. Annual report. Agricultural education. 1888.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT—No. 31. 121 Pronotum with a more or less flattened disk, the sides somewhat compressed, the front margin truncate, the hind margin obtuse angled or obtusely rounded; the three carinae usually distinct, but not elevated; the median straight, entire ; the lateral straight or curved inward at or in advance of the middle. Wings and wing covers sometimes abbreviated, sometimes as long or longer than the abdomen, generally narrow. Prosternum unarmed, narrow. The species may be separated as follows : — j Wing covers unspotted curtipennis
. Annual report. Agricultural education. 1888.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT—No. 31. 121 Pronotum with a more or less flattened disk, the sides somewhat compressed, the front margin truncate, the hind margin obtuse angled or obtusely rounded; the three carinae usually distinct, but not elevated; the median straight, entire ; the lateral straight or curved inward at or in advance of the middle. Wings and wing covers sometimes abbreviated, sometimes as long or longer than the abdomen, generally narrow. Prosternum unarmed, narrow. The species may be separated as follows : — j Wing covers unspotted curtipennis. I Wing covers spotted maculipennis. Stenobothrus ' curtipennis . Harris. The Short-ivinged Grasshopper. Olive gray above, variegated with dark gray and black; legs and body beneath, yellow; a broad black line extending from behind each eye on the sides of the thorax; wing covers, in the male, as long as the abdomen; in the female, covering two-thirds of the abdomen ; wings rather shorter than the wing covers, trans- parent, faintly tinged with yellow; spines on hind tibiae tipped with black. Length, about seven-eighths of an inch. Stenobothrus maculipennis. Scudder. The Spotted-winged Grasshopper. (Fig. 14.) Head and top of pronotum, green (in some individuals, brown) ; a broad, reddish-brown band extending from the eyes to the hinder side of the pronotum, limited above by the lateral carinas, which are white. Sides of the pronotum below the band, brownish or dull yellowish. Wing covers extending beyond the end of the abdomen, green, with a row of square, black spots along the middle, and a few I ~# irregularly scattered, smaller black stenobothfuTmtcuJipennis. Spots. Length, three-fourths Of an a. Mature insect. b. Pupa, inch. c. Larva. This is a very variable species, and contains several well- marked varieties. Genus Stetheophyma. Fischer (1854). Head large ; face somewhat oblique ; eyes sub-depressed; an- tennae filiform, of medium length. Pronotum flattened above,. ^
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