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  PBOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  Surv. 
  Terr., 
  Ill 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  796.— 
  Bessey, 
  Bienu. 
  Eep. 
  Iowa 
  Agric. 
  Coll., 
  VII 
  

   (1877), 
  p. 
  209.— 
  Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  Geol. 
  Expl. 
  Surv. 
  W. 
  lOOth 
  Mer., 
  V 
  (1875 
  [1877]), 
  

   p. 
  894.— 
  Bruner, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  IX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  144.— 
  Riley, 
  Loc. 
  Tlague 
  (1877), 
  

   pp. 
  89, 
  194-195, 
  fig. 
  38.— 
  Thomas, 
  Bull. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Terr., 
  IV 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  

   484; 
  Ami. 
  Rep. 
  Chief 
  Eng., 
  1878 
  (1878), 
  1845; 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Conim., 
  I 
  

   (1878), 
  p. 
  42.— 
  Riley, 
  ibid., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  220, 
  221, 
  226, 
  327, 
  459, 
  fig. 
  111.— 
  

   Packard, 
  ibid., 
  I 
  (1878) 
  ]>p. 
  [140, 
  142].— 
  Girard, 
  Traito 
  cqem. 
  d'ent., 
  II 
  (1879), 
  

   p. 
  248.— 
  Riley, 
  Amer. 
  Ent., 
  Ill 
  (1880), 
  p. 
  220.— 
  Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  Ent. 
  111., 
  IX 
  

   (1880), 
  pp. 
  91, 
  96, 
  126-127.— 
  LiNTXKR, 
  Ins. 
  Clover 
  (1881), 
  p. 
  5.— 
  Bruner, 
  Bull. 
  

   Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  II 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  9; 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Couim., 
  Ill 
  

   (1883), 
  pp. 
  9, 
  10, 
  14.— 
  RiLEY, 
  Stand. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  II 
  (1884), 
  pp. 
  194-195, 
  fig. 
  

   272.— 
  Cook, 
  Beal's 
  Grasses 
  N. 
  A., 
  I 
  (18S7), 
  pp. 
  373. 
  396.— 
  Riley, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  I 
  

   (1888), 
  p. 
  87.— 
  Weed, 
  Bull. 
  Ohio 
  Agrio. 
  Exp. 
  St., 
  Techn. 
  Ser., 
  I 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  40.— 
  

   Lugger, 
  Rep. 
  Agric. 
  Exp. 
  St. 
  Minn. 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  340, 
  fig. 
  17.— 
  Osborn, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  

   IV 
  (1891), 
  pp. 
  50, 
  55.— 
  Riley, 
  ibid., 
  IV 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  145.— 
  Osborx, 
  Rep. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  

   Ont., 
  XXII 
  (1891), 
  pp. 
  70, 
  73.— 
  Riley, 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  

   XXV 
  (1891), 
  pp. 
  31, 
  32, 
  fig. 
  9.— 
  Osborn, 
  ibid., 
  XXVII 
  (1892), 
  pp. 
  59-64.— 
  

   MiLLiKEN, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  VI 
  (1893), 
  pp. 
  19,21. 
  

  

  1 
  PezoteiUx 
  snmichrasti 
  Saussure, 
  Rev. 
  Mag. 
  Zool., 
  1861 
  (1861), 
  pp. 
  160-161 
  ; 
  Orth. 
  

   Nova 
  Amer., 
  II 
  (1861), 
  p. 
  11. 
  

  

  Acridium 
  iCalopienus) 
  hirittatum 
  Uhleh 
  (pars), 
  Harr. 
  Treat. 
  Ins. 
  Inj. 
  Veg. 
  (1862), 
  

   p. 
  174. 
  

  

  Acridium 
  bivittatum 
  Thomas, 
  Trans. 
  111. 
  St. 
  Agric. 
  Soc, 
  V 
  (1865), 
  p. 
  449. 
  

  

  Melanophis 
  hiriftatus 
  Scudder! 
  (pars), 
  Hitchc. 
  Rep. 
  Geol. 
  N. 
  H., 
  I 
  (1874), 
  p. 
  

   376; 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Conim., 
  II 
  (1881), 
  app., 
  p. 
  24.— 
  Bruiser, 
  ibid.. 
  Ill 
  

   (1883), 
  p. 
  60; 
  Bull. 
  Washb. 
  Coll., 
  I 
  (1885), 
  p. 
  139.— 
  Riley, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   Ent., 
  1885 
  (1886), 
  p. 
  233.— 
  Bruner, 
  ibid., 
  1885 
  (1886), 
  p. 
  307.— 
  Riley, 
  Ins. 
  

   Life, 
  II 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  27.— 
  Fletcher, 
  Rep. 
  Exp. 
  Farms 
  Can., 
  1888 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  63.— 
  

   TowNSEND, 
  Proc 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Wash., 
  II 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  43. 
  — 
  BlatchleyI 
  (pars), 
  Can. 
  

   Ent., 
  XXIII 
  (1891), 
  pp. 
  99-100.— 
  Bruner 
  (pars), 
  ibid., 
  XXIII 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  193; 
  

   Ins. 
  Life, 
  III 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  229; 
  (pars), 
  ibid., 
  IV 
  (1891), 
  pp. 
  21-22, 
  146; 
  (pars), 
  

   Rep. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Out., 
  XXII 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  48; 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  

   XXIII 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  14; 
  ibid., 
  XXVII 
  (1891), 
  pp. 
  12-29, 
  33. 
  -McNeill, 
  Psyche, 
  

   VI 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  74.— 
  Bruner, 
  Rep. 
  St. 
  Bd. 
  Agric 
  Nebr., 
  1891 
  (1891), 
  pp. 
  243, 
  307- 
  

   308, 
  figs. 
  85-86.— 
  Kellogg, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  V 
  (1892). 
  p. 
  116.— 
  Osrorn, 
  Proc 
  Iowa 
  

   Acad. 
  Sc, 
  I, 
  Pt. 
  II 
  (1892), 
  p. 
  118.— 
  Kellogg, 
  Inj. 
  Ins. 
  Kans. 
  (1892), 
  pp. 
  42-43, 
  

   figs. 
  22, 
  23 
  b.— 
  Nutting, 
  Bull. 
  Lab. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Univ. 
  Iowa, 
  II 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  291.— 
  

   Bruner 
  (pars). 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  XXVIII 
  (1893), 
  pp. 
  19-21, 
  

   fig. 
  8; 
  ibid., 
  XXX 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  35; 
  Publ. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  27; 
  Rep. 
  

   Nebr. 
  St. 
  Bd. 
  Agric, 
  1893 
  (1893), 
  pp. 
  461-462, 
  tigs. 
  104-105 
  ; 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  VI 
  (1893), 
  

   p. 
  34.— 
  Cook, 
  Trans. 
  Amer. 
  Ent. 
  Soc, 
  XX 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  337.— 
  Bruner, 
  Rep. 
  St. 
  

   Hort. 
  Soc. 
  Nebr., 
  1894 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  163, 
  205, 
  fig. 
  71.— 
  Morse 
  (pars^, 
  Psyche, 
  VII 
  

   (1894), 
  p. 
  106.— 
  Blatchley, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  XXVI 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  244-245.— 
  Bruner, 
  

   Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  XXXII 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  12; 
  Nebr. 
  St. 
  Hort. 
  Rep., 
  

   1895 
  (1895), 
  p. 
  69. 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  hirittatiis 
  Stal, 
  Bih. 
  K. 
  Sv. 
  Vet.-Akad. 
  Handl., 
  V, 
  No. 
  9 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  14.— 
  

   Garman, 
  Orth. 
  Ky. 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  8. 
  

   [Some 
  of 
  the 
  above 
  references 
  belong 
  with 
  little 
  doubt 
  to 
  M.femoratits, 
  with 
  which 
  

   this 
  species 
  has 
  often 
  been 
  confounded, 
  but 
  whenever 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  clear 
  that 
  they 
  

   belonged 
  to 
  M.femoratus 
  I 
  have 
  retained 
  theui 
  here.] 
  

  

  Yarying 
  in 
  general 
  ground 
  color 
  from 
  fusco-testaceous 
  to 
  very 
  dark 
  

   brownish 
  fuscous, 
  striped 
  with 
  fulvo- 
  or 
  pallid 
  testaceous. 
  Head 
  tlavo- 
  

   testaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  iufuscated. 
  the 
  summit 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  median, 
  

   widening, 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  stripe, 
  which 
  extends 
  backward 
  from 
  the 
  

  

  