SCUDDER SUPPLEMENT TO A REVISION OF THE MELANOPLI. l6l 



Melanoplus blandus sp. nov. 

 Plate VII., Figure 3. 



Dark brownish testaceous above, luteo-testaceous beneath, with a 

 moderately narrow, postocular, piceous stripe crossing the prozona 

 and sometimes in a diluted form the metazona. Head rather promi- 

 nent, testaceous, heavily flecked and dotted with fuscous, esoecially 

 above, the postocular band edged with luteo-testaceous; vertex well 

 rounded, a little elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between 

 the eyes scarcely or not broader than the first antennal joint ; fastig- 

 ium strongly declivent, deeply sulcate ; frontal costa failing to reach 

 the clypeus, subequal, slightly broader than the interspace between 

 the eyes, feebly sulcate, strongly punctate throughout, biseriately 

 above; eyes rather large and rather prominent, fully half as long 

 again as the infraocular portion of the genae ; antennae luteo-castaneous, 

 a trifle infuscated apically, about two-thirds as long as the hind fe- 

 mora. Pronotum subequal, dull testaceous more or less punctate 

 with fuscous, the lower portion of the lateral lobes lutescent, the disk 

 gently convex and passing by a rounded shoulder, a little more 

 abrupt on the metazona than on the prozona, into the vertical, anteri- 

 orily tumid lateral lobes ; front margin subtruncate, hind margin very 

 obtusangulate, the angle sometimes rounded; median carina percur- 

 rent, most distinct on the metazona, least distinct between the sulci; 

 prozona distinctly longitudinal, a fourth to a third longer than the dis- 

 tinctly punctate metazona. Prosternal spine small, distinctly conical, 

 erect, bluntly pointed ; interspace between mesosternal lobes about half 

 as long again as broad, the metasternal lobes subattingent. Tegmina 

 shorter than the pronotum, attingent, broadly ovate, apically rounded, 

 but feebly angulate, blackish fuscous, excepting the anal area which is 

 testaceous. Fore and middle femora feebly tumid, testaceous, more 

 or less infuscated ; hind femora testaceous, distinctly and obliquely 

 bifasciate above with blackish fuscous, beneath rufescent, the genicu- 

 lation infuscated ; hind tibiae dull glaucous, often lutescent basally, 

 with a fuscous annulation, the spines black except at base, lo-ii in 

 number in the outer series. Extremity of abdomen a little clavate 

 and upturned, the supraanal plate subtriangular with subrectangu- 

 late apex, the median sulcus percurrent, broad and bounded by rather 

 high ridges on basal half, slender with slight margins on apical half; 

 furcula consisting of a pair of slender, tapering, parallel, blunt-pointed 



