scudder — ^supplement to a revision of the melanopli. 203 

 Plebejus Series. 



Melanoplus marginatus, as already stated, should be removed from 

 this to the Texanus Series, while to it should be added a species from 

 New Mexico, submitted to me by Mr. Morse. The table given in my 

 Revision (p. 130) may be thus remodelled: 



TABLE OF THE BRACHYPTEROUS SPECIES IN THE PLEBEJUS SERIES OF 



MELANOPLUS. 



a^. Apical portion of male cerci distinctly sulcite exteriorly. 



/''. Hind margin of pronotuni subtruncate or broadly rounded suSangu- 

 late; interspace between mesosternal lobes of female transverse; male 

 cerci apically truncate, mesially broad, hirdly narrower than the base. 



calidus sp. nov. 

 /'■). Hind margin of pronntum distinctly angulate; interspace between 

 mesosternal lobes of female at least half as lon-T again as broad; male 

 cerci apically rounded, mesially narrow, much narrower than the base. 



plebejus Stal- 



if'. Apical portion (^i male cerci exteriorly plane or tumid. 



^'. Posterior margin of pronotum distinctly emarginate in the middle; 

 tegmi a widely separated; male cerci elongate, surpassing the supraanal 

 plate; subgenital pirate broader at base than apically, its apical margin 



regularly rounded and even gracilis Brun. 



b''. Posterior margin of pronotum rounded truncate, with but feeblest 

 signs of mesial emargination; tegmina attingent or subattingent; male 

 cerci relatively brief, not surpassing the supraanal plate; subgenital plate 

 not broider at base than apically, its apical margin angulate or tubercu- 

 late inops Scudd. 



Melanoplus calidus sp. nov. 



Slightly above medium size, inoderately robust, testaceo-olivaceous, 

 somewhat infuscated, beneath flavo-olivaceous with a broad subpiceous 

 postocular band crossing the metazona. Head a little prominent, dull 

 olivaceous feebly infuscated, above more deeply, the postocular band 

 margined with flavo olivaceous ; vertex gently tumid, distinctly ele- 

 \ ated above the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes fully half 

 as broad again as the first antennal joint ; fastigium strongly declivent, 

 hardly sulcate ; frontal costa failing to reach the clypeus, subequal, as 

 broad as the inters] ace between the eyes, feebly sulcate below the 

 ocellus, punctate throughout, biseriately above ; eyes moderate, but 

 little prominent in the male, only a little longer than the infraocular 



