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carinae, sprinkled over with darker dots. Elytra semi-transparent at 
the tip; with numerous dusky spots, which run together so as to form 
three transverse bands, the outer one indistinct; apical portion with a 
few spots. Wings yellow at base; a broad, black, well-defined band 
occupying the penultimate fourth, curving and decreasing along the 
posterior margin, reaching the anal angle; apical portion transparent, 
with dark nerves; apex with one or two dusky spots. Posterior femora 
with three white bands; posterior tibiae red with a white ring near 
the base. 
Dimensions. — -f. Length, 1.12 to 1.25 inches; elytra, 1.10 inches; 
posterior femora, 0.62 inches; posterior tibiae, 0.56 inches, m. —Length, 
0.9 to 1 inch; elytra about equal the body. 
So far as my observation and information extend, this species, al¬ 
though found throughout the State, is not very common. It is pro¬ 
bable it will be more frequently met with in the northern than in 
the southern portion. 
14. OEDIPODA COLL APIS. Scudd. 
Central foveola of the vertex rather broader than long in the 
female; in the male very slightly elongate; frontal costa flat or con¬ 
vex above the ocellus, with a shallow sulcus below; sides nearly par¬ 
allel. Median carina of the pronotum prominent, sub-cristate, with a 
very narrow but deep oblique notch a little in advance of the middle; 
the top slightly arcuate; lateral carinae indistinct; sides of the disk 
ascending. Elytra and wings pass the abdomen about one-third their 
length. 
Color .—Dark reddish-brown. Lower half of the head and a broad 
band along the posterior edge of the pronotum a clay-yellow, sprinkled 
with a few fuscous dots. Elytra mottled somewhat uniformly with 
fuscous blotches and dots, which form three irregular bands, one at 
the base, which is broad, the middle one narrowest, the apical one 
sometimes lost in the nearly equal mottling of the tip. Wings pale 
yellow at base; a broad median black band occupying the middle 
third, crossing the wing at right angles, decreasing along the poste¬ 
rior margin, around which it curves to the anal angle, throwing out 
a short, blunt, sub-frontal spur about one-third the distance to the 
base; apical portion transparent, nerves dusky, and tip clouded or with 
dusky spots. Hind femora clay-yellow, with two bands and apex fus¬ 
cous externally and black internally; hind tibiae reddish. Antennae 
fu8cous at the apex. 
