﻿.N0.1124. 
  BEVJSIOy 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  71 
  

  

  plate 
  moderately 
  proiniiieiit, 
  erect, 
  somewliat 
  sharply 
  conical 
  as 
  seen 
  

   from 
  belli 
  ud. 
  

  

  Lengtli 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  13.5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  0.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmiua, 
  11.25 
  

   mm.; 
  bind 
  femora, 
  8,5 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male. 
  Fort 
  Grant, 
  Grraliam 
  County, 
  Arizona 
  ( 
  U.S.jST.M. 
  [Xo. 
  13]). 
  

  

  2. 
  AEOLOPLUS 
  ELEGANS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  y, 
  fig. 
  6.) 
  

  

  Head 
  pale 
  greenish 
  yellow, 
  the 
  vertex 
  deeper 
  yellow, 
  with 
  a 
  medio- 
  

   dorsal 
  pale 
  bluish 
  green 
  stripe 
  from 
  the 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  fastigium 
  back- 
  

   ward; 
  antennae 
  i^ale 
  salmon, 
  pallid 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  fuscescent 
  at 
  tip; 
  

   fastigium 
  broadly 
  and 
  very 
  shallowly 
  sulcate 
  throughout; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   rather 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  equal, 
  faintly 
  

   sulcate 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus. 
  Pronotum 
  very 
  pale 
  testaceous 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  

   greenish 
  tinge, 
  more 
  pronounced 
  on 
  tbe 
  metazona, 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  broad 
  

   l)ale 
  bluish 
  green 
  mediodorsal 
  stripe 
  inclosing 
  one 
  of 
  pale 
  testaceous, 
  

   and 
  with 
  some 
  greenish 
  clouds 
  upon 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  prozoua; 
  

   posterior 
  margin 
  very 
  obtusely 
  angulate, 
  tbe 
  angle 
  rounded; 
  prozoua 
  

   feebly 
  transverse 
  with 
  no 
  median 
  carina. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  con- 
  

   ical, 
  erect. 
  Tegniina 
  considerably 
  surpassing 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  exception- 
  

   ally 
  slender 
  for 
  the 
  genus, 
  with 
  scarcely 
  any 
  subbasal 
  expansion 
  of 
  the 
  

   costal 
  area, 
  tapering 
  very 
  gradually, 
  the 
  apex 
  well 
  rounded, 
  subpel- 
  

   lucid 
  with 
  greenish 
  yellow 
  veins; 
  wings 
  not 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  

   tegmina, 
  fully 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  the 
  veins 
  greenish, 
  faintly 
  infus- 
  

   cated. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  dull 
  luteous, 
  with 
  three 
  transverse 
  fusco-oli 
  vaceous 
  

   stripes, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  confluent 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  face; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  i^ale 
  

   glaucous, 
  the 
  spines 
  paler 
  glaucous 
  with 
  black 
  tips. 
  Supraanal 
  plate 
  

   of 
  male 
  somewhat 
  distorted 
  in 
  the 
  only 
  specimen 
  seen, 
  but 
  apparently 
  

   triangular, 
  with 
  slight 
  median 
  emargination 
  of 
  the 
  sides 
  and 
  a 
  shallow 
  

   basal 
  sulcus, 
  bounded 
  by 
  convergent 
  walls; 
  furcula 
  practically 
  absent; 
  

   cerci 
  rather 
  stout,, 
  tapering 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  equal 
  and 
  hardly 
  less 
  than 
  

   half 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  base 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half, 
  the 
  tip 
  rounded 
  and 
  A^ery 
  

   feebly 
  decurved 
  ; 
  subapical 
  tubercle 
  of 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  rather 
  promi- 
  

   nent, 
  large, 
  very 
  bluntly 
  conical. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body 
  (contracted), 
  male, 
  18 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  9 
  mm.; 
  teg- 
  

   mina, 
  17.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  11 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male. 
  Las 
  Cruces, 
  Donna 
  Ana 
  County, 
  oSTew 
  Mexico, 
  August 
  8, 
  

   T. 
  U. 
  A. 
  Cockerell 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  [In^o. 
  714]). 
  

  

  3. 
  AEOLOPLUS 
  REGALIS. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  Y, 
  fig. 
  7.) 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  regalis 
  Dodge, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  VIII 
  (187(1), 
  pp. 
  11-12.— 
  Bruxer, 
  ibid., 
  IX 
  

   (LS77), 
  p. 
  U5.— 
  Thoma.^, 
  Eep. 
  U. 
  8. 
  Ent. 
  Comai., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  43.— 
  Bkuner, 
  

   ibid., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60. 
  

  

  Melanoplus 
  refjalis 
  Bruxer, 
  Publ. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  28. 
  

  

  Head 
  yellow, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  deeply 
  tinged 
  with 
  testaceous, 
  marked 
  

   with 
  a 
  dark, 
  bluish 
  green 
  median 
  stripe 
  extending 
  from 
  the 
  front 
  of 
  

  

  