﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVISION 
  OF 
  TEE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  1G7 
  

  

  (male) 
  or 
  feebly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  no 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  feebly 
  and 
  finely 
  

   ruguloso-punctate 
  nietazoua. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long 
  and 
  

   slender, 
  eonico-cylindrical, 
  blunt 
  (male) 
  or 
  short 
  and 
  stout, 
  appressed 
  

   conical, 
  very 
  blunt 
  (female) 
  ; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  unich 
  

   less 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  the 
  

   metasternal 
  lobes 
  attingent 
  (male) 
  or 
  approximate 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  

   just 
  reaching 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  rather 
  slender, 
  scarcely 
  tapering, 
  

   distinctly 
  and 
  quadrately 
  maculate 
  in 
  all 
  but 
  the 
  apical 
  fourth 
  of 
  the 
  

   discoidal 
  area 
  5 
  wings 
  pellucid, 
  not 
  very 
  broad. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  obliquely 
  

   marked 
  alternately 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  and 
  brownish 
  testaceous, 
  

   showing 
  most 
  distinctly 
  (and 
  sometimes 
  only) 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  half, 
  the 
  

   lower 
  half 
  lighter, 
  beneath 
  red, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  sometimes 
  paler, 
  the 
  

   genicular 
  arc 
  piceous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  bright 
  red 
  with 
  a 
  fuscous 
  patellar 
  

   spot, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  except 
  at 
  their 
  very 
  base, 
  ten 
  to 
  twelve 
  (usually 
  

   eleven) 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  

   clavate, 
  considerably 
  upturned, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  i^Uite 
  narrow, 
  the 
  sides 
  

   subparallel 
  and 
  broadly 
  upturned 
  over 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  

   half, 
  beyond 
  triangular 
  with 
  rectangulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  very 
  

   deep 
  and 
  narrow 
  between 
  high 
  and 
  compressed 
  walls, 
  reaching 
  nearly 
  

   to 
  the 
  tip, 
  so 
  that 
  each 
  side 
  has 
  between 
  these 
  walls 
  and 
  the 
  elevated 
  

   margins 
  of 
  the 
  plate 
  a 
  very 
  pronounced 
  sulcation; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  

   of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  strongly 
  depressed, 
  slender, 
  parallel 
  lingers, 
  equal 
  and 
  

   scarcely 
  parted 
  in 
  basal 
  half, 
  beyond 
  tapering 
  and 
  bluntly 
  pointed, 
  

   reaching 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  very 
  broad, 
  subecjual 
  

   in 
  basal 
  half, 
  then 
  bent 
  a 
  little 
  upward 
  and 
  feebly 
  tapering 
  but 
  broadly 
  

   rounded 
  apically, 
  the 
  whole 
  obliquely 
  vertical, 
  straight 
  and 
  not 
  incurved, 
  

   less 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  and 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  supraanal 
  ])late; 
  

   infracercal 
  plates 
  thickened 
  apically 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  surpassing 
  the 
  supra- 
  

   anal 
  plate, 
  obliquely 
  truncate: 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  greatly 
  prolonged 
  and 
  

   elevated 
  apically, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  entire, 
  well 
  rounded, 
  in 
  no 
  way 
  

   truncate. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  20 
  mm., 
  female, 
  22 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  7.5 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  7 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  16 
  mm., 
  female, 
  15 
  mm.; 
  liind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  11.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  13 
  mm. 
  

  

  Four 
  males, 
  5 
  females. 
  Above 
  timber, 
  11,000 
  to 
  13,000 
  feet, 
  on 
  ]\Iount 
  

   Lincoln, 
  Park 
  County, 
  Colorado, 
  August 
  13. 
  

  

  20. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  UTAHENSIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XI, 
  fiji. 
  10.) 
  

   Mehuiojiliis 
  utaheitsi^ 
  liitUNER!, 
  MS. 
  

  

  Yellowish 
  brown. 
  Head 
  luteous, 
  much 
  clouded 
  with 
  light 
  fusco- 
  

   olivaceous, 
  the 
  summit 
  and 
  a 
  broad 
  band 
  behind 
  the 
  eyes 
  very 
  dark 
  

   fusco-olivaceous, 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  luteous 
  stripe; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  

   scarcely 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   broad, 
  fully 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  tirst 
  antenna! 
  joint, 
  the 
  fastigium 
  broadly 
  

   and 
  shallowly 
  sulcate 
  except 
  at 
  base; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  broad, 
  feebly 
  

  

  