121 



Texas, westward to Nebraska and Minnesota, and northward to Lake 

 VVinnepeg. 



345. LocusTA VERRUCULATA Kirb}'. — Length of body 12^ lines 

 A single specimen taken in Lat. 57^ 



[251.] Body cinereous, sprinkled with black dots or punctures, and 

 indistinct spots. Head punctured ; palpi white at the tij) ; mandibles 

 piceous ; antennae shorter than the trunk, pale, black at the tip and 

 longitudinally concavo-convex ; prothorax with an entire longitudinal 

 dorsal ridge, wrinkled, and warty from the wrinkles ; tegmina with a 

 reddish tint, irregularly reticulated : wings with a black mcsal band, and 

 reddish-yellow nervures ; abdomen pale underneath. 



[Belongs to the genus CEdipoda Latr. Is taken in Canada and the 

 New England States ; has been found also at Lake Winnepeg.] 



FAMILY ACRYDIAD/E. 



346. AcRYDiUM GRANULATUM Kuby. — Length of body 5 lines. A 

 single specimen taken in Lat. 65^ 



Body black, sprinkled w ith numberless very minute elevated points or 

 granules. Prothorax cinereous, clouded obscurely with black, three- 

 ridged ; with middle ridge straight, and the lateral ones curved at the 

 base ; rudiments of the tegmina cinereous, ridged, punctured with 

 excavated punctures ; nervures of the wings black, those of the costal 

 area white ; the four anterior tibiae are reddish, obscurely banded or 

 rather annulated with white. 



[Belongs to the genus Tettix Latr. Taken by White in Sir J. Richard- 

 son's Arctic Searching Expedition, on the borders of the Mackenzie and 

 Slave Rivers, and Fort Simpson. Found also in N. E. States and 

 Minnesota.] 



[252.] IIL— NEUROPTERA. 



FAMILY AGRIONID.I^. 



347. AoRiON PUELLA Linn. 



Variety B. Trunk sea-green, above black with two sea-green longi- 

 tudinal stripes ; abdomen black, sea-green at the 

 base, inscribed with black ; legs black above, under- 

 neath sea-green or white ; the stigma of the wings is 

 blackish with a transparent margin. 



