﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCrUBER. 
  43 
  

  

  plate 
  nearly 
  quadrate, 
  tapering 
  very 
  slightly, 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  slightly 
  

   produced, 
  and 
  the 
  posterior 
  edge 
  with 
  a 
  median, 
  triangular, 
  pointed 
  

   extension, 
  a 
  third 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  plate 
  and 
  longer 
  

   than 
  broad; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  attingent, 
  depressed, 
  rather 
  

   stout, 
  scarcely 
  tapering, 
  blunt-tipped 
  fingers, 
  fally 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   supraanal 
  plate 
  and 
  slightly 
  upturned 
  at 
  the 
  tip; 
  anal 
  cerci 
  very 
  simple, 
  

   being 
  slight 
  conical 
  projections, 
  tapering 
  mostly 
  in 
  their 
  basal 
  half, 
  the 
  

   tip 
  blunt, 
  the 
  whole 
  not 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  sni^raanal 
  y)late, 
  

   omitting 
  its 
  apical 
  extension. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  KJ.o 
  mm., 
  female, 
  23 
  mm,; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   female, 
  8 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  10 
  mm., 
  female, 
  12.25 
  mm. 
  

  

  Thirteen 
  males, 
  21 
  females. 
  Dallas, 
  Texas, 
  J. 
  Boll; 
  Texas, 
  June 
  13, 
  

   28, 
  29, 
  July 
  5, 
  August 
  3, 
  Belfrage 
  ( 
  U.S.N. 
  M.,— 
  Iiiley 
  collection); 
  Car- 
  

   rizo 
  Springs, 
  Dimmit 
  Coraity, 
  Texas, 
  A. 
  Wadgymar, 
  August 
  28 
  (the 
  

   same); 
  Goliad, 
  Texas, 
  December 
  3, 
  E. 
  Palmer; 
  Corpus 
  Christi 
  Bay, 
  

   Nueces 
  County, 
  Texas, 
  December 
  11-20, 
  E. 
  Palmer. 
  Stal's 
  specimens 
  

   came 
  from 
  Texas. 
  

  

  2. 
  PARAIDEMONA 
  MIMICA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  III, 
  tig. 
  10.) 
  

  

  Yellowish 
  testaceous, 
  heavily 
  banded 
  with 
  black, 
  especially 
  on 
  the 
  

   sides, 
  and 
  more 
  markedly 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  the 
  female. 
  Head 
  with 
  

   the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  very 
  narrow, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   the 
  fastigium 
  between 
  them 
  sulcate, 
  narrowly 
  in 
  the 
  jnale, 
  the 
  sulcation 
  

   continuing 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  subcontiuuous 
  with 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa, 
  

   which 
  is 
  sulcate 
  in 
  its 
  whole 
  extent, 
  equal, 
  and 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes. 
  Pronotum 
  punctate 
  as 
  in 
  P. 
  punctattt, 
  and 
  as 
  

   there 
  a 
  glabrous 
  spot 
  free 
  of 
  punctuation 
  occurs 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  at 
  the 
  

   summit 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes. 
  A 
  black 
  stripe, 
  sometimes 
  wanting 
  or 
  

   feebly 
  fuscous 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  begins 
  at 
  some 
  point 
  on 
  the 
  fastigium 
  and 
  

   continues 
  backward, 
  broadening 
  on 
  the 
  head 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  include 
  nearly 
  

   the 
  entire 
  vertex, 
  and 
  crosses 
  the 
  pronotum 
  as 
  a 
  broad 
  mediodorsal 
  

   band, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  metazona, 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  even 
  

   broader; 
  it 
  is 
  sometimes 
  obscureor 
  wholly 
  obsolete 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  while 
  

   in 
  the 
  male 
  it 
  is 
  always 
  distinct, 
  at 
  least 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  and 
  generally 
  

   continues, 
  though 
  narrowed, 
  over 
  the 
  meso- 
  and 
  metanota. 
  The 
  lat- 
  

   eral 
  band, 
  generally 
  rufo-piceous, 
  is 
  still 
  broader 
  and 
  is 
  sharply 
  defined 
  

   above 
  and 
  below, 
  often 
  uninterrupted 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  

   where 
  it 
  widens 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  include 
  behind 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  thoracic 
  pleura 
  

   (excepting 
  the 
  episterna) 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  tirstfour 
  abdominal 
  seg- 
  

   ments; 
  above 
  it 
  is 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinctly 
  accom[)anied 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  by 
  

   a 
  testaceous 
  stripe. 
  The 
  dorsum 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  lacks 
  

   the 
  double 
  series 
  of 
  oblique 
  lateral 
  dashes 
  found 
  in 
  P. 
  punctata, 
  or 
  has 
  

   them 
  very 
  feebly 
  marked. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  yellowish 
  testaceous, 
  the 
  outer 
  

   face 
  growing 
  darker 
  below, 
  giving 
  there 
  a 
  broken 
  irregular 
  blackish 
  

   stripe; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  glaucous, 
  the 
  pallid 
  spines 
  black 
  tipped. 
  Supraanal 
  

  

  