. Bulletin - American Museum of Natural History. Natural history; Science. 3°° Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. VI, Spharagemon Scudder. Body pubescent ; top of head somewhat swollen ; vertex broad, tapering rapidly, and continuous with the median sulcus of the lace; pronotum com- pressed before the middle, disk somewhat flattened ; more or less acutely angled behind ; median carina compressed, more or less keel-shaped, and divided by a deep furrow, the front portion being a little shorter ; lateral carina almost obso- lete. Wings extending beyond the tip of the abdomen ; w
. Bulletin - American Museum of Natural History. Natural history; Science. 3°° Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. VI, Spharagemon Scudder. Body pubescent ; top of head somewhat swollen ; vertex broad, tapering rapidly, and continuous with the median sulcus of the lace; pronotum com- pressed before the middle, disk somewhat flattened ; more or less acutely angled behind ; median carina compressed, more or less keel-shaped, and divided by a deep furrow, the front portion being a little shorter ; lateral carina almost obso- lete. Wings extending beyond the tip of the abdomen ; wing covers almost of equal width throughout ; hind wings subtriangular. Spharagemon bollii Scudder. l' 1. X, I. Brownish fuscous, somewhat variable in color ; lace -ravish, with minute blackish dots ; hind femora grayish or brown, pale dirty yellow inside with black bands, which are indistinct outside ; hint! tibiae coral red, black at base, and followed by a dirty white and black band occupying almost half the tibiae ; winj; covers earthen-brown with many darker minute spots, and three more or less distincl blackish brown transverse fas< i.' ; hind wings pale yellow at base, with a median, arcuate black band ; outer portion of the wing transparent, sometimes dusky at the apex, especially in the male. Measurements. â Male : Length of body, 20-22 mm. ; wing covers, 22-2? mm.; posterior femora, mm. Female : Length of body, 27-33 nun.; wing covers. 23-28 mm.; posterior femora, mm. This species is found on dry sandy soil, in pastures, near the edges of woods, and on almost any ground of barren character. It is of local distribution, and occurs from the latter part of July until late in ()ctober. Fig. 10. Fig. Side and top of pronotum of 5. bollii. Spharagemon saxatile Morse. Pronotum stout, slightly compressed anteriorly, broad posteriorly; from margin of disk slightly angulated, hind margin right angled, the apex blunt ; median carina low, sever
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