﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  99 
  

  

  sulcate 
  throughout 
  at 
  least 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  aiid 
  rather 
  deeply 
  below 
  the 
  

   ocellus, 
  very 
  feebly 
  and 
  sparsely 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  of 
  moderate 
  size, 
  

   moderately 
  prominent 
  esi)ecially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  elongate, 
  but 
  as 
  

   long 
  (male) 
  or 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  infraocular 
  i)ortioii 
  of 
  the 
  

   gcnae; 
  antennae 
  yellowish 
  brown, 
  paler 
  below, 
  darkest 
  at 
  tip, 
  greenish 
  

   toward 
  the 
  base, 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  three-fourths 
  as 
  long 
  (female) 
  

   as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  faintly 
  constricted 
  mesially 
  

   in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  faintly 
  (male) 
  or 
  slightly 
  (female) 
  expanding 
  on 
  the 
  

   iiu'tazona, 
  dark 
  olivaceous 
  green, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  bright 
  greenish 
  yel- 
  

   low 
  below, 
  with 
  the 
  principal 
  sulcus 
  marked 
  in 
  black 
  and 
  terminating 
  

   below 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  black 
  spot; 
  above 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  postocular 
  

   band 
  which 
  traverses 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  pronotum, 
  expanding 
  posteriorly 
  

   on 
  the 
  metazona 
  and 
  continued 
  interruptedly 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen 
  as 
  a 
  

   series 
  of 
  dark 
  transverse 
  streaks 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  segments; 
  disk 
  of 
  

   pronotum 
  strongly 
  convex, 
  passing 
  insensibly 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  

   lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  feeble, 
  dull, 
  percurrent, 
  equal; 
  front 
  margin 
  

   faintly 
  convex 
  with 
  a 
  minute 
  mesial 
  emargination; 
  hind 
  margin 
  sub- 
  

   truncate 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  but 
  very 
  feeble 
  emargination; 
  prozona 
  longitu- 
  

   dimil 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  faintly 
  

   punctate 
  or 
  smooth 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  blunt, 
  conical; 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  somewhat 
  less 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  

   again 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  

   as 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  approximate 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   almost 
  as 
  distant 
  as 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  (female) 
  ; 
  prosternum 
  dusky, 
  the 
  

   spine 
  tipped 
  with 
  brown, 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  sternum 
  greenish 
  yellow. 
  Teg- 
  

   mina 
  wanting. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  very 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  shorter 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  hind 
  femora 
  rather 
  slender, 
  

   compressed, 
  yellowish 
  grass 
  green, 
  broadly 
  but 
  very 
  obscurely 
  bifas- 
  

   ciate 
  with 
  dark 
  olivaceous 
  gT( 
  en, 
  the 
  under 
  surface 
  and 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  

   inner 
  surface 
  coral 
  red, 
  the 
  geniculation 
  black; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  green, 
  the 
  

   spines 
  black 
  nearly 
  to 
  their 
  base, 
  eight 
  to 
  eleven, 
  usually 
  nine 
  to 
  ten, 
  

   in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Abdomen 
  hardly 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  

   (female) 
  compressed, 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  though 
  dull 
  median 
  carina, 
  dark 
  

   olivaceous 
  green 
  (female) 
  or 
  as 
  described 
  below 
  (male), 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  

   first 
  segments 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  tympanum, 
  the 
  extremity 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  a 
  

   little 
  clavate, 
  much 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  with 
  

   acutangulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  sides 
  mesially 
  contracted 
  and 
  but 
  slightly 
  ele- 
  

   vated, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  distinct, 
  deep, 
  percurrent 
  between 
  rather 
  

   stout 
  walls; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  approximate, 
  very 
  slender 
  

   and 
  tapering, 
  acuminate 
  black 
  spines, 
  crossing 
  the 
  basal 
  fifth 
  or 
  less 
  of 
  

   the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  black, 
  long, 
  erect, 
  externally 
  tumid 
  except 
  at 
  

   the 
  dimpled 
  apex, 
  not 
  strongly 
  compressed, 
  tapering 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  

   to 
  two-thirds 
  the 
  basal 
  breadth, 
  beyond 
  feebly 
  expanding 
  to 
  a 
  very 
  

   slight 
  degree, 
  apically 
  rounded 
  but 
  inferiorly 
  angulate, 
  the 
  whole 
  a 
  

   little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  and 
  straight, 
  being 
  neither 
  arcu- 
  

   ate 
  nor 
  incurved; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  very 
  short 
  and 
  broad, 
  broadly 
  

  

  