Mnrsc] 232 [Feb. 21, 
and being an extremely alert insect some strategy is required 
to capture it. 
This species is similar in coloring and superHcial ap|)earance 
to Circotettix verruculatus Kirby, wliicli it also i-esembles in j)re- 
ferring similar haunts. It is readily distinguished from it, how- 
ever, by the color of the liind tibiae (in verruculatus pale yellow 
or gray, banded with black) and the character of the dark wing- 
band (in verruculatus narrow and made up of subcontiguous 
spots) . 
Spharagemon oculatdm sp. nov. 
Syn. Sevei'al specimens from Indiana received from W. S. 
Blatchley were referred by him doubtfully to S. ae(juale. 
1 <? > 2 9 , in Scudder's collection were labeled "<S. cullare, 
N.J." 
I am disposed to think from the last mentioned fact that i)er- 
haps this is the species referred to by Prof. J. B. Smith as S. 
collare (Bull. no. 4, ent. div. IT. S. dept. agric. ; Bull. 90, N. J. 
agric. coll. exp. station, p. 34). 
Small. In the stnictiire of the proiiotum closely allied to the type. 
Pale yellowish or pinkish brown sprinkled and spotted with darker 
broAvn or fuscous; paler, somewhat yellowish, below. One specimen 
is much more dusky, brownish fuscous above, somewhat paler below, — 
thus very similar to the type in color. 
Head of moderate size; equal, the dorsal half being less compressed 
than in the type. (See fig.) Eyes large, rather prominent, in depth 
equaling half the face from crown to clypeus {$)., or a little less (?). 
Owing to prominence of the eyes the vertex seems loAver and the occi- 
put less tumid than usual in this genus. Top of head seen from above 
with the vertex about as broad as the eye, in 5 ^ little more, in $ a 
little less, and varying individually. Facial costa snlcate in rf , less 
sulcate in '^ , but rather more so than in ncudderi. Lateral carinae of 
tlie face sharp, distinct. Face indistinctly fasciate transversely, a band 
of yellowish broAvn or fuscous passing below antennae from eye to eye, 
another band halfway down, broadest on median pftrtion of face, and 
irregular dusky markings on clypeus and labrum. Antennae of mod- 
erate length, fuscous at tip, lighter toward base, with indistinct 
annulations. 
Pronotum very similar to tliat of snulderi. The dislc ratlier flat on 
metazona, somewhat sloping on prozona; slightly angulate in front, 
acute-angled behind, moi'e so in $ than $ and somewhat varial)le. 
Median carina compressed, high, arclied, more so on metazona than on 
prozona; its dorsal edge often slightly sinuous on tlie prozona, on the 
hinder luilf of whicii it is less compressed at base, the disk there rising 
