184 FAMILY V.— ACRIDIIN^. 



gg Furcula of male distinctly pres- 

 ent, though always very small, 

 angulate, the angle rarely pro- 

 duced ; hind tibiee never 3' ellow, 

 usually red, rarely purplish or 



yellow at tip bivittatus. 



ff. Interspace between mesosternal lobe 

 of male sub-quadrate; of female 

 transverse; [)rosternal spines short; 

 tegmina maculate with roundish fus- 

 cous spots; eyes of male and head 

 prominent, the front margin of the 

 pronotum flaring to receive the 



head punctulatus. 



Melanc'plus Scudderi Uhler. 

 Short winged, of medium or rather small size, ferrugineo- 

 fuscous, a little lighter beneath. Head not prominent, dark 

 testaceous, much mottled with fuscous, above almost 

 wholly infuscated, with an obscure fuscous post-ocular 

 band; vertex somewhat tumid, scarcely elevated above the 

 pronotum ; antennce ferruginous, about four-fifths (male) or 

 less than two-thirds (female) as long as the hind femora. 

 Pronotum often heavily ferruginous on the disk, the laternal 

 lobes with a post-ocular piceous belt ; disk broadly convex, 

 passing by a distinct but everywhere dis- 

 tinctly rounded shoulder into the at first 

 very steeply declivent and afterwards 

 vertical lateral lobes; median carina dis- 

 tinct, delicate and equal throughout. 

 Prosternal spine not very long, appressed 

 cylindrical, tapering apically, bluntly 

 pill^icTdZ^u[^"of pointed, erect. Tegmina about as long as 

 male abdomen. Cms- .|.|^g prouotum, broad ovatc, overlapping; 



wings not half the length of the tegmina. 

 Fore and middle femora slightl}^ tumid in the male; hind 

 femora ferrugineo-testaceous, occasionalh* with an olivea- 



