﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOrLI—SCVBDER. 
  163 
  

  

  17. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  KENNICOTTII. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XI, 
  fig. 
  S.) 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  hilUurdtiis 
  Scudder!, 
  Daws., 
  Rep. 
  Geol. 
  Kec. 
  49tli 
  par. 
  (1875), 
  p. 
  343. 
  

   Afc1ano2)lus 
  leiiuicottii 
  Sctdder!, 
  Proc. 
  Best. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  287, 
  

  

  1'89, 
  290; 
  Ent. 
  Notes, 
  YI 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  46, 
  48, 
  49.— 
  Bruner, 
  Eep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  

  

  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60; 
  Eep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent., 
  1885 
  (1886), 
  p. 
  307. 
  » 
  

  

  MeJanoplna 
  hUHuraius 
  Caulfield 
  (pars), 
  Eep. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Ont., 
  XYIII 
  (1886), 
  

  

  p. 
  171. 
  

   Caloptenus 
  {Melanoplus) 
  hiUturatus 
  Caulfield 
  (i)ars), 
  Can. 
  Eec. 
  Sc, 
  II 
  (1887), 
  

  

  p. 
  401; 
  (pars), 
  Can. 
  Orth, 
  (1887), 
  p. 
  13. 
  

   Melanoplua 
  modeatus 
  Bruner!, 
  MS. 
  

  

  BioAvuisli 
  testaceous, 
  heavily 
  mottled 
  witli 
  fuscous. 
  Head 
  very 
  dark 
  

   above 
  and 
  in 
  a 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  rather 
  tumid, 
  particularly 
  iu 
  

   the 
  male, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  distinctly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  prono- 
  

   tum; 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  rather 
  broad, 
  much 
  broader 
  than, 
  in 
  

   the 
  female 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as, 
  the 
  basal 
  joint 
  of 
  the 
  antennae; 
  

   fastigium 
  rapidly 
  decliveut, 
  broadly 
  and 
  rather 
  deeply 
  (male) 
  or 
  shal- 
  

   lowly 
  (female) 
  sulcate 
  throughout; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  not 
  very 
  broad, 
  slightly 
  

   narrowed 
  above, 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes; 
  eyes 
  

   moderately 
  large 
  and 
  prominent; 
  antennae 
  testaceous, 
  infuscated 
  apic- 
  

   ally, 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  less 
  than 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   (female) 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  short, 
  enlarging 
  a 
  little 
  poste- 
  

   riorly, 
  the 
  front 
  border 
  truncate, 
  the 
  hind 
  border 
  obtusely 
  angulate, 
  the 
  

   angle 
  rounded, 
  dark 
  testaceous 
  above, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  heavily 
  mottled 
  

   with 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  lower 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  lighter, 
  but 
  the 
  

   upper 
  part, 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  band, 
  occasionally 
  

   broken, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  median 
  carina 
  percurrent 
  and 
  slight, 
  

   but 
  feebler 
  on 
  the 
  i^rozona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  disk 
  passing 
  almost 
  

   insensibly 
  into 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  on 
  the 
  j)rozona, 
  but 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  

   with 
  a 
  distinct 
  though 
  rounded 
  angle; 
  prozona 
  feebly 
  (male) 
  or 
  dis- 
  

   tinetly 
  (female) 
  transverse, 
  scarcely 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  obscurely 
  punctate 
  

   metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  erect, 
  conical, 
  very 
  blunt; 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  only 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   decidedly 
  transverse, 
  but 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  themselves 
  (female) 
  ; 
  

   metasternal 
  lobes 
  narrowly 
  attingent 
  (male) 
  or 
  api^roximate 
  (female). 
  

   Tegmina 
  reaching, 
  occasionally 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  surpassing, 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  moderately 
  narrow, 
  distinctly 
  tapering, 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  

   with 
  feeble 
  flecking 
  along 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area; 
  wings 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  

   hyaline, 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  veins 
  and 
  cross 
  veins 
  blackish 
  fnscous. 
  Hind 
  

   femora 
  brownish 
  testaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  obliquely 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  

   fuscous 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  half, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  piceous, 
  the 
  inferior 
  face 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  but 
  slightly 
  fulvous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  paler 
  or 
  browner 
  testa- 
  

   ceous, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  except 
  at 
  base, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  

   outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  slightly 
  clavate, 
  upturned, 
  

   the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  with 
  nearly 
  straight 
  sides 
  and 
  acutangu- 
  

   late 
  apex, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  percurrent, 
  not 
  very 
  narrow 
  but 
  mesially 
  

  

  