80 NEW NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDID.E BRUNER. 



edge nearly straight, posterior edge a little acute angled, with the apex 

 ron ruled, entire pronotuin strongly marginate. Tegmiua straight and. 

 moderately broad; reaching fully one-fourth their length beyond the 

 tip of the abdomen ; the veins moderately well defined, wings normal. 

 Posterior femora, with their base not greatly inflated; the carina? and 

 pinna? of outer and inner disks strong, but not prominent, extending 

 slightly beyond the tip of the abdomen. Tibia? strong, few-spined and 

 somewhat hirsute ; anterior and middle femora with their apices inflated 

 beneath externally. 



General color dirty grayish white, inclining to a pale testaceous in 

 some specimens, very heavily blotched and mottled with dull black or 

 dark brown, most heavily upon the tegmina, which in some specimens 

 are almost entirely obscured with the darker color. Posterior femora 

 and tibia? with their inner face deep purplish red. Antenna? fuscous, 

 annulate with testaceous. There is usually a more or less distinct 

 pruinesceus upon the entire upper surface of the insect, which in con- 

 junction with its dull color would render its detection exceedingly diffi- 

 cult in the desert. 



Length of body, 9 , 45 mm ; of antenna?, 12 mm ; of prouotnm, 9.5~10.25 mni ; 

 of tegmiua, 35-37"'" 1 ; of hind femora, 20 mm ; greatest width of thorax, 



H ra,n , 



Described from four female specimens. 

 Hab.— Needles, California (Wickhain). 



Genus Haldemanella Sauss. 



In a recent work* Mr. Henry de Saussure establishes the genus 

 Haldemanella for the reception of certain large locusts that inhabit the 

 arid regions of Arizona and New Mexico. Of these two species have 

 been described by American authors, viz : Hphippigera tschivavensis 

 Haldemauu and Eremobia magna Thos. In 1872, Mr. Townend Glover 

 figured an insect under the manuscript name of Phrynotettix verruculata 

 Uhler, which also belongs here [Illustr. Amer. Entom. Orthopt., PI. 

 vi, figs. 25, 25 side view]. This latter evidently is synonymous with 

 Haldemauu's tschivavensis ; while Thomas' insect is distinct, as can be 

 seen by comparing the two descriptions and figures. 



I herewith add a third to these toad-like locusts of the deserts. 



The genus Haldemanella can be characterized as follows : 



Body very obese, depressed, rugose, somewhat pubescent. 



Antenna? filiform, moderately long. The head not large; the face 

 vertical, broadening a little below; the vertex between the eyes broad, 

 declivaut in front; the eyes rather large aud prominent; the frontal 

 costa quite wide and prominent above between the antenna?, fading be- 

 low the ocellus. Lateral foveola? nearly obsolete, in the female, minute 

 in the males, where they are triangular. Lateral ocelli transparent. 



*Additameiita ad Prodromuni (Edipodiorum, p. 153. 



