SCUDDER — SUPPLEMENT TO A REVISION OF THE MELANOPLI. l8l 



Melanoplus incultus sp. nov. 



Plate VII., Figure lo. 



Of medium size, fuscous or fusco-testaceous, dull flavous beneath, 

 with a broad postocular piceous belt reaching to the posterior margin 

 of the prozona. Head slightly prominent, pallid testaceous (d^) or 

 testaceous ( 9 ) overlaid with fusco-olivaceous, above fuscous, the up- 

 per part of the eyes and the postocular belt edged with pallid testa- 

 ceous ; vertex gently tumid, scarcely elevated above the pronotum, 

 the interspace between the eyes half as wide again (cJ^) or nearly twice 

 as wide( ? ) as the fir=t antennal joint ; fastigium steeply declivent, 

 very shallowly (cJ* ) or hardly (?) sulcate; frontal costa failing to reach 

 the clypeus, subequal but enlarging from above downward, a little 

 narrower, especially in the female, than the interspace between the 

 eyes, fully sulcate at and below the ocellus, punctate throughout but 

 especially above; eyes of moderate size, a little prominent in the 

 male, distinctly longer, especially in the male, than the infraocular 

 portion of the gens ; antennae fusco-testaceous or rufous, lutescent 

 basally, a little shorter than {S') or about three-fourths (?) as long as 

 (?) the hind femora. Pronotum subequal, even in the female, the 

 disk fusco-testaceous or fuscous, often obscurely edged laterally with 

 testaceous, gently convex, passing by a rounded shoulder, only in the 

 female simulating lateral carina, into the subvertical lateral lobes ; 

 median carina feeble, at all distinct only on the metazona and the 

 front of the prozona, obsolete or subobsolete between the sulci ; front 

 margin truncate, hind margin very obtusangulate, the angle rounded; 

 prozona quadrate (?) or longitudinally quadrate (c?), about a third 

 longer than the finely and obscurely punctate metazona. Prosternal 

 spine moderate, erect, very blunt conical; interspace between the 

 mesosternal lobes longitudinally subquadrate (c?) or decidedly trans- 

 verse (?), the metasternal lobes approximate (cJ*) or rather distant (?). 

 Tegmina a very little longer than the pronotum, overlapping, ovate 

 lanceolate with pointed tips, fusco-testaceous, sometimes dotted with 

 blackish fuscous, the limit between the anal and median areas dis- 

 tinctly marked with flavo-testaceous. Fore and middle femora 

 slightly tumid in the male, flavo-testaceous more or less infuscated; 

 hind femora more or less pallid testaceous, with a pallid pregenicular 

 annulus and twice obliquely and rather narrowly banded with black- 

 ish fuscous, besides a blackish fuscous geniculation, more or less flav- 



[ Proc. D. a. N. S., Vol.. VII.] 33 [January 19, 1899.J 



