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October, 1892.1
(Continued from page 320).
Described from I in the collection
of Mr. L. Bruner and takenby Dunn
in Arizona.
HIPPISCUS (X.) PARDALINUS.
Oedipoda pardalina Sauss., Rev. mag.
zool., 1861, 324; Orth. nova amer., 2, 27; Thorn., Syn. Acrid. N. A,, 213-214.
Xan/ht'p/us pardams Sauss., Prodr.
Oedip., 90.
This is a very widespread species.
I have seen specimens from Neviida ;
several localities in Utah, all of E.
Palmer's collecting. as Mt. Trumbull,
June 7-10, Mokiak Pass near St.
George, April 20-30, Parowan, 6oco'
in irrigated fields near low moun-
tains, July 3-10; San Diego and
Rock Spring in southern California (E.
Palmer) ; the state of Vera Cruz, Mex-
ico (Bruner), and the vicinity of Mex-
ico, Mex. (E. Palmer). Saussure
mentions it from California, New Mex-
ico, Orizaba and Peubla, Mexico, and
from the West Indies and Venezuela.
In the United States, then, it has not
been found east of the Rocky Moun-
tains nor north of Lat. 40'.
HIPPISCUS (X.) MACULATVS spa nov.
Head of moderate size not very tumid
above; dull cinereous, more or less fu~cuus above ; median carina of x el tex slight, termi- nating in the middle of the fastigium, oppo- site which the low lateral walls are consider- ably angulated ; biareolate apical foveola subciicular in J , obscure and transversely elliptical in $ ; frontal costa rather deeply sulcate, narrowed considerably above. Pro- notum plane above, the median carina low, of uniform height, cut by both sulci and more or less obsolete between ; lateral carinae sharp, distinctly passing over under the pro- zona; process of metazona rectangulate or less, the surface variable but verruculose or coarsely arenaceous, the tendency of the verrucosities to be longitudinal ; lateral lobes bluntly subdued verrucose; dorsum of prono- turn blackish fuscous with obscure pallid, sub- decussate, strongly divergent, posteriorly narrowing stripes ; lateral lobes obscure with a median semilunate blackish patch seated on a small quadrate whitish spot. Tegmina cinereous marked with rounded blackish fus- cons and minutely black edged spots having much the position of those of the species which have here preceded but generally
more rounded, more contracted, and hence more distant than in them, the sutural stripe rather broad, clear, and testaceous. Wings pale citron at base, the apex vitreous with black reticulation, and between a moderately broad, blackish fuliginous, arcuate band scarcely narrowing above and united, except for the slender pallid axillary line, with the humeral vitta, the outer limit of which is op- posite the middle or inner margin of the arcuate band, and which narrows and be-
comes duller as it passes toward the base which it is far from reaching; inner portion of costal margin citron as far as below, fol- lowed by a slender blackish stigma. Hind femora externally hoary cinereous below, darker above, with very oblique broad black- ish stripes and apically a semilunate black spot; beneath and apically within coral red ; hind tibiae coral red, externally hoary with black tipped spines.
Length of body, f, 33.5 mm., $,38 mm.;
of tegmina, 8, 35 mm., 2, 34 mm.
A specimen fro111 Colorado collected
by Moirison is in Mr. Henshaw's col-
lection, and in mine a 8 from Pueblo,
Colorado, which 1 collected on July 8
or 9 and a 2 from San Luis Potosi,




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Mexico (E. Palmer). Mr. Bruner
also sends me a specimen from ~ t .
Grant, Arizona.
Described from I 8, 2 <? .
HIPPISCUS (X.) TIGRINUS sp. nov.
Dark brownish fuscous, of robust form and medium size. Head narrowed above and
rugulose ; fastigium of vertex distinct with rather sharp though not high bounding
walls, closed behind by a distinct but slight transverse more or less arcuate and irregular carina, the posterior half with a slight med- ian carina which extends back more or less distinctly over the head ; lateral foveolae not deeply impressed, triangular, the median foveola between their tips slightly impressed : frontal costa moderately broad, narrowed at summit much more than below the ocellus, deeply sulcate at the ocellus, plane at the considerably expanding base. Pronotum ex- panding considerably on the metazona,
which is centrally a little tumid, the rugosi- ties of the latter, which are considerable, ranged more or less distinctly into series parallel to the sides of the process; median carina subobsolete or at least depressed be- tween the sulci, distinctly arched on the metazona; lateral canthi distinct and sharp in the middle of the pronotum, a faint rather broad ashen band next their inner side ; pro- cess rectangulate or less. Tegmina ashen gray, brownish at base, vitreous on apical third or more, the transverse bars dark
brownish fuscous, mostly crossing the wing, those of apical half not at all rounded, with rare exceptions with ill defined irregular margins, and extending though fainter to the tip of the wing; sutural line testaceous. Wings very pallid citron at base, pellucid at tip, occasionally with one or two fuligin- ous cellular spots at tip, the veins and cross veins blackish on apical portion, yellow on basal, with a broad, subequal, arcuate, dark fusco-fuliginous, median, scarcely tapering band, leaving four or five lobes free, separat- ed by a yellow line from the humeral vitta which extends from very nearly as far
out to the base of the wing, the costal mar- gin fusco-testaceous. Hind femora external- ly brownish fuscous with only obscure if any darker very oblique bars, dirty clay yellow below, the under surface, like the tibiae and tarsi, luteous, the spines black tipped. Length of body, 39 mm.; of tegmina, 37
mm.
The species is somewhat widely
spread, mostly at the eastern base of
the Rocky Mountains, extending from
Colorado? (collected by Lt. E. G.
Beckwith's party of Pacific R. R. ex-
ploration near Lat. 38') West Point,
Nebraska (Bruner) , a n d Nebraska
(Miss Walker) to Ft. Buchanan, south
of Tucson, Arizona (E. Palmer). A
specimen received from Mr. P. R.
Uhler has no designation of locality.
Described from 5 $ , but the descrip-
tion is drawn up mainly from Mr.
Uhler's specimen, the others having
been first immersed in alcohol.
HIPPISCUS (X) LEPROSUS.
Xan/h'p/us le@osus Sauss., Prodr. Oedip., 92-
I possess two poor 9, originally pre-
served in alcohol, both of which come
from much further north than de
Saussure's locality (New Mexico), one
of them collected by Dr. Suckley below
Lake Jessie at Ft. Benton, Montana,
during the N. Pacific R. R. surveys,
the other from Colorado ( ?) by Lt. E.
G. Beckwith on the Pacific R. R. sur-
veys about Lat. 38'. Mr. Bruner also
sends me a specimen from Reno, Ne-
vada, collected by Hillman.




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October 189*.]
PSYCHE.
HIPPISCUS (X.) PARADOXUS.
Oedipoda faradoxa Thorn. !, Rep. U. S.
geol. surv. terr., v, 457; 6, 720-721; en. Acrid. N. A., 132.
Not Oe. paradoxa Glover.
Brownish fuscous, of robust form and me- dium size. Head dark above, cinereous or pallid below, often marked laterally by two narrow oblique brownish fuscous stripes, one running from behind the eyes across their lower edge to the middle of the frontal costa, the other parallel to and distant from it across the lower part of the cheeks ; rugose above including the fastigium of the vertex which is as broad as long and bordered in its entire circuit, sometimes less distinctly in front and behind, by strongly sinuous sharp and moderately high bounding walls ; lateral foveolae moderately deep, short triangular, including between their tips a distinctly biareolate broad oval deep foveola; frontal costa almost exactly as in H. (x) tigrin~ts but sulcate more deeply and for a longer distance and expanding more considerably at base. Pronoturn shaped as in H. (X.) ti- grinus and as there rather deeply stabbed on either side of the middle of the front margin of the metazona, the latter more vaulted, the rugosities especially in $! profuse, subarena- ceous, elevated, blunt, and pretty uniformly distributed ; median carina of metazona pretty strongly arched but still rather slight and low; lateral carinae generally distinct and sharp but slight; lateral lobes nearly smooth in 8, bluntly rugulose in 2 ; dorsum some- times marked by a broad bent ashen band on either side.
Tegmina cinereous, very heav-
ily barred with dark brown, on the costal margin sometimes blackish, transverse bands nearly or quite crossing the tegmina, almost or quite confluent below and occupying four- fifths or considerably more of the tegmina, extending to
the tip, so that the tegmina
may be rather regarded as brown with nar- row transverse ashen stripes broadening
above, one ashen patch larger than the
others usually found situated on the costal margin, its outer limit at the middle of the margin; a rather broad sutural stripe be- neath which the tegmina are almost or quite wholly brown. Wings pallid at base with a citron tinge, the veins and cross veins of the same color, vitreous apically, with occasion- ally a fuliginous cellular spot or two near the apex, the reticulation black with a
narrow rather strongly arcuate fusco-fuligin- ous median band, occasionally broadened a little, especially in the middle of its course, leaving about four marginal lobes free, sepa- rated by an often scarcely perceptible yellow- ish line from the humeral vitta, which reaches to the outer limits of the upper extremity of the arcuate band and extends nearly (9 ) or less than three quarters way ($1 to the base, the cobtal margin testaceous interrupted with fuliginous at the extremity of the vitta. Hind femora pallid cinereous, with three well defined, moderately broad, strongly oblique, distinct dark brown stripes; be- neath and within coral red like the tibiae which are more or less pallid externally especially at the base, the spines black tipped ; hind tarsi luteous.
Length of body, 3, 33 mm. ; 9, 37 mm. ;
of tegmina, $,31 mm., 9,37 mm.
Described from 3 8, 7 9, most but
not all killed in alcohol.
One specimen comes from Holt Co.,
Nebraskii (L. Bruner, May) ; the others
from Ut:ih (Parowan, July 3-10, about
6ooof, near low mountains on an irrigated spot ; Mokiak Pass near St. George,
April 2-30, E. Palmer), Taos Valley,
N. Mex., May 30 (Bruner) and Arizona
(Ft. Whipple, E. Palmer ; also collected by Dunn, Bruner).
A single type of this species, a ?, ex-
ists in the National museum, dried after immersion in alcohol, leaving no trace




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33 6 PSYCHE. [October 1892.
of the red color to the wings.
It differs
from Thomas's description in that the
"dorsal area" (axillary field) of the
tegmina is not without spots, though
such specimens do occur, especially in
the 3. As his description is very in-
sufficient and his remarks on its rela-
tionship misleading, I have printed
here the description drawn up from my
specimens before I had seen his type.
I had formerly supposed his species to
be a synonym of H. (a) haldemanii.
Glover's figure (pi. I 8, fig. 14) , pre- sumably from specimens furnished by
Thomas, is pretty certainly that species. It does not at all agree with the present species.
The distribution of the species as given above must therefore be slightly ex-
tended. Thomas's original specimens
were found from Ogden to Smithfield
in Cache Valley, northern Utah; and
he subsequently adds southeast Idaho.
HIPPISCUS (x.) AFFRJCTUS Sp. n0V.
Very dark brownish fuscous, of robust
form and medium size, the sexes varying con- siderably. Head dark on ,summit but else- where mottled with pale cinereous and light brownish fuscous, the summit moderately
broad and tumid, gently 1-ugulose, the toler- ably smooth-floored vertical fastigium open behind or with the lateral walls incurved somewhat, open also in front to the large and rather deep biareolate median foveola ; lateral foveolae very small subcircular, the lower walls obscure : frontal carina of mod- erate width, deeply sulcate throughout,
though the sulcus fades at base, consid- erably narrowed at summit, more or less ex- panding at base, at least in the $. Pro- notum expanding but moderately behind,
the process variable but generally slightly less than rectangulate, the dorsum broadly edged laterally with an oblique, broad,
usually posteriorly narrowing, pallid cinere- ous band; margin of process edged with
testaceous; lateral lobes of prozona cinere- 011s flecked with brown and with a large median oblique dark brown spot; metazona more or less but not greatly tumid centrally, the median carina arched, distinct and sharp, not elevated, and equal ; lateral carinae dis- tinct and sharp, longer than usual and cen- trally elevated ; dorsal surface of metazona arenaceo-rugulose but not very heavily mar- ked. Tegmina cinereous and brownish fus- COLIS, the latter in more or less transverse broad belts but all, as in the next species. somewhat confused and blurred, giving it a more maculate appearance than usual, the cinereous ma1 kings prevailing along the costal third of the wing, where also the darker markings are usually darkest; a
broad and rather bright flavo-testaceous sutural stripe. Wings pale citron, rarely sal- mon-red at base, the reticulation the same, vitreous with black reticulation at apex, with occasionally a cellular spot or two and a broad or rather broad, arcuate, median, black- ish or very dark fuliginous band, gently nar- rowing toward the anal angle which it just reaches, not at all or but slightly narrowing above and separated by a generally fine ?el- low line from the humeral vitta, which
reaches to or nearly to its outer margin and usually extends almost to the base, the costal margin of the basal color (generally a little dulled) interrupted with blackish at the ex- tremity of the vitta. Hind femora and tibiae as in H. (X.) devottis.
Length of body, 3, 29-30 mm., $ , 37-43
mm.; of tegmina, 3, 28-30 mm., $, 38-40
mm.
Described from 5 3 , I 2 9, mostly
fresh.




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