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much better one, it is true, than Abbot's, and put down the name in the 



various lists given in the work, thus : 



Page ii. Notodonta Georgica — angulosa, Abbot. 



Page 66. Notodonta O. 



angulosa Abbot — georgica, H.-S., fig. 384 — Georg. Am. 

 Page 82. No. 384, Notodonta georgica, H.-S., foem. — Notodonta angu- 

 losa, Abbot. 

 So far as I have been able to make out, it was merely a substitution 

 of the name Georgica by Herrick-Schaffer for the name Angulosa 

 proposed by Sir J. E. Smith, in much the same way as the latter tried to 

 substitute the name Sphinx Chionanthi, A. & S., for Sphinx Rustica, 

 Fabr., and I hold that if he recognized that Abbot had figured two 

 species on that plate, he should have given his new name to the species 

 represented by the lower right-hand figure. 



A NEW SPECIES OF MELANOPLUS FROM ARIZONA. 



BY A. N. CAUDELL, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Melanoplus Brozvnii, sp. nov. — General colour brownish fuscous. 

 Head slightly prominent, with the occiput elevated a little above the 

 pronotum and with a black postocular stripe ; interspace between the 

 eyes no broader than the basal segment of the antennae ; fastigium 

 moderately declivent and deeply sulcate, especially in the male ; frontal 

 costa percurrent and deeply sulcate except above, where it is biseriately 

 punctate. Eyes large and somewhat prominent, distinctly longer than 

 the infraocular portion of the gena 3 . Antennae long, in the male as long or 

 longer than the posterior femora. Pronotum equal in the anterior portion, 

 but quite noticeably expanding on the metazona, truncate anteriorly, 

 posteriorly obtuse angulate, the angle rounded ; lateral lobes marked with 

 a more or less interrupted black stripe which is continuous with the 

 postocular stripe of the head. Median carina distinct only on the 

 metazona, which is shorter than the prozona. Prostemal spine suberect, 

 pyramidal, apical ly acuminate. Interspace between the mesosternal 

 lobes longer than broad ; metasternal lobes subattingent. Elytra long 

 and slender, extending far beyond the hind femora in both sexes, almost 



