﻿104 
  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  Ten 
  males, 
  7 
  females. 
  Mount 
  Lincoln, 
  Park 
  County, 
  Colorado, 
  above 
  

   timber, 
  ll-i;30()0 
  feet, 
  August 
  13 
  (S. 
  H. 
  Scudder 
  ; 
  L. 
  Bruner). 
  [ 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

   No. 
  725, 
  male 
  and 
  female.] 
  

  

  Bruner 
  gave 
  the 
  unpublished 
  name 
  of 
  Melanoplus 
  monticola 
  both 
  to 
  

   this 
  species 
  and 
  to 
  M. 
  monticola, 
  p. 
  290. 
  All 
  the 
  specimens 
  seen 
  were 
  

   taken 
  by 
  myself 
  in 
  1877. 
  

  

  4. 
  PODISMA 
  STUPEFACTA. 
  

   (Plate 
  VII, 
  fig. 
  6.) 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  stupefactns 
  Sci'Ddeu!,^ 
  Ann. 
  Rep. 
  Chief 
  Eng., 
  1876 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  503; 
  

   Ann. 
  Eep. 
  Geol. 
  Survey 
  lOOth 
  mer., 
  1876 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  283.— 
  Bruneb, 
  Rep. 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  59. 
  

  

  Cinereofuscous. 
  Head 
  light 
  brown 
  or 
  yellowish 
  brown, 
  the 
  upper 
  

   half 
  and 
  sometimes 
  the 
  whole 
  head 
  mottled 
  rather 
  heavily, 
  on 
  the 
  

   top 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  very 
  heavily, 
  with 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  often 
  becoming 
  

   blackish 
  in 
  a 
  median 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  less 
  distinctly 
  

   above 
  the 
  upper 
  edges 
  of 
  the 
  eyes; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  slightly 
  

   elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  but 
  little 
  

   broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  an- 
  

   tenna! 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  distinctly 
  sulcate, 
  most 
  deeply 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  with 
  

   distinct 
  and 
  nearly 
  straight, 
  raised, 
  lateral 
  margins, 
  which 
  pass 
  into 
  

   the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa; 
  the 
  latter 
  distinctly 
  puncta.te 
  

   next 
  the 
  margins 
  like 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  face, 
  nearly 
  equal 
  but 
  slightly 
  

   narrower 
  above, 
  the 
  surface 
  i^lane 
  except 
  for 
  a 
  slight, 
  short, 
  narrow 
  

   sulcation 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus; 
  eyes 
  of 
  moderate 
  size, 
  not 
  very 
  

   prominent, 
  the 
  front 
  margin 
  siibtruncate, 
  rather 
  longer 
  (male) 
  or 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  shorter 
  (female) 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  

   antennae 
  brownish 
  yellow, 
  becoming 
  dusky 
  toward 
  the 
  tips, 
  in 
  the 
  

   female 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  three-fifths 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pro- 
  

   notum 
  nearly 
  plane 
  above, 
  the 
  prozona 
  with 
  scarcely 
  perceptible 
  

   fullness, 
  and 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  carina, 
  at 
  the 
  principal 
  sulcus, 
  

   a 
  slight 
  oblique 
  depression 
  ; 
  the 
  whole 
  pronotum 
  broadens 
  a 
  little 
  and 
  

   regularly 
  in 
  passing 
  backward, 
  the 
  posterior 
  margin 
  obtusely 
  and 
  

   roundly 
  augulate; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  though 
  slight 
  on 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona, 
  inconspicuous 
  excepting 
  in 
  front 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   female 
  nearly 
  obsolete; 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  distinct, 
  though 
  not 
  prominent; 
  

   surface 
  profusely 
  punctate, 
  almost 
  rugulose 
  on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  the 
  color 
  

   IS 
  brownish-yellow, 
  darkest 
  on 
  dorsum, 
  and 
  profusely 
  fiecked 
  with 
  darker 
  

   colors; 
  upper 
  third 
  or 
  half 
  of 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  postocular 
  brownish 
  

   fuliginous 
  belt, 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  prozona, 
  narrower 
  at 
  the 
  extreme 
  front; 
  

   transverse 
  sulcations 
  distinct, 
  only 
  seldom, 
  and 
  then 
  but 
  slightly, 
  

   marked 
  with 
  black. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short 
  and 
  very 
  stout, 
  very 
  blunt, 
  

   and 
  subcylindrical 
  (male) 
  or 
  conical 
  (female) 
  ; 
  interspace 
  between 
  meso- 
  

   sternal 
  lobes 
  a 
  little 
  transverse 
  (male) 
  or 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  long 
  

   but 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  (femalel, 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  approxi- 
  

   mate 
  (female) 
  or 
  only 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  distant 
  as 
  the 
  meso- 
  

  

  