FAMILY V.-ACRIDIlN.4i. 199 



in the male; hind femora olivaceo-luteous, more or less 



infumated or infuscated excepting 



below, the inner half of the upper 



face feebly bifasciate with fuscous, 



and the geniculatioiis more or less 



infuscated; hind tibiae glaucous, ap- 



ically growing feebly lutescent, the 



spines black apically, pallid basally, pj^ 123.- Meianopius' an- 



nine to twelve in number in the outer ^In!'' or/lini?."'"'''^''''*^**' 



series. 



Extremity of male abdomen as shown in Fig. 123. 



Length of body, male, 20 mm., female, 22.5 mm.; an- 

 tennae, male, 10 mm., female, 8.75 mm.; tegmina, male, 16 

 mm., female, 16.5 mm. ; hind femora, male, 11.5 mm., female, 

 13 mm. 



A few specimens of this species have been found in Min- 

 nesota. It seems to be uncommon, at least in regions visited 

 by the writer. 



Meianopius impiger Sc udder. 



Of moderately large size, above rather light brownish 

 fuscous with a ferruginous tinge, below luteo-testaceous. 

 Head slightly prominent, dull luteo-testaceous, often punc- 

 tate with olivaceous, with a post-ocular piceous band, and 

 above much mottled or marmorate with fuscous; vertex 

 gently tumid, considerably elevated above the leyel of the 

 pronotum ; fastigium steeply declivent, shallowl}' and 

 broadly sulcate; frontal costa percurrent (male) or scarcely 

 percurrent (female), feebly contracted above but otherwise 

 sub-equal, as broad as the interspace between the eyes, punc- 

 tate throughout; eyes rather large, not very prominent. 

 Pronotum subequal, feebly enlarging posteriorh", with a very 

 broad post-ocular piceous band, occasionally maculate, espe- 

 cially in the female, rarely surpassing the prozona and 

 broadening and decidedly weakening on the metazona: disk 

 very broadly convex, passing by a blunt shoulder nowhere 



