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medium size, considerably produced posteriorly, the lateral lobes 

 poorl}' developed, and the posterior margin very slightly sinuate; pro- 

 notal disk evenly rounded, without indication of median or lateral 

 carinje, truncate anteriorly, posteriorly subtruncate or very broadly 

 rounded. Prosternuni unarmed or armed with a pair of short blunt 

 spines. Legs long and slender, the posterior femora 

 more than three times, or about three times, as long 

 as the pronotum, armed below in the apical half on 

 the inner carina with a few short stout sharp spines; 

 anterior tibite armed above on the outer side only 

 with three spines. Wings lateral and wholly con- 

 cealed in the female, in the male overlapping above 

 and projecting slightly beyond the pronotum. 

 Abdomen usually somewhat compressed and carinate 

 Fig. 37.— eremopedes abovc, the Uist dorsal segment deeph' cleft in both 

 j^j^j^jj sexes; cerci simple in the female, in the male shaped 



as fig. 37, projecting about half their length beyond 

 the last al)dominal segment; ovipositor long, as long or a little longer 

 than the posterior femora. 



Color obscure brownish, uniformly green or l)rownish, with a broad 

 ocherous band above. 



MeasiLTemenU. — Length, pronotimi, male, 6.!:^5-T.25 mm., female, 

 5.5-7.5; posterior femora, male, 20, female, 18-24; cerci, male, 3; 

 ovipositor, 17-24. 



Type.—Oc\i. Nos. 10173, 10174, and 10175, U. S. National Museum. 

 Specimens e.ramined. — Material in various collections from Texas 

 and New Mexico. The green form of this species has been christened 

 var. viridiH by Cockerell, while the varietal name hicoJor has been 

 applied ))y Scudder and Cockerell to the form with the dorsum marked 

 with ocherous. The National Museum contains types of both these 

 varieties as well as of the typical form; viridis bears the type No. 

 10173, while that of hicolor is No. 10174. The types of both varieties 

 and the typical form are from Mesilla, New Mexico. Besides the 

 types, the National Museum contains one male, one female, and two 

 nymphs from the type locality, Cockerell, ,Tuly and August, and one 

 adult from El Paso, Texas (Dunn).' This last was presented b}" Bruner. 

 The Scudder collection has the typical form, under the wAxn^o, popeana^ 

 from Texas. 



I'he types of p)01?eana have been studied, and 1 entertain no doubts 

 regarding its synonymy with the present species. Of the five speci- 

 mens in the Scudder collection labeled as types of poj)eana, the speci- 

 men figured has the longest ovipo.sitor, and none of the other four 

 females have the ovipositor as straight as the figured specimen. No 

 specific characters were found by direct comparison of types to .satis- 

 factorily separate popeana from scudder!, and therefore their synonymy 



