﻿.1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOrLI—SCV 
  ODER. 
  55 
  

  

  twice 
  as 
  loug 
  as 
  broad; 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  broadly 
  attingeut. 
  Tegmina 
  

   scarcely 
  longer 
  than 
  tlie 
  pronotum, 
  broad 
  lanceolate, 
  acuminate, 
  with 
  

   strongly 
  convex 
  costal 
  margin, 
  pale 
  testaceous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  

   very 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  uniform 
  Havo-testaceous, 
  with 
  no 
  

   markings 
  except 
  a 
  feeble 
  and 
  narrow, 
  transverse, 
  fuscous 
  stripe 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  of 
  the 
  geniculation, 
  and 
  a 
  fuscous 
  upper 
  edging 
  to 
  the 
  genicular 
  

   arc; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  pale 
  red 
  or 
  piuk, 
  the 
  spines 
  pallid 
  on 
  the 
  basal, 
  

   black 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half, 
  12 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  

   of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  feebly 
  clavate, 
  scarcely 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  

   triangular, 
  tectate, 
  rising 
  to 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  high 
  but 
  rounded 
  converging 
  

   ridges, 
  inclosing 
  between 
  them 
  the 
  deep 
  triangular 
  sulcus, 
  which 
  crosses 
  

   the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  plate; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  stout 
  and 
  

   coarse, 
  subparallel, 
  rather 
  distant, 
  subequal, 
  blunt 
  projections, 
  a 
  little 
  

   longer 
  than 
  broad 
  and 
  than 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  slender, 
  deli- 
  

   cate, 
  conical, 
  straight, 
  finely 
  acuminate, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  snpraanal 
  

   plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  rather 
  small, 
  C(msiderably 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  

   ecjual, 
  terminating 
  in 
  a 
  backward-directed, 
  bluntly 
  rounded 
  tubercle, 
  

   seated 
  on 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  a[)ical 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  ])late, 
  the 
  apical 
  and 
  

   lateral 
  margins 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  plane, 
  the 
  former 
  well 
  rounded, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  6.25 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   11.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male. 
  East 
  Florida, 
  William 
  H. 
  Ashmead 
  (J. 
  McNeill). 
  

  

  17. 
  HESPEROTETTIX. 
  

   {'idTtEfJO', 
  western; 
  vevtic,, 
  grasshopper.) 
  

   Hesperotettix 
  Scudder, 
  IJiill. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Terr., 
  II 
  (1875), 
  p. 
  262. 
  

  

  Body 
  almost 
  parallel-sided, 
  very 
  little 
  enlarged 
  at 
  the 
  metathorax, 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  but 
  not 
  greatly 
  compressed, 
  more 
  so 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  

   the 
  female. 
  Head 
  not 
  very 
  prominent; 
  vertex 
  usually 
  very 
  narrow 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  depression 
  or 
  sulcation 
  between; 
  

   fastigium 
  broadening 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  it, 
  declivent, 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  depression 
  

   or 
  longitudinal 
  sulcation, 
  sometimes 
  distinct, 
  sometimes 
  obscure, 
  the 
  

   sides 
  rounded; 
  front 
  straight, 
  somewhat 
  oblique, 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   equal, 
  only 
  slightly 
  contracted 
  at 
  the 
  extreme 
  summit, 
  generally 
  as 
  

   broad 
  as 
  if 
  not 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  interval 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  sulcate 
  

   throughout; 
  antennae 
  slightly 
  (female) 
  or 
  considerably 
  (male) 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  pronotum 
  together; 
  eyes 
  slightly 
  prominent, 
  a 
  little 
  

   more 
  so 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  rather 
  long 
  oval, 
  much 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae. 
  Pronotum 
  long 
  and 
  slender, 
  

   the 
  dorsum 
  fully 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad, 
  the 
  prozoua 
  the 
  longer, 
  

   sometimes 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  metazona, 
  with 
  less 
  distinction 
  in 
  

   surface 
  and 
  sculpture 
  between 
  them 
  than 
  common, 
  alike 
  broadly 
  tecti- 
  

   form, 
  the 
  median 
  carina 
  slight 
  but 
  alike 
  or 
  nearly 
  alike 
  in 
  both, 
  the 
  

   descending 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  separated 
  by 
  no 
  angle 
  or 
  ruga; 
  posterior 
  mar- 
  

   gin 
  very 
  obtusely 
  angulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  rounded, 
  the 
  border 
  delicately 
  

   margined. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  rather 
  long, 
  bluntly 
  conical; 
  meso- 
  and 
  

  

  