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lateral carinae; antennae pale red, apically infuscated. The upper sur- 

 face of the body and the tegmina are more or less profusely dotted with 

 very pale fuscous; an oblique, cuneiform, yellow dash, the apex in front 

 and above, follows the ridge of the metathoracic episterna, margined 

 on either side by an equal piceous belt. The hind femora generally 

 partake of the color of the upper surface of the body, but appear darker 

 from being specked with blackish fuscous dots, which generally cluster 

 more or less into two very oblique bands in the middle and beyond the 

 middle, and also margin interruptedly the upper outer carina; hind 

 tibiae red, the apical half of the spines black, these eleven to thirteen, 

 generally eleven, in number in the outer series. 



Length of body, male, 23.5 mm., female, 31 mm.; antennae, male, 10 

 mm., female, 11 mm.; tegmina, male, 7.6 mm., female, 10 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 14 mm., female, 17 mm. 



Five males, 12 females. Texas, Belfrage (U.S.X.M. Kiley collec- 

 tion); Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, May (same); Dallas, Texas, 

 Boll (same; S. H. Scudder); Labette Counfcy, Kansas, W. S. Newlon 

 (L. Bruuer). 



24. PLEBEJUS SERIES. 



In this somewhat homogeneous group, the prozona is distinctly 

 longitudinal in both sexes (the female of one species is not known) and 

 nearly or quite half as long again as the metazona, the posterior margin 

 of which is subtruncate or truncate or sometimes very obtusangulate. 

 The interspace between the mesosternal lobes in the male is more than 

 twice, sometimes thrice, as long as broad. The tegmina are very vari- 

 able; one species is dimorphic, having either fully developed tegmina 

 and wings considerably surpassing the tips of the hind femora, or 

 ovate lanceolate overlapping tegmina, acuminate at tip and a little 

 longer than the pronotum; another is macropterous with subequal 

 tegmina, reaching the tips of the hind femora; the other species are 

 brachypterous, but the tegmina are variably shaped, sometimes as 

 in the brachypterous form of the dimorphic species, at others either 

 rounded ovate and attingent, or widely separated and lateral. 



The supraanal plate is triangular, with generally a tolerably plane 

 surface; the furcula is obsolete, subobsolete, or reduced to mere brief 

 denticulatious; the cerci are long, constricted in the middle, but 

 expanding only a little apically, incurved, and bluntly rounded or 

 inferiorly subacuminate at tip; the subgenital plate is always small, 

 distinctly narrower than long, often narrowing apically, and sometimes 

 ends in a tubercle. 



There are five species, most of them widely separated from one 

 another: one occurs in the upper Mississippi valley from the Dakotas 

 to Kentucky, while the others are found respectively in Florida (two 

 species), Texas, and California. 



