352 PiiocEEhisas or the natiosal museum. vol.xx. 



and coarse, lainiiiato, boot whaptMl, the basal half subequal, punctate 

 and Htraifjht, beyond expanding and at the same time feebly bifurcate, 

 the upper fork as lon^ and more than half as bioa<l as the base, feebly 

 incurved, strongly upcurved, apically tapering slightly and well 

 rounded, the lower fork at right angles to it, forming only a rountled, 

 downward and posteriorly projecting lobe, so that the apical margin 

 of the whole is deeply and roundly emarginate below, the whole sui-- 

 passing a little the supraanal ])hite : iufracercal plates wholly obscurc^l ; 

 subgenital plate short and broad, scarcely so broad apically as long, 

 the apical margin thickened, but hardly otherwise either elevated or 

 prolonged, entire; upper valve of ovipositor abriiptly upturned apic- 

 ally and sharply acuminate, the upi)er outer carina feebly serrate. 



Lengtii of body, male, .JO ram., female, 41 mm.: antennae, male, 18 

 mm., female, IG mm.; tegmina, male, .'ili mm., female, 3-l.rMnm.; hind 

 femora, male, 20 mm., female, 23 mm. Some specimens, especially from 

 the North (Illinois, e. g.), are hardly more than half this size. 



Seventy two males, 110 females. Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyo 

 ming, August 21, Osten Sacken; Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, 

 August 8 (U.S.N.M. — IJiley collection); Brownville, Nemaha County, 

 Nebraska, August, K. N. Furnas (same); Fort McPherson, Nebraska 

 (Museum Comparative Zoology); Denison, Crawford County, Iowa, 

 July 1~>, J. A. Allen ; Jeflt'erson, Greene County, Iowa, July 20-24, Allen ; 

 Dallas County, Iowa, August 20-23, September, Allen; Vigo County, 

 Indiana, Blatchley (A. P. Morse); Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, 

 Indiana, November 20, C. K. Barnes (I'.S.N.M. — Kiley collection); 

 Illinois, Uhler, J. 11. Treat (Museum Comparative Zoology); northern 

 Illinois, Stiumberg (S. Ilenshaw); Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, 

 McNeill; Peoria, Illinois, W. Barnes (Museum Comparative Zoology); 

 southern Illinois, Kennicott, Thomas; Misso :ri, in coitu September 4 

 (U.S.N.M. — liiley collection); St. Louis, Missouri, Geo. Engelmanu; the 

 same, August 18, and central Missouri, July (L^.S.N.M. — Kiley collcc 

 tion); Garden City, Finney County, Kansas, July 26 (same); Lakin. 

 Kearny County, Kansas, July 27 (same: S. H. Scudder); Fort Prills. 

 Kansas, Wats!)n (Museum Comparative Zoology) ; between Smoky Hill. 

 Kansas,aud Denver, Colorado, L.Agassiz (same); Colorado (F.S.N.M. — 

 Riley collection); Pueblo, Colorado, 4.700 feet, August 30-31; Sabinal, 

 Socorro County, New Mexico, A igust 7, Townsend ; Socorro, New Mex- 

 ico, G. May (L^.S.N.M. — Ivile^- cvilection); Agricultural College, Missis 

 sippi,Weed; Texas, Bel frage, : liicecum; Dallas, Texas, Boll (U.S.N.M. — 

 Riley collection; S. H. 3cudder); Columbus, Colorado County, Texas 

 ( U.S.N.M. — Riley collection) ; ( Julf coast of Texas, Aaron ; Pecos River, 

 Texas, June 20, Captain Pope; Los Angeles, California, Coquillctt 

 (U.S.N.M. — Riley collection; L. Bruner); AguaCaliente, Sonoma County, 

 California, Palmer; Mexico(Museum Comparative Zoology; U.S.N.M. — 

 Riley collection); Queretaro, Mexico, November (L. Bruner). 



It has also been reported from New Jersey in cranberry bogs 



