168 NEW NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (oRTHOPTERA) 



General coloration snuff brown; paler on face, there buffy, darker on occiput 

 and dorsum of pronotum, there tinged with sepia. Eyes verona browTi. An- 

 tennae mikado brown. Underparts clay color. Caudal femora with two broad 

 transverse blackish bands on dorsal surface, the first continued on the external 

 face and running obliquely proximad half way across, the more distal crossing 

 the external face vertically, there broader but more obscure. Caudal tibiae and 

 ventral face of femora brilliant jasper red. 



Little color variation is shown by the series, in the paler examples the gen- 

 eral color is slightl}' lighter and the transverse dark bands of the dorsal surfaces 

 of the caudal femora are not continued on the external faces. 



In addition to the type and allotype, a series of six males and 

 two females, bearing the same data, are designated paratypes. 



This series w^as captured on the ridge of a slope of a bare hog- 

 back showing numerous cherty exposures. The ground there 

 showed rather scant vegetation with tufts of a peculiar woolly 

 plant all about. Careful and intensive collecting was necessary 

 to secure the ten specimens, apparently members of a single colony, 

 taken over a very restricted area. 



