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the male show a black stripe, and the cerci, mesially yellow, are 

 obscured with fuscous both above and below. 



Length of body, male, 23 mm., female, 25.5 mm.; antennae, male, 

 8 mm., female, 9 mm. ; pronotum, male, 4.75 mm., female, 5.5 mm.; 

 hind femora, male, 12.5 mm., female, 14.25 mm. 



Five males, 2 females. Washington, Morrison (U.S.N.M. [No. 720]); 

 Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, Hillman (L. Bruuer). Other specimens 

 of Morrison's collecting in the collection of Mr. S. Henshaw were 

 labeled by Morrison as coming from North Carolina, but of course by 

 mistake; in all probability they came from Washington; he collected 

 in both these States. 



5. BRADYNOTES OBESA. 

 (Plate VI, fig. 9.) 



Pesoiettix obesus THOMAS!, Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1872), pp. 454- 

 455, pi. n, figs. 13, 14. GLOVER, 111. N. A. Ent., Orth. (1872), pi. n, figs. 13, 

 14. THOMAS!, Rep. . U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), p. 146; Proc. Dav. 

 Acad. Nat. Sc., I (1876), p. 259. STAL, Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., V, 

 No. 9 (1878), p. 15. 



Bradynotes obcsa SCUDDER !, Can. Ent., XII (1880), pp. 75-76. 



Bradynotes opiums SCUDDER!, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., II (1881), app., p. 24. 



Body wholly similar in form and clothing to that of B. pinguis, or it 

 is even stouter in the metathoracic region in the female. Head not 

 differing essentially from B. pinguis, and eyes and antennae with the 

 same structure. Pronotum with similar but rather less distinct and 

 continuous lateral carinae; metazona half (male) or distinctly less than 

 half (female) the length of the prozona, the two sulci of the latter 

 approximated, the hinder of them less distinct than the anterior, which 

 is as well marked as that separating the prozona from the metazoua, 

 but neither traverse the median carina, which is equal and distinct 

 though slight throughout; exposed portion of mesonotum half (male) 

 or much less than half (female) as long as the metanotum. Sternal 

 interspaces as in B. pinguis, as also the femora. Abdomen stout, 

 with a more or less distinct median carina, in the male tapering and 

 then apically enlarging and upturned; supraanal plate of male tri- 

 angular, as long as its basal breadth, otherwise as in B. pinguis; fur- 

 cula absent; cerci as long as the supraanal plate, straight, tapering 

 regularly in the basal three-fifths, beyond equal or subequal, blunt 

 tipped ; infracercal plates blunt tipped, reaching the tip of the supraanal 

 plate. 



General color blackish griseous, more or less necked with brown. 

 Face and genae below the eyes varying from pale to pinkish livid, punc- 

 tate with black, especially below, and divided by black stripes following 

 the edges of the frontal costa and the lateral carinae of the face and 

 also, generally, the arcuate posterior carinae of the genae, and an oblique 

 line of punctures subparallel to it below the middle of the geiiae; summit 

 of head with a median and a pair of arcuate lateral narrow black stripes, 



