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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  apical 
  face 
  depressed 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  tendency 
  to 
  the 
  margin 
  to 
  appear 
  

   bilobed 
  in 
  drying, 
  but 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  actually 
  entire, 
  subtruncate. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  22 
  mm., 
  female 
  22,5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  9.5 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  8.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  19 
  mm., 
  female, 
  18.75 
  mm,; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male 
  and 
  female, 
  12.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Twenty-three 
  males, 
  25 
  females. 
  Camp 
  Umatilla, 
  Washington, 
  June 
  

   26 
  (Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology) 
  ; 
  Brown's, 
  Colville 
  Valley, 
  Wash- 
  

   ington, 
  July 
  24 
  (same); 
  Loon 
  Lake, 
  Colville 
  Valley, 
  Washington, 
  

   July 
  23 
  (same); 
  Little 
  Spokane, 
  Washington, 
  July 
  20 
  (same); 
  Fort 
  

   McLeod, 
  Alberta, 
  Canada, 
  August 
  (L. 
  Bruner; 
  U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  col- 
  

   lection); 
  Banff, 
  Alberta, 
  Bean, 
  June, 
  August 
  (S. 
  Henshaw); 
  Montana 
  

   (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Kiley 
  collection); 
  Weeksville, 
  Montana, 
  August 
  2 
  (Museum 
  

   Comparative 
  Zoology); 
  Yellowstone, 
  Montana, 
  August 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  

   Riley 
  collection); 
  Gordon, 
  Sheridan 
  County, 
  Nebraska, 
  Bruner 
  (siime); 
  

   South 
  Park, 
  Colorado, 
  8,000 
  to 
  10,000 
  feet; 
  Florissant, 
  El 
  Paso 
  County, 
  

   Colorado, 
  August 
  17-22, 
  8,000 
  feet. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  from 
  Colorado 
  and 
  Nebraska 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  smaller 
  than 
  

   those 
  from 
  further 
  north, 
  and 
  have 
  rather 
  shorter 
  wings. 
  The 
  Siune 
  is 
  

   true 
  also 
  of 
  specimens 
  taken 
  at 
  Banff, 
  Alberta, 
  in 
  June. 
  

  

  Bruner 
  also 
  reports 
  it 
  from 
  Helena, 
  Fort 
  Ellis, 
  and 
  the 
  Madison 
  val- 
  

   ley, 
  Montana, 
  and 
  Salmon 
  City, 
  Idaho, 
  

  

  19. 
  MELA.NOPLUS 
  EXCELSUS, 
  new 
  species.. 
  

   (Plate 
  XI, 
  fig. 
  9.) 
  

  

  Dull 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  under 
  surface 
  dull 
  luteo-testaceous. 
  Head 
  

   dark 
  above 
  and 
  in 
  a 
  piceous 
  band 
  behind 
  the 
  eyes, 
  but 
  elsewliere 
  dull 
  

   flavo-olivaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  clouded 
  with 
  plumbeous; 
  vertex 
  feebly 
  

   tumid, 
  raised 
  slightly 
  above 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  rather 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  twice 
  

   as 
  broad 
  as 
  (male) 
  the 
  basal 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  plane 
  with 
  a 
  

   basal 
  transverse 
  impression 
  (female) 
  or 
  broadly 
  and 
  shallowly 
  sulcate 
  

   throughout 
  (male); 
  frontal 
  costa 
  broad, 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  narrowing 
  above 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  scarcely 
  

   depressed 
  at 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  slightly 
  below 
  it, 
  

   just 
  failing 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  sparsely 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  

   long, 
  anteriorly 
  truncate, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   genae, 
  slightly 
  prominent; 
  antennae 
  less 
  than 
  three-fourths 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   than 
  two 
  thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  fusco-ferruginous, 
  

   lighter 
  at 
  base. 
  Pronotum 
  gradually 
  and 
  slightly 
  enlarging 
  poste- 
  

   riorly, 
  with 
  the 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  bluntly 
  obtus- 
  

   angulate, 
  the 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  base 
  with 
  a 
  dull 
  flavous 
  tinge, 
  which 
  

   increases 
  on 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  prozona, 
  

   which 
  is 
  mostly 
  piceous, 
  the 
  sulci 
  piceous, 
  followed 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  sec- 
  

   tion 
  by 
  a 
  small 
  flavous 
  patch; 
  median 
  carina 
  percurrent, 
  black, 
  shaiper 
  

   and 
  more 
  elevated 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  the 
  pro/ona 
  

   plano-convex 
  with 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  lateral 
  carinae, 
  slightly 
  more 
  angu- 
  

   late 
  on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  disk 
  of 
  prozona 
  nearly 
  smooth 
  and 
  quadrate 
  

  

  