74 viiitcKKins'ds OF the y trios. ir. museum, tolxx 



Tills spccios in very closely allied to Ac. retftilis, hut lias inucli loiiffei 

 te^iiiiiia, is slighter in (biiii, lias a less pronounced suhapical tubeicic 

 to the male abdomen, and ditlers slightly in color and markings aH well 

 as in the abdominal appeixlages. 



5. AEOLOPLUS CHENOPODII. 



(IMato V, ♦i;jf. J).) 



Pezolettix cheuopo<lii ItiuvKRl, Ins. \a(v, VII i1H«U), pp. 41-t2; Rpp. St. Ilort 

 Soc. Nel.r.. 1WI4 (IM94), p. 163; Hull. l»iv. Kut. V. S. Dep. Agrlc, XXXU 

 (lJ<94),pp. 12-13. 



Head varying from livid to warm testaceous, faintly, feebly, and 

 sparsely punctate with brown, with mediodorsal and postocular strii>es 

 of black as in the neighboring species, the former generally broaden- 

 ing posteriorly and thereafter inclosing a yellow thread; antennae 

 brownish yellow, pallid basallyand infiiscated apically; fastigium more 

 or less shallowly sulcate in its narrowest part, the frontal costa about 

 as wide as the space between the eyes, equal, nearly fiMling out before 

 reaching the clypeus, and plane throughout, r'-onotum testaceous, 

 sometimes punctate with brown above, with a broad an<l posteriorly 

 broadening mediodorsal blackish stripe on the prozona, including a 

 similarly widening testaceous thread or stripe; upper half or rather 

 less of the lateral lobes of the pro;^ona with a similar more or less 

 distinct blackish l)rown belt, generally acco.npanicd by a testaceous 

 dot at the middle of the upper margin; hinder margin of the pronotuni 

 hardly angulate, but well rounded in a uniform curve; median carina 

 slight on the metazona, wanting or rarely indicated on the prozoiia. 

 Prosternal spine short, conical, rather blunt. Tegmina subovate, less 

 than twice as long as broad, ai)ically oblifpiely truncate in the female, 

 not i)ointc<l, fuliginous, with crow<led brownish and yellowish veins. 

 Hind femora luteo testaceous, with three broail, transverse angnhii- 

 bands of bluish black, which are but little conHuent on the <mtcr 

 face anil somewhat less conspicuous on the upper face, the genicular 

 arc black; hind tibiae pale glaucous (sometimes pink, according to 

 Druner) with the knee and a subbasal annulus i)ale yellow; the spines 

 black with pallid base. Supraanal plate of male triangular with 

 faintly sinuous sides and roundly pointed apex, the surface flat but 

 with a pair of convergent, rather sharp, but only slightly elevated 

 ridges, inclosing a rather narrow basal longitudinal sulcus, iiot reach- 

 ing the middle of the plate; there are besides two short, strongly 

 oblique, blunt ridges on the basal half, fading at their extremities; fur 

 cula wholly wanting; cerci moderately broad and compressed at base, 

 tapering gradually and regularly over a little more than the basal 

 half, beyoud subequal, subcylindrical, but pointed, the apex scarcely 

 incurved and extending scarcely beyond the supraanal plate: subapical 

 tubercle of subgenital plate small, directed upward and backward, 

 very short and. bluntly conical as viewed from behind. 



