Grasshoppers of Kansas. 27 



Measurements in Millimeters. 



Length of body: 



Male 25.0-31.0 



Female 27.0-33.0 



Tegmina: 



Male 21.0-28.0 



Female . . . •. 22.0-30.0 



Antennae: 



Male 11.0-15.0 (approx.) 



Female 9.5 



Hind femora: 



Male 13.5-16.5 



Female 15.0-18.0 



Localities. Trego, Morton, Hamilton and Finney counties. This 

 species has never been found to appear in large enough numbers to be of 

 any economic importance. 



Melanoplus glaucipes Scudder. 

 General color fuscous to fusco-testaceous. A black piceous band ex- 

 tends back from the eyes over the entire pronotum, widening posteriorly 

 and extending downward in two lines over the pleura of the meso- and 

 metathorax. In one male the tegmina are as long as the abdomen, in 

 the other specimens the tegmina are quite a little shorter than the 

 abdomen. The subgenital plate of male is slightly elevated apically, 

 the apex rather square than uniformly rounded. 



Measurements in Millimeters. 



Length of body: 



Male 22.0-24.0 



Female 27.0-28.0 



Tegmina : 



Male 13.5-15.0 



Female 15.5-16.0 



Antennae : 



Male 9.5 (approx.) 



Female 10.0 



Hind femora: 



Male 11.5-12.5 



Female 13.0-14.0 



Localities. Rooks, Russell and Finney counties. 



Melanoplus scitus Scudder. 

 General color luteotestaceous to brownish fuscous, marked with fus- 

 cous. Head plumbeo-fuscous in the darker forms and yellow to fuscescent 

 in the lighter forms. Vertex with a dark mesial band expanding 

 posteriorly. A piceous band extending from behind the eyes across the 

 side of the pronotum. Vertex of head raised distinctly above the level 

 of the pronotum. Sulcus of fastigium not very shallow; frontal costa 

 failing to reach the clypeus. Antennae ferrugino-testaceous to ferrugi- 

 nous, about three-fourths as long as the hind femora. Front margin of 

 pronotum transverse, slightly emarginate; median carina on metazona 

 distinct, on prozona subobsolete, sides of metazona shouldered. Disk of 

 prozona feebly punctate, of metazona densely punctate. Tegmina sur- 

 passing the hind femora by from 2 to 3.5 mm. Furcula reaching a 



