196 ■ FAMILY V.— ACRIDIIN^. 



stripe; fastigium strongly declivent, more or less sulcate; 

 frontal costa just failing to reach the clypeus, subcqual, as 

 broad as the interspace between the eyes, sulcate at and be- 

 low the ocellus, bi-seriately punctate above; eyes moderately 

 prominent in the male, not at all so in the female. Prono- 

 tum feebly and rather regularly expanding posteriorly, the 

 disk faintly convex and passing by a well-rounded shoulder 



Fig. 122. — Melanoplus femiir-rubrvtn, female. Original. 



into the anteriorly tumid vertical lateral lobes, the disk gen- 

 erally darker than the lower portion of the lateral lobes, 

 sometimes irregularly marked with luteous, the upper part 

 of the lateral lobes crossed by a broad piceous band on the 

 prozona, the lower portion more or less closely copying the 



