Mar., '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 85 



A New Melanoplus from New Jersey. 

 BY JAMES A. G. REHN. 



Several times during the past few years while collecting in 

 the pine barren region of New Jersey, the author has taken 

 specimens of a large form of the genus Melanoplus which dif- 

 fered considerably from any species known to him. Through 

 the kindness of Prof. A. P. Morse, specimens of this have been 

 compared with the series of the genus in the Scudder collection 

 and nothing of similar character found. 



From the localities in which the new species has been taken 

 it would appear that dry scrubby pine land is preferred. It is, 

 apparently, a rather abundant species, as in a few minutes work 

 at the type locality a series of about a dozen was taken. 



I take pleasure in dedicating this striking species to my friend 

 Mr. Wittner Stone of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Mr. 

 Stone has made a study of the fauna and flora of the pine 

 barren region, and assisted in collecting all the specimens of 

 this species taken. 



Melanoplus stonei n. sp. 



Types : $ and <? . Between Harris and White Horse, Bur- 

 lington Co., New Jersey. August 13, 1902. Collected by 

 Witmer Stone and J. A. G. Rehn. (Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.) 



A member of the packardii group and related to M. packardii 

 and fcedus, but distinguished by the smaller size, more com- 

 pressed and excavated vertex and fastigium, the narrower 

 frontal costa (which also has a distinct stricture below the 

 junction with the fastigium), the smaller furcula, the greater 

 interval between the mesosternal lobes in both sexes, and in 

 the rich and striking coloration. 



cT Size medium ; form rather slender. Head with the occiput gently 

 rounded ; vertex rather strongly constricted, and with the blunt de- 

 pressed fastigium very distinctly sulcate ; frontal costa sub equal, slightly 

 and very gradually expanding inferiorly, distinctly compressed at its 

 junction with the fastigium, moderately sulcate at and below the ocellus; 

 eyes reniform, slightly longer than the infra-ocular portion of the gen a- ; 

 antenmu equal to the head and pronotum in length. Pronotum slightly 

 slightly expanded on the metazona ; anterior margin truncate ; posterior 

 margin obtuse-angulate with the angle broadly rounded ; prozona slightly 



