﻿NO. 
  1121. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  53 
  

  

  frontal 
  costa 
  equal, 
  rather 
  deeply 
  suleate 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus 
  ; 
  antenuae 
  

   light 
  brown, 
  the 
  basal 
  joint 
  unusually 
  small. 
  Pronotum 
  small, 
  equal, 
  

   compressed, 
  the 
  dorsum 
  flat, 
  the 
  whole 
  so 
  much 
  smaller 
  than 
  the 
  head 
  

   as 
  to 
  give 
  the 
  insect 
  a 
  strangulated 
  appearance, 
  brownish 
  green, 
  mot- 
  

   tled 
  with 
  darker 
  and 
  lighter 
  markings, 
  the 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  with 
  a 
  yel- 
  

   lowish 
  stripe 
  and 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  similar 
  oblique 
  stripe 
  

   descending 
  to 
  the 
  lower 
  anterior 
  angle; 
  the 
  metazona 
  is 
  profusely 
  

   punctate, 
  the 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  dee])Iy 
  impressed, 
  the 
  median 
  carinae 
  

   obsolescent, 
  the 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  wholly 
  obtuse, 
  the 
  posterior 
  margin 
  

   very 
  obtusely 
  angulate. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  not 
  very 
  stout, 
  cylindrical, 
  

   very 
  bluntly 
  tipped, 
  inclined 
  rather 
  strongly 
  backward. 
  Tegmina 
  

   about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  slender, 
  short, 
  lanceolate; 
  wings 
  rudi- 
  

   mentary. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  slender, 
  yellow, 
  tinged 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  with 
  

   brownish, 
  and 
  obscurely, 
  narrowly 
  and 
  transversely 
  bifasciate 
  above 
  

   with 
  the 
  same; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  glaucous 
  (?). 
  the 
  spines 
  reddish, 
  tipped 
  with 
  

   black; 
  arolium 
  extremely 
  large. 
  Abdomen 
  yellowish, 
  tinged 
  above 
  

   with 
  greenish 
  brown, 
  the 
  last 
  segment 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  scarcely 
  upturned. 
  

   Supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  broad 
  triangular, 
  with 
  a 
  deep 
  percurrent 
  

   median 
  sulcus, 
  the 
  margins 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  strongly 
  elevated 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  

   half, 
  gently 
  elevated 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  half, 
  the 
  apex 
  slightly 
  less 
  than 
  rec- 
  

   tangulate, 
  blunt; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  minute, 
  rounded, 
  

   slightly 
  projecting, 
  adjacent 
  lobes; 
  cerci 
  compressed 
  laminate, 
  scarcely 
  

   reaching 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate, 
  gently 
  incurved, 
  tapering 
  on 
  

   the 
  basal 
  half, 
  scarcely 
  enlarging 
  beyond, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  

   broad 
  as 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  tip 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  but 
  slightly 
  produced 
  

   below. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  18.5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  0.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  4.15 
  

   mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  9 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male. 
  Plains 
  of 
  northern 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  eastern 
  slope, 
  October 
  

   14-31, 
  Lieutenant 
  AV. 
  L. 
  Carpenter. 
  

  

  16. 
  EOTETTIX, 
  new 
  genus. 
  

   O'/chi, 
  dawn, 
  i. 
  e. 
  eastern 
  ; 
  rsTTi^. 
  grasshopper.) 
  

  

  Body 
  slender, 
  elongate, 
  feebly 
  compressed, 
  with 
  very 
  sparse 
  pilosity. 
  

   Head 
  relatively 
  large 
  and 
  rather 
  prominent 
  but 
  short, 
  apart 
  from 
  the 
  

   ])rominent 
  eyes 
  almost 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  face 
  not 
  very 
  

   oblique, 
  the 
  genae 
  not 
  tumescent, 
  all 
  the 
  carinae 
  prominent; 
  vertex 
  

   faintly 
  arched, 
  not 
  raised 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum; 
  fastigium 
  rather 
  nar- 
  

   row 
  but 
  greatly 
  broadening 
  anteriorly, 
  very 
  little 
  declivent, 
  shallowly 
  

   suleate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  

   eyes, 
  broadening 
  above, 
  the 
  margins 
  distinctly 
  elevated 
  throughout; 
  

   eyes 
  large 
  and 
  very 
  i)rominent, 
  rather 
  broad 
  oval, 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  

   again 
  as 
  broad, 
  separated 
  above 
  by 
  a 
  moderate 
  interval; 
  antennae 
  

   slender, 
  slightly 
  depressed. 
  Pronotum 
  moderately 
  long, 
  equal, 
  com- 
  

   pressed, 
  with 
  rounded 
  subtectate 
  but 
  otherwise 
  plane 
  disk, 
  the 
  median 
  

  

  