﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  15 
  

  

  outer 
  series. 
  Lateral 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  straight 
  

   from 
  base 
  outward, 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  into 
  a 
  minute 
  erect 
  

   tubercle; 
  cerci 
  simple, 
  conical. 
  

  

  This 
  genus 
  is 
  very 
  distinct 
  from 
  anything 
  known 
  to 
  me, 
  and 
  I 
  have 
  

   been 
  in 
  some 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  whether 
  it 
  should 
  be 
  placed 
  in 
  Melauopli, 
  

   especially 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  only 
  nmle 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  there 
  were 
  but 
  eight 
  spines 
  

   on 
  the 
  outer 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae: 
  but 
  Professor 
  L. 
  Bruner 
  informs 
  

   me 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  an 
  immature 
  male 
  with 
  nine 
  spines, 
  which 
  agrees 
  with 
  

   what 
  I 
  find 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  so 
  that 
  this 
  feature 
  must 
  be 
  looked 
  on 
  as 
  

   variable, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  in 
  some 
  other 
  geuera 
  of 
  Melauopb. 
  

  

  Although 
  I 
  have 
  placed 
  it 
  at 
  an 
  extreme 
  distance 
  from 
  Apfenopedes, 
  

   from 
  wliich 
  it 
  is 
  clearly 
  widely 
  separated 
  in 
  the 
  lack 
  of 
  any 
  basal 
  

   ampliation 
  of 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  it 
  recalls 
  that 
  genus 
  in 
  

   its 
  general 
  appearance 
  and 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  triangular 
  vertex 
  of 
  the 
  

   head: 
  it 
  differs, 
  however, 
  much 
  from 
  it 
  in 
  its 
  subcylindrical 
  slender 
  

   body 
  and 
  the 
  close 
  approximation 
  of 
  the 
  sternal 
  lobes. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  represented 
  by 
  a 
  single 
  species 
  occurring 
  in 
  Florida. 
  

  

  GYMNOSCIRTETES 
  PUSILLUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  II, 
  fig. 
  1.) 
  

   Gymnoscirteteis 
  puslUns 
  Bruner 
  I, 
  MS. 
  

  

  Head 
  above 
  and 
  in 
  front 
  between 
  the 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  of 
  the 
  face 
  

   lighter 
  or 
  darker 
  chestnut 
  brown; 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  geuae 
  of 
  a 
  similar 
  

   color 
  but 
  in 
  a 
  lighter 
  tint, 
  while 
  the 
  npper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  genae 
  is 
  lemon 
  

   yellow 
  in 
  continuation 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  stripe 
  of 
  that 
  color; 
  vertex 
  with 
  a 
  

   mediodorsal, 
  greatly 
  widening, 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  stripe 
  including 
  a 
  yel- 
  

   lowish 
  thread; 
  basal 
  joint 
  of 
  antennae 
  yellow, 
  the 
  remainder 
  dark 
  

   testaceous. 
  Prouotum 
  luteo-testaceous, 
  above 
  the 
  median 
  carina 
  fus- 
  

   cous; 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  piceous, 
  forming 
  a 
  broad 
  longitudinal 
  

   band 
  which 
  extends 
  forward 
  to 
  the 
  eyes 
  (where 
  it 
  is 
  margined 
  above 
  

   with 
  dull 
  yellow) 
  and 
  behind 
  over 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  becoming 
  there 
  some- 
  

   what 
  narrowed 
  posteriorly 
  and 
  broken 
  beneath, 
  fading 
  out 
  on 
  the 
  

   terminal 
  segments; 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  pronotum 
  lemon 
  

   yellow, 
  forming 
  a 
  band 
  which 
  extends 
  forward 
  over 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  back- 
  

   ward 
  over 
  the 
  meso- 
  and 
  metathorax, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen 
  (growing 
  

   duller) 
  becomes 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  general 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  under 
  surface. 
  Meta- 
  

   zona 
  and 
  extreme 
  anterior 
  part 
  of 
  prozona 
  feebly 
  and 
  rather 
  sparsely 
  

   punctulate; 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  meso- 
  and 
  metanota 
  and 
  of 
  abdomen 
  

   like 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  but 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  yellow 
  

   luteous, 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  or 
  less 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  plumbeous; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  pale 
  dull 
  greeu, 
  the 
  spines 
  black, 
  pallid 
  at 
  base. 
  Supra- 
  

   anal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  large, 
  triangular, 
  the 
  apex 
  acuminate, 
  a 
  little 
  blunt, 
  

   the 
  whole 
  central 
  basal 
  portion 
  elevated 
  to 
  form 
  another 
  similar 
  triangle 
  

   in 
  which 
  lies 
  a 
  pronounced 
  demi 
  lanceolate, 
  basal 
  sulcus, 
  with 
  sharp 
  

   walls, 
  considerably 
  less 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  plate; 
  furcula 
  consist- 
  

  

  