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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  to 
  (female) 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen. 
  Supraanal 
  plate 
  sub- 
  

   quadrate, 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  subparallel 
  on 
  basal 
  

   half, 
  beyond 
  tapering 
  rapidly, 
  the 
  tip 
  triangularly 
  produced, 
  sharply 
  

   angulated 
  ; 
  plates 
  of 
  furcula 
  stout, 
  depressed, 
  attingent 
  at 
  base, 
  beyond 
  

   with 
  the 
  inner 
  margins 
  separated 
  at 
  an 
  angle 
  of 
  45°, 
  the 
  outer 
  mar- 
  

   gins 
  straight 
  and 
  parallel, 
  the 
  extremity 
  obliquely 
  docked 
  and 
  scarcely 
  

   incurved, 
  more 
  than 
  hidf 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  and 
  nearly 
  

   three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  basal 
  breadth; 
  anal 
  cerei 
  forming 
  long, 
  

   slender, 
  straight, 
  compressed 
  fingers, 
  much 
  expanded 
  above 
  at 
  the 
  

   extreme 
  base, 
  beyond 
  scarcely 
  tapering, 
  bluntly 
  and 
  roundly 
  terminated, 
  

   directed 
  backward, 
  somewhat 
  upward 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  inward, 
  about 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  hind 
  tarsal 
  joint; 
  subgenital 
  i)late 
  elongated 
  scoop- 
  

   shaped, 
  the 
  extremity 
  a 
  little 
  produced, 
  entire; 
  basal 
  tooth 
  of 
  lower 
  

   valve 
  of 
  ovipositor 
  of 
  female 
  blunt, 
  triangular, 
  large, 
  broader 
  than 
  

   long. 
  

  

  The 
  general 
  color 
  is 
  a 
  grayish 
  brown, 
  the 
  eyes 
  margined 
  above 
  with 
  

   dull 
  pale-yellow, 
  the 
  face 
  and 
  geuae 
  olivaceous 
  with 
  transverse 
  mot- 
  

   tlings 
  of 
  dusky 
  ferruginous; 
  antennae 
  dull 
  pale 
  castaneons; 
  behind 
  the 
  

   eye 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  belt, 
  sometimes 
  broken, 
  sometimes 
  entire, 
  crosses 
  

   the 
  prozona 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  disk 
  of 
  pronotum 
  

   brownish 
  yellow, 
  heavily 
  punctate 
  or 
  mottled 
  with 
  fuscous. 
  Tegmina 
  

   with 
  an 
  obscure 
  median 
  series 
  of 
  alternate 
  dusky 
  and 
  pallid 
  spots; 
  

   hind 
  femora 
  brownish 
  yellow, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  tinged 
  with 
  plumbeous, 
  the 
  

   incisures 
  dusky, 
  with 
  faint 
  indications 
  on 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  dusky 
  trans- 
  

   verse 
  stripes; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  bluish 
  green, 
  sometimes 
  dotted 
  with 
  black 
  

   and 
  with 
  black 
  spines, 
  ten 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  23 
  mm., 
  female, 
  26 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  10 
  

   mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male 
  and 
  female, 
  20 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  13 
  mm., 
  

   female, 
  14 
  ram. 
  

  

  Four 
  males, 
  3 
  females. 
  Lakiu, 
  Kearny 
  County, 
  Kansas, 
  3,000 
  feet, 
  

   September 
  1; 
  Pueblo, 
  Colorado, 
  4,700 
  feet, 
  August 
  30-31; 
  Chaves, 
  

   Bernalillo 
  County, 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  August 
  G 
  (L. 
  Braner); 
  Las 
  Cruces, 
  

   Donna 
  Ana 
  County, 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  July 
  8, 
  T. 
  D. 
  A. 
  Cockerell. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  also 
  reported 
  by 
  Townsend 
  from 
  Sabinal, 
  Socorro 
  County, 
  and 
  

   Belen, 
  Valencia 
  County, 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  August 
  7. 
  

  

  14. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  FLAVIDUS. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XI, 
  1\s. 
  4.) 
  

  

  Melanoplus 
  jlavidns 
  Scuddek!, 
  Proc. 
  liost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XX 
  (1879), 
  p. 
  74; 
  

  

  Cent. 
  OiUi. 
  (1879), 
  p.63.— 
  Bkunkk. 
  Kep. 
  U. 
  8. 
  Ent. 
  Comm.. 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  61; 
  

  

  Bull. 
  Washb. 
  Coll., 
  I 
  (1885), 
  p. 
  38; 
  ibid., 
  I 
  (1886), 
  p. 
  200; 
  Publ. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  

  

  Sci., 
  Ill 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  27. 
  

   Melanoplus 
  cenchri 
  McNeill!, 
  Psyche, 
  VI 
  (1891), 
  pp. 
  74-7.5. 
  

  

  Moderately 
  large 
  in 
  size. 
  Head 
  rather 
  large, 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  and 
  

   well 
  arched 
  above; 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  nearly 
  (male) 
  or 
  quite 
  

   (female) 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigiiim 
  shal- 
  

  

  