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sternal lobes (female). Tegmina fully half as long as the abdomen, 

 elongate, subfusiform, the tip roundly pointed, dark brown, more or 

 less variegated with yellowish and blackish, the small spots showing a 

 tendency to a longitudinal arrangement, most of the veins light; wings 

 a little shorter than the tegmina. Fore and middle femora rather 

 tumid in the male; hind femora light yellowish-brown, with a pair of 

 conspicuous, submedian, V-shaped, dark brown or blackish bands exter- 

 nally, crossing the upper surface transversely, the extreme base and 

 tip marked with the same color; hind tibiae yellow, the spines black to 

 their base, 10 in number in the outer series. Abdomen yellowish 

 beneath, mostly reddish-brown above, deepening into black, the 

 extremity clavate and somewhat upturned in the male, the supraanal 

 plate hastate, strongly constricted mesially, with elevated margins and 

 obtusangulate tip, the median sulcus narrow, deep, and extending 

 almost to the tip ; furcula consisting of a pair of large, parallel, attingent, 

 tapering, acuminate, flattened fingers, reaching nearly halfway across 

 the supraanal plate; cerci short, very broad, nearly equal, strongly 

 compressed, laminate, the tip broadly rounded, slightly incurved, so 

 that the outer margin is broadly convex, the inner shallowly concave; 

 subgeuital plate broad and short, narrowing apically, the apical margin 

 abruptly, slightly, and almost uniformly elevated above the lateral mar- 

 gins and set at right angles with them, feebly notched mesially. 



Length of body, male, 17 mm., female, 20.5 mm. ; antennae, male, 

 female, 7.5 mm. ; tegmina, male, 7.7 mm., female, 6.75 mm. ; hind femora, 

 female, 11.5 ram. 



One male, 3 females. Taos Peak, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 

 northern New Mexico, 13,000 feet, Lieutenant W. L. Carpenter (S. H. 

 Scudder; U.S.N.M. [No. 726]. Riley collection); Colorado, "Alpine," 

 August (U.S.KM. [No. 726]. Eiley collection). 



5. PODISMA DODGEI. 

 (Plate VII, fig. 7.) 



Caloptenm dodgei THOMAS!, Can. Ent., Ill (1871), p. 168; Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. 

 Surv. Terr., V (1872), p. 451, PL u, figs. 4, 5, 9. GLOVER, 111. N. A. Ent., Orth. 

 (1872), PL xi, figs. 4, 5, 9. 



Pezotettix dodgei THOMAS!, Rep. U. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr., V (1873), p. 153; Proc. 

 Dav. Acad. So., I (1876), p. 259. UHLER, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., Ill 

 (1877), p 796. THOMAS, Ann. Rep. Chief Eng., 1878, p. 1845 (1878). BRUNER, 

 Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., Ill (1883), p. 59; Bull. Div. Ent.U. S. Dep. Agric., IV 

 (1884), p. 57. RILEY, Stand. Nat. Hist., II (1884), p. 202. COCKERELL, Can. 

 Ent.,XXIl (1890). p. 76. 



Pezotettix bohemani STAL!, Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Haudl., V (1878), No. 9, p. 15. 



Pezotettix marshallii SCUDDER !, Appal., I (1878), p. 263. 



Pezotettix aspirant SCUDDER!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX (1879), pp. 85-86; 

 Cent. Orth. (1879), pp. 74-75. BRUNER, Rep.U.S. Ent. Comm., Ill (1883), p. 59. 



Vertex gently tumid, slightly elevated above the pronotum, the inter- 

 space between the eyes considerably broader than the first antennal 



