﻿74 
  I'ROCEEDIXGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  very 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  Ae. 
  regalis, 
  but 
  has 
  much 
  longer 
  

   tegmina, 
  is 
  slighter 
  in 
  form, 
  has 
  a 
  less 
  pronounced 
  subapical 
  tubercle 
  

   to 
  the 
  male 
  abdomen, 
  and 
  ditlers 
  slightly 
  in 
  color 
  and 
  markings 
  as 
  ^yell 
  

   as 
  in 
  the 
  abdominal 
  appendages. 
  

  

  5. 
  AEOLOPLUS 
  CHENOPODII. 
  

   (Plate 
  V, 
  fig. 
  9.) 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  chowjmVti 
  Bruxer!, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  VII 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  41-42; 
  Rep. 
  St. 
  Hort. 
  

   Soc. 
  Nebr., 
  1894 
  (1834), 
  p. 
  163; 
  BnlL 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  XXXII 
  

   (1894), 
  pp. 
  12-13. 
  

  

  Head 
  varying 
  from 
  livid 
  to 
  wanu 
  testaceous, 
  faintly, 
  feebly, 
  and 
  

   sparsely 
  punctate 
  with 
  brown, 
  with 
  mediodorsal 
  and 
  postocular 
  stripes 
  

   of 
  black 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  neighboring 
  species, 
  the 
  former 
  generally 
  broaden- 
  

   ing 
  posteriorly 
  and 
  thereafter 
  inclosing 
  a 
  yellow 
  thread; 
  antennae 
  

   brownish 
  yellow, 
  pallid 
  basally 
  and 
  infuscated 
  apically 
  ; 
  fastigium 
  more 
  

   or 
  less 
  sliallowly 
  sulcate 
  in 
  its 
  narrowest 
  part, 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa 
  about 
  

   as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  equal, 
  nearly 
  fading 
  out 
  before 
  

   reaching 
  the 
  clypens, 
  and 
  plane 
  throughout. 
  Pronotum 
  testaceous, 
  

   sometimes 
  punctate 
  with 
  brown 
  above, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  and 
  posteriorly 
  

   broadening 
  mediodorsal 
  blackish 
  stripe 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  inclnding 
  a 
  

   similarly 
  widening 
  testaceous 
  thread 
  or 
  stripe; 
  upper 
  half 
  or 
  rather 
  

   less 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  pro/^ona 
  with 
  a 
  similar 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   distinct 
  blackish 
  brown 
  belt, 
  generally 
  acco.npanied 
  by 
  a 
  testaceous 
  

   dot 
  at 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  margin; 
  hinder 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum 
  

   hardly 
  angulate, 
  but 
  well 
  rounded 
  in 
  a 
  uniform 
  curve; 
  median 
  carina 
  

   slight 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  wanting 
  or 
  rarely 
  indicated 
  on 
  the 
  prozona. 
  

   Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  conical, 
  rather 
  blunt. 
  Tegmiua 
  subovate, 
  less 
  

   than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  apically 
  obliquely 
  truncate 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  

   not 
  pointed, 
  fuliginous, 
  with 
  crowded 
  brownish 
  and 
  yellowish 
  veins. 
  

   Hind 
  femora 
  luteo-testaceous, 
  with 
  three 
  broad, 
  transverse 
  angular 
  

   bands 
  of 
  bluish 
  black, 
  which 
  are 
  but 
  little 
  confluent 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  

   face 
  and 
  somewhat 
  less 
  conspicuous 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  face, 
  the 
  genicular 
  

   arc 
  black; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  pale 
  glaucous 
  (sometimes 
  pink, 
  according 
  to 
  

   Bruuer) 
  with 
  the 
  knee 
  and 
  a 
  subbasal 
  aunulus 
  pale 
  yellow; 
  the 
  spines 
  

   black 
  with 
  pallid 
  base. 
  Supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  triangular 
  with 
  

   faintly 
  sinuous 
  sides 
  and 
  roundly 
  pointed 
  apex, 
  the 
  surface 
  flat 
  but 
  

   with 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  convergent, 
  rather 
  sharp, 
  but 
  only 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  

   ridges, 
  inclosing 
  a 
  rather 
  narrow 
  basal 
  longitudinal 
  sulcus, 
  not 
  reach- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  plate; 
  there 
  are 
  besides 
  two 
  short, 
  strongly 
  

   oblique, 
  blunt 
  ridges 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  fading 
  at 
  their 
  extremities; 
  fur- 
  

   cula 
  wholly 
  wanting; 
  cerci 
  moderately 
  broad 
  and 
  compressed 
  at 
  base, 
  

   tapering 
  gradually 
  and 
  regularly 
  over 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  

   half, 
  beyond 
  subequal, 
  subcylindrical, 
  but 
  pointed, 
  the 
  apex 
  scarcely 
  

   incurved 
  and 
  extending 
  scarcely 
  beyond 
  the 
  suj^raanal 
  plate 
  ; 
  subapical 
  

   tubercle 
  of 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  small, 
  directed 
  upward 
  and 
  backward, 
  

   very 
  short 
  and 
  bluntly 
  conical 
  as 
  viewed 
  from 
  behind. 
  

  

  