Grasshoppers of Kansas. 25 



Measurements in Millimeters. 



Length of body: 



Male 18.0-22.0 



Female 28.0 



Tegmina: 



Male 16.0-17.5 



Female 20.5 



Antennae: 



Male 8.5- 9.5 



Female 10.0 



Hind femora: 



Male 12.0-12.5 



Female 15.0 



Localities. Hamilton, Morton, Greeley, Stanton, Gove, Rawlins, 

 Grant and Stevens counties. 



Melanoplus regalis Dodge. 



This handsome species is singularly like ^oloplus regalis in appear- 

 ance, nearly equaling it in size, closely resembling it in color and 

 general form, but at once distinguishing from it by the nontuberculate 

 subgenital plate of the male, the dull-pointed valves of the ovipositor 

 of the female, and the cherry-red coloring of the lower sulcus and 

 inner face of the hind femora. — 1. c. A. P. Morse. 



Fastigium shallowly sulcate; frontal costa subequal, depressed at 

 the ocellus. Median carina more distinct on the metazona than on the 

 prozona; tegmina brownish flecked with dark brown. A black postocuiar 

 band extends to the thorax and across the prozona as a more or less 

 distinct brownish stripe. Hind femora reddish brown on the outer 

 face, inner and lower side bright red, bifasciate above with olivaceous; 

 hind tibia blue, spines blue with black tips nine to ten in number in the 

 outer series. Antennae testaceous. 



Measurements in Millimeters. 



Length of body: 



Male 21.0-26.5 



Female 27.5-31.0 



Tegmina : 



Male 15.0-17.5 



Female 19.0-20.5 



Antennas : 



Male 8.5-9.0 (approx.) 



Female ' 10.0 



Hind femora: 



Male 11.0-13.0 



Female 14.0-14.5 



Localities. Morton, Grant and Stevens counties. 

 Melanoplus bowditchi Scudder. 



The general color is griseous or grayish brown. Disk of pronotum is 

 marked in longitudinal stripes with a darker stripe in the middle and two 

 lighter stripes on the side near the position of the lateral carina. The 

 head and sides of pronotum are more or less mottled with olivaceous and 

 ferruginous. The species looks quite a little like M. pictus. The tibia 

 are very hairy. Top of hind femora transversely marked with fuscous, 



