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Color, a pale red lish brown, tinged with green. A distinct, median, yel¬ 
low stripe reaches from the vertex to the tip of the pronotum, and ex¬ 
tends upon the suture of the elytra. A row of distant, black punctures 
on each margin of the frontal costa, and a row across the upper part 
of the clypeus. Palpi and antennae yellow, and the sides of the pro¬ 
notum sparsely sprinkled with yellow dots. Elytra translucent, pale 
reddish-brown; nerves darkest. Wings transparent, tinged with green¬ 
ish yellow at the base; nerves and nervules dull yellow, darkest near 
the middle of the outer border, slightly tinged with red near the an¬ 
terior border. Anterior and middle legs greenish externally; striped 
with black internally. Posterior femora pale green; upper margin of 
the disk marked with a row of black dots. P >sterior tibiae with the 
inner face black; outer face greenish-purple. Posterior margin of each 
abdominal segment marked with a ring of black dots. 
Length of body of female 1.15 inches; male 1.25 to 1.4 inches. 
This is a western species and but few specimens have been taken 
in this State. 
36. ACRIDIUM AMERICANUM. Drury. (Fig. 10.) 
Female .—Large size. Vertex hexagonal, with a central depression; 
frontal costa solid and somewhat prominent above the ocellus, sides 
nearly parallel. Eyes elongate oval, rounded behind, straight in front. 
Pronotum expanding at the posterior lobe; median carina but slightly 
prominent; humeral angles sub-distinct on the posterior lobe, obtusely 
rounded; anterior and middle lobes marked with minute shallow cells, 
each having a very minute tubercle in the centre; posterior lobe densely 
punctured; posterior margin about right-angled; apex rounded. Elytra 
and wings passing the abdomen one-third their length. Posterior 
femora reaching the apex of the abdomen. Prosternal spine large, 
curved backward and hairy. wn 
Color. —Reddish-brown, with a slight vermillion tint. A yellow stripe; 
extends from the vertex along the middle of the head and pronotum,, 
and also upon the suture of the closed elytra as far as the tip of ,.the; 
abdomen. A dark brown line down the cheeks below the eyes.hr.Ou; 
the sides of the pronotum is a yellow stripe extending from the sub¬ 
marginal to the last cross-incision, directed a litPe obliquely down¬ 
ward; below this is a brown stripe; then a narrow yellow stripe di¬ 
rected obliquely upward; lower margin yellow. 
Elytra opaque and reddish at base, rest semi-transparent; a narrow, 
white stripe on the lower margin, next the base; the disk and apical 
half marked with large cellular, fuscous spots. 
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