1276 ^^- Rob- Lucas: Entomologie. Orthoptera 1901. 



Pronotum with the disk usually elevated and subtectiform on the prozone. 

 Area of the cubital forks broad, occupied by several rows of irregulär cells. 



Trimerotropis subg. 

 a'. Wings with disk yellow or green, never blue, and never without a 

 fuscous band or cloud. 



b^ Hiud tibiae never blue. Tegmiua with the basal and njedian 

 bands solid, approximately equal to each other and to the light 

 bands just beyond with which they alternate, and confiued to a 

 little raore than the anterior half. cincta -Gruppe. 



Hierher cincta Thomas u. juliana Scudder. 

 b^. Bind tibiae frequently blue. Tegmina not as in the alternative. 

 c\ Tegmina fasciate through the uneven distribution of macu- 

 lations or by well-defiued clouds or bands. If the tegmina 

 are the first kind then the outer half of the wing is not 

 infuscated and the lower sulcus of the bind femora is not 

 black with a single preapical light band, 

 d^ Posterior tibiae blue. caeruleipes-Gruppe. 



Hierher caeruleipes Scudder, tessellata n. sp., calignosa 

 n. sp., albescens n. sp., bifasciata Bruner, ferruginea n, 

 sp., koebelei Bruner, thalassica Bruner. 

 d^. Posterior tibiae red or orange. 



e^ Lateral lobes of the pronotum without a tooth on 



the posterior part of the lower border. 



f^. Scutell. of the vertex moderately broad, but 



plainly less than the short {^) or long ($) dia- 



meter of the inner lace yellow or red, with 



3 black apical bands, one apical, one preapical, 



and one median. The latter may extend, as a 



stripe, toward the base, but the immediate 



base is very rarely black. Rarely the whole 



inner face may be suffused with fuliginous, 



obscui'ing the markings. citrina-Gruppe. 



Hierher monticola Sauss. carapestris Bruner 



mnsci-pt., bruneri n. sp., fasciciila n. sp., prae- 



clara n. sp., modesta Bruner, citrina Scudder. 



f^ Scutellum of the vertex equaling the short ((5*) 



or long (2) diameter of the eye. Post, femora 



with the disk of the inner face black with one 



or two light bands on the apical half. Fuscous 



bands of the wings at least one-fourth the length 



of the wings in width. 



latifasciata-Gruppe. 



Hierher latifasciata Scudder, laticincta Sauss., 



tolteca Sauss., pistrinaria Saus., melanoptera n. sp. 



e^. Lateral lobes of the pronotum with a tooth on the 



posterior part of the lower border. 



Californica- Gruppe. 

 Hierher californica Bruner, strenua n. sp., montana 

 ßniner mnscript., agrestis n. sp. 



