32 FAMILY VI. ACRIDID.E. THE LOCUSTS. 



sissippi only from near Moline, 

 III., where Hart (1!)OT) record- 

 ed it as occurring with M. <tn- 

 gustlpennis and flai'ldns at the 

 "* edge of a large blowout on a 



sand hill. As it was not treat- 

 Fig. 147. Male. V i-5- (After Bruner.) -, . , -, -, , . . ,, , 



ed in Scudder s "Revision " he 



described it as new under the name of M. inacneilli, which falls 

 as a synonym to fluviatilis. Bruner's description (loc. cit.) is 

 very brief, and he states that it is "rather common along river 

 valleys in eastern Nebraska, where it is to be found among vege- 

 tation growing on sand bars." No other mention of its occur- 

 rence can be found in the literature at hand. 



202. MELAXOPLUS STOXEI Rehn, 1904b, 85. Stone's Locust. 



Size medium, the females slightly the larger and more robust. Dark 

 fuscous-brown above, dull reddish-brown or dirty clay-yellow be- 

 neath. Face greenish-yellow, strongly mottled with fuscous; occiput with 

 a broad, often ill-defined, reddish-brown median stripe extending back 

 along the middle of pronotum, this bordered each side by a narrow dull 

 yellow stripe, below which is the usual black postocular stripe of the genus 

 on upper halves of pronotal lobes; lower halves of these lobes pale brown; 

 metapleura dull yellow. Tegmina fuscous-brown, the median area with a 

 row of subquadrate dull yellow spots. Hind femora dull yellow, the outer 

 face with two broad oblique blackish bars, these often fused to form a con- 

 tinuous stripe; upper and inner faces with three fuscous cross-bars; lower 

 face yellow; knees black, their lower outer lobes pale. Hind tibiae red or 

 vinous brown, darker or sometimes greenish toward base with a black 

 ring behind the knees. Occiput and frontal costa much as in packardii: 

 fastigium more narrowly and shallowly concave. Pronotum as described 

 under the series heading; prozona in both sexes slightly longer than meta- 

 zona, median carina faintly visible on prozona of female. Tegmina feebly 

 surpassing tips of hind femora in both sexes. Supra-anal plate as de- 

 scribed above, its apex obtuse; median sulcus wide and distinct on basal 

 portion, narrower and ill-defined on the depressed apical third. Furcula 

 widely separated, strongly divergent, their basal portion flat, apical one 

 much narrowed, scarcely tapering. Cerci as described above, less nar- 

 rowed at middle than in fluviatilis, their ventral margin nearly straight, 

 dorsal one broadly concave, outer surface thickly punctate. Subgenital 

 plate as in fluviatilis. the apical tubercle more distinct. Length of body, 

 $, 2223.5, 9, 26 28; of antennae, $ , 9, 9, 10; of pronotum, $, 5.56, 

 9, 7.58; of tegmina, $, 1718, 9, 2021; of hind femora, $, 1212.5, 

 9 , 14 14.5 mm. 



Chatsworth and Harris, N. Jer., Aug. 13 20 (Daris). De- 

 scribed from New Jersey and so far recorded only from that State, 

 though it has been taken by Walker (Ms.) at Godbout, Quebec, 

 and Ft. William, Out. At the former place ''they were the only 



