﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOrLI—SCrDDER. 
  59 
  

  

  Valley, 
  Nevada, 
  but 
  preserved 
  after 
  long 
  immersion 
  in 
  spirits, 
  which, 
  

   until 
  iresh 
  specimens 
  are 
  obtained 
  for 
  study, 
  I 
  regard 
  as 
  belonging- 
  to 
  

   this 
  species. 
  They 
  are, 
  however, 
  remarkable 
  for 
  the 
  brevity 
  of 
  the 
  

   tegmina, 
  which 
  are 
  only 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  and 
  the 
  species 
  has 
  

   not 
  been 
  otherwise 
  recorded 
  from 
  this 
  region. 
  They 
  seem 
  to 
  represent 
  

   a 
  short-winged 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  their 
  tegmina 
  overlapping 
  like 
  the 
  

   normal 
  form 
  and 
  not 
  lobate, 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  strictly 
  brachypterous 
  species 
  of 
  

   this 
  genus. 
  

  

  2. 
  HESPEROTETTIX 
  MERIDIONALIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  IV, 
  fig. 
  9.) 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  differs 
  but 
  little 
  from 
  H. 
  festivus, 
  but 
  has 
  even 
  more 
  

   strikingly 
  contrasted 
  colors, 
  the 
  green 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  deeper 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  

   bluer 
  tint 
  and 
  the 
  fiemora 
  are 
  stouter. 
  The 
  face 
  is 
  yellow 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  

   greenish 
  tint, 
  coarsely 
  and 
  distinctly 
  punctate 
  with 
  blackish 
  brown; 
  

   the 
  intercostal 
  interspace 
  below 
  the 
  antennae 
  is 
  heavily 
  infuscated 
  

   and 
  the 
  usual 
  short 
  bar 
  below 
  the 
  eyes 
  is 
  lu^esent; 
  vertex 
  yellow, 
  the 
  

   fastigium 
  heavily 
  infuscated 
  and 
  behind 
  it 
  a 
  widening 
  blackish 
  stripe, 
  

   posteriorly 
  inclosing 
  a 
  median 
  yellow 
  thread; 
  antennae 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  

   joints 
  feebly 
  and 
  narrowly 
  annulate 
  with 
  pale 
  ferruginous. 
  Pronotum 
  

   yellow, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  olivaceous, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  often 
  heavily 
  suf- 
  

   fused 
  with 
  bright 
  ferruginous, 
  all 
  the 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  and 
  particularly 
  

   that 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  front 
  margin 
  heavily 
  marked 
  in 
  black, 
  which 
  cuts 
  the 
  

   heavy 
  black-bordered 
  mediodorsal 
  yellow 
  stripe; 
  upper 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  lobes 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  heavily 
  marked 
  with 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  prozona; 
  

   pleural 
  sutures 
  heavily 
  marked 
  in 
  black. 
  Tegmina 
  of 
  about 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  bluish 
  green, 
  the 
  discoidal 
  and 
  posterior 
  ulnar 
  veins 
  

   with 
  a 
  narrow 
  pallid 
  yellow 
  stripe. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  dull 
  ferru- 
  

   ginous; 
  hind 
  femora 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  dull 
  greenish 
  luteous, 
  the 
  

   superior 
  carina 
  heavily 
  flecked 
  and 
  punctate 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  and 
  a 
  faint, 
  

   broad, 
  dull 
  coral 
  red, 
  pregenicular 
  annulation; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  greenish 
  

   blue, 
  the 
  spines 
  white 
  with 
  black 
  tips, 
  the 
  tarsi 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  testaceous. 
  

   Supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  much 
  as 
  in 
  H. 
  fesiivus, 
  the 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  

   of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  minute 
  but 
  boldly 
  i^rojecting 
  rounded 
  lobes, 
  separated 
  by 
  

   twice 
  their 
  own 
  width; 
  cerci 
  slightlj^ 
  compressed, 
  subconical, 
  tapering 
  

   much 
  more 
  rapidly 
  in 
  the 
  i^roximal 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  distal 
  half, 
  the 
  latter 
  

   being 
  nearly 
  equal, 
  the 
  tip 
  rounded 
  but 
  slightly 
  produced 
  and 
  gently 
  

   incurved, 
  the 
  whole 
  scarcely 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  infracercal 
  

   plates 
  inconspicuous, 
  apically 
  tapering, 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  supraanal 
  

   plnte. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  21 
  mm., 
  female, 
  2G 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  8 
  mm., 
  

   female, 
  7.75 
  mm. 
  ; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  15.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  20 
  mm. 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   male, 
  12 
  mm., 
  female, 
  15.7 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  2 
  females. 
  Guanajuato, 
  Mexico, 
  A. 
  Uuges 
  (U 
  S.]Sr.M. 
  [No. 
  

   707]); 
  Sierra 
  Nola, 
  Tamaulipas, 
  Mexico, 
  December 
  2-6, 
  E. 
  Palmer. 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  male 
  from 
  Mexico 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  (Comparative 
  

  

  