July, 1S92.] 



PSYCHE. 



287 



tudinal carinae of the vertex; lateral foveolae 

 rather small, subtriangular and shallow; 

 frontal costa somewhat constricted above, 

 gently expanded at the ocellus at and below 

 which it is moderately sulcate. Antennae 

 ochraceous, becoming blackish fuscous in 

 apical half or third, hardly tapering except 

 on apical joint*. Pronotum compressed, 

 gently expanding on the metazona, the dor- 

 sum very faintly tectiform, and the prozona 

 posteriorly tumid centrally, the surface with 

 distant prominent glistening granulations or 

 very brief vermiculations ; median carina 

 simple, moderately pronounced with a dis- 

 tinct but very slight uniform arcuation ; 

 lateral canthi not very pronounced, confined 

 to the metazona but for slight indications; 

 posterior margin rectangular; lateral lobes 

 with sparse, feeble, and very brief vermicula- 

 tions, the centre marked with a fuscous 

 blotch enclosing a yellowish quadrate mark 

 below. Tegmina cinereous and fuscous, the 

 former prevailing in the $ , the latter in the 

 J where it also becomes blackish and the 

 cinereous of a brighter tone: the marginal 

 field has a large quadrate fuscous spot just 

 beyond the angle of the humeral lobe, and in 

 the 5 this is almost the only dark marking 

 therein, while in the $ it is preceded by one 

 and followed by two similar but a little 

 smaller, equally dark spots, and the apical 

 portion of the field is much infuscated ; in 

 both sexes the axillary area is dark cinereous 

 with dark veins and faint fuscous spots; 

 sutural stripe of the lighter color and tolera- 

 bly conspicuous; the inner discoidal field has 

 rather small and roundish fuscous spots, the 

 largest and roundest just at or within the 

 broadest part, the outermost below the 

 sharply triangular fuscous spot at the ex- 

 treme base of the outer discoidal field and 

 separated from it by only a narrow cinereous 

 line at the upper edge of the ulnar inter- 

 space; beyond this the outer discoidal field 

 has three or four very similar broad trans- 

 verse fuscous bands, relatively much broader 

 and much darker in the $ than in the $ , 



becoming blurred and indistinct apically. 

 Wings coral red at base, the fusco-fuliginous 

 arcuate band marginal below the fourth 

 lobe, of moderate breadth, narrowing but 

 little as it passes to the anal angle, but some- 

 what as it passes upward to the faint and 

 slender yellowish red line separating it from 

 the humeral stripe which reaches toward but 

 not to the base, and is separated from the 

 margin except apically by the red of the 

 base; apex hyaline, slightly infuscated at 

 the edge in the $ , the veins and cross veins 

 blackish fuscous. Hind femora yellow apic- 

 ally and blue basally within, thrice traversed 

 by broad black bars; outside fusco-cinereous, 

 indistinctly barred with fuscous in the $ ; 

 hind tibiae yellow with an orange tinge, the 

 spines black tipped. 



Length of body, J, 32 mm., $ , 47 mm. ; 

 of elytra, $ , 34 mm., $, 45 mm. 



Dallas, Texas, Boll, May 1, June 6. 

 Described from 3 $ , 1 9 . I have 

 since received a specimen from San 

 Antonio, Texas, collected by Newell 

 (Brunei') . 



Hippiscus (H.) rugosus. 



Oedipoda rugosa Scudd!, Bost. journ. nat. 

 hist., 7,469; Walk., Cat. Derm. salt. Brit, 

 mus., 731; Thorn., Rep. U. S. geol. surv. 

 terr., 6, 720-721 ; Syn. Acrid. N. A., 132-133; 

 Key 111. Orth., 3; Glov., 111. N. A. ent., 

 Orth., pi. 12, fig. 8. 



Hippiscus rugosus Scudd !, Rep. geol. N. 

 H., i, 377; Sauss., Prodr. Oedip., 85. 



Hippiscus corallipes far. rugosus Thorn., 

 Rep. ent. 111., 9, 95, 115-116. 



This species, originally described 

 from specimens found in Massachusetts 

 and Maine where it is very rare, has 

 since proved to be wide spiead. I 

 have myself seen specimens from Nor- 

 way, Me. (Smith), eastern Massa- 

 chusetts (Scudder), Delaware (Ent. 



