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des plantes at Paris, a 9, and the
Philadelphia type of the same at
the Oxford museum, and from my
notes and sketches taken at the time
(1865-66) I can have no doubt that the
two species are identical, an opinion
first advanced by Burmeister (Germ.
Zeitschr. ent., 2,54) and now generally
held. Burmeister's description ap-
peared at least a month before Serville's. That the Brazilian specimen mentioned
by Serville belonged to a different spe- cies is probable both from its geographi- cal separation and because Serville
mentions that the inside of the hind
femora is of a deep blue, which might
have been taken from the Brazilian
specimen but is not true of the North
American species.
This is a characteristic species of the
southern United States, where it ex-
tends everywhere from Florida to
Texas, and ranges as far north asMary-
land, Pennsylvania (Serville) , and New
Jersey in the east, Illinois as far north as Union County (Thomas)
or Rock
Island County (McNeill) where it is
rare, and in the west to Nebraska.
I have specimens before me from
various parts of Florida, Dallas,
Tex., Georgia, North Carolina, Vir-
ginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and
Nebraska.
HIPPISCUS (H.) PANTHERINUS sp. nov.
Pale ochraceous, the head strongly tinged with pale yellow, full and well rounded, only moderately broad above ; vertex trans- versely scabrous behind the scutellum which is broader than long, with distinct and some- what elevated, though smoothly rounded
bounding walls which rapidly converge on the sides anteriorly, its front terminated by a transverse and deep foveolate sulcus sepa- rating its body from the frontal costa; pos- teriorly the bounding wall is slight and a feeble longitudinal carina passes through its posterior half, the floor nearly smooth ; lat- eral foveolae small, subrhomboid, distinct ; frontal costa rather deeply sulcate except at extremities. Antennae fuscous, paler at
base. Pronoturn not very stout, the posterior lobe less expanded than usual, the median carina impressed rather than cut by the an- terior sulcus, and the effect heightened by its partial suppression immediately behind said sulcus and the formation of a slight discal scutellum ; surface rugose but not promi- nently nor densely, the lateral canthi moder- ately sharp and traversing the principal sulcus ; color ochraceous with a pale yellow oblique stripe on either side of the metazona, broad anteriorly and narrow posteriorly, giving the metazona the appearance of a
greater expansion than it has. Tegmina
dark fuscous with strongly pantherine, trans- verse, pallid or yellowish stripes which be- come narrower and fainter in the semipel- lucid apex; in all cases they are continuous, subequal, and traverse the whole or nearly JP
the whole of the tegmina outside the axillary area which is fuscous except for one or two partial bands adjoining those of the area above but separated from them by the clear pale yellow sutural stripe; an oblique pallid discal stripe follows the descending portion of the ulnar vein connecting the transverse stripes at either end;
darker spots of the
marginal field blackish fuscous and conspic- uous especially in middle of tegmina.
Wings pale lemon-yellow at base with a
rather broad dark fuscous stripe hardly nar- rowing in the upper part of the anal field, but narrowing with great regularity to the anal angle which it reaches, leaving four lobes of the margin intact; separated by a



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very narrow yellow line from the humeral stripe which runs two-thirds of the way to the base traversed interiorly by conspicuous yellow cross veins; costal margin more or less tinged with orange, the apical portion of axillary area with a few cellular fuliginous spots clustered along the veins. Hind fe- mora uniform coral red within from base to apex, testaceous externally with clouded fus- cous oblique stripes, above mostly fuscous; hind tibiae coral red externally, pallid toward base, the spines black tipped.
Length of body, 39 mm. ; of tegmina, 37 mm. Pecos River, Texas, June 18.
Capt.
Pope, one $ .
This species not only shows a depart-
ure toward the Xanthippus type of
structure of the pronotal carina, but it strikingly resembles H. (X.) con-
s$icuus Scudd. It differs from the lat-
ter, however, in the structure of the
head and pronotuin, as well as in the
width of the arcuate dark band of the
wing;. and from the Xanthippus type
generally in the great depth of the infer- ior carina of the hind femora. So far
as can be seen the antennae are of the
Hippiscus type, but the tip is lost in
the only specimen known.
Oedipoda haldemanii Scudd !, Rep. U. S.
geol. surv. Nebr., 251 ; Glov., 111. N. A. ent., Orth., pi. 13, fig. 3?
Hip'piscus haldemanni Scudd !, Bull. U. S. geol. surv. terr., 2, 264.
Oedifoda 'paradoxa Glov. (not Thomas),
111. N. A. ent., Orth., pi. 18, fig. 14. Hi/fiscus nanus Sauss., Prodr. Oedip., 86- 87.
Hipfiscus tubercdatus McNeill !, Psyche, 6, 63.
Oedipoda neglecta Thom !, Key Ill., Orth., 3; Bull. 111. mus., I, 64; (not Oe. neglecta Thom., Proc. acad. nat. sc. Phila., 1870, 81-82, etc.
I have re-examined some of the types
of this species and base thereupon my
conclusions about the synonymy of this
and the allied species. That it is
the H. nanus of Saussure there can, I
think, be no question. It is not the Oe. /aradoxa of Thomas, which an exami-
nation of the type shows to be a Xan-
thippus, though Glover figures quite
a different insect. Illinois specin~ens
labelled by Thomas show, strange as it
may seem, that it was this insect which
he mistook for his Oe. neglecta.
This species appears to be confined
to the centre of the continent.
Passing
from east westward, the localities known to me are the following: Moline, 111.
(McNeill) , southern Illinois (Thomas),
the Red River of the North (Kennicott) , middle Kansas (Bruner in litt.), all
eastern and middle Nebraska and the
Sand Hills of the same state (Bruner in
litt.) , eastern Nebraska (Dodge), Ne-
braska City and the banks of the Platte
River (Hayden), Garden of the Gods,
Colorado (Packard) , Colorado (Saus-
sure) .
HIPPISCUS (H.) TEXANUS sp. nov.
Brownish fuscous, darker above than on
the sides, inconspicuously dotted with black, the head, excepting above, ochraceous more or less mottled with brown, the vertex behind scutellum lightly corrugate, often in the $ transversely disposed ; scutellum large with slight and not sharp bounding walls, of nearly equal length and breadth ( $ ) or much longer than broad (<?'), its front margin deeply V-shaped and connected more or less faintly at the point of the V with the longi-



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tudinal carinae of the vertex ; lateral foveolae rather small, subtriangular and shallow; frontal costa somewhat constricted above, gently expanded at the ocellus at and below which it is moderately sulcate. Antennae ochraceous, becoming blackish fuscous in apical half or third, hardly tapering except on apical joints. Pronot!im compressed,
gently expanding on the metazona, the dor- sum very faintly tectiforn~, and the prozona posteriorly tumid centrally, the surface with distant prominent glistening granulations or very brief verrniculations ; median carina simple, moderately pronounced with a dis- tinct but very slight uniform arcuation; lateral canthi not very pronounced, confined to the metazona but for slight indications; posterior margin rectangular ; lateral lobes with sparse, feeble, and very brief vermicula- tions, the centre marked with a fuscous
blotch enclosing a yellowish quadrate mark below. Tegmina cinereous and fuscous, the former prevailing in the 9, the latter in the 8 where it also becomes blackish and the cinereous of a brighter tone : the marginal field has a large quadrate fuscous spot just beyond the angle of the humei-al lobe, and in the 9 this is almost the only dark marking therein, while in the $ it is preceded by one and followed by two similar but a little smaller, equally dark spots, and the apical portion of the field is much infuscated; in both sexes the axillary area is dark cinereous with dark veins and faint fuscous spots; sutural stripe of the lighter color and tolera- bly conspicuous ; the inner discoidal field has rather small and roundish fuscous spots, the largest and roundest just at or within the broadest part, the outermost below the
sharply triangular fuscous spot at the. ex- treme base of the outer discoidal field and separated from it by only a narrow cinereous line at the upper edge of the ulnas inter- space; beyond this the outer discoidal field has three or four very similar broad trans- verse fuscous bands, relatively much broader and much darker in the $ than in the 9,
becoming blurred and indistinct apically. Wings coral red at base, the fusco-fuliginous arcuate band marginal below the fourth
lobe, of moderate breadth, narrowing but little as it passes to the anal angle, but some- what as it passes upward to the faint and slender yellowish red line separating it from the humeral stripe which reaches toward but not to the base, and is separated from the margin except apically by the red of the base; apex hyaline, slightly infuscated at the edge in the 8, the veins and cross veins blackish fuscous.
Hind femora yellow apic-
ally and blue basally within, thrice traversed by broad black bars ; outside fusco-cinereous, indistinctly barred with fuscous in the $ ; hind tibiae yellow with an orange tinge, the spines black tipped.
Length of body,
8, 32 mm., 9, 47 mm. ;
of elytra, 3, 34 mm., 9, 45 mm.
Dallas, Texas, Boll, May I, June 6.
Described from 3 8, 1 ?. I have
since received a specimen from San
Antonio, Texas, collected by Newel1
(Bruner) .
Oedipoda mgosa Scudd!, Bost. journ. nat. hist., 7, 469; Walk., Cat. Derm. salt. Brit. mus., 731; Thom., Rep. U. S. geol. surv. terr., 6, 720-721 ; Syn. Acrid. N. A., 132-133; Key 111. Orth., 3; Glov., 111. N. A. ent., Orth., pi. 12, fig. 8.
Hiffiscus riigosus Scudd !, Rep. geol. N. H., I, 377; Sauss., Pi-odr. Oedip., 85.
Hip-piscus coraZL+es var. rugosus Thorn., Rep. ent. Ill., 9, 95, 115-116.
This species, originally described
from specimens found in Massachusetts
and Maine where it is very rare, has
since proved to be wide spread. I
have myself seen specimens from Nor-
way, Me. (Smith), eastern Massa-
chusetts (Scudder) , Delaware (Ent.




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soc. Philad.), Maryland (Uhler),
Georgia (Morsisoii in Henshaw's col-
lection), Illinois (Strumberg in Hen-
shaw's coll.) , southern Illinois (Ken-
nicott) , Republican Fork, Kansas (Lt.
Bryant), Lakin, Kans. (Scudder) ,
West Point, Nebraska, and Glendive,
Montana ! (Brunei-), and from Dallas
(Boll), San Antonio (Lincecum) , and
Bosque Co., Texas (Belfrage) . Saus-
sure in addition reports it from Mis-
souri, Thomas from the District of
Columbia, Nebraska, and Dakota ; and
Walker (in whose correct determina-
tion of the species I have no confidence) from Nova Scotia, New Jersey, and
Vancouver Island. It seems to be a
southern species, rarely occurring in
the north. Belfrage says that in Texas
it is a rare species found on prairies in October.
HIPPISCUS (H.) COMPACTUS sp. nov.
A compact and stout though not very
large form. Very dark brownish fuscous,
flecked with blackish, the head stout and full, very broad above, olivaceo-fuscous ex- cepting above, where it is brownish fuscous with broad median and lateral longitudinal dull olivaceous stripes ;summit of head sparse- ly punctate, nearly smooth with very slight signs of transverse rugae ; vertical scutellum indistinct, with slight and low bounding walls, broader than long in both sexes, faintly quadripartite ; lateral foveolae slight, elon- gate, triangular; frontal costa broad, flat, punctate, slightly depressed at the ocellus, subequal, at upper extremity faintly bifoveo- late. Antennae pale cinereous at base, dark fuscous apically. Pronotum stout, but not expanding greatly on the metazona, the dor- sal area nearly flat and tolerably uniform except for the more or less longitudinal glis- tening rugae which are rather sparse and not very elevated ; median carina very uniform and not prominent or arcuate; lateral
canthi tolerably well pronounced on the
metazona, distinctly and considerably sur- passing the median sulcus ; angle of poste- rior margin slightly exceeding a right angle ; lateral lobes densely punctate on the meta- zona. Tegmina cinereous; becoming semi-
pellucid apically, heavily banded with black- ish fuscous in tolerably regular transverse subequidistant stripes, with very little ob- liquity, broader in the proximal than in the distal half of the tegmina ; they are subcon- tinuous in the marginal and discoidal areas, and the axillary area is fuscous with three or four small blackish spots seated on the anal vein; sutural stripe distinct and yellowish cinereous; the spot at extreme base of the outer discoidal area is completely amalga- mated with that below and slightly within in the inner discoidal area; the outer stripes are slender; more or less maculate, and do not reach the lower margin of the tegmina. Wings pale lemon-yellow at base with a
pretty broad, blackish fuscous, arcuate band scarcely reaching the anal angle and touch- ing the margin only at the 5th ($') or 6th (2) lobe; it is not narrowed above, is sepa- rated from the humeral stripe by a testaceous line, the stripe reaching nearly to the base ; apex hyaline, or in the $ slightly infuscated next the margin above, all the veins blackish. Hind femora clay yellow within banded with black, dull cinereo-fuscous without, oblique- ly banded with blackish fuscous ; hind tibiae brownish yellow, more or less infuscated ex- cept in a broad band just beyond the base, spines black tipped.
Length of body, 3, 26 mm., 9, 33 mm.,
of tegmina, 3, 22 mm., $! ,2g mm.
Carolina, from the Schaum collection ;
Maryland, from the south shore of the
North Potomac. Described from I 8,
19.




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