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THE MELANOPLI OF KANSAS. — III. 



bv s. j. hunter and w. s. sutton, kansas university, lawrence, 

 Femuk-rubrum vSeries. 



M. femur-n(hrinu DcGeer. — The 

 specimens taken in Ford county vary 

 from the description of Scudder in liav- 

 ing tlie general ground color, fuscous, 

 a noticeable yellowish tinge on the 

 genae ; and head rather heavily intus- 

 cated instead of olivaceo-plumheus as 

 Scudder described it, and as the forms 

 in the eastern part of the State show. 

 Hind femora not olivaceo-testaceous 

 but rather flavo-testaceous, roseate be- 

 low. Hind tibiae of one specimen 

 bright red, other slightly tinged with 

 red. End of abdomen not very strongly- 

 recurved in males. The cerci differ 

 slightly from Scudder's figures, being 

 broader at the base and more tapering 

 in the basal half. Qiiite generally dis- 

 tributed over the State. Noticeably 



supplanted, however, in Douglas legged variety the stripe is darker and 

 county within the last ten years by niore clearly defined than in those with 



broadly and shallowly notched niesially. 

 In the length of the pmzona it tends 

 towards J/. fcr»i//ni/is, a closely allied 

 species, but in the cliaracteristics of the 

 male abdominal appendages it agrees 

 perfectly with Scudder's description 

 and figure of M. bispinosiis. This is a 

 species first described by Scudder in 

 his Revision and reported only from 

 Texas. 



Packardii Series. 



M. fackardii Scudder. — Median 

 carina sometimes but rarelv marked on 

 prozona by a fine sharp black line. 

 Medio-dorsal stripe varies both in inten- 

 sity of color and in brea^lth ; in color 

 from testaceous to dark fuscous, in 

 brea<lth from one third to one half the 

 width of the prozona. In the blue- 



M. at Ian is. 



CiNEREUs Series. 



AI. bisp/i/osHS Scudder. — Of tliis we 

 have hut one male from Ford county, 

 July. It answers Scudder's description 

 with the following exceptions : Inter- 

 spaces between mesosternal lobes 



red hind tibiae ami shows a stronger 

 tendency to taper to a point on the 

 metazona. Sub-genital plate sub-equal, 

 generally broader than long, rarely only 

 as broad as long. 



Ford county seven females, Hamilton 

 county one male, Finney county three 

 males and one female, Russell county 

 hardly twice as long as broad ; Scud- two females and one male, July. Ten 

 der says "fully twice as long," pro- of these had blue hind tibiae and five 

 zona not quadrate but slightly elongate, red. They were common in the al- 

 anterior margin hardly " truncate," but fiilfa fields of Ford and Edwards conn- 



