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Pronotum with a more or less flattened disk, the sides somewhat 

 compressed, the front margin truncate, the hind margin obtuse 

 angled or obtusely rounded ; the three carinas usually distinct, but 

 not elevated ; the median straight, entire ; the lateral straight or 

 curved inward at or in advance of the middle. "Wings and wing 

 covers sometimes abbreviated, sometimes as long or longer than the 

 abdomen, generally narrow. Prosternum unarmed, narrow. 

 The species may be separated as follows : — 



f Wing covers imspotted curtipennis. 



l Wing covers spotted maculipennis. 



Stenobothrus curtipennis. Harris. 

 The Short-winged Grasshopper. 

 Olive gray above, variegated with dark gray and black ; legs 

 and body beneath, yellow ; a broad black line extending from 

 behind each eye on the sides of the thorax ; wing covers, in the 

 male, as long as the abdomen ; in the female, covering two-thii'ds 

 of the abdomen ; wings rather shorter than the wing covers, trans- 

 parent, faintly tinged with yellow ; spines on hind tibiae tipped 

 with black. Length, about seven-eighths of an inch. 



Stenobothrus maculipennis. Scudder. 

 TJie Spotted-winged Grasshopper. (Fig. 14.) 

 Head and top of pronotum, green (in some individuals, brown) ; 

 a broad, reddish-brown band extending from the eyes to the 

 hinder side of the pronotum, limited 

 above by the lateral carinse, which 

 are white. Sides of the pronotum 

 below the band, brownish or dull 

 yellowish. Wing covers extending 

 beyond the end of the abdomen, .^^ ^ 

 green, with a row of square, black ^^^^^^^^ ^pfS^ 

 spots along the middle, and a few ^ • 



Fig. 14. 



irregularly scattered, smaller black stenobothrus macuJipennis. 



spots. Length, three-fourths of an a. Mature insect. 



t^ <=> 1 j,_ Pupa. 



inch. c. Larva. 



This is a very variable species, and contains several well- 

 marked varieties. 



Genus Stetheophyma. Fischer (1854). 

 Head large ; face somewhat oblique ; eyes sub-depressed ; an- 

 tennae filiform, of medium length. Pronotum flattened above, 



