ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



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tinct but broken, very slightly curved ; hind margin of pronotum 

 forming a right angle ; wing covers reaching but little beyond the 

 end of tlie abdomen. 



Encoptolophus sordidus. Burmeister. 

 The Clouded Grasshopper. (Fig. 16.) 



Dusky brown ; wing covers pale, clouded, and spotted with 

 brown ; wings transparent, 

 dusky at tip, with a dark 

 brown line on the front 

 margin ; hind tibiae brown, 

 with darker spines, and a 

 broad whitish ring below 

 the knees. Length, about 

 one inch. 



Genus Camnula. Stal (1873). 



Head compressed ; antennae medium, a little stouter in the male ; 

 hind femora with an acute margin slightly crested ; eyes small, 

 rather prominent, rounded kidney-shaped. Pronotum nearly level 

 above with median and lateral carinas. 



Fig. 16. 

 Encoptolophus sordidus. 



Camnula pellucida. Scudder. 



Ash brown ; face reddish brown ; antennae yellowish at base, 

 dark brown toward tip ; a triangular black spot behind the eye, 



the apex touching it ; a quad- 

 rate transverse black spot on 

 the anterior upper portion of 

 the sides of the pronotum ; 

 pronotum above sometimes 

 with a dark band down the 

 middle ; wing covers with the 

 basal half darli brown, with 

 small yellowish spots and 

 transverse streaks, especially 

 on front border ; apical half 

 clear, with dark brown round- 

 Camnuil^peiincida. ed spots prevalent along the 



middle, decreasing in size toward the tip ; when closed, the upper 

 surface is dark brown, with a rather broad yellowish line along 

 each angle on the upper surface ; wings pellucid, with black nerv- 

 ules ; legs dark brown, the hind femora yellowish or reddish brown, 

 with two or three rather broad, diagonal, dark brown streaks, dark 



