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here, the slight lateral carinae moderately abrupt and obtuse, the pos- 

 terior border obtusely angulated, the angle rounded. Prosternal spine 

 very short, straight, stout, pyramidal, pointed. Tegmiua not much 

 shorter than the abdomen, obscure brown, mottled with many pale and 

 darker spots (due to the broken color of the veins), mostly arranged 

 longitudinally in the median field; the costal field is broadly enlarged 

 near the base, and beyond it the whole tapers nearly to the rounded 

 tip,' veins of the apical half of the preanal field of the wings dusky or 

 blackish. Hind femora with two median, angulate, moderately broad, 

 brownish fuscous bands, the arc of the geniculation black; hind tibiae 

 pale dull glaucous, pale at the base, the spines black-tipped. Supra- 

 anal plate of male triangular, nearly as long as broad, flat, with a 

 shallow median furrow of moderate width in the basal half and a slen- 

 der mesial groove at apex; furcula consisting of a pair of minute, 

 attingent, triangular lobes; cerci broad at base, rapidly tapering on 

 the compressed, conical, basal half, very slender and nearly equal on 

 the apical half, a little incurved at tip; subapical tubercle of subgeni- 

 tal plate rather small, erect, appre^sed, bluntly conical as seen from 

 behind. 



Length of body, male, 18.5 mm., female, 21 mm.; antennae, male, 8 

 mm., female, 7.5 mm.; teginina, male, 11 mm., female, 11.2 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 10.5 mm., female, 11.8 mm. 



One male, 1 female. Northern ]^ew Mexico, August to September, 

 Lieutenant W. L. Carpenter. 



I have seen no other males .of this species since its first description, 

 but I have before me three new females, which from the greater brevity 

 of their tegniina I am inclined to place here rather than in Ae. tiirnbullii 

 (from which the females at least are with difficulty separated), and 

 which come from Colorado (Canon City, Fremont County, Morrison and 

 Uhler. U.S.N.M. [Xo. 716])'. The specimen collected by Morrison was 

 obtained on the plains at an elevation of 5,000 feet, and is almost wholly 

 grass-green with the lighter parts yellowish green. 



8. AEOLOPLUS UNIFORMIS, new species. 

 (Plate VI, Fig. 2.) 



The color of the only specimens seen are probably changed somewhat 

 from their having been killed in spirits and are now of a light dead-leaf 

 color; probably in life they were uniformly testaceous, with perhaps 

 a greenish tinge. The pronotum shows, at least on the prozona, signs 

 of a broad, paler, mediodorsal band, and a similar baud on the middle 

 of the lateral lobes; the outer face of the hind femora shows indications 

 of a pair of dusky transverse bauds, mesial and extramesial, and the 

 apical half or more of the hind tibial spines are black. The fastigium of 

 the vertex is scarcely in the least impressed, excepting at its very base 

 between the eyes; the frontal costa has a row of puucta on either side, 



