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spiues ; tfie apex of 'Am last tarsal joint aud the uails black-piceous. 

 MesopleuriB with the rouud indeutation fuscous ; the coxae also a little 

 fuscous. Hemely tra short, not reaching beyond the middle of the abdo- 

 men, broad, bluntly rounded behind, a little dusky, but paler exteriorly, 

 on the base, disk, and posteriorly having some obscure, blackish, irregular 

 cloudings, the nervures very distinct, those of the disk interrupted with 

 piceous, and forking at tip ; the apical margin a little thickened. Ter- 

 gnm dull ocherous, with the posterior margins of the segments black ; 

 venter spotted and marked with black. 



Length 2^ millimeters. Width of pronotum 1 millimeter. 



It occurred in moderate abundance upon small bushes in Clear Creek 

 Cailon August 6. 



Bruchomorpha TsTewm. 

 B. 'paUidipes. 



Brucliomorplia pallidipes ^ik\, Novse vel Minus Coguit. Homopt., Berliu. Eat. 

 Zeit., vi, 309, No. 3. 



One specimen, swept from plants on the plains near Colorado Springs, 

 August 13. 



This species has a less prolonged and acute head than B. dorsata Fitch, 

 to which it is closely related. The length of the yellow vitta on the head, 

 pronotum, aud commissure of the hemelytra varies very much; and the 

 legs are often rufo-piceous, with only the coxie yellow. 



Subfamily TETTIGONIN.E. 



Ocelli placed on the vertex superiorly. 



Proconia St. Farg. et Serv. 

 P. costalis. 



Tettigonia costalis Fab. Eut. Syst., suppl., 516, Nos. 22-23.— Siguoret, Auuales 

 Soc. Ent. Frauce, 3cl ser., ii, 359, pi. 12, fig. 8. 



Widely distributed throughout the region of Colorado less remote 

 from the foot-hills. It was extraordinarily numerous near Colorado 

 Springs, upon low plants, August 13-17. On the low hills west of Den- 

 ver, also near Golden aud in Clear Creek Canon, it was found less 

 abundantly. In Manitou Park, a few specimens were taken from low 

 plants. The nymph is odd-looking, pale brown, with three yellow stripes 

 along its whole length. Dr. Packard collected a larval specimen at 

 Boulder, June 29. 



DiEDROCEPHALA Spin. 



1. D. moUipes. 



Tettigonia moUijies Say, Journ. Acad. Phila., vi, 312, No. 4. 

 Very abundant on grass and weeds in low spots near Denver aud in 

 the vicinity of Golden, August 5 and later in the month. 



2. D. noveboracensis. 



.lulacizes noveboracetms Fitch, Catal. Jus. N. Y. State Cabinet, 56, No. 2. 

 This IS more particularly a foot-hill and mountain species. It occurred 

 18 H B 



