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vate, strongly rounded apically, less than twice as long as broad, fusco- 

 testaceous. Fore and middle femora slightly tumid, dark plumbeo- 

 testaceous ; hind femora not very slender, pallid testaceous, trifasciate 

 with fuscous so broadly as to blend through most of the femur, leaving 

 only pallid patches in rather striking contrast to the rest, the under 

 surface and basal half of inner surface deep orange; hind tibiae dark 

 blue with a dark postgenicular dot, the spines black almo.-?t to the 

 base, II-I2 in number in the outer series. Extremity of abdomen 

 clavate, considerably recurved, the supraanal plate at base equal, be- 

 yond triangular, the apex somewhat acutangulate, the lateral margins 

 flaringly elevated at base, the median sulcus percurrent, rather shallow, 

 broadening apically, the walls low, especially apically ; furcula want- 

 ing ; cerci moderately stout, not very long, incurved throughout, at 

 base rather broader than the frontal costa, narrowing in the middle to 

 three-fourths the basal width, generally more by excision of the upper 

 than of the lower margin, l)eyond enlarging slightly, a little decurved and 

 ending with a rounded angulation, this apical portion more strongly 

 incurved; subgenital plate not very large, flaring, of subecjual width, 

 and but little if any longer than broad, the lateral and afncal margins 

 in the same plane, and as seen from above forming a strong curve. 



Length of body, i8mm.; antennas, 9.5 mm.; tegmina, 4 mm. ; hind 

 femora, 10 mm. 



5 d^. Mt. Shasta, northern California, just below the forest line, 

 Sept. 2 ; Portland, Oregon, Sept. 19, A. P. Morse. 



This species is more nearly allied to M. lepidiis Scudd., from which 

 it differs distinctly in its stouter cerci and the absence of a furcula. 



Melanoplus valid us sp. no v. 



Plate IX., Figures 4, 5. 



Of medium size, moderately stout, fusco-griseous, dull testaceous 

 beneath, with a broad postocular piceous or subpiceous stripe extend- 

 ing over the prozona, sometimes obscure in the female. Head not 

 prominent, dull testaceous, more or Itss deeply flecked and dotted 

 with fuscous, above almost wholly fuscous or infuscated, the postocu- 

 lar stripe narrowly and often obscurely edged above and below with 

 testaceous; vertex gently tumid, not or scarcely elevated above the 

 pronotum, the interspace between the eyes fully half as broad again 

 (c?) or twice as broad (?) as the first antennal joint; fastigium con- 



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