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  PEOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol. 
  xx. 
  

  

  Ijercuneiit 
  lateral 
  caiinae, 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  

   low 
  but 
  distinct, 
  percurrent, 
  equal; 
  front 
  margin 
  faintly 
  convex, 
  bind 
  

   margin 
  subtruncate, 
  mesially 
  distinctly 
  but 
  weakly 
  emarginnte; 
  pro- 
  

   zona 
  sparsely 
  and 
  shallowly 
  punctate, 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal 
  in 
  both 
  

   sexes, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  finely 
  and 
  densely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  

   Prosternal 
  spine 
  large, 
  conical, 
  blunt, 
  suberect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   mesosternal 
  lobes 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female). 
  

   Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  about 
  tlie 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  prozona, 
  lateral, 
  lanceo- 
  

   late, 
  the 
  costal 
  margin 
  convex, 
  the 
  inner 
  nearly 
  straight, 
  fully 
  three 
  

   times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  apically 
  subacuminate, 
  brownish 
  fuscous. 
  F'ore 
  

   and 
  middle 
  femora 
  considerably 
  tumid 
  In 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  very 
  

   slender, 
  green, 
  the 
  whole 
  geniculation 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  under 
  sur- 
  

   face 
  tlavous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  green, 
  with 
  a 
  basal, 
  feeble, 
  fuscous 
  annulus, 
  

   the 
  spines 
  black 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  half, 
  eleven 
  to 
  twelve 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  

   outer 
  series. 
  Abdomen 
  ferrugineo-fuscous, 
  tlavescent 
  beneath, 
  com- 
  

   pressed, 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  median 
  carina, 
  the 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  

   abdomen 
  considerably 
  clavate, 
  much 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  short 
  

   triangular 
  with 
  subrectangulate 
  apex, 
  nearly 
  plane 
  surface, 
  and 
  a 
  

   not 
  very 
  deep 
  percurrent 
  median 
  sulcus 
  between 
  low 
  and 
  rounded 
  

   walls; 
  furcula 
  reduced 
  to 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  hardly 
  noticeable 
  approximate 
  

   rounded 
  lobules 
  ; 
  cerci 
  long 
  clepsydral, 
  moderately 
  broad 
  at 
  extreme 
  

   base, 
  tapering 
  regularly 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  middle 
  is 
  less 
  

   than 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  base, 
  beyond 
  enlarging 
  to 
  a 
  subspatulate 
  

   compressed 
  tip, 
  angulate 
  and 
  faintly 
  produced 
  at 
  the 
  lower 
  posterior 
  

   extremity, 
  the 
  whole 
  straight 
  excejit 
  for 
  a 
  faint 
  incurving, 
  and 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  small, 
  narrowing 
  apically 
  so 
  

   as 
  to 
  be 
  hardly 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  wide 
  apically 
  as 
  at 
  base, 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   and 
  apical 
  margins 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  plane, 
  well 
  rounded 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above, 
  

   entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  14 
  mm., 
  female, 
  19 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  8.5 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  7.75 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  3 
  mm., 
  female, 
  4 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  10 
  mm., 
  female, 
  ll.L'5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Twenty-nine 
  males, 
  39 
  females. 
  Denison, 
  Crawford 
  County, 
  Iowa, 
  

   July 
  20, 
  J. 
  A. 
  Allen; 
  Dallas 
  County, 
  Iowa, 
  August 
  8-10, 
  September 
  

   1-3, 
  J. 
  A. 
  Allen; 
  Nebraska, 
  Dodge; 
  Omaha, 
  Douglas 
  County, 
  

   Nebraska 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  collection; 
  L. 
  Bruner); 
  St. 
  Louis, 
  Mis- 
  

   souri, 
  July, 
  October 
  27 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Kiley 
  collection); 
  Vigo, 
  Putnam 
  

   and 
  Fulton 
  counties, 
  Indiana 
  (W. 
  S. 
  Blatchley; 
  A. 
  P. 
  Morse). 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  reported 
  from 
  Dakota 
  (Bruner), 
  Illinois 
  — 
  Rock 
  

   Island, 
  McLean 
  and 
  Champlain 
  counties 
  (Thomas, 
  McNeill), 
  and 
  Ken- 
  

   tucky 
  — 
  Webster 
  and 
  Fayette 
  counties 
  (Carman). 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  sylvan 
  species. 
  Allen 
  found 
  it 
  "abundant 
  in 
  grassy 
  

   groves" 
  in 
  Iowa, 
  Blatchley 
  finds 
  it 
  in 
  Indiana 
  "on 
  the 
  iron 
  weeds 
  

   ( 
  Yernoniafasciculata) 
  which 
  grow 
  abundantly 
  in 
  low 
  open 
  woods,'' 
  and 
  

   McNeill 
  speaks 
  of 
  it 
  in 
  Illinois 
  as 
  a 
  wood-loving 
  species. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  

   found 
  full 
  grown 
  from 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  July 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  November. 
  

  

  