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PSYCHE. 



[August 1S92. 



outer discoidal field, the base of which is 

 mostly pellucid, there is a single slender, 

 transverse belt of fuscous above the apex of 

 the ulnar fork and beyond it scattered fuscous 

 cellular spots; the axillary area is wholly 

 blackish fuscous, and the sutural stripe yel- 

 low, bright, distinct, and not very narrow. 

 Wings pallid at base with a very broad black- 

 ish fuscous arcuate band which strikes the 

 margin below the third lobe and narrows 

 slowly toward the anal angle which it scarcely 

 reaches ; above it does not narrow and is 

 separated from the humeral stripe, which runs 

 only half way to the base, by a slender pallid 

 line ; apically the wing is pellucid, but in the 

 male a little clouded at the margin and with 

 blackish cross veins. Hind femora pale yel- 

 low within, the base and two broad transverse 

 stripes black, dirty yellow externally with 

 oblique black stripes on the upper half; hind 

 tibiae pale dull yellow with a dull orange 

 tinge apically, more or less infuscated on the 

 middle of the outer side, the tips of the spines 

 black. 



Length of body, 27 mm.; of elytra, 26 mm. 



Moline, 111., J. McNeill. Described 

 from 1 $ . It bears a striking resem- 

 blance to//. (A'.) neglectus, but is not 

 the species mistaken for that form by 

 Thomas. 



HlPPISCUS (H.) OCELOTE. 



Oedipoda {Hippiscus) ocelote Sauss., Rev. 

 mag. zool., 1861, 398-399; Orth. nova Amer., 

 2, 29-30. 



Hippiscus ocelote Thorn., Syn. Acrid. N. 

 A., 200-201; Sauss., Prodr. Oedip., 84-85; 

 Addit. prodr. Oedip., 26-27. 



This Mexican species is unknown to 

 me, but from Saussure's excellent de- 

 scription and tables evidently belongs in 

 the series near where I have placed it. 



It is found, according to Saussure, both 

 in the warmer and cooler zones at Cor- 

 dova and Guanajuato. 



Hippiscus (H.) saussurei. 



Oedipoda kaldemannii Thom., Rep. U. S. 

 geol. surv. terr., 5, 456; 6, 720-721. 



Oedipoda haldemanii Thorn., Syn. Acrid. 

 N. A., 130-132. 



Hippiscus haldmanni Sauss., Prodr. 

 Oedip., S5-S6. 



Not Oedipoda haldemanii Scudd. 



Considering the insufficiency of my 

 description of Oe. haldemanii it is not 

 surprising that both Thomas and de 

 Saussure should have mistaken another 

 species for it ; having still the types of 

 that species in my possession, lam able 

 to determine accurately what it is. In 

 the present species the pantherine mark- 

 ings of the tegmina are much obscured 

 (though still evident) by the great ir- 

 regularity of the margins of the fuscous 

 spots and their general blurring. 



All of my specimens of the present 

 species come from Texas, from Dallas 

 and San Antonio. Specimens in the 

 collection of Mr. Samuel Henshaw are 

 also from Texas, collected by Schaupp. 

 Brunei" sends me specimens from San 

 Antonio, Tex., collected by Newell, 

 and Saussure's specimens come also 

 from Texas ; but Thomas, besides 

 Texas, gives New Mexico, Kansas, Ne- 

 braska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Da- 

 kota ; very likely he has confounded 

 other species with this, and that its true 

 home is in and about Texas only. 



