Grasshoppers of Kansas. 31 



Antennae: 



Male 10.0-12.0 (approx. ) 



Hind femora: 



Male 12.5-14.5 



Localities. Haskell, Pratt and Osborne counties. 



Melanoplus coccineipes Scudder. 

 Of dark fuscous color, head and thorax with a ferrugino-testaceous 

 tinge; frontal costa widening anteriorly, sulcate at and below the 

 ocellus; antennae ferrugino-testaceous. Interspace between mesosternal 

 lobes of male not more than three times as long as wide; tegmina sur- 

 passing the tips of the hind femora by 3.25 mm. Furcula of male 

 about two-fifths the length of the supra-anal plate. 



Measurements in Millimeters. 



Length of body: 



Male 23.0 



Tegmina : 



Male 20.5 



Antennae: 



Male 11.0 (approx.) 



Hind femora: 



Male 14.0 



Locality. One male specimen, Gray county. 



Melanoplus angustipennis Scudder. 



The general ground color varies but little in the specimens at hand. 

 The head is quite prominent, postocular piceous band present in most 

 of the specimens; vertex distinctly elevated above the pronotum. Inter- 

 space between the eyes of male about twice as wide as the first antennal 

 joint; frontal costa widening anteriorly, just failing to reach the clypeus. 

 A subluteous streak borders the postocular piceous band very distinctly 

 in some specimens, but is subobsolete in others. Tegmina surpassing the 

 hind femora about 2 mm. Hind tibia glaucous or red, spines apically 

 black, ten to eleven in number in the outer series. Furcula of male a 

 little more than a third as long as the supra-anal plate. 



Measurements in Millimeters. 



Length of body: 



Male 22.0-25.0 



Tegmina : 



Male 17.0-20.5 



Antenna? : 



Male 10.0-11.5 



Hind femora: 



Male 12.0-14.0 



Localities. Stevens, Rooks, Graham and Sedgwick counties. 

 Melanoplus impiger Scudder. 



Head quite prominent. Frontal costa subequal, just failing to reach 

 the clypeus; antennae fulvous to ferruginous, infuscated at the tip. Disk 

 of pronotum forming with the lateral lobes a much sharper shoulder on 

 the metazona than on the prozona; front margin of prozona truncate; 



