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broader. Length of body, $, 1720. 9, 2226.5; of antennas, $, 910, 

 9, 7.58.5; of tegmina, $, 2.5 3, 9, 2.83.5; of hind femora, $, 10 11.5, 

 9 , 11.5 13 mm. 



Specimens at hand from the U. S. National Museum and Morse 

 collections are from Jefferson, N. Car., and Wytheville, A 7 a., Aug. 

 15 Sept. 4. Morse's types were from the latter place and Top- 

 ton, X. Car. ,and were taken in dry mountain forests at elevations 

 of 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Its known range extends from Wytheville 

 and Bolar, Va., through the Carol inas to Mountain City, Ga. It 

 occurs for the most part in rather scant undergrowth of heavy 

 deciduous forests on the mountain slopes. 



170. MELAXOPLUS DECORATUS Morse, 1904a, 12. 



Size rather small and form slender for the group. Dark reddish-brown, 

 greenish-yellow beneath, the postocular shining black stripe extending 

 back nearly or quite to end of abdomen, male, sometimes rather faint, 

 female. Upper and outer faces of hind femora usually with feeble fus- 

 cous cross-bars. Hind tibiae dull greenish-yellow, with a blackish annulus 

 near base and often more or less infuscate near tip. Median carina of 

 pronotum faint on basal third of prozona. Hind margin of metazona trun- 

 cate or nearly so. Tegmina asymmetrically obovate, the costal margin 

 more convex, the tips rather broadly rounded. Supra-anal plate broadly 

 triangular, the sides upcurved to form broad, rather deep concavities each 

 side the narrow median sulcus, which extends from base to apical third, 

 then widens between two short and converging higher ridges. Furcula 

 rather broad at base, tapering, divergent, lying outside the bases of the 

 median ridges. Cerci with apical third widened, concave without, the apex 

 subrounded, with ventral arjical angle somewhat produced. Subgenital 

 plate with apical tubercle strongly enlarged, produced and curved upward 

 so that the ventral length of the plate is almost or quite equal to its basal 

 depth (Pig. 129, d.) Length of body, $, 15 18, 9, 21.5 25; of antennae, 

 $, 8.5 9.5, 9, 89; of tegmina, $ and 9, 3.5 4; of hind femora, $, 

 9.511, 9 , 10.712 mm. 



riarksville, Tenn., June 27 Tuly 7 (Fo.r). Morse's types 

 were from Wytheville, Va.. Murphy and Toptou, X. Car., and Blue 

 Ridge, (la., July 25 Sept. 4; taken among low shrubs in dry 

 mountain forests at elevations of 1,700 to 4,000 feet. R, & H. 

 (101(i, 220) record it also from Orange, Va., and Clayton and Ma- 

 con, (la. It is a very distinct species, the males being readily 

 recognized by the peculiar prolonged subgenital tubercle, which, 

 as Morse says, "appears more like a malformation than other- 

 wise." 



Series IV. THE PUER GROUP. 



Species of small or very small size, with general hue reddish- 

 or grayish-brown, often more or less tinged or mottled with fus- 

 cous; postocular black or fuscous stripe present and extending 



