456 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Chloealtis viridis. Scudder, 



Wing covers shorter than the body, a little longer than the 

 wings. Top of head and prothorax, green ; sides of head and 

 prothorax, dirty brown, with a horizontal black band behind the 

 eye, extending over the prothorax ; front of head, yellowish brown ; 

 fore and hind legs, reddish brown ; mesothoracic legs, green ; 

 spines of tibiae tipped with black ; wing covers above, green ; upon 

 the sides, brown ; body beneath, yellowish. The female varies 

 from olivaceous green to dark brown, with a dark band behind the 

 eye, as in the male ; upon the top of the head a dark band extends 

 from either side of the vertex, curving inwards and then outwards 

 to midway between the median and lateral carinas ; hind tibiae, 

 reddish brown. 



Length, about three-fourths of an inch. 



Chloealtis punctulata. Scudder. 



Wings and wing covers extending to tip of abdomen. Vertex 

 edged with reddish brown ; a narrow, reddish-brown band extends 

 along the lateral carinse of pronotum to the eye, edged below 

 with black ; it extends also slightly upon the base of the wing 

 covers ; abdomen, sternum, fore legs and mouth parts (except the 

 black mandibles) , reddish brown ; hind tibiae, yellowish brown, the 

 spines tipped with black ; all the tarsi darker ; wing covers green, 

 with scattered, small, brownish spots. 



Length of body, about one inch. 



Chloealtis conspersa. Harris. 

 Tlie Sprinkled GrassJiopper. 

 Light reddish brown, sprinkled with black spots ; a black line 

 running behind each eye, on the head, and extending on each side 

 of the thorax on the elevated lateral line ; wing covers oblong- 

 oval, pale yellowish brown, with many small, darker brown spots ; 

 wings about one-seventh of an inch long, transparent, with dusky 

 lines at the tip ; hind .tibiae pale red, the spines at the end, black. 

 Length, nearly nine-tenths of an inch. 



Genus Stenobothrus. Fischer (1853). 

 Body medium size or small, elongate. Face more or less sloped 

 obliquely backward and under toward the breast ; vertex in front 

 of the eyes, somewhat prominent, horizontal ; eyes sub-rotund 

 or sub-angulate. The antennae generally exceed the head and 

 pronotum in length, and are sub-compressed or sub-cylindi'ical. 



