﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISIOK 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  93 
  

  

  testaceous, 
  tlie 
  veins 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  flavous; 
  wings 
  (according 
  to 
  Riley; 
  

   I 
  have 
  not 
  seen 
  spread 
  specimens) 
  "rather 
  dark, 
  becoming 
  somewhat 
  

   pellucid 
  near 
  their 
  base, 
  the 
  veins 
  dusky, 
  especially 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half." 
  

   Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  legs 
  flavous; 
  hind 
  femora 
  liiteo-testaceous, 
  sometimes 
  

   suffused 
  with 
  sanguineous, 
  with 
  two 
  broad 
  fuscous 
  bands, 
  antemedian 
  

   and 
  postmedian, 
  the 
  inner 
  and 
  lower 
  face 
  sanguineous, 
  the 
  whole 
  genic- 
  

   ulation 
  black, 
  preceded 
  by 
  a 
  lemon-yellow 
  annulus; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  black 
  

   at 
  base, 
  beyond 
  flavo-luteous, 
  often, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  a 
  post-basal 
  

   annulus, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  olivaceous, 
  the 
  spines, 
  excepting 
  their 
  anterior 
  

   base, 
  black. 
  Subgenital 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  wholly 
  black; 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  

   long 
  triangular, 
  witli 
  slightly 
  convex 
  sides, 
  the 
  surface 
  transversely 
  

   arched, 
  with 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  approximate, 
  slight, 
  longitudinal 
  ridges, 
  meeting 
  

   rather 
  abruptly 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  inclosing 
  a 
  shallow 
  basal 
  

   sulcus, 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  x>late 
  with 
  a 
  median, 
  transverse, 
  pyramidal 
  

   tubercle; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  rather 
  distant, 
  very 
  slight, 
  

   triangular 
  projections, 
  overlying 
  the 
  submedian 
  ridges; 
  cerci 
  very 
  

   short, 
  small, 
  rather 
  stout, 
  twisted 
  a 
  half 
  circle, 
  apically 
  depressed 
  and 
  

   the 
  tip 
  bluntly 
  rounded 
  ; 
  infracercal 
  platesof 
  exceptional 
  size, 
  very 
  broad 
  

   at 
  base, 
  gradually 
  narrowing 
  and 
  reaching 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  

   1)1 
  ate. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  24.25 
  mm., 
  female, 
  29 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  14 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  13 
  mm.; 
  tegmina 
  (long-winged), 
  male, 
  21 
  mm., 
  female, 
  23.5 
  

   mm.; 
  (short- 
  winged), 
  male, 
  5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  6 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  

   13.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  13 
  mm. 
  

  

  Six 
  males, 
  11 
  females. 
  Missouri 
  (U.S.KM. 
  [No. 
  723].— 
  Riley 
  collec- 
  

   tion 
  ; 
  L. 
  Bruner) 
  ; 
  De 
  Soto, 
  Jefferson 
  County, 
  Missouri, 
  July 
  8, 
  T. 
  Per- 
  

   gande(U.S.¥.M. 
  [No. 
  723]); 
  Washington 
  County, 
  Texas, 
  June 
  (Bruner); 
  

   Dallas, 
  Texas 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  [No. 
  723]) 
  ; 
  Manor, 
  Travis 
  County, 
  Texas, 
  July 
  

   13, 
  E. 
  Hill 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  [No. 
  723]). 
  It 
  is 
  said 
  by 
  Bruner 
  to 
  occur 
  also 
  in 
  

   southeastern 
  Nebraska, 
  southern 
  Iowa, 
  and 
  Illinois. 
  

  

  1 
  have 
  retained 
  the 
  name 
  quercua 
  rather 
  than 
  lonf/ipenni.s 
  for 
  this 
  

   species 
  for 
  several 
  reasons: 
  It 
  was 
  first 
  called 
  by 
  this 
  name 
  both 
  by 
  

   Riley 
  and 
  Bruner; 
  it 
  was 
  first 
  described 
  in 
  its 
  earlier 
  stages 
  under 
  this 
  

   name 
  by 
  Packard 
  (copying 
  Bruner's 
  description, 
  which 
  was 
  unaccom- 
  

   panied 
  by 
  a 
  name); 
  and 
  the 
  name 
  is 
  a 
  far 
  more 
  fitting 
  one 
  than 
  longi- 
  

   vennix, 
  considering 
  that 
  the 
  insect 
  appears 
  both 
  in 
  brachypterous 
  and 
  

   macropterous 
  forms, 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  normally 
  brachypterous, 
  as 
  the 
  basal 
  

   divergence 
  of 
  the 
  tegmina 
  shows. 
  It 
  may 
  also 
  be 
  called 
  a 
  mistake 
  (in 
  

   which 
  entomologists 
  generally 
  have 
  erred, 
  myself 
  among 
  them) 
  to 
  give 
  

   any 
  species 
  of 
  Orthoptera 
  a 
  name 
  derived 
  from 
  the 
  length 
  or 
  brevity 
  of 
  

   the 
  tegmina. 
  On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  indubitably 
  the 
  species 
  was 
  first 
  fully 
  

   described 
  from 
  mature 
  examples 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  longipennis^ 
  a 
  name 
  

   given 
  by 
  Riley 
  on 
  the 
  assumption 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  distinct 
  from 
  his 
  earlier 
  

   named 
  quercus. 
  As 
  both 
  names 
  were 
  given 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  naturalist, 
  no 
  

   personal 
  question 
  enters, 
  and 
  I 
  trust 
  that 
  in 
  this 
  settlement 
  of 
  the 
  ques- 
  

   tion 
  at 
  its 
  first 
  raising 
  all 
  will 
  a^ree. 
  

  

  