﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOrLI—SCrDBER. 
  81 
  

  

  39°. 
  Excepting 
  the 
  raonotypic 
  Asemoplus 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  region, 
  

   and 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  genera 
  peculiar 
  to 
  the 
  South, 
  no 
  other 
  genus 
  of 
  

   Melanopli 
  has 
  so 
  limited 
  a 
  range. 
  

  

  ANALYTICAL 
  KEY 
  TO 
  THE 
  SPECIES 
  OF 
  URADYNOTES. 
  

  

  A'. 
  Interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  not 
  much 
  greater 
  than 
  the 
  least 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  

   costa; 
  hind 
  femora 
  fully 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  prouotuniand 
  relatively 
  slender; 
  last 
  

  

  dorsal 
  segment 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  with 
  slight 
  lobes 
  for 
  furcula 
  1. 
  hisj>ida 
  (p. 
  81). 
  

  

  A-. 
  Interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  nearly 
  twice 
  the 
  least 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa; 
  

  

  hind 
  femora 
  distinctly 
  less 
  than 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  pronotum 
  and 
  relatively 
  

  

  stout; 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  quite 
  unarmed. 
  

  

  bK 
  Interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  not 
  (male) 
  or 
  at 
  most 
  a 
  little 
  (female) 
  

  

  wider 
  than 
  the 
  lol)es 
  themselves, 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  varying 
  from 
  subcontiguous 
  

  

  to 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  distant 
  as 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  (male), 
  or 
  from 
  more 
  than 
  

  

  half 
  to 
  nearly 
  as 
  distant 
  as 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  (female); 
  male 
  cerci 
  about 
  as 
  

  

  long 
  as 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate. 
  

  

  c". 
  Interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  scarcely 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  

  

  the 
  lobes 
  themselves 
  (male) 
  or 
  not 
  wider 
  than 
  they 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  

  

  lobes 
  subcontiguous 
  (male) 
  ; 
  last 
  segment 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  not 
  greatly 
  ujjturncd. 
  

  

  fP. 
  Inteisjiace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  of 
  male 
  scarcely 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  the 
  

  

  width 
  of 
  the 
  lobes 
  themselves, 
  the 
  metasternal 
  interspaces 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  

  

  hardly 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  2. 
  caurus 
  (p. 
  83). 
  

  

  d-. 
  Interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  of 
  male 
  almost 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  lobes, 
  

   the 
  metasternal 
  interspace 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  fully 
  three-quarters 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  meso- 
  

   sternal 
  3. 
  cxphta 
  (p. 
  84). 
  

  

  C-. 
  Interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  about 
  equal 
  to 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  lobes 
  

   themselves 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  wider 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  moderately 
  

   distant 
  (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  three-fourths 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  interspace 
  

   (female); 
  last 
  segment 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  considerablj' 
  upturned. 
  

  

  rf'. 
  Hind 
  tibiae 
  wholly 
  coral 
  red 
  4. 
  puKjuis 
  (p. 
  85). 
  

  

  d-. 
  Hind 
  tibiae 
  red 
  only 
  on 
  apical 
  half. 
  

   e". 
  Relatively 
  large. 
  No 
  great 
  contrast 
  in 
  color 
  between 
  upper 
  and 
  lower 
  

   half 
  of 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  lower 
  portion 
  not 
  being 
  very 
  light; 
  

   dark 
  cross 
  bands 
  of 
  hind 
  femora 
  cro.ssuig 
  only 
  the 
  inner, 
  not 
  (or 
  obscurely) 
  

   the 
  outer 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  surface; 
  outer 
  face 
  almost 
  uniformly 
  dark. 
  

  

  5. 
  obesa 
  (p. 
  87). 
  

   e'. 
  Relatively 
  small. 
  The 
  darker 
  superior 
  half 
  of 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  pronotum 
  

   strongly 
  contrasted 
  with 
  the 
  lighter 
  inferior 
  half; 
  dark 
  cross 
  bands 
  of 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  crossing 
  both 
  inner 
  and 
  outer 
  half 
  of 
  ujiper 
  surface, 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  

  

  broken 
  in 
  color 
  by 
  their 
  continuation 
  6. 
  ruferta 
  (p. 
  88). 
  

  

  6-. 
  Interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  considerably 
  wider 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  twice 
  

   as 
  wide 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  lobes 
  themselves, 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  nearly 
  as 
  distant; 
  

   male 
  cerci 
  not 
  half 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  7. 
  satur 
  (p. 
  89). 
  

  

  I. 
  BRADYNOTES 
  HISPIDA. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  VI, 
  fig. 
  5.) 
  

   Pezotettix 
  hispidua 
  Bruner!, 
  Can, 
  p]nt., 
  X.VII, 
  1885, 
  pp. 
  12-14. 
  

  

  Body 
  moderately 
  stout, 
  very 
  slightly 
  compressed, 
  but 
  little 
  enlarged 
  

   in 
  the 
  metatlioracic 
  region, 
  even 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  feebly 
  pilose. 
  Head 
  

   full, 
  the 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  not 
  

   much 
  greater 
  than 
  the 
  least 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa, 
  the 
  fastigium 
  

   considerably 
  declivent, 
  slightly 
  expanding 
  apically, 
  broadly 
  sulcata, 
  

   Proc. 
  N. 
  M. 
  vol. 
  XX 
  G 
  

  

  