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Show 262 tion of which is insufficient. They differ from the description in the comparative length of the tegmina and hind femora, and in the color of the latter. In these specimens, they measure as follows: tegmina, $ 3.5mna; 9 4.5TOm; hind femora, $ 9 10n timm HESPEEOTETTIX not. gen. ( 2< n: sposy rimf). Allied to Pezotettix and Caloptenw. Head not very prominent; vertex very narrow between the eyes, with a slight median pit; the fasti-gium broadening considerably in front, declivant, shallowly sulcata in the middle, the sides rounded; front straight, a little ( 9 ) or considerably (< J) oblique; the frontal cofeta equal, scarcely contracted at the extreme summit; antennae slightly longer than the head and protborax together; eyes slightly prominent, a little more so in the male than in the female. Pronotum rather long, nearly equal, broadening a very little posteriorly, transversely arched, with a scarcely perceptible median tectiform carina and well- rounded lateral margins; the hind scarcely longer than the front lobe; the hind border delicately mar-ginate, obtuse- angled; prosternal thorn rather long, gonical, compressed, bluntly pointed; meso- and metastethia together much longer than broad. Tegmina and wings reaching the tip of the abdomen. Femora a* long as the abdomen, the superior carina slight, unarmed; hindtibiff slender, the spines of either side of equal length, scarcely diverging, the upper lateral margins smooth and rounded; first joint of hind tarsi scarcely longer than the third, the second small, with a large inferior apical lobe; pulvillus large, nearly twice as long as broad. 12. Hesperotettix viridis ( Ommatolampis viridis Thorn.)- 1 &, Lak Point, Salt Lake, July 26. 13. Mermiria neomexieana ( Opomola ( sic!) neomexicana Thorn.). Two pupsB were brought home, one from the foot- hills at the entrance to Clear Creek CaDou, July 3, the other from Williams Canon, Manitou, Colo., July 15. 14. Chrysochraon deorum nov. sp. Head large, prominent; fastigium of vertex broad, scarcely acute- angled in front; lateral foveolee scarcely depressed, subquadrate, nearly twice as long as broad, the inner angle rounded, the edges shining; frontal costa with straight edges, scarcely broadening below, flat, distantly punctate in two rows, below theocellas vanishing; whole front faintly and very sparsely punctate, the cheeks smooth. Pronotum gently constricted in the middle, the front bonier a little full, the hind border very obtusely angled; median carina equal, slight. The general color is brown, the face and antennse with a reddish tinge, the cheeks a little ashen, the vertex pallid, with a pair of narrow, blackish stripes next the upper edge of the eyes, which follow along and are intenser upon the lateral edges of the fastigium, and extend backward to the pronotum. There is a broad dusky band behind the middle of the eyes, which extends over the lateral margin of the pronotal disk, brokeu by a slender, oblique, yellowish- brown line, which extends forward from the base of the tegmina, and, having divided fti* belt, faintly follows its upper margiu to the eye. The tegmina are shorter than the abdomen, pallid, brown on the basal third of the upper area, the basal two- thirds of the median area, and the upper edge of the lower area; beyond, a few coarse brownish flecks. Wings scarcely snorter than the tegmina, pellucid, the upper veins dusky, the middle ones bluish. Hind femora reddish- brown, more or less infuacated along i ™ t J*? Per n? ar& in' th* » Pex black; hind tibi ® red, black at extreme case, the spines red at base, black at tip; abdomen vellowish, tinged |
