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d^. Male cerci rather small and moderately slender, very far from reach- 

 ing the extremity of the sii])raanal plate ; ajjex of subgenital plate con- 

 siderably protuberant franciscanus sp. nov. 



l>'. Male cerci lartje and liroad, reaching' the extremity of the supraanal 

 |)latc; ajjcx of subgenital jilate very slightly protuberant. 



inornatiis McNeill. 

 a^. Male cerci very feebly expanded apically ; apical tubercle of subgeni- 

 tal i)late acute viridipes Walsh, decorus Scudd.* 



Melanoplus franciscanus sp. nov. 



Plate VIII., Figures i, 2. 



Of moderately large size, heavy, dark fuscous or fusco-testaceous, 

 the female often olivaceous, olivaceo-flavous beneath, with a very 

 broad piceous or fusco-piceous postocular band crossing the prozona. 

 Head moderately prominent, ranging from olivaceous to testaceous, 

 often more or less tinged with fuscous especially on summit, the upper 

 margin of the postocular band edged with testaceous, which extends 

 backward across the pronotum ; vertex rather tumid but only a little 

 elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes rather 

 less (c?*) or rather more ( 9 ) than twice as wide as the first antennal 

 joint; fastigium steeply declivent, plane; frontal costa just failing to 

 reach the clypeus, subequal but slightly narrowed above, about (cf ) 

 or hardly (V) as broad as the interspace between the eyes, very shal- 

 lowly sulcate below the ocellus, biseriately punctate above; eyes mod- 

 erate, very feebly prominent in the male, much (d^) or a little (?) 

 longer than the infraocular portion of the genaj ; antennfe rufo-cas- 

 taneous, lutescent basally, nearly as long (d") or about two-thirds as 

 long (?) as the hind femora. Pronotum subequal, faintly (c?) or dis- 

 tinctly (V) enlarging from in front backward, the lower part of the 

 lateral lobes plumbeous or testaceous, the disk dark fuscous or testa- 

 ceous, in the female often olivaceous ("with markings described), gently 

 convex, passing by a rounded shoulder more noticeable on the meta- 

 zona into the subvertical lateral lobes; median carina percurrent, but 

 feeble between the sulci and most pronounced on the metazona; front 

 margin truncate, hind margin very broadly convex (cf) or very obtus- 

 angulate, the angle rounded (?) ; prozona distinctly longitudinal (cf) 

 or subquadrate (?), nearly a half (cf*) or fully a third (?) longer than 

 the rather densely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine rather stout, 



* Separated as before, in Kevibion. 



