﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  153 
  

  

  3. 
  BOWDITCHI 
  SEKIES. 
  

  

  lu 
  tliis 
  series 
  tlie 
  male 
  prozona 
  is 
  slightly 
  longitudinal, 
  and 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  exceptionally 
  narrow, 
  being 
  more 
  

   than 
  twice, 
  in 
  the 
  male.several 
  times, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  while 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   sternal 
  lobes 
  are 
  attingent 
  over 
  considerable 
  space 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  approxi- 
  

   mate 
  in 
  the 
  female. 
  The 
  tegmina, 
  especially 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  are 
  

   rarely, 
  and 
  then 
  but 
  little, 
  maculate, 
  always 
  fully 
  developed 
  and 
  sur- 
  

   passing 
  tlie 
  hind 
  femora; 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  green 
  or 
  blue, 
  with 
  nine 
  to 
  

   eleven, 
  usually 
  ten, 
  spines 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  The 
  antennae 
  are 
  of 
  very 
  

   unequal 
  length 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  sexes. 
  

  

  The 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  is 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  clypeate, 
  the 
  apex 
  always 
  well 
  

   angulate, 
  and 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  almost 
  or 
  quite 
  obsolete; 
  the 
  most 
  

   striking 
  feature 
  is 
  the 
  furcula, 
  which 
  consists 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  long, 
  very 
  

   broad, 
  parallel, 
  depressed 
  plates, 
  reaching 
  about 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  

   supraanal 
  plate 
  and 
  at 
  base 
  largely 
  concealing 
  it, 
  apically 
  narrowed 
  

   partly 
  or 
  wholly 
  by 
  their 
  interior 
  rounded 
  emargination 
  ; 
  the 
  cerci 
  are 
  

   small, 
  the 
  apical 
  portion 
  subequal, 
  nearly 
  straight, 
  and 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  

   broad 
  as 
  the 
  base: 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  is 
  somewhat 
  narrower 
  than 
  

   long, 
  subequal, 
  apically 
  extended 
  slightly 
  but 
  not 
  elevated, 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   margins 
  straight 
  and 
  on 
  a 
  line 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  abdomi- 
  

   nal 
  segments, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  well 
  rounded 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above 
  and 
  

   entire. 
  

  

  The 
  species, 
  six 
  in 
  number, 
  are 
  of 
  medium 
  or 
  rather 
  large 
  size 
  and 
  

   are 
  found 
  almost 
  altogether 
  in 
  the 
  southwest; 
  only 
  one 
  is 
  known 
  east 
  of 
  

   the 
  Mississippi, 
  .and 
  that 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  stream. 
  

  

  lo. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  HERBACEUS. 
  

   (Plate 
  X, 
  fig. 
  10.) 
  

  

  Melanoplus 
  herhaceus 
  Bruner!, 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Enfc. 
  U.S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  XXVIII 
  (1893), 
  

   pp. 
  25-26, 
  fig. 
  13ab.— 
  TowNSEXD, 
  lus. 
  Life, 
  VI 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  31.— 
  Brunkr, 
  Rep. 
  St. 
  

   Hort. 
  Soc.Nebr., 
  1894, 
  p. 
  163 
  (1894). 
  

  

  Grass 
  green, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  obscured 
  with 
  l)rownish 
  olivaceous, 
  

   almost 
  the 
  only 
  markings 
  being 
  a 
  broad 
  dark 
  green 
  baud 
  extending 
  

   from 
  behind 
  the 
  eye 
  across 
  the 
  prozona, 
  directly 
  beneath 
  which 
  .ue 
  

   lateral 
  lobes 
  are 
  often 
  spotted 
  with 
  tlavous; 
  and, 
  less 
  frequently, 
  

   a 
  dusky 
  green 
  dorsal 
  band 
  from 
  the 
  posterior 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  fastigium 
  

   across 
  the 
  prozona, 
  occupying 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  and 
  leaving 
  between 
  

   it»-5and 
  the 
  lateral 
  band 
  only 
  a 
  narrow 
  greenish 
  flavous 
  stripe 
  on 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  carinae. 
  Head 
  feebly 
  prominent, 
  the 
  vertex 
  geutl}' 
  tumid, 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  frontal 
  

   costa; 
  the 
  fastigium 
  gently 
  declivent 
  and 
  deeply 
  and 
  broadly 
  sulcate; 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  percurrent, 
  equal, 
  sulcate 
  throughout, 
  deeply 
  excepting 
  

   above; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  large, 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  very 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  

   broad; 
  antennae 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  

  

  