72 pRocKEDisas or tjie sational ^trsKr.v. tol.xx. 



the fastijjium to the hinder inar;,'in, bioadt'uiiijj posteriorly and coiitin- 

 uin;^: acrijss the pronotiiiii, wher*' it is very niiicli broaihM', broadest in 

 the niiihUe! or at the hinder extremily and sometimes inrh)sin;;; a sh'nder 

 thread or strii»e of testaceous: there is also a hiteral bhie j^reen band, 

 its upper limit at the summit of the lateral lolies of the i)ronotum. 

 whieh starts from behind the eye and crosses the prozoua, where it is 

 much the widest, occupyin;jf from a thinl to a half the lenj^^th of tin* 

 lateral lobes, and occasionally sutVusinjj the meta/.oiui; rest of pro- 

 notum brownish testaceous, souu'tiines with a yellow t injure; fiontal 

 costa equal, as wide as the interval between tin* eyes, slijihtly depressed 

 at the ocellus; antennae (uanjie. I'ronotnm obtusely annulate poste 

 riorly, tlie median caiina distinct on the meta/ona, feebly iiulicated on 

 the prozona in the male and occasionally in the fennde. Prosternal 

 spine rather slender, conical, reaching; the level of the i>ectus. Tegmina 

 generally sligh<^ly longer than the abdomen, espe(;ially in the male, 

 sometimes only as long as it, rather broad, esjjecially Just beyon<] the 

 base, brownish green, with darker green lleckings and yellowish cross- 

 veins; beyond the subbasal enlargement they taper regularly ami gently, 

 the tip rounde(l: liind wings a little shorter than the tegmina, moder- 

 ately broad, the veins bluish green, slightly inl'uscated next the costa. 

 Hind femora testaceous yellow, with two broad angulate and sagittate 

 blue-greeu band.^, darkest above; hind tibiae jiale blue greeu, pallid 

 at base and pallescent ai)ically, the sjiines jiallid, with the ai)ical hall' 

 blackish brown. Supraanal i>late of male subtriangular, with broadly 

 angulate sides, as long as broad, the acutely anguhite tip rounded, the 

 surface uearly i)lane but faintly elevated to the slight ridges which 

 nnirk the boundaries of the rather broad and shallow median sulcus 

 that extends over the basal half, narrowing slightly in its i)assage: 

 there is besides, on either side, an oblique and narrow ridge, extending 

 from the extreme outer base toward the middle of the di.stal half of the 

 opi)osite side, termiuating halfwjiy there; furcula consisting of a pair 

 of scarce!}' i)roJecting, minute, attingent, angulate or subangulate lobes; 

 infracercal i)late as long as the su])raanal, concealed by the recund)ent 

 cerci; cerci feebly compressed, of the length of the supraanal plate, 

 tapering in the basal half, bey(md slender, cylindrical, sube(iual, but 

 apically tapering and feebly curved downward and in want; subai)ica] 

 tubercle of the subgenital plate moderately i>rominent, erect, very 

 bluntly conical as seen from behind. 



Length of body, male, ll>.o mm,, female, 27.5 mm.; antennae, mah'. 

 8 mm., fenmle, IKTo mm.; tegmina, male, 14 mm., female, 19 mm.; hind 

 femora, uuile, 11.5 mm., fennde, 10.5 mm. 



Five males, 41 females. Cheyenne County, Kansas, F. W. Cragiu 

 (L. Bruuer); Lakin, Kearny County, Kansas, 3,000 feet, July-Se}»teni- 

 ber; between Smoky Hill, Kansas, and Denver, Colorado, L. Agassi/. 

 (Mus. Comp. Zool.) ; Pueblo, Colorado, July- August; Colorado, Morrison 

 (S. Henshaw); Colorado (U.S.X.M.); Grand fhmction, Mesa County. 

 Colorado, June (L. Bruner): Pecos Biver, Texas, Captain Pope. 



