NO. 1 124. 



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Eifrht males, 4 females. Texas, Belfrage (TT.S.N.M. — Kiley collection) ; 

 Texas, Lii)cecuin; Dallas, Texas, J. Boll; Bostjue County, Texas, (J. \V. 

 liclfrage; Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, May (U.S.N.M. — Uiley 

 follection); San Antonio, Bexar C<uinty, Texas (L. Hruner). It is ilso 

 reported from McPherson, Labette, Shawnee, and Barber counties, 

 Kansas, by Bruner. IJoll took the species in September and October 

 in woods, on plants and bushes; Belfrage in October on prairies. 



2. CAMPYLACANTHA OLIVACEA. 



(l»late IV, lij,'. t.) 



Pezoieitix olivaceua Scudder!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII (1875), p. 472; 

 Eut. Notes, IV (1S75). p. 71; Cent. Orth. {\H1\)\, j>. 1(5.— liuixKK, Rep. T. S. 

 Knt. roinm., Ill (1SH3). p. 58; lus. Life, III (1S!»1), p. L'29; IJull. Div. Ent., 

 r. .»>;. Dep. A^Tic. XXIII (1«>1), p. 11; I'libl. Nebr. Atad. !5i-., Ill (189:^), p.27. 



Bright olivaceous green, occasionally somewhat iufuscatod and so 

 a])proacliing in ai)i)earance C. nciffijx'nuis. Summit of head with a dark- 

 green median strii)e, broadening posteriorly, sometimes including a 

 median yellowish thread; sides of head and sometimes the front tinged 

 with yellow: antennae green at base, beyond orange, infuscated at the 

 extreme tip. Pronotum covered rather profusely with short longitudi- 

 nal dashes of lemon yellow, rather irregularly distributed but distinctly 

 marking the median carina, excei)ting at its posterior extremity, and 

 also the two extremities, rarely the whole, of the lateral carinae. Teg- 

 mina green, generally half the length of the itbdomen, occasionally but 

 little longer than the pronotum. rarely half as long again. I-egs stout, 

 yellowish green, the fore and middle femora more or less tinged with 

 Idull orange; outsideof hind femora slightly infuscated, the tibial spines 

 I black-tipped. Supraanal plate of male and furcula wholly similar to 

 the same parts in C. c<ciitipennis; cerci straight and slender, shorter 

 ithau the supraanal plate, usually partially erect, at least in cabinet 

 jepccimens, the basal half tapering, the apical less than half as broad, 

 [equal, the tip rounded but a little produced below, the outer surface 

 [Blightly sulcate on the apical half; infracercal plates as in C. aeutipennis. 



Length of body, male, 21 mm., female, 29 mm. ; antennae, male and 

 feuuile, lO.o mm. : tegmina, male, 8.5 mm., female, 13.5 mm. ; hind femora, 

 lale, 13.5 mm., female, 17.5 mm. 



Twenty males, 20 females. Lincoln, Nebraska (L. Bruner); Douglas 

 )ounty, Kansas, 900 feet, September ( Tniversity of Kansas) ; Texas, 

 September 14, Belfrage; Bosque County, Texas, October 24-27, lielfrage; 

 1 >allas, Texas, September 9, J. Boll ; Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, 

 ]\Iay ^r.S.N.M. — Kiley collection). Frequently found sitting on fences 

 111 the autumn, accordmg to Belfrage. 



This species very closely resembles the preceding, and may perhaps 

 yet l)e proved but a dimorphic form of the same; it appears to be com- 

 moner and to have a wider range. Bruner states that he has seen it 



