FAMILY V.-ACRIDIIN^. ,195 



plane, passing by a tolerably distinct but rounded angle 

 into the anteriorly slightly tumid vertical 

 lateral lobes ; median carina slight, per- 

 current, somewhat feebler and blunter 

 on the prozona than on the metazona. 

 Prosternal spine rather stout, moder- 

 ately long, appressed conical, blunt, 

 feebly retrorse. Tegmina reaching and 

 yig. 120.— Meianopius somctimcs a little surpassing- the tips of 



Glaastoni, tip of male i. cs r 



abdomen. Original. the hind fcmora, moderately slender, 



distincth'tapering, brownish-fuscous, distinctly but not con- 

 spicuously maculate in the discoidal area; wings hyaline, 

 with mostly brownish-fuscous veins. Fore femora of male 

 not greatly tumid; hind femora flavo-testaceous, twice 

 broadly and very obliquely banded with blackish fuscous, 

 with a basal patch of the same, all sometimes confluent on 

 the outer face, which it then nearly fills, the lower face and 

 lower half of the inner face immaculate, the genicular arc 

 black ; hind tibiae faintly valgate, red with an inconspicuous 

 fuscous patellar spot, the spines black except their pallid 

 bases, ten to twelve, usually eleven, in number in outer series. 



Extremity of male abdomen as shown in Fig. 120. 



Length of body, male, 20 mm., female, 23 mm.; antennae, 

 male and female, 9 mm. ; tegmina, male and female, 16 mm. ; 

 hind femora, male, 12 mm., female, 13.25 mm. 



A number of these locusts were captured in October in 

 the western part of the state (Brown's Valley) ; they vary 

 from typical specimens by possessing red tibiae. 



Meianopius temur-rubrum DeGeer. 



COMMON RED-LEGGED LOCUST. 



Of medium size, brownish-fuscous, often with a more or 

 less feeble ferruginous tinge, particularly in the female. Head 

 a little prominent, olivaceo-plumbeous, above much infus- 

 cated, especially in a pair of widening stripes behind the lat- 

 eral margins of the fastigium, and with a piceous post-ocular 



