﻿Nall24. 
  BETISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDER. 
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  above 
  by 
  a 
  broad, 
  slightly 
  oblique, 
  fiisco-piceous 
  patch 
  wMch 
  fails 
  to 
  

   reaeb 
  tlie 
  anterior 
  border; 
  pleural 
  iucisures 
  and 
  metatboraeic 
  epimera 
  

   marked 
  in 
  black. 
  Tegniina 
  black 
  on 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  lower 
  half, 
  above 
  

   pallid 
  hiteous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  legs 
  luteo-testaceous; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   pallid 
  luteous, 
  the 
  entire 
  geniculatiou 
  except 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  lobe 
  

   black; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  long 
  pilose, 
  brownish 
  luteous 
  excepting 
  the 
  under 
  

   surface 
  which 
  is 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  excepting 
  their 
  

   inner 
  bases. 
  Abdomen 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  mesial 
  black 
  stripe 
  widening 
  on 
  

   each 
  segment 
  at 
  its 
  extremity 
  and 
  cut 
  by 
  the 
  testaceous 
  carina 
  ; 
  sides 
  

   of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  segments 
  partly 
  blackish 
  fuscous. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  female, 
  19 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  7.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmiua, 
  3 
  mm.j 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  12 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  female. 
  Lower 
  California, 
  U. 
  Eisen, 
  collection 
  California 
  Acad- 
  

   emy 
  of 
  Sciences 
  (L. 
  Bruner). 
  

  

  7. 
  PHAULOTETTIX, 
  new 
  genus. 
  

   {q)avXoi, 
  good-for-nothing; 
  zevviQ, 
  grasshopper.) 
  

  

  Body 
  comjiact, 
  compressed, 
  pilose. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  not 
  wider, 
  

   including 
  the 
  eyes, 
  than 
  the 
  broadest 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  thorax, 
  the 
  vertex 
  

   gently 
  arched, 
  not 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  fastigium 
  rapidly 
  

   descending, 
  the 
  face 
  retreating 
  slightly; 
  eyes 
  large 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  prom- 
  

   inent, 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  and 
  nearly 
  

   twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  anterior 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  geuae, 
  separated 
  

   above 
  by 
  a 
  very 
  narrow 
  space; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  narrow, 
  but 
  wider 
  than 
  

   the 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  equal, 
  percurrent, 
  sulcate; 
  antennae 
  only 
  

   a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  head 
  and 
  pronotum 
  together. 
  I'ronotum 
  truncate 
  at 
  

   each 
  extremity, 
  barely 
  broader 
  behind 
  than 
  in 
  front, 
  transversely 
  

   convex, 
  the 
  disk 
  ])assing 
  insensibly 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  a 
  slight 
  

   median 
  carina; 
  prozona 
  transverse, 
  slightly 
  less 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  metazona, 
  divided 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  by 
  a 
  distinct 
  transverse 
  sulcus, 
  

   followed 
  at 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  behind 
  by 
  a 
  less 
  distinct 
  sinuous 
  sulcus, 
  

   very 
  feebly 
  and 
  sparsely 
  punctate 
  in 
  distinction 
  from 
  the 
  densely 
  

   though 
  not 
  sharply 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  blunt, 
  

   conical, 
  retrorse; 
  interval 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  subquadrate, 
  the 
  

   metasterual 
  lobes 
  attingent 
  over 
  a 
  short 
  space. 
  Tegmina 
  present 
  as 
  

   minute 
  pads 
  scarcely 
  extending 
  beyond 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  situated 
  high 
  

   upon 
  the 
  sides. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  scarcely 
  tumescent; 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  very 
  short 
  and 
  moderately 
  stout, 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  with 
  9 
  spines 
  

   in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Abdomen 
  strongly 
  compressed, 
  the 
  tip 
  scarcely 
  

   enlarged 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above, 
  upturned 
  only 
  by 
  its 
  inferior 
  curve; 
  

   margins 
  of 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  not 
  ampliate 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  straight, 
  well 
  

   rounded 
  and 
  entire 
  apically, 
  extending 
  beyond 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  thesupraanal 
  

   plate 
  by 
  about 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  latter; 
  furcula 
  minute; 
  cerci 
  

   simple, 
  compressed 
  laminate, 
  tapering, 
  interiorly 
  angulate 
  at 
  apex. 
  

  

  As 
  only 
  the 
  nmle 
  is 
  known 
  to 
  me, 
  the 
  description 
  is 
  necessarily 
  based 
  

   on 
  that 
  sex 
  only. 
  

  

  A 
  single 
  species 
  is 
  known, 
  from 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  