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TABLE OF THE BRACHYPTEROUS SPECIES OF THE FASCIATUS SERIES OF 



MELANOPLUS. 



ai, Male cerci distinctly decurved apically, as well as strongly incurved. 



ablutiis sp. nov. 

 a2. Male cerci in no way decurved, or if feebly (fasciatus;, then they are 

 not incurved The remaining species* 



Melanoplus ablutus sp. nov. 



Plate VIII., Figure 3. 



Below medium size, weak fusco-testaceous or dull, pale testaceous, 

 more or less flavous beneath. Head slightly prominent in the male, 

 flavo- testaceous flecked with fuscous, heavily above as a general rule, 

 but sometimes hardly flecked at all; vertex very gently tumid, scarcely 

 elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes some- 

 what broader than the first antennal joint; fastigium rather steeply 

 declivent, distinctly (6^) or slightly (?) sulcate ; frontal costa per- 

 current, subequal, slightly broader than the interspace between the 

 eyes, feebly sulcate below the ocellus, irregularly punctate throughout; 

 eyes moderate, rather prominent in the male, distinctly longer than the 

 infraocular portion of the genae, particularly in the male; antennae 

 luteous, luteo-castaneous, or rufous, lutescent basally, more than two- 

 thirds (cJ*) or a little more than half (9) as long as the hind femora. 

 Pronotum subequal, faintly enlarging in the posterior half, fuscous or 

 testaceous above, with a broad postocular piceous band on the pro- 

 zona, often obsolete in the female, sometimes extended, dulled, over 

 the metazona, beneath which the lateral lobes are flavo-testaceous or 

 subfiavous, the disk moderately convex, passing without sign of lateral 

 caringe into the vertical or subvertical lateral lobes; median carina 

 feeble, especially between the sulci; front margin truncate, hind mar- 

 gin very broadly obtusangulate; prozona longitudinal (cf) or quad- 

 rate or subquadrate (?), one-half (cf) or nearly a third (?) longer 

 than the densely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine moderate, very 

 blunt conical, a little retrorse; interspace between mesosternal lobes a 

 little longer than broad (c?) or distinctly transverse (?), the meta- 

 sternal lobes subattingent (d^) or approximate (?). Tegmina about 

 as long as the pronotum, obovate, more than half as long again as 

 broad, apically blunt angulate, brownish fuscous, sometimes obscurely 

 dotted with blackish fuscous. Fore and middle femora slightly 



* Separated as in the Revision. 



