﻿EEriSION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDEIL 
  157 
  

  

  jjaler 
  maculatious 
  along 
  the 
  middle 
  line; 
  wings 
  rather 
  narrow, 
  hyaline, 
  

   the 
  veins 
  very 
  pale 
  blue, 
  becoming 
  infuscated 
  apically 
  and 
  anteriorly. 
  

   Legs 
  llavous, 
  banded 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  unequally 
  trifasciate 
  

   with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  fasciation 
  only 
  distinct 
  above, 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  olivaceous, 
  the 
  inner 
  face 
  sanguineous, 
  and 
  a 
  ])Ostniediau 
  

   sanguineous 
  patch 
  below, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  blacJi, 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  genic- 
  

   ulation 
  flecked 
  with 
  fuscous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  purpUsh 
  fuscous, 
  marked 
  

   with 
  dull 
  flavous 
  between 
  the 
  spines, 
  which 
  are 
  black, 
  becoming 
  pallid 
  

   basally, 
  flavous 
  interiorly, 
  eleven 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Ex- 
  

   tremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  hardly 
  clavate 
  or 
  recurved, 
  the 
  sui)raanal 
  

   plate 
  subclypeate, 
  the 
  margins 
  strongly 
  and 
  roundly 
  bent 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   middle, 
  the 
  apex 
  slightly 
  produced, 
  subrectangulate, 
  and 
  jiointed, 
  

   the 
  sides 
  strongly 
  and 
  broadly 
  elevated 
  in 
  the 
  proximal 
  half, 
  the 
  

   median 
  sulcus 
  slight 
  and 
  only 
  perceptible 
  in 
  apical 
  half; 
  furcula 
  con- 
  

   sisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  hroad 
  flattened 
  i)lates 
  slightly 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  broad, 
  reaching 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  sui)raanal 
  plate, 
  beyond 
  

   the 
  middle 
  roundlj- 
  and 
  obliquely 
  emarginate 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  side, 
  apically 
  

   roundly 
  and 
  obliquely 
  truncate 
  exteriorly; 
  cerci 
  moderately 
  broad 
  at 
  

   base, 
  almost 
  immediately 
  tapering 
  rapidly 
  by 
  the 
  excision 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  

   margin, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  distal 
  three-fourths 
  forms 
  a 
  compressed 
  subequal 
  

   finger, 
  barely 
  expanding 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  the 
  exterior 
  surface 
  slightly 
  

   impressed 
  or 
  subsulcate 
  apically, 
  the 
  whole 
  straight, 
  except 
  for 
  being- 
  

   sbghtly 
  bent 
  inward 
  near 
  the 
  middle, 
  failing 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  

   suDraanal 
  i^late; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  forming 
  a 
  regular 
  well 
  rounded 
  

   flaring 
  scoop, 
  tlie 
  margin 
  nowhere 
  elevated, 
  entire, 
  the 
  plate 
  consider- 
  

   ably 
  narrower 
  apically 
  than 
  at 
  base, 
  and 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  broad. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  27 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  12.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  tegmina, 
  24 
  mm, 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  14 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male. 
  Bradshaw 
  ^Mountain, 
  Arizona, 
  June 
  21 
  (L. 
  Bruner). 
  

  

  13. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  BOWDITCHI. 
  

   (Plate 
  XI, 
  fi^. 
  8.) 
  

  

  MelanopluK 
  bowdilchi 
  Scudder!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XX 
  (1879), 
  p. 
  72; 
  

   Cent. 
  Orth. 
  (1879j, 
  p. 
  61.— 
  Bruneh. 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  

   61; 
  Publ. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  a893), 
  !>. 
  27.— 
  Townsend, 
  Ius. 
  Life, 
  VI 
  

   (1893), 
  p. 
  31. 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  size. 
  Head 
  slightly 
  elevated, 
  moderately 
  arched 
  above; 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  

   antenna! 
  .loint. 
  a 
  little 
  broader 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  fastigium 
  

   rather 
  shallowly 
  sulcate, 
  subspatulate 
  in 
  form, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  

   thick 
  and 
  low; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  equal, 
  plane 
  above, 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  

   the 
  ocellus; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  large, 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  

   Pronotum 
  simple, 
  the 
  metazona 
  slightly 
  expanding, 
  punctulate, 
  the 
  

   median 
  carina 
  slight 
  but 
  distinct 
  upon 
  it, 
  but 
  av 
  holly 
  wanting 
  in 
  front; 
  

   lateral 
  carinae 
  obsolete; 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  of 
  prozona 
  distinct, 
  sub- 
  

   continuous 
  across 
  the 
  middle. 
  Tegmina 
  very 
  slender, 
  extending 
  beyond 
  

  

  