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roiindt'd in the female an<l sometimes in tlie male; prozona distinctly 

 lonjjitudinal (male) or qnadrate or feebly lon;jjitudinal( female), j^eneially 

 more (male) or generally less (female) than one third longer than the 

 closely pnnctate metazona. Prosternal sjjine long, apprcssed cylin- 

 drical, blunt, retrorse; intersj)a<;e between mesosternal lobes about half 

 as long again as broad (male), or feebly transverse (fcmiilei. Tegmina 

 abbreviate, a little longer than the pronotum, overlapping, very broad 

 just beyond the base an<l rapidly narrowing, short snblanceolate, the 

 costal margin roundly angnlate, apically subacnniinate, the dorsal and 

 lateral fields angularly separated, brownish fuscous, the <iorsal tiehl 

 often cinereous, the lateral often feebly flecked with fuscous. Fore and 

 middle femora very tumid in the nuile: hind femora testaccims or tlavo- 

 testaeeous, heavily and broadly but sometimes confusedly bifasciate 

 with blackish fuscous, the geniculation blackish, the inferior face pale 

 tlavous, pallid apically; hind tibiae red, blackish at the base, fol- 

 lowed by an obscure pallid annulus, beh)w which the red is feebly 

 iiifuscated, the spines black on their apical half, ten to eleven, rarely 

 nine, in number in the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen 

 strongly clavate, nnich recurved, the supraanal plate triangular, with 

 an acutangulate or rectangulate apex, slightly angnlate sides which are 

 considerably and gradually elevated, and a tolerably broad, i)ercurrent, 

 moderately deep but ai)ically fading median sulcus, broadened at 

 extreme base, lying between sharp walls; furcula consisting of a pair 

 of approximate denticulations of varying length, but generally at least 

 as long as the last dorsal segment, generally slenderer than represented 

 in the tigure; cerci coarse and heavy, broad at base. rai)idly narrowing, 

 so that the middle is about two-thirds as broad as the extreme base, 

 beyond enlarging slightly, curved rather abrui)ily inward, and strongly 

 and abruptly compressed or exteriorly sulcate, the apex rouinled sub- 

 truncate; subgenital plate rather broad and full, the lateral margins 

 arcuate, the apical margin gently elevated but not tuberculate, entire, 

 both margins together as seen from above subsemicircular. 



Length of body, male, 23 mm., female, -4 mm.; antennae, male, 14 mm., 

 female, 10 mm.; tegmina, male, !>.."> mm., female, 8.5 mm.; hind femora, 

 male, 15 mm., female, 13.5 mm. 



Twenty-one males, IG females. Isebraska, Dodge; Fort Robinson, 

 Dawes County, Nebraska, xVugust 22, L. Bruner(U.S.I^.M. — Kiley collec- 

 tion); Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska (L. Bruner; U.S.N.M. — Kiley 

 collection); St. Louis, Missouri, October 10, 27(r.S.X.M. — Kiky collec- 

 tion); Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, McNeill; rutnani County, 

 Indiana, June 30, October 21 (W. S. Blatchley; A. P. Morse); Vigo 

 County, Indiana, Blatchley (A.P.Morse). It has also been reported 

 from [owa (Osborn). 



According to Blatchley and Bruner it is found in woods. Bruner's 

 specific name for this insect is preoccupied by Thomas. 



