﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCVDDER. 
  149 
  

  

  hind 
  tibiae 
  rather 
  dark 
  glaucous, 
  the 
  spines 
  black, 
  nine 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  

   number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  10.5 
  mm,, 
  female, 
  18 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  7.2 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  G 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  13.75 
  mm., 
  female, 
  13.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  9.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  9.75 
  mm. 
  

  

  Xine 
  males, 
  5 
  females. 
  Montana 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  collection); 
  Fin- 
  

   ney 
  Countj% 
  Kansas, 
  September, 
  H. 
  W. 
  Meuke 
  (University 
  of 
  Kansas); 
  

   between 
  Smoky 
  Hill. 
  Kansas, 
  and 
  Denver, 
  Colorado, 
  September, 
  L. 
  

   ^Xgassiz 
  (Museum 
  Comi)arative 
  Zoology); 
  Colorado 
  Springs, 
  El 
  Paso 
  

   County, 
  Colorado, 
  August, 
  E. 
  S. 
  Tucker 
  (same); 
  Garden 
  of 
  the 
  Gods, 
  

   El 
  Paso 
  County, 
  Colorado, 
  October 
  G; 
  South 
  Park, 
  Colorado, 
  S-10,000 
  

   feet, 
  August 
  11,10: 
  Salt 
  Lake 
  Valley, 
  Utah, 
  September 
  (U.S.X.M.— 
  

   Riley 
  collection); 
  Johnson's 
  Basin, 
  Kew 
  Mexico, 
  June 
  22, 
  Townsend 
  

   (L. 
  Bruner); 
  Zacatecas, 
  IMexico, 
  November 
  (same). 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  also 
  reported 
  by 
  Bruner 
  from 
  Idaho, 
  Wyoming, 
  and 
  western 
  

   Nebraska. 
  

  

  7. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  DISCOLOR. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  X, 
  tig. 
  7.) 
  

  

  resoieitlx 
  discolor 
  Scudder!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XX 
  (1879), 
  pp. 
  81-82; 
  

   Ceut. 
  Ortb. 
  (1879), 
  pp. 
  70-71.— 
  Buuner, 
  Eep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  

   p. 
  58. 
  

  

  Vertex 
  tumid, 
  considerably 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum; 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  basal 
  antennal 
  joint, 
  

   the 
  fastigium 
  shallow, 
  indistinct, 
  broad, 
  enlarging 
  apically; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   broad, 
  equal, 
  Hat 
  (nuile) 
  oi- 
  slightly 
  tumid 
  (female) 
  above, 
  sulcate 
  

   below; 
  antennae 
  three-fourths 
  (male) 
  or 
  hardly 
  two 
  thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  simple, 
  scarcely 
  enlarging 
  on 
  the 
  

   nietazona, 
  the 
  front 
  border 
  straight, 
  the 
  hind 
  border 
  roundly 
  and 
  

   broadly 
  angulate; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  though 
  rather 
  slight, 
  equal; 
  

   lateral 
  carinae 
  scarcely 
  perceptible; 
  metazona 
  faintly 
  punctate; 
  pro- 
  

   zona 
  slightly 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  about 
  a 
  fourth 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long, 
  cylin- 
  

   (liical, 
  blunt, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  twice 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  almost 
  twice 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad; 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  attingent 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  ai^proxiniate 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  head 
  and 
  

   pronotum 
  together, 
  tapering, 
  the 
  dorsal 
  and 
  lateral 
  fields 
  angularly 
  

   separate. 
  Supiaanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  triangular, 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  

   ])ointe(l. 
  the 
  sides 
  straight; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  approximate, 
  

   small-, 
  triangular 
  teeth, 
  the 
  tii)S 
  a 
  little 
  produced 
  ; 
  cerci 
  forming 
  on 
  each 
  

   side 
  a 
  broad, 
  semicircular, 
  rounded 
  Hap, 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  concave, 
  the 
  

   lower 
  convex, 
  the 
  tip 
  rcmnded, 
  the 
  whole 
  in 
  one 
  plane; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  

   conical, 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  the 
  tip 
  compressed. 
  

  

  The 
  general 
  color 
  is 
  a 
  yellowish 
  or 
  cinereous 
  brown 
  above, 
  a 
  paler 
  

   brownish 
  yellow 
  below. 
  The 
  antennae 
  are 
  pale 
  red, 
  infuscated 
  apically; 
  

   a 
  very 
  broad, 
  straiglit, 
  piceous 
  belt, 
  slightly 
  larger 
  behind 
  than 
  in 
  

   front, 
  extends 
  from 
  behind 
  the 
  eyes 
  across 
  the 
  prozona, 
  its 
  upper 
  edge 
  

  

  