338 I'lUK iiEinsiis (H rnt: s Alios AL miselm. v<.i. w. 



M'ins mostly fuscous. Fore and ini(Ml«' feuiora a littlo tumid in tlie 

 male; hiiid femora luteo testaceous, outside (exceptinj;: below i more or 

 less deeply iufuscated, the int'uscation sometimes contined to, or more 

 marked in, very obli<iue dusky fasciaticuis, which also cross the upi>er 

 lace, the lower face generally dull oran^^e; hind tibiae very variable 

 but «;enerally nearly uniform in color, pale red or jilaucous beinjj the 

 l)revailing color, but they are sometime:'. i)lumbeou8 or yellowish: 

 s|)ines black tipi)ed, ten to twelve, usually eleven, in number in the 

 outer series. Extremity of male abdomen clavate, feebly recurvetl. the 

 supraanal plate triantfular with acutangulate apex, the surface nearly 

 Hat with a narrowing, moderately deep, median suh'us between ratliei 

 l)rominent ridges, which are confluent apically and terminate a little 

 beyond the middle of the plate; furcula consisting of a pair of rather 

 distant, i)arallel, slender spines, somewhat longer than the last dorsal 

 segment, overlying the ridges of the vsui)raanal plate: cerci with the 

 basal portion stout, rectangular, not very strongly compressed, nearly 

 twice as long as Vroad, the apical portion of the same sha])e but broadly 

 rouuded at the tip, nearly as long as the basal part, but narrower, bent 

 from it upward at an angle of 45^, bent also inward, much comi)ressed 

 and shallowly sulcate, with an inferior bounding ridge: subgenital 

 plate very short, subequal but apically rounded, the lateral margin 

 somewhat infolded at base, the apical margin mesially angulate, thick- 

 ened and feebly tuberculate. 



Length of body, male, IJ) mm., female, 24 mm.; antennae, male. 8 

 mm., female, 9 mm.; tegmina, male, 14 mm., female, l'J.5 mm.; bind 

 femora, male, 11.2.") mm., female, 13 mm. 



One hundred and seventy-three males, 1 11) females. Fryeburg, OxfonI 

 County, Maine, August 20 (A. P. Morse); Kearsarge village. North 

 Conway, and Jackson, Carroll County, New Hampsliire, July 2-3(» 

 (same); Faneuil Station. Boston, Massachusetts, July 14 (same); Sher 

 born, lielmont, and Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, June 

 23-August (same); Wellesley, Needham, Dover, and Blue Hill. 

 Norfolk County, Massachusetts, June 13-August 4 (same): Wiuchen- 

 don, Worcester County, Massachusetts, June 30-July 5 (same) ; Thomj)- 

 son, Windham County, Connecticut, August 4, <l (same); Montville 

 and Niantic, New London ('Ounty, Connecticut, August 7, S (same); 

 Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, AugUwSt 13-17 (same); Croton, 

 Delaware County, New York, June 26; Virginia, July (L. Bruner); 

 Indiana, Bollman (U.S.N.M. — Biley collection); Illinois; Dallas County, 

 Iowa, August (J, J. A. Allen ; Jefterson, Greene County, Iowa, July 20- 

 24, Allen; Crawford County, Iowa, July l">-24, on prairies, Alien; 

 lirookfield, Linn County, Missouri, E. P. Austin; Nebraska, Dodge; 

 Nebraska?, A. Agassiz (Museum Comparative Zoology); War Bonnet 

 Canyon, Nebraska, L. Bruner (U.S.N.M. — Riley collection); Valentine, 

 Cherry County, Nebraska, Bruner (same); Cordon, Sheridan County, 

 Nebraska, Bruner (same); B(»ulder, Colorado, June (same); Poudie 

 Iliver, Colorado, July IG, Bruner (same); Colorado, 0,000 feet, 31or- 



