1904] MORSE: — NEW ACKID/IDAE I 3 



tip, the apex transversely excised, the ventral apical angle produced, the dorsal well 

 rounded, the extreme tip slightly recurved. Subgenital plate strongly constricted at base, 

 (more than in decorus), the sides less ampliate basally, the apical tubercle much enlarged, 

 produced, and curved upward, the ventral length of the plate almost or quite equal to its basal 

 depth, the whole structure appearing more like a malformation than otherwise. 



Color dark reddish brown, yellow beneath, sides of pronotum below post-ocular stripe 

 white, the stripe percurrent, suffusing pale metepisternal fascia, continued nearly or quite to 

 end of abdomen, som.etimes rather faintly in female but more pronounced and constant than 

 in the females of the other species here described. The body is stouter than in decorus, the 

 hind femora shorter and stouter, and usually bifasciate. 



Length of body: $ , 15-1S; $, 21.5-25; hind femora: J, 9.5-n; $, 10.7-12; antenna: $ , 

 8-5-9-5; ?. 8-9; tegmina: c^, 2 X 3, --5 X 4; ?, 2.8X4, 4X5 mm. 



Two males, twelve females. Murphy, Cherokee, Co., N. C, July 25, 1800 ft. Two females, 

 Topton, Cherokee Co., N. C, Aug. 21, 3000 to 4000 ft. One female, Blue Ridge, Fannin 

 Co., Ga., July 25. 1700 ft. Three males, one female, Wytheville, Wythe Co , Va., Sept. 4 and 

 5, 3000 to 400Q ft. 



Melanoplus australis sp. no\ . 



Related to itttenuatns. Tegmina lanceolate with rounded tip, — in attenuatns elliptical, 

 and almost truncate at apex. Furcula processes well-developed, broad at base, tapering 

 (chiefly on inner side) to digitate tips, one-third as long as supra-anal plate, — in atte.nuatus, 

 one-fourth or less. Supra-anal plate resembling that of uttenuaius, showing indications of 

 the marginal dentate plication of that species. Cerci slender, very nearly symmetrical, 

 three times as long as broad, the middle third narrowed to one-half or less of the width of 

 the base, spatulate, with slightly emarginate symmetrical apex, the tip a little incurved, thin, 

 and longitudinally inrolled, i. e., from side to side convex externally, concave internally. 

 Subgenital plate similar to that of atienuatus. 



Color light yellowish green, without fuscous markings on sides of abdomen. Hind 

 tibiae glaucous. Post-ocular fuscous stripe obsolete on metazone, interrupted on prozone 

 by two narrow oblique yellowish green fasciae. 



Length of body: $, 17; hind femora: $, 11. 5; antenna: J, 12 ; tegmina: (J , 2 X 3 

 mm. 



One male, Savannah, Chatham Co., Ga., Aug. 14. 



Spharagemon saxafile var. planum var. nov. 



Differing noticeably from the specific type in the structure of the pronotum, the mid- 

 carina, although of the same general form and profile, being lower throughout, and the disk 

 of the metazone more nearly and constantly plane, instead of arched in longisection as is 

 commonly the case in the type, especially in the female. Hind tibiae with an increased 

 amount of infuscation distad of the pale basal annulus, in this respect sometimes approaching 

 bollt in degree. The general color of the specimens at hand is a purplish red in consonance 

 with the tint of the soil of the habitat ; the pale X mark of the pronotal disk is lacking, and 

 even the transverse fuscous bands of the tegmina are indistinct. 



Twenty-two males, ten females, Wytheville, Wythe Co., Va., Sept. 4 and 5, 2300 ft., on a 

 thinly grassed gravelly hill-slope. 



