﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  147 
  

  

  5. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  CUNEATUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  X. 
  tig. 
  5.) 
  

  

  Melanophis 
  citneatHH 
  Hhiner!, 
  MS. 
  

  

  Brownish 
  testaceous, 
  darker 
  above. 
  Head 
  luteo-testaceous, 
  with 
  

   tlie 
  hiteral 
  ridges 
  of 
  the 
  fastigiuiu 
  black, 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   vertex 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  triangular 
  blackish 
  stripe, 
  a 
  broken 
  black 
  edging 
  

   to 
  the 
  upper 
  po.sterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  eyes 
  and, 
  joining 
  it, 
  a 
  black 
  band 
  

   behind 
  the 
  eyes; 
  vertex 
  tumid, 
  much 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotuin, 
  

   the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  ej^es 
  not 
  very 
  broad, 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  

   basal 
  auteunal 
  joint, 
  the 
  fastigiuni 
  deeply 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  sub- 
  

   equal, 
  rather 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  shallowly 
  

   sulcate 
  excepting 
  above; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  large, 
  prominent, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  fulvo 
  testaceous, 
  

   about 
  three-fourths 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hiud 
  femora. 
  Proiiotum 
  feebly 
  

   constricted 
  mesially, 
  expanding 
  almost 
  as 
  much 
  anteriorly 
  as 
  posteri- 
  

   orly, 
  the 
  front 
  margin 
  feebly 
  convex, 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate, 
  

   the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  lighter 
  colored 
  than 
  the 
  disk, 
  but 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  

   marked 
  above 
  with 
  a 
  broken 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  band, 
  the 
  impi-essed 
  

   middle 
  line 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  section 
  black; 
  median 
  carina 
  percurrent, 
  

   but 
  slighter 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  subobsolete 
  between 
  

   tlie 
  sulci, 
  the 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  forming 
  a 
  rounded 
  shoulder 
  on 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona, 
  obsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  short, 
  

   appressed 
  conical, 
  blunt, 
  slightly 
  retrorse; 
  interspace 
  between 
  ineso- 
  

   sternal 
  lobes 
  of 
  male 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad. 
  Tegraiiia 
  surjiassing 
  

   a 
  little 
  the 
  hind 
  i'emora, 
  not 
  very 
  slender, 
  subequal, 
  much 
  maculate 
  

   along 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area 
  but 
  not 
  elsewhere; 
  wings 
  hyaline. 
  Hind 
  

   femora 
  brownish 
  testaceous, 
  crossed 
  above 
  and 
  externally 
  by 
  two 
  very 
  

   oblique 
  fuscous 
  bars, 
  which 
  above 
  are 
  premedian 
  and 
  postmedian, 
  the 
  

   inner 
  and 
  under 
  surfaces 
  pale 
  coralline, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  black; 
  hiud 
  

   tibiae 
  glaucous 
  with 
  a 
  slender 
  dusky 
  patellar 
  spot, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  nearly 
  

   to 
  the 
  base, 
  nine 
  to 
  ten, 
  usually 
  ten, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

   Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  feebly 
  compressed, 
  not 
  clavate, 
  scarcely 
  

   ui)turned, 
  the 
  sui^raanal 
  plate 
  triangular, 
  either 
  lateral 
  half 
  broadly 
  

   and 
  shallowly 
  sulcate 
  and 
  separated 
  by 
  sharp 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  high 
  walls 
  

   from 
  the 
  rather 
  deep 
  and 
  apically 
  narrowing 
  and 
  fading 
  median 
  sulcus; 
  

   fnrcula 
  composed 
  of 
  a 
  i)air 
  of 
  minute 
  projecting 
  angulations 
  surmount- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  ridges 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  bent 
  inwards 
  almost 
  from 
  

   the 
  base, 
  very 
  broad, 
  broadening 
  mesially 
  by 
  their 
  inferior 
  expansion, 
  

   the 
  lower 
  margin 
  suddenly 
  bent 
  at 
  the 
  middle, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  apical 
  half 
  

   narrows 
  rapidly 
  and 
  has 
  an 
  upward 
  direction, 
  well 
  and 
  rather 
  narrowly 
  

   rounded, 
  even 
  subangulate, 
  at 
  tip, 
  the 
  whole 
  only 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  

   as 
  broad 
  and 
  yet 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  

   exceedingly 
  small 
  and 
  of 
  about 
  equal 
  length 
  and 
  breadth, 
  subconical, 
  

   with 
  scarcely 
  any 
  trace 
  of 
  an 
  apical 
  tubercle, 
  except 
  that 
  formed 
  by 
  

   the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  plate 
  as 
  a 
  whole. 
  

  

  