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NEW NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (oRTHOPTERa) 



Mt-aaurcmenla {in millimelers) 



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Type.... 

 Paratype . 



16 

 16.5 



2.3 

 2.4 



3.8 

 3.9 



2.1 

 2.6 



9.3 



Coloration similar to that of lepidus. Head light brownish olive, deepen- 

 ing to sepia on occiput, with a weak postocular dark bar on each side. An- 

 tennae warm sepia. Pronotum with disk bister, lateral lobes with a broad 

 shining blackish brown band dorsad to principal sulcus, below this saccardo's 

 umber shading into bister on the dorsal portion of the metazonal section. 

 Tegmina bister. Abtlomen above snuff brown, the proximal segments 

 broadly suffused on each side with shining blackish brown; ventral surface 

 cinnamon-buff, becoming pinkish cinnamon distad. Cephalic and median 

 limbs externally bister, internally jialer. Caudal femora with pattern char- 

 acteristic of many Melanopli rather strongly defined in blackish brown and 

 tawny-olive, ventral portion of internal surface and entire ventral surface 

 hay's russet. Caudal tibiae deep bluish gray-green, the spines black except 

 at bases. 



In addition to the type, a single paratypic male is before us, 

 bearing the same data, the property of the Cahfornia Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Melanoplus viridipes eurycercus new subspecies (Plate XVI, figs. 9 and 

 10.) 



1903. Mdanoplus viridipes Blatchley, Orth. of Indiana, p. 305. [cf , 9 ; 

 Marion County, Indiana. j^^ 



1906. Melanoplus viridipes Morse, Psyche, xiii, p. 135. [cf ; North Adams, 

 Massachusetts.] 



1920. Melanoplus viridipes Morse, Manual Orth. New Eng., p. 522. (Ex- 

 cept figures.) 



1920. Melanoplus viridipes Blatchley, Orth. Northeastern Amer., p. 365. 

 (In part.) 



McNeill's record from Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, 

 is apparently quoted by Blatchley in his studies of 1903. A 

 single female from McNeill from that locality is I)efore us, and we 

 are therefore unable to assign the record definitely. It is prol)able, 

 however, that it apphes to the present race, from what we know 

 of its distribution. 



2^The cerci are missing in the only male before us from this locality. The 

 record, as a result, cannot be assigned, except from the probability indicated 

 by the geographic position. 



