18 THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS MELANOPLUS. [Jan. 15, 



Stripe next the lateral carinae ; male cerci very feebly 



expanded and externally sulcate apically pictus. 



g^. Rather uniform in coloring, the lateral lobes with 

 no bright stripe ; male cerci in no way expanded 

 apically and tumid rather than sulcate externally. 

 h^. Lateral lobes of prozona with a broad and 

 usually distinct piceous band above ; tegmina gen- 

 erally distinctly flecked along the middle line. . . . 



bowdiichi. 

 h?. Lateral lobes of prozona with a narrow or no 

 distinct band above; tegmina very obscurely 



flecked, if at all, along the middle line 



flavidus. 

 /^ Forks of the male furcula rounded symmetrically at 

 tip, the inner margin scarcely more excised than the 

 outer, so that the forks are straight and not oppositely 

 hooked ; bands of hind femora scarcely perceptible . . . 



elongatiis. 

 d'~. Furcula of male variously developed, rarely at all unusu- 

 ally broad and flattened, and then either not apically emar- 

 ginate on the inner side, or the subgenital plate is consider- 

 ably elevated apically, or both. 



/?\ Subgenital plate of male almost or quite as broad as 

 the marginal length, its apical margin generally notched ; 

 cerci broad and nearly equally broad throughout (except 

 sometimes narrowed by the oblique excision of the lower 

 side of the apical half), the basal half scarcely tapering, 

 the whole rarely more than twice and never thrice as 

 long as the middle breadth (except in a few cases and 

 then the apical margin of the subgenital plate is mesially 

 notched), very broadly rounded at apex. 

 f^. Apical margin of subgenital plate of male not mesi- 

 ally notched ; mesosternum of male variable. 

 g^. Apical margin of subgenital plate of male but 

 slightly elevated above the lateral margins and mod- 

 erately prolonged posteriorly; mesosternum of male 

 in front of lobes flat (Glaucipes series). 



h^. Prozona of male longer than its posterior 

 breadth ; lateral carinae more pronounced on pro- 

 zona than on metazona ; interspace between meso- 



