﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVTSION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDBER. 
  83 
  

  

  to 
  yellowisli 
  fuscous, 
  feebly 
  clouded, 
  especially 
  above, 
  with 
  fuscous 
  in 
  

   the 
  middle 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  distal 
  half, 
  the 
  under 
  and 
  inner 
  

   surfaces 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  deeply 
  tinged 
  with 
  coral 
  red; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  and 
  

   tarsi 
  fusco-luteous, 
  only 
  the 
  apical 
  half 
  or 
  less 
  of 
  the 
  spines 
  blackish 
  or 
  

   brown. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  18.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  2L 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  9.5 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  10.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  pronotum, 
  male, 
  3.6 
  mm., 
  female, 
  4.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  10.75 
  mm., 
  female, 
  12.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  3 
  females. 
  Colville 
  Yalley, 
  eastern 
  Washington, 
  July 
  24 
  

   (L. 
  Bruner; 
  Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  exceptional 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  the 
  feeble 
  metathoracic 
  

   enlargement 
  of 
  the 
  body, 
  and 
  tlie 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  furcula, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  

   in 
  some 
  minor 
  features, 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  most 
  aberrant 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  genus. 
  

  

  2. 
  BRADYNOTES 
  CAURUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  VI, 
  fig. 
  6.) 
  

  

  Bradynoles 
  opimtis 
  Bruner!, 
  Cau. 
  Eut., 
  XVII 
  (1885), 
  p. 
  15. 
  

  

  Body 
  similar 
  in 
  shape 
  and 
  clothing 
  to 
  B. 
  hispida. 
  Head 
  full, 
  the 
  

   vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  twice 
  as 
  great 
  as 
  

   the 
  least 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa, 
  the 
  fastigium 
  strongly 
  declivent, 
  

   narrowing 
  rather 
  than 
  expanding 
  anteriorly, 
  broadly 
  but 
  shallowly 
  

   sulcate, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  rather 
  i)iominent 
  but 
  rounded; 
  frontal 
  

   costa 
  rather 
  broad, 
  much 
  broader 
  than, 
  sometimes 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as, 
  

   the 
  basal 
  joint 
  of 
  the 
  antennae, 
  generally 
  a 
  little 
  sulcate 
  throughout, 
  

   especially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  punctate 
  at 
  the 
  margins; 
  eyes 
  not 
  very 
  large, 
  

   scarcely 
  more 
  prominent 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae, 
  anteriorly 
  truncate 
  particularly 
  

   in 
  the 
  female; 
  antennae 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  (female) 
  

   than 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  pronotum 
  together. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  expand- 
  

   ing 
  ])osteriorly 
  a 
  very 
  little, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  metazona 
  half 
  

   (female) 
  or 
  slightly 
  less 
  than 
  half 
  (male) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  prozona, 
  the 
  sulci 
  

   of 
  the 
  latter 
  equally 
  indistinct, 
  and 
  neither 
  of 
  them 
  cutting 
  the 
  median 
  

   carina, 
  which 
  is 
  nearly 
  obliterated 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  

   female; 
  posterior 
  margin 
  as 
  in 
  B. 
  Mspkla 
  ; 
  mevSonotum 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  less, 
  sometimes 
  much 
  less, 
  than 
  half 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   metanotum. 
  Interspace 
  between 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  as 
  wide 
  (female) 
  

   or 
  hardly 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  wide 
  (male) 
  as 
  the 
  lobes 
  themselves, 
  the 
  

   metasternal 
  lobes 
  subcontiguous 
  (male) 
  or 
  half 
  as 
  distant 
  as 
  the 
  meso 
  

   sternal 
  (female). 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  of 
  male 
  somewhat 
  inflated; 
  

   hind 
  femora 
  short 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  stout, 
  hardly 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  head 
  

   and 
  pronotum 
  together. 
  Abdomen 
  relatively 
  rather 
  slender 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  

   and 
  blunt 
  median 
  carina, 
  the 
  extrennty 
  scarcely 
  enlarged 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  as 
  

   viewed 
  from 
  above, 
  and 
  but 
  gently 
  upturned. 
  Supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  

   subtriangular 
  with 
  rounded 
  apex, 
  about 
  equally 
  long 
  and 
  broad, 
  tumid 
  

   by 
  reason 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  very 
  coarse, 
  elevated, 
  rounded 
  ridges, 
  with 
  a 
  

  

  