﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MF.LAXOVLI—SCrDDEE. 
  109 
  

  

  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  feebly 
  expanding 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  especially 
  in 
  

   tlie 
  female, 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  often 
  enlivened 
  with 
  the 
  lighter 
  

   colors 
  of 
  the 
  face, 
  the 
  npper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  

   occupied 
  by 
  a 
  piceous 
  patch 
  or 
  band, 
  sometimes 
  broken 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  

   the 
  disk 
  convex 
  and 
  passing 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  ronnded 
  

   shoulder, 
  rarely 
  angnlate, 
  without 
  forming 
  lateral 
  carinae; 
  median 
  

   carina 
  weak, 
  percurrent, 
  subequal, 
  but 
  slightly 
  feebler 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  

   than 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  ; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  broadly 
  rotun- 
  

   date, 
  occasionally 
  feebly 
  angnlate 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  prozona 
  slightly 
  longi- 
  

   tudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  sliglitly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  distinctly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short 
  and 
  stout, 
  scarcely 
  

   tapering, 
  very 
  bkint, 
  appressed; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  

   fully 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  

   long, 
  barely 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  

   approximate 
  (male) 
  or 
  hardly 
  half 
  as 
  distant 
  as 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  

   (female). 
  Tegniina 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  moderately 
  distant, 
  

   elliptical, 
  about 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  apically 
  subacuminate, 
  fusco-fer- 
  

   ruginous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  considerably 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  moderately 
  stout, 
  testaceous 
  often 
  tinged 
  with 
  ferruginous, 
  very 
  

   obliquely 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  generally 
  interrupted 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  half 
  

   of 
  the 
  ui)per 
  face, 
  the 
  under 
  face 
  flavous, 
  verging 
  on 
  orange, 
  the 
  gen- 
  

   iculation 
  moi 
  e 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  dull 
  greenish, 
  a 
  little 
  paler 
  

   next 
  the 
  base, 
  with 
  a 
  fuscous 
  patellar 
  spot, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  almost 
  

   to 
  their 
  base, 
  eight 
  to 
  eleven, 
  usually 
  nine, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  

   series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  somewhat 
  recurved, 
  the 
  

   supraanal 
  plate 
  long 
  hastate 
  with 
  expanded 
  base, 
  roundly 
  angnlate 
  

   sides 
  and 
  rectangulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  considerably 
  elevated, 
  

   the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  deep 
  and 
  conspicuous 
  between 
  high 
  and 
  sharj) 
  walls, 
  

   terminating 
  apically 
  in 
  a 
  cochlearate 
  depression; 
  fnrcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  

   a 
  pair 
  of 
  slender, 
  tapering, 
  acuminate, 
  divergent 
  fingers 
  hardly 
  a 
  fifth 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  rather 
  broad, 
  gently 
  tapering 
  in 
  

   the 
  basal 
  half, 
  beyond 
  equal, 
  apically 
  rounded, 
  nearly 
  straight 
  except 
  

   for 
  being 
  gently 
  incurved, 
  less 
  than 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  middle 
  

   breadth; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  short 
  and 
  very 
  broad, 
  the 
  lateral 
  and 
  apical 
  

   margins 
  in 
  nearly 
  the 
  same 
  plane, 
  rotundato-angulate 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  

   above, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19 
  mm., 
  female, 
  20 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  mm., 
  

   female, 
  5.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  1 
  mm., 
  female, 
  5.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   male, 
  10.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  11.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Ten 
  males, 
  eleven 
  females. 
  Mount 
  Lincoln, 
  Colorado, 
  11,000 
  to 
  13,000 
  

   feet, 
  August 
  13 
  (S. 
  H. 
  Scudder; 
  [U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  728]). 
  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  

   reported 
  from 
  the 
  "mountains 
  of 
  southern 
  Colorado" 
  by 
  Thomas; 
  and 
  

   by 
  myself, 
  but 
  erroneously, 
  from 
  Sierra 
  Blanca, 
  Colorado, 
  and 
  northern 
  

   New 
  Mexico 
  ; 
  for 
  in 
  different 
  papers 
  I 
  have 
  formerly 
  referred 
  to 
  this 
  

   species 
  what 
  are 
  here 
  described 
  as 
  MelanojiJu.s 
  altitudinrim 
  and 
  Fodisma 
  

   (lodf/ei. 
  The 
  present 
  species 
  has 
  a 
  close 
  general 
  resemblance 
  to 
  Melano- 
  

   plus 
  indigens, 
  extending 
  to 
  the 
  abdominal 
  appendages 
  of 
  the 
  male. 
  

  

  