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Ceuthophilus maculatus Sa3^ 



SPOTTED WINGLESS GRASSHOPPER. 



Glabrous, mottled with luteous and blackish, the darker 

 markings predominating; on the pronotumaluteous, medio- 

 dorsal stripe, also traces of such a stripe along the dorsum 

 of the meta- and mesothorax; the hind femora are strongly 

 infuscated outside and inside; the anterior pairs of femora 

 infuscated at the apex and all the tibi« at the base; poste- 

 rior tibiee infuscated along the upper side; fore femora alittle 



more than a fourth longer 

 than the pronotum and 

 much less than half as long 

 as the hind femora; hind 

 femora as long as the body, 

 Fig. iQz -Ceuthophilus maculatus. fe- three and a half times as long 

 male. Original. ^^ broad, modcratcly stout 



at base, and with no raised points on the upper or inner sur- 

 face ; outer carina with about thirteen unequal coarse spines 

 in the male, and minute distant inconspicuous spinules in 

 the female; inner carina with similar but uniform spines, 

 none so long as on the outer carina (male) or with a few minute 

 spinules on the apical half (female), the intervening sulcus 

 not very broad. Hind tibi« feebly undulate in the basal 

 half in the male. Ovipositor nearly two- thirds as long as 

 the hind femora. 



Measurements. — Male: Length of body, 14 mm. ; pro- 

 notum, 5 mm.; fore femora, 6.6 mm.; hind femora, 15.25 

 mm.; hind tibiae, 16.25 mm. Female slightly larger; ovi- 

 positor, 10 mm. 



This is our most abundant species, quite common under 

 decaying wood, loose bark, and under stones. It is illus- 

 trated in Fig. 163. 



Ceuthophilus B latch ley i Scudder. 

 Dull yellowish or reddish, heavily mottled with dark 

 luscous, leaving a narrow medio-dorsal streak on pronotum; 



