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PSYCHE. 



[July, 1900. 



Mexico, but with no apparent reason, 

 though it is found there as stated above 

 and indeed has been aheady credited to 

 Grant Co., by Townsend. 



As I have said above, there is a Cali- 

 foniian species, hitlierto undescribed, 

 allied to L. zvheeleri by its lesser size, 

 hind wings blue at base and hind tibiae 

 mostly blue, instead of, as in the larger 

 forms and in Z. intermedins as well, 

 having the disk of the wings yellow and 

 tlie hind tilnae yellow or red. It may 

 be called L. olaucipennis and difl'ers 

 from L. ivliccleri in that it is slightly 

 smaller, the wings are of a paler blue 

 (of the tint found in blue specimens of 

 Derotincma saiisiiireamnn Bruii.), 

 the hind process of the metazona is dis- 

 tinctly acute and, except sometimes in 

 the female, not subrectangulate, — though 

 both species are variable iu this respect 



like L. elcphas; the lateral carinae of 

 the pronotum aie also more sharply 

 augulate, especially in the female, the 

 median carina a little more prominent, 

 anil the granulations of the pronotal disk 

 more prominent and sharper. It varies 

 little in size, and the following measure- 

 ments are taken from average individ- 

 uals : Length of body, $ , 19 mm., 

 ? , 33 mm. ; antennae, $ , 8.5 mm., 9 , 

 13 mm.; tegmina, (? , 22 mm., 9,34 

 mm.; hind femora, J, 13.5 mm., 9, 

 21 mm. I have seen specimens from 

 the following Calif irnia localities : 

 Point Loma, July 33, Los Angeles, 

 Julv 35, and Rubio Wash, Altadena, 

 July 29. all collected by A. P. Morse; 

 and Santa Rosa Island, H. Edwards; 

 also from Durango, Mex.. E. Palmer, 

 and San Luis Potosi, Mex., G. Barro- 

 eta . 



THE MELANOPLI OF KANSAS. — II. 



BY S. J. HUNTER AND W. S. .SUTTON, KANSAS UNIVERSITY, LAWRENCE. 



Melanoplus. 

 Lakinus Series. 



M. lakinus Scudder. — Antennae a 

 little more (male), or a little less 

 . (female) than two thirds the length of 

 the hind femora. Frontal cosla varia- 

 bly sulcate. Posterior expansion of the 

 pronotum variable, in two specimens M. marc/ileiitns. Being an alcoholic 

 (males) subequal, prozona elongate in specimen in this case the color mark- 

 female and longer than metazona. In ings distinguishing lakinus from mar- 

 these characteristics it varies somewhat culentus are not to be implicitly relied 

 from .Scudder's description and favors upon, therefore, the exact position of 

 Af. sonorae but is excluded from that the insect remains in doubt, 

 species by its blue hind tibiae. On the Two females from Ford county. 



hind femora there is a basal fuscous 

 spot on the upper inner surface. 



We have one female from Hamilton 

 county which agrees with the speci- 

 mens above described in general but 

 has a broader intersjiace between the 

 mesosternal lobes which forms the 

 chief distinguishing characteristic of 



