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arcuate band, the more or less pallid costal margin faintly infuscated next the outer limit of the vitta. Hind femora with the inferior carina strongly arcuate, the outer face pallid, more or less strongly marked with three
broad, oblique, blackish bands, beneath like the tibiae and tarsi, veiy pale luteous, the spines black tipped.
Length of body, 8, 22 mm., 2, 28 mm.;
of tegmina, $, 24 mm., 9,26 mm.
Described from I 8, I 9, taken in
the Prescott Mountain District, central
Arizona, by Dr. Edward Palmer.
HIPPISCUS(X.) LATEFASCIATUS sp. nov.
Very dark brownish fuscous, marked with
cinereous, of a moderately robust form (the 8 rather slender) and rather below the me- dium size. Head sparsely and slightly rug- ulose above, not very broad, the fastigium of the vertex plane with rather low bounding walls, open behind, and in front completely engulfing the faintly biareolate median
foveola, the lateral foveolae distinct, trian- gular, rather small, the frontal costa of mod- erate breadth, sulcate throughout except at the contracted summit. Pronoturn very dark, the dorsum sometimes with subdecussate,
broad, cinereous markings, the lateral lobes more tinged with gray, but with a large
central quadrangular black patch on prozona ; dorsum of $ nearly plane, of somewhat
tumid, of both rather strongly and coarsely verruculose, the more prominent elevations longitudinal but short; median carina obso- lete between the sulci (but here accompanied by only an obsolete discal scutellum) no- where prominent except where it passes, in the 9, over the stabbed front of the meta- zona ; process rectangulate ; lateral carinae prominent, rather sharp, and extended.
Tegmina pantherine, cinereous, and dark
brown, the darker markings prevailing, ex- tending to the apex, crossing almost or quite the whole wing, and everywhere very much broken, hardly more blended at the base than elsewhere ; sutural stripe cinereous. Wings pale citron at base with corresponding reticu- lation, pellucid with black reticulation and a few cellular maculations at apex, and between an unusually broad, arcuate, blackish fuligi- nous band which narrows only when follow- ing the outer margin to the anal angle, which it reaches and leaves in the $ only a little more than two, in the Q three or four mar- ginal lobes free at the apex; it is separated by a fine fulvous line from the humeral vitta, the outer limit of which corresponds to that of the arcuate band and extends nearly or quite to the base, leaving only the basal half of the costal edge light colored. Hind femora externally pale cinereous with three broad, very oblique, blackish bands, internally coral red blotched with blackish at the base,
beneath, like the tibiae, coral red, the latter more or less hoary externally on the basal half, the spines black tipped.
Length of body, 3, 23-25 mm., Q , 33.5-37 mm ; tegmina, 3, 25-27 mm., 9, 31.5-36
mm.
Described from 4 $ , 2 9 .
This is a northern species, living next
our northern boundary, occurring from
the Red River in Manitoba (Donald
Gunn) and Calgary, Alberta, British
Columbia, June I I (Bean in S. Hen-
shaw's collection) to the upper Mis-
souri and Yellowstone (F. V. Hayden).
HIPPISCUS (X.) OBSCURUS sp. nov.
Blackish fuscous, of slender form and
small size.
Head dark only on summit, being
elsewhere cinereous or livid, flecked with fuscous dots, not very large nor very tumid, faintly subrugulose in the vicinity of the



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posterior margin of the fastigium of the vertex; this distinct, plane, as broad as long, open behind, closed by a V-shaped carina in front, the walls low but distinct and in the middle angulate; median carina when present terminating in the middle of the fastigium; lateral foveolae very distinct, elongate tri- angular, including between their tips the equally deep biareolate foveola, which in the 2 is sometimes confluent with the sulcus of the frontal costa; the latter moderately broad, subequal, but slightly contracted at summit, more or less sulcate throughout, above with a slight median carina. Pronotum compressed, but little expanded on the
metazona, plane above, the process of meta- zona rectangulate, the median carina slight, equal, straight, uninterrupted between the sulci, the lateral carinae slight and confined to the metazona, the dorsal surface longi- tudinally rugulose with short vermiculations, more crowded, transverse, and subdued on the lateral lobes of the metazona. Tegmina dark brownish fuscous marked with dark cine- reous after the fashion of H. (X.) neglectus and as there somewhat variable, the sutural stripe hardly visible. Wings pale citron on basal half with corresponding reticulation (except where the humeral vitta runs in nearly to the base), blackish fuliginous beyond, the apex of the two uppermost lobes generally more or less vitreous with black reticulation, at the most occupying a triangular area which takes in less than a fourth of the costal mar- gin, and is then generally abridged by the infuscation or infumation of the extreme apex. Hind femora dark grayish cinereous exter- nally, crossed obliquely by three obscure, moderately narrow, dark fuscous stripes, internally black "with apical and postmedian transverse luteous stripes, inferiorly luteous often with a reddish tinge; hind tibiae
rather pale coral red, apically often becoming luteous, the spines black tipped.
Length of body, 3, 22 mm., 9, 28.5 mm. ; of tegmina, S', 22 mm., 9, 27 mm.
Described from 2 J , 3 9, obtained
by G. R. Crotch in British Columbia.
This species is closely allied to H.
(X.) neglectus, from which it is to be
distinguished mainly by the greater
breadth of the dark markings on the
wings, the darker colors of the body
and tegmina, and far less brightly con-
trasted sutural stripe of the latter.
HIPPISCUS (X.) NEGLECTUS.
Oedipoda neglecta Thorn., Proc. acad, nat. SC. Philad., 1870, 81-82 ; Rep. U. S. geol. surv. Wyo., 276-277; Syn. Acrid. N. A.,
128-129; Rep. U. S. surv. 100th mer., 5, 881- 882, pi. 44, fig. 3 ; Bull. U. S. geo1.-surv. ten-., 4,483-
Arabia neglecta Thom., Proc. Dav. acad., 1,254.
Hz'f/iscus neglecttcs Scudd., Bull. U. S. geol. surv. terr., 2,264; Thom., Rep. ent. Ill., 9, 95, "4-115.
Xanth@@~s neglechs Sauss., Prodr.
Oedip., 94-95 ; McNeill, Pryche, 6, 63-64. Cratypedes ĺ´piltnam Thom., Proc. Dav.
acad., 1,257-258, pi. 36, fig. 6; Rep. U. S. ent. comm., 2,259.
2Yif$isc-us lineatus Scudd., Proc. Bost. SOC. nat. hist., 19, 31; Ent. notes, 6, 9; Cent. Orth., 48, 84; Rep. U. S. ent. comm., 2, app. 2, 26; Sauss., Prodr. Oedip., 87.
(Not Oe. neglecta Thorn., Key 111. Orth., 3; Bull. 111. mus., I, 64.)
This species is somewhat variable,
especially in the markings of the teg-
mina, which at one extreme resemble
those of species of Trimerotropis, at
the other those of Encoptolophus, and
in some are almost entirely of a warm
brown color with concoloi~ous sutural
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shades barely indicating any markings
at all.
It is hardly surprising that it
has been described under several names.
I have before me 28 J1 and 34 9,
mostly taken by myself in Colorado and
the adjoining territories on the west
and north and at an elevation ranging
from 6000-8pof, in July and August.
This is apparently the principal region
of its abundance, but it extends south-
ward to southern Utah (E. Palmer),
northeastern New Mexico (C. Thomas)
and the borders of Arizona (Thomas),
Arizona (Bruner in litt.), westward to
various localities in Nevada (H. Ed-
wards), Camp Hallock, Nev. (E.
Palmer), Ruby Valley, Nev. (R. Ridg-
way), near Lake Tahoe, California (S.
Henshaw in Capt. Wheeler's explora-
tions of 1876), and the Sierra Nevada,
Calif. (H. Edwards) ; and northward
to Montana where according to C.
Thomas it was collected by Dr. E.
Coues, and west of which I have seen
specimens sent me by Mr. Bruner from
Soda Springs and Coeur d'Alene,
Idaho, and Yakima River, Washing-
ton, July 18 ; Bruner also informs me
that he has specimens in his collection
from Ft. McKinney, Wyo. ; Salmon
Co., Henry Lake, Beaver Canon, and
Camas Prairie, Idaho ; Colville, Wash-
ington ; and even from Ft. McLeod,
British America. It is twice stated by
C. Thomas to occur in southern Illi-
nois, but by a wrong identification for
H. (H.} haldemanii; it does not seem
to occur east of the foot hills of Colorado, the easternmost localities known to me
being Blackhawk, July 2 (A. S.
Packard) , Beaver Brook Canon, 6000',
July I I, and Georgetown, woo',
July i 2-18 (S. H. Scudder ) , and Man-
itou, 6300' (July 14, A. S. Packard,
HIPPISCUS (X.) MONTANUS.
Oedi-poda montana Thorn!, Rep. U. S.
geol. surv. tei-r., 5,462-463; Syn. Acrid. N. A., 129-130; Glov., 111. N. A. ent., Orth., pi. 12, fig. 12.
Hifpiscus modanus Sauss., Add. prodr.
Oedip., 170.
This species appears to be wide
spread though rather rare, perhaps
local.
It comes from Idaho (Franklin,
June 12, Bruner), and Thomas also
reports it from the upper part of the
Snake River plain near the mountains,
and in southern Montana. He adds
that it was not noted south of Market
Lake, but from the north or Atlantic
slope of the range to Virginia City in
Montana. Two of his types which I
have seen through the favor of Dr.
Riley are marked as coming from Mon-
tana and Idaho. But it also occurs
further south and east, for it is found in the southwestern part of Holt Co.,
Nebr. (Bruner), and the
greater part
of the Sand Hill region of central and
western Nebraska (Bruner in litt.), as
well as in New
Brunei- in litt.)
zona (Bruner),
Mexico (Taos Valley,
and at Holbrook, Ari-
(x.) LATERITIUS.
Xan/Jiz'ĺ´/>'pu Zateritius
Oedip., 92-93.
I have not seen this
seems from Saussure's
fall in this immediate
Sauss., Prodr .
species, which
description to
neighborhood.
It is described from Nevada.
HIPPISCUS (x.) CALTHULUS.
Xanthi&h calthulus Sauss., Prodr .
and Aug. 24-25, S. H. Scudder) .
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I have a single 9 of this species
taken by Crotch in southern Nevada.
Saussure's specimens also came from
Nevada, but Bruner sends me a speci-
men from Placer Co., California, taken
in June.
HIPPISCUS (X.) GRISEUS sp. nov.
Almost uniformly griseus, moderately ro- bust and rather below the medium size. Head not very broad nor very tumid above, the summit subrugulose ; fastigium of vertex with distinct and moderately elevated, strongly bent lateral walls, open or partially closed behind, the median carina extending faintly to the centre, separated by a slight V-shaped wall from the nearly circular biareolate med- ian foveola; lateral foveolae moderately dis- tinct, of medium size, rounded triangular; frontal costa of moderate breadth, narrowed somewhat at summit where it shows a slight median carina and below the ocelliis where it is deeply sulcate, expanding and fading at base. Pronoturn expanding moderately on
the metazona, which is faintly tumid, heavily stabbed anteriorly but without plications, rather densely and considerably verrucose, the process rectangulate, it's margins sub- crenulate by reason of the verrucosities. the median carina slight and equal, but subobso- lete between the sulei, the lateral carinae distinct and tolerably sharp, but not elevated and confined to the metazona. Teg~nina
griseo-cinereous with dark brown flecking, in the apical third of the wing faint and pretty uniformly distributed, before that largely collected into two narrow transverse stripes, one crossing the base of the outer discoidal field, the other and larger midway betweeh it and the base, but all often very obscure," those of the apex sometimes obso- lete. Wings pale citron at base with similar reticulation, vitreous at apex with black re- ticulation and an extramesial, strongly ar- cuate, dark fuliginous, moderately narrow band tapering along the hinder margin in passing to the anal angle which it fails to reach and leaving from two to three margi- nal lobes free at the apex; it is separated by a luteous line from the humeral vitta of the same color, the outer margin of which forms with that of the upper part of the arcuate band a straight oblique line; it runs to the base leaving the costal edge luteous. Hind femora very broad with strong arcuation of the inferior carina, the outer surface pale or fusco-cinereous with more or less obscured blackish brown oblique bands; interior and inferior surface and tarsi yellowish luteous, the spines black tipped.
Length of body, $ 33-34 mm.; of tegmina
$, 28-33 mm.
Described from 5 $ , taken by Dr.
Edward Palmer, April 20-30, :it Mokiak
Pass, Utah.
HIPPISCUS (x.) VITELLINUS.
Xan///z~/us vifelZiuits Sa u ss. , Prod r. Oedip., 94.
I have one female of this species from
Nevada (H. Edwards), the locality
from which it is described by Saussure.
Mr. Bruner also sends me specimens
from Reno, Nevada, and Umatilla,
Oregon, June 25, and reports it from
Idaho between Beaver Canon and
Henry Lake.
Edwards notes that in life the hind
wings are red at base.
HIPPISCUS (X.) AURILEGULUS sp. nov.
Very dark brownish fuscous, not very ro- bust and of small size. Head rather broad at summit but not tumid, the frontal costa a



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little more prominent than usual, the face and cheeks more or less finely sprinkled with dark cinereous, the summit subrugulose; fas- tigium of vertex shallow, open behind and also in front, where the subcii4cular faintly biareolate median foveola is completely
blended with it; median carinae slight, pass- ing a variable distance into the fastigium; lateral foveolae rather pronounced but small and triangular oval ; frontal costa moderately slender, considerably narrowed at the sum- mit, almost as much so and with unusual
abruptness below the ocellus, expanding con- siderably at base, sulcate throughout, some- times with a median carina above. Pro-
notum moderately stout, expanding almost regularly from base to apex, but not greatly; the process of metazona rectangulate, its margins subcrenulate; the dorsal surface plane, subverruculose ; median carina nearly obliterated between the principal sulci with a slight discal scutellum, otherwise equal, straight, and slight; lateral carinae sharp but not elevated throughout the metazona, the lateral lobes of metazona almost as rough as the dorsum. Tegmina dark brownish fuscous with faint brown or brownish cinereous mai-k- ings, the apex subvitreous, mottled obscurely with brownish fuscous ; the principal lighter markings are a broad but inferiorly narrow - ing transverse patch at the end of the basal thia'd of the tegmina, a narrow but variable transverse stripe just beyond the extreme base ofthe outer discoidal field and a very irregular and obscure inferior blotch at the very base of the tegmina; sutural line flavous and very distinct. Wings bright citron yellow at base with corresponding reticulation, ebscure hya- line at apex with black reticulation and a rather narrow, arcuate, extramesial, fuliginous band, narrowing as it passes along the outer margin toward the anal angle, which it nearly or quite reaches and leaves about three of the marginal lobes free at the apex ; the apex is also obscured almost or quite as deeply next the margin, but the outer limits of the band are dsteminabk ; it is separated by a pallid line from the humeral vitta, the outer limits of which are subcontinuous with its own and which extends almost to the
base, leaving a
fulvous edge of the costal margin hardly ob- scured by a stigma. Hind femora dark cine- reous crossed more or less distinctly by three oblique blackish stripes, beneath and within mostly blue black, the tibiae
coral red with
black tipped spines.
Length of body, 21.5-23 mm. ; of tegmina, 23.25-5 mm.
Described from 3 4 taken in Cali-
f d a by H. Edwards (hisNo. 79) and
in Sonoma Co., April 27-May 9, by
Baron R. von Osten Sacken.
HIPPISCUS (X.) STIGMOSUS sp. nov.
This species differs from the preceding only in the markings of the tegmina and wings and may prove to be only a varietal form. The tegmina differ in having the markings still more obscure with the single exception of the spot. at the base of the outer discoidal area which is more pronounced and whitish; and of the sutural stripe which is just as bright as in the other species ; the mottling of the apex is almost entirely or quite lost. In the wings the extramesial band, besides being generally fainter, and sometimes broken into maculae by the penetrating citron colored veins, also extends to a much less distance toward the anal angle, sometimes hardly
more than haif way toward it.
Length of body, 8, 25 mm., 9,34 mm. ; of tegmina, 3, 25 mm., 9, 39 mm.
Described from 3 3, 1 9 , received
from California (J. Behrens) , Napa
Co., California, (H. Edwards), and
southern Nevada (G. R. Crotch). Mr.
Bruner also sends me specimens from
Ukiali, California, collected in April
by J. H. Burke, and from Placer Co.,
California, taken in June.




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