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testaceous, the veins more or less flavous; wings (according to Riley; 

 I have not seen spread specimens) u rather dark, becoming somewhat 

 pellucid near their base, the veins dusky, especially on the apical half.' 7 

 Fore and middle legs flavous; hind femora luteo-testaceous, sometimes 

 suffused with sanguineous, with two broad fuscous bands, aiitemedian 

 and postmediau, the inner and lower face sanguineous, the whole geuic- 

 ulation black, preceded by a lemon-yellow annulus; hind tibiae black 

 at base, beyond iiavo-luteous, often, with the exception of a post-basal 

 annulus, more or less olivaceous, the spines, excepting their anterior 

 base, black. Subgenital plate of male wholly black ; supraanal plate 

 long triangular, with slightly convex sides, the surface transversely 

 arched, with a pair of approximate, slight, longitudinal ridges, meeting 

 rather abruptly beyond the middle and inclosing a shallow basal 

 sulcus, the sides of the plate with a median, transverse, pyramidal 

 tubercle; furcula consisting of a pair of rather distant, very slight, 

 triangular projections, overlying the submedian ridges; cerci very 

 short, small, rather stout, twisted a half circle, apically depressed and 

 the tip bluntly rounded ; infracercal plates of exceptional size, very broad 

 at base, gradually narrowing and reaching the tip of the supraanal 

 plate. 



Length of body, male, 24.25 mm., female, 29 mm.; antennae, male, 14 

 mm., female, 13 mm.; tegmiua (long-winged), male, 21 mm., female, 23.5 

 mm.; (short-winged), male, 5 mm., female, G mm.; hind femora, male, 

 13.5 mm., female, 13 mm. 



Six males, 11 females. Missouri (U.S.N.M. [No. 723]. Eiley collec- 

 tion; L. Bruner); De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri, July 8, T. Per- 

 gande (U.S.N.M. [No. 723]); Washington County, Texas, June (Bruner); 

 Dallas, Texas (U.S.N.M. [No. 723]); Manor, Travis County, Texas, July 

 13, E. Hill (U.S.N.M. [No. 723]). It is said by Bruner to occur also in 

 southeastern Nebraska, southern Iowa, and Illinois. 



I have retained the name quercus rather than longipennis for this 

 species for several reasons: It was first called by this name both by 

 Eiley and Bruner; it was first described in its earlier stages under this 

 name by Packard (copying Bruuer's description, which was unaccom- 

 panied by a name); and the name is a far more fitting one than Jongi- 

 pennis, considering that the insect appears both in brachypterotis and 

 macropterous forms, and that it is normally brachypterous, as the basal 

 divergence of the tegmina shows. It may also be called a mistake (in 

 which entomologists generally have erred, myself among them) to give 

 any species of Orthoptera a name derived from the length or brevity of 

 the tegmina. On the other hand, indubitably the species was first fully 

 described from mature examples under the name longipennis, a name 

 given by Riley on the assumption that it was distinct from his earlier 

 named quercus. As both names were given by the same naturalist, no 

 personal question enters, and I trust that in this settlement of the ques- 

 tion at its first raising all will agree. 



