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from above downward ; the lower lialf of the hiteral lobes rather lip^hter 

 colored than tlie disk of the pronotuni. Teuniina i>ale «;rass j^reen. 

 Fore and njichlle lejrs *jreenish yelh>w; hind femora pale yellowisli 

 ^reen, sometimes a little infiiscated esi)ecially above, occasionally 

 sprinkled sparsely with ferrnjj^inons dots; hind tibiae very juile faintly 

 bluish jireen, tlie spines with oidy tiieir extreme tips brc iiish or black 

 ish. Sui)raanal plate of male pretty regularly triangular with subacu 

 minate apex, the surface tectate and the mesial rid<;e divided in two by 

 a narrow ])ercurrent sulcus, deep on the basal half of the plate; fur 

 cula comi)osed of a pair of adjacent, straight and very slender, cylin- 

 drical, biuntly acuminate ])rocesses, several times longer than broad; 

 cerci very delicate, tapering on the basal half, beyond very slender, 

 equal, compressed, cylindrical, apically bluntly subacuminate, the 

 apical half considerably and gradu.Jly incurved; infracercal plates 

 narrow, laterjdly arcuate, a little shorter than the supraanal plate, 

 conceale<l by the recumbent cerci. 



Length of body, male, 14.5 mm., female, 21.5 mm.; antenmie, male, 

 7 mm., female, (J.o mm.; tegmina, male, 4.5 mm., female, 5.4 mm.j bind 

 femora, male, 0.5 mm., female, 12 mm. 



Thirteen males, 1*3 females. Bismarck, Burleigh County, North 

 Dakota, August ( L. Hruner) ; Fort IJobiuson, Dawes County, Nebraska, 

 August 21-22, L. Bruner (U.S.N.M. — Kiley collection); Nebraska, G. 

 M. Dodge (S. H. Scudder; S. Henshaw; V.S.N.M. [No. 70(>J— Kiley 

 collection); (lordon, Sheridan Couutj^ Nebraska, L. BrJiner (U.S.N.M. — 

 liiley collection); A^alentine, Cherry County, Nebraska, L. Bruner (the 

 same); Finney County, Kansas, September, H. W. Menke (University 

 of Kansas); between Smoky Hill, Kansas, and Denver, Colorado, 

 L. Agassiz (Mus. Comp. Zool.); Colorado, 5500 feet, Morrison: Pueblo, 

 Colorado, 4700 feet, August 3 ^1. 



The species was originally described from Glencoe, Dodge County, 

 Nebraska. It has since been rc;/orted from Manitoba, Minnesota, 

 Dakota, Montana, and from Fort McKinney, Johnson County, Wyo 

 ming, and Kansas by Biuner, from Iowa by Osborn, and Colorado by 

 Thomas '^Ilere in Nebraska,'' says Bruner, 'Mt is one of our common 

 est species, when one knows where to look for it."' It feeds, according,' 

 to the same writer, on what is called ir he West *' white sage," Arte- 

 misia ludoviciaua^ with which its colors closely correspond. 



13. CAMPYLACANTHA, new genus. 

 (HixfiiTtvXo?, bent (backward); dnayOit, (prosterual) spine.) 



i7f/j)ocAZom Brunner (pars), Rov. Syst. Orth. (1893), p. 145. 

 Body somewhat compiessed, rather densely pih)se. Head rather 

 prominent, especially in the male, the genae being rather tumid and 

 the summit strongly arched and distinctly 'vated above the level of 

 the prouotum, the fastigium descending rapit4iy, but the face niodcr 



