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Stripe; male cerci in no way expanded apically, and externally 

 tumid rather than sulcate. 



(?i. Lateral lobes of prozona with a broad and usually distinct 

 piceous band above ; tegmina 'generally distinctly flecked along 



the middle line boivditchi Scudd. 



e^. Lateral lobes of prozona with a narrow or no distinct band 

 above ; tegmina very obscurely flecked, if at all, along the middle 



line flavidus Scudd. 



rt2- Highly variegated, the lateral lobes of pronotum conspicuously 

 marked with an unequal bright flavous stripe next the lateral carinse; 

 male cerci very feebly expanded and externally sulcate apically. 



picttis Brun. 

 c^. Forks of the male furcula rounded symmetrically at tip, the inner 

 margin scarcely more excised than the outer, so that the forks are 

 straight and not oppositely hooked ; bands of hind femora scarcely 



perceptible elongatus Scudd. 



b'i. Body, tegmina and legs almost wholly green, the hind femora not 

 banded. 



ri. Disk of pronotum and summit of head uniform in cohjration, the 

 former passing into the lateral lobes with a more distinct angle than in 

 the alternate category; hind tibiie blue ; antennae uniform. 



flavescens Scudd. 

 c'^. Sides of the disk of the jjrozona with a distinct narrow yellow 

 stripe, extending to the upper margin of the eyes ; passage of the disk 

 of the pronotum into the lateral lobes more gradual than in the alter- 

 nate category ; hind tibia; green ; antennae apically infuscated. 



het'baceus Brun. 



Melanopliis incisus sp. nov. 



Of pretty large size, fuscous marked with flavous, the darkest parts 

 being a broad postocular stripe which extends to but not upon the 

 metazona and a slightly narrower glistening stripe at the outer mar- 

 gin of the disk of the pronotum; beneath it is almost wholly flavous. 

 Head more or less infuscated throughout, but especially above, though 

 there is a dull flavous median vertical streak, and the upper margins 

 of the postocular band are bordered with the same ; vertex gently 

 tumid, the interspace between the eyes about equalling the width of 

 the frontal costa, the fastigium broadly and rather deeply sulcate ; 

 frontal costa moderate in breadth, subequal but a little narrowed 

 above the ocellus, biseriately punctate above ; eyes rather large and 

 rather prominent; antennae almost as long as the hind femora, fusco- 

 flavous. Pronotum subequal, feebly enlarging at the metazona, the 

 front margin truncate, the hind margin very obtusely angulate, the 



