Length: male, 1 1/2 in.; female, 1% in.; face extremely slanting; head projecting before the eyes the length of the eyes; form slender; yellow or greenish brown with reddish brown lateral stripes on head and pronotum; fore wings long, pointed; antennae sword-shaped, tapering toward apex (Fig. 4 B); twenty eggs per pod in summer, hatching in fall; nymphs overwinter; adults June and July. Found clinging to stalks of coarse grasses on rocky slopes in desert grassland of the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones of southeastern Arizona. Most commonly taken on Andropogon sp., A. barbinodis, Muhlenbergia emersleyi, Eragrostis sp., and Sporobolus sp. Southeastern Arizona west to the Baboquivari and Quinlan mountains; north to the Catalina and Pinaleno mountains. Arizona to southwestern Texas, and south to Mexico and Guatemala.