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undergrowth of the slightly more elevated portions of the flat, 

 almost swampy gray-bark pine woods." (R. & H.) 



Very close to stcgoccrcus and may prove to be only a variety 

 of that species. 



176. MELANOPLUS MIRUS Rehn & Hebard, 1916, 224. 



"Size and form sinailar to moderately large South Florida males of M. 

 puer. Tegmina much as in M. rotundipennis, their apices more or less 

 noticeably truncate. Extremity of abdomen tumid, greatly produced and 

 upcurved. Supra-anal plate simple as in scapularis, but with lateral mar- 

 gins very weakly convex and converging evenly caudad (Fig. 133, d.) 

 Cerci as described in key, all of the narrowing and widening due to the 

 curvature of the dorsal margin, the ventral margin almost straight, the 

 apices of the two cerci subattingent just beyond the distal extremity of the 

 supra-anal plate (Fig. 132, e.) Disto-ventral abdominal segment produced 

 mesad in a very small sharp point. Subgenital plate as described in key. 

 Females closely resembling the large ones of M. puer, the principal sulcus 

 more decided on dorsum of pronotum; smaller and more compact with 

 shorter and more robust limbs than those of M. rotundipennis. Color 

 much as in rotundipennis, the males with ventral margins of caudal fe- 

 mora sharply pale and quite striking, this marking broader proximad (Fig. 

 134, b.) Length of body, $, 15.516.2, 9, 18.820; of pronotum, $, 

 3.63.8, 9, 4.14.7; of tegmina, $, 33.7, 9, 3.74.3; of hind femora, 

 $, 9.49.8, 9, 10.611.2 mm." (R. & H.) 



The above comprises the salient features of the original de- 

 scription. The species was described from three pairs taken at 

 Weldon, X. Car., .Inly 24, where it "was found very scarce in 

 scattered woods of low pines and oaks, with a typical amniophytic 

 undergrowth of huckleberry and other low bushes and plants. 

 The insects were wary, but were found to hide constantly, so that 

 by careful approach they were picked up with ease.'' No other 

 record is known. 



177. MELAXOPLUS STRUMOSUS Morse, 1904a, 11. 



Deep reddish-brown above, whitish or flavescent beneath. Postocular 

 fuscous stripe indistinct female, deep black and extending on to abdomen, 

 male. Hind femora very faintly obliquely bifasciate with fuscous. Hind 

 tibiae glaucous, paler at base and tip, the spines black tipped. Disk of 

 pronotum twice, male, or once and a half female, as long as wide, midcarina 

 percurrent. Prosternal spine prominent, flattened, subcylindric, slightly 

 curved backward, apex transversely excised, the angles rounded. Teg- 

 mina small, obovate, two-thirds as long as pronotum, attingent or slightly 

 separated, their tips broadly rounded. Male abdomen subclavate, the sub- 

 genital plate and preceding segment tumescent, broader than deep, greatly 

 elongated, the former elongate scoop-shaped, bluntly rounded at apex. 

 Supra-anal plate as described in key, its disk with a prominent transverse 

 median ridge crossing two-thirds its width; furcula broad at base, then 

 suddenly narrowed to finger-like projections whose tips reach the ends of 



