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PSYCHE 
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prozona, brownish, sometimes obsolete. Sub-genital plate of the male seen from 
above smoothly rounded posteriorly, its ventral outline from the side smoothly convex, 
terminating posteriorly in an upwardly directed, acute, sub-apical tubercle, the lateral 
margins ampliate at base. Last dorsal segment of abdomen of male emarginate 
at origin of furcula, the latter consi.sting of a pair of short, triangular, flattened proc- 
esses from expanded bases on the segment, scarcely as long as the segment, parallel, 
and widely separated. Cerci short, but little longer than their basal width, wide 
and very stout at base, tapering rapidly, the apical half sub-equal, tapering to a 
rounded apex, bent strongly upward and inward, the apex flattened and a little 
reflexed. Tegmina a little surpassing (c?) or about reaching (9) the hind knees. 
Body: (5*, 18-22; 9, 19-27. Tegmina: d', 14-18; 9, 16-19. Hind fern.: 
(d, 11-12; 9, 1.3-15 mm. 
Eleven males, three females; Quanah, Texas, Aug. 21. 
One male; Wichita Falls, Texas, Aug. 15. 
Melanoplus scudderi latus var. nov. 
Two males from Bonita, Te.xas, which I refer to this species with some doubt, 
possess exceptionally broad cerci, the depth nearly or quite equalling the length, 
the lower margin very strongly convex. To this form I apply provisionally the 
varietal name latus. 
