conical, erect ; interspace between mesosternal 

 lobes nearh' half as long again as broad (male) or consider- 

 ably transverse but shorter than the lobes (female). Teg 

 mina either abbreviated, being one and a half or two and a 

 half times as long as the pronotum, and not nearly reaching 

 the tips of the hind femora, tapering considerably beyond 

 the basal expansion, sub-lanceolate and bluntly sub-acumi- 

 nate (form curtus), or far surpassing the hind femora, broad 

 and sub-equal, very feebl}^ tapering in theapical half, and well 

 rounded at tip (form vo/at/c«s), wholly brownish-fuscous, or 

 cinereo-fuscous, occasionally maculate to a greater or less de- 

 gree, but generally slightly in the discoidal area, the anal area 

 sometimes more cinereous than the rest, especially apically; 

 wings in both forms hyaline, with a scarcely perceptible yel- 

 lowish tint, more or less denselj- but always feebly infumated 

 at the tip, the veins and cross-veins of the apical half blackish 

 fuscous. Hind femora relatively longer in the female than in 

 the male, dull luteo-testaceous, black at apex and at extreme 

 base, and bifasciate with black or black- 

 ish fuscous more or less broadly and 

 obliquely, rarely transversely, the whole 

 often confused and more or less blended 

 on the outer face; beneath pale or dull 

 reddish, hind tibiae red, usually growing 

 paler toward the base and sometimes 

 Fig. 1361/2.— Me/ano- almost wholl}^ palc greenish luteous, 



plus fasciatus, tip of ^ , , jj • • 11 ■! i_ 



maieabdomen. Original, iccbly rcddcumg apically, thc basc gen- 

 erally pale or at least paler, with a small fuscous patellar 

 spot, the spines black except at extreme base, nine to twelve, 

 generally eleven, in number in the outer series. 



Extremity of male abdomen illustrated in Fig. ISG^^. 



Only the short-winged form has been found in St. An- 

 thony Park. 



Measurement.— Length of body, male, 18.5 mm., female, 



