﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISTOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDEE. 
  21 
  

  

  one 
  of 
  yellowish 
  white; 
  face 
  grayish 
  ; 
  abclomen 
  with 
  a 
  yellow 
  line 
  along 
  

   the 
  back, 
  the 
  sides 
  brown, 
  the 
  sternites 
  yellow; 
  sternites 
  of 
  thorax 
  

   bluish 
  gray; 
  a 
  whitish 
  bar 
  extends 
  from 
  base 
  of 
  tegmina 
  diagonally 
  

   to 
  hind 
  coxae; 
  sides 
  of 
  hind 
  femora 
  brown 
  with 
  two 
  yellowish 
  stripes 
  

   on 
  upper 
  margin, 
  below 
  light 
  orange; 
  tibiae 
  deep 
  orange; 
  tarsi 
  flesh 
  

   color. 
  Female 
  tinged 
  with 
  greenish 
  yellow 
  where 
  there 
  is 
  clear 
  yellow 
  

   in 
  tbe 
  male; 
  cheeks, 
  whole 
  sternum 
  and 
  lower 
  sides 
  of 
  abdomeu 
  blue, 
  

   especially 
  the 
  sternites 
  of 
  thorax 
  ; 
  lower 
  sides 
  of 
  hind 
  femora 
  and 
  tibiae 
  

   deep 
  orange. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Samuel 
  Henshaw, 
  while 
  recently 
  in 
  London, 
  procured 
  for 
  me 
  at 
  

   the 
  British 
  Museum 
  a 
  drawing 
  of 
  the 
  genitalia 
  of 
  Walker's 
  CaJoptenns 
  

   mexicanus, 
  described 
  by 
  him 
  as 
  new, 
  showing 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  unquestion- 
  

   ably 
  the 
  present 
  species. 
  (See 
  Plate 
  II, 
  fig. 
  4.) 
  

  

  2. 
  PARADICHROPLUS 
  VARICOLOR. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  II, 
  fig. 
  6.) 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  varicolor 
  8tal, 
  Bib. 
  K. 
  Sv. 
  Vet.-Akad. 
  Handl., 
  Y 
  (1H78), 
  Xo. 
  9, 
  pp. 
  9-10. 
  

   ParadichropJus 
  varicolor 
  Bkunxei!, 
  Rev. 
  Syst. 
  Ortb. 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  145. 
  — 
  Uiglio-Tos, 
  

   Zool. 
  Jabrb.. 
  Abtb. 
  Syst.. 
  VIII 
  (1895), 
  p. 
  813. 
  

  

  Dark 
  ferrugineo-testaceous, 
  lutescent 
  beneath, 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  lateral 
  

   stripe. 
  Head 
  with 
  the 
  genae 
  not 
  in 
  the 
  least 
  tumescent 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  

   above, 
  the 
  summit 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  and 
  behind 
  the 
  eyes 
  a 
  broad 
  

   piceous 
  band; 
  raised 
  portions 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  obscured 
  with 
  blackish 
  

   fuscous; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  much 
  narrowed 
  above, 
  punctate, 
  plane; 
  fasti- 
  

   gium 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  anteriorly. 
  Pronotum 
  with 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  entire, 
  

   the 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  feeble 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  the 
  upper 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  jjiceous 
  band, 
  the 
  continuation 
  of 
  that 
  

   behind 
  the 
  eye, 
  somewhat 
  tinged 
  with 
  chocolate, 
  accompanied 
  on 
  the 
  

   prozona 
  by 
  a 
  slender 
  black 
  stripe 
  between 
  the 
  front 
  and 
  middle 
  sulcus, 
  

   halfway 
  between 
  the 
  black 
  band 
  and 
  the 
  lower 
  margin. 
  Prosternal 
  

   spine 
  conical. 
  Tegmina 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad, 
  apically 
  acumi- 
  

   nate, 
  their 
  inner 
  edges 
  subattingent, 
  testaceous, 
  the 
  costal 
  half, 
  in 
  

   continuation 
  of 
  the 
  pronotal 
  stripe, 
  infuscated. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  legs 
  

   ferruginous 
  above, 
  luteous 
  below; 
  hind 
  femora 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  

   the 
  outer 
  and 
  upper 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  face 
  blackish, 
  the 
  upper 
  face 
  

   ferruginous, 
  the 
  remainder 
  flavous, 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  dull 
  pale 
  red, 
  the 
  

   spines 
  black 
  on 
  apical, 
  pallid 
  on 
  basal 
  half. 
  Supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  

   broadly 
  triangular, 
  apically 
  rectangulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  rounded, 
  the 
  sur- 
  

   face 
  nearly 
  tlat, 
  with 
  a 
  i)ercurreut 
  rather 
  sharply 
  defined 
  median 
  sulcus; 
  

   furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  subattingent, 
  very 
  feeble, 
  rounded 
  lobes; 
  

   cerci 
  very 
  slender, 
  tapering 
  very 
  gradually 
  on 
  basal 
  half, 
  then 
  laminate 
  

   and 
  subequal, 
  bent 
  abruptly 
  inward 
  and 
  backward 
  and 
  feebly 
  twisted, 
  

   terminating 
  in 
  a 
  blunt 
  point. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  11.75 
  mm.; 
  tegmina 
  2.75 
  ram.; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   8 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  Columbia. 
  Originally 
  described 
  from 
  Colombia 
  and 
  Mex- 
  

  

  