FAMILY v.— ACRIDIIN^. 



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ora liiteo-testaceous, twice barred above with blackish fus- 

 cous besides a basal spot, and more or less deeply infuscated 

 geniculation, the bars liable on the middle of the outer face 

 to fuse more or less completely into a median stripe, which 



Fig. 12G — Melanoplus 

 impiger, tip of male ab- 

 domen. Original. 



Fig. 12+. — Melanoplus impiger, male. Original. 



sometimes suffuses the whole face; lower face sometimes 

 feebly roseate; hind tibise glaucous, occasionally feebly in- 

 fuscated, the base and tip feebly lutes- 

 cent, with a narrov/ post-basal fusco- 

 glaucous annulus, the spines rather 

 short, black beyond their pallid bases, 

 ten to eleven in number in the outer 

 series. Both sexes are shown in Figs. 

 124. and 125. 

 Extremity of male abdomen as shown in Fig. 126. 

 Length of body, male, 26.5 mm., female, 27 mm.; an- 

 tennae, male, 11 mm., female, 10.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 22 

 mm., female, 21 mm.; hind femora, male, 15.5 mm., female, 

 16 mm. 



This insect has only been found upon Gray Cloud Island- 

 It was mature as early as July 4, and proved quite destruct. 

 ive to garden plants. 



Melanoplus minor Scudder. 



Of medium size, dark brownish-fuscous, often with a fer- 

 ruginous tinge, especially on the disk of the pronotum, lut- 

 eous beneath. Head very feebly prominent, testaceous, ob- 



