﻿.1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCrDDEE. 
  89 
  

  

  costa, 
  the 
  fastigium 
  declivent, 
  sliallowly 
  sulcate, 
  with 
  elevated 
  rounded 
  

   margins, 
  continuons 
  with 
  the 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  margius 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa. 
  Tlie 
  latter 
  broad, 
  subequal, 
  feebly 
  broaden- 
  

   ing 
  below, 
  much 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  joint 
  of 
  the 
  antennae, 
  feebly 
  

   sulcate 
  iu 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  sparsely 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  not 
  very 
  large, 
  slightly 
  

   moie 
  ])rominent, 
  and 
  anteriorly 
  slightly 
  less 
  truncate 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  

   in 
  the 
  female; 
  antennae 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  (female) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  

   than 
  (male) 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  pronotum 
  together. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  but 
  

   slightly 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  with 
  the 
  faintest 
  

   possible 
  indications 
  of 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  the 
  metazona, 
  espe- 
  

   cially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  fully 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  prozona, 
  the 
  sulci 
  of 
  the 
  

   latter 
  scarcely 
  less 
  distinct 
  than 
  the 
  principal 
  sulcus, 
  and 
  similar, 
  cut- 
  

   ting 
  the 
  median 
  carina, 
  which 
  is 
  often 
  but 
  not 
  always 
  obsolete 
  between 
  

   the 
  sulci 
  and 
  sometimes 
  over 
  the 
  whole 
  prozona; 
  exposed 
  portion 
  of 
  

   mesonotnm 
  fully 
  half 
  (female) 
  or 
  less 
  than 
  half 
  (male) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   metanotuni. 
  Interspace 
  between 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  fully 
  ecjual 
  to 
  

   the 
  lobes 
  themselves 
  (male, 
  female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  interspace 
  half 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  much 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  (female) 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  mesosternal. 
  

   I'ore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  considerably 
  tumid 
  iu 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   moderately 
  stout, 
  about 
  two 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum. 
  

   Abdomen 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  median 
  carina, 
  a 
  little 
  compressed, 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  

   tapering 
  from 
  the 
  base, 
  scarcely 
  enlarged 
  apically, 
  but 
  considerably 
  

   upturned; 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  fully 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  its 
  basal 
  breadth, 
  

   dorsally 
  ridged 
  as 
  iu 
  B. 
  ohesa; 
  no 
  furcula 
  ; 
  cerci 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   supraanal 
  plate, 
  slightly 
  compressed 
  but 
  externally 
  tumid, 
  tapering 
  

   on 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  the 
  apical 
  subequal, 
  moderately 
  stout, 
  slightly 
  down- 
  

   curved 
  and 
  rounded 
  at 
  the 
  extremity; 
  infracercal 
  plates 
  produced 
  on 
  

   the 
  inner 
  side 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate. 
  

  

  General 
  color 
  and 
  markings 
  much 
  as 
  iu 
  B. 
  obesa, 
  but 
  with 
  lighter 
  col- 
  

   ored 
  antennae, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   notum 
  very 
  dark, 
  generally 
  forming 
  a 
  distinct 
  broad 
  band 
  in 
  marked 
  

   contrast 
  to 
  the 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  same, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  in 
  contrast 
  to 
  

   the 
  somewhat 
  lighter 
  griseous 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  band 
  crossing 
  

   the 
  metazona 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  prozona. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  red 
  coloring 
  upon 
  the 
  

   pronotum. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  and 
  tibiae 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  abdominal 
  appendages 
  

   similar 
  in 
  color 
  to 
  B. 
  ohesa, 
  but 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  more 
  variable. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19 
  mm., 
  female, 
  20.25 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  7.5 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  pronotum, 
  male, 
  4 
  mm., 
  female, 
  4.1 
  mm. 
  ; 
  hind 
  fem- 
  

   ora, 
  male, 
  10 
  mm., 
  female, 
  10.25 
  mm. 
  

  

  Two 
  males, 
  3 
  females. 
  Soldier, 
  Logan 
  County, 
  Idaho 
  (L. 
  Bruner); 
  

  

  mountains 
  near 
  Lake 
  Tahoe, 
  California, 
  Captain 
  Wheeler's 
  expedition 
  

  

  of 
  1870. 
  

  

  7. 
  BRADYNOTES 
  SATUR, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  VII, 
  fig. 
  1.) 
  

   Body 
  entirely 
  similar 
  to 
  B. 
  jriuf/uis 
  in 
  form 
  and 
  vestiture. 
  Head 
  full, 
  

   the 
  vertex 
  scarcely 
  (male) 
  or 
  considerably 
  (female) 
  tumid, 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  much 
  greater 
  than 
  the 
  narrowest 
  jiart 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  