﻿Ko.n24. 
  BETISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCrDDEE. 
  179 
  

  

  Bd. 
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  kill, 
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  73-71.— 
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  Can. 
  Ent., 
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  Div. 
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  Agric, 
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  pp. 
  12-29; 
  ibid., 
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  (1893), 
  pp. 
  29-30, 
  figs. 
  

  

  14a-c; 
  ibid., 
  XXX 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  35; 
  Publ. 
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  Scudder. 
  

  

  Psyche, 
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  V 
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  pp. 
  323-325; 
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  (1893), 
  pp. 
  80-81. 
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  Psyche, 
  VII 
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  p. 
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  12; 
  

  

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  Rep., 
  1895 
  (.1^95), 
  p. 
  69.— 
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  St. 
  Mus. 
  N. 
  Y.. 
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  (1895), 
  440-443. 
  

   CaloptniHS 
  hilUuvaiua 
  Bruxer, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60. 
  

   Pezotettix 
  atJaiiis 
  HrxT, 
  Misc. 
  Ess. 
  Econ. 
  Eut. 
  111. 
  (1886), 
  pp. 
  120, 
  126.— 
  Garmax, 
  

  

  Orth. 
  Ky. 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  3, 
  8. 
  

   MelanopJus 
  atJanis 
  caeruleipes 
  Cockerell, 
  Entom., 
  XXII 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  127. 
  

   [Many 
  of 
  these 
  references 
  may 
  belong 
  to 
  species 
  not 
  heretofore 
  distinguished 
  

  

  from 
  M. 
  atlanis.'] 
  

  

  Yaiyiug 
  from 
  medium 
  to 
  a 
  little 
  above 
  medium 
  size, 
  dark 
  griseo-fus- 
  

   cous, 
  often 
  tiuged 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  lieavily 
  with 
  ferruginous. 
  Head 
  a 
  little 
  

   prominent, 
  olivaceo-testaceous 
  freckled 
  with 
  luscous, 
  above 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   infuscated, 
  sometimes 
  diffusing 
  tbe 
  whole, 
  sometimes 
  contined 
  to 
  two 
  

   divergent 
  longitudinal 
  stripes, 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  piceous, 
  postocular 
  baud; 
  

   vertex 
  rather 
  tumid, 
  somewhat 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  prouotum, 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  ej'es 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  tbe 
  first 
  antennal 
  joiut 
  

   in 
  both 
  sexes; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  shallowly 
  sulcate, 
  more 
  shal- 
  

   lowly 
  in 
  the 
  fejuale 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  

   failing 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  feebly 
  narrowed 
  above 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  

   male, 
  fully 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  slightly 
  sulcate 
  

   at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  irregularly 
  punctate 
  throughout, 
  above 
  more 
  

   densely 
  aud 
  with 
  a 
  tendency 
  to 
  a 
  biseriate 
  arrangement; 
  eyes 
  moderate, 
  

   rather 
  i)rominent 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infra 
  

   ocular 
  ijortion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  rufo- 
  or 
  luteo-testaceous, 
  about 
  

   five-sixths 
  (male) 
  or 
  three 
  fifths 
  (femafe) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  

   Pronotum 
  rather 
  short, 
  feebly 
  and 
  angularly 
  constricted 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  

   the 
  broad 
  angulation 
  at 
  the 
  principal 
  sulcus 
  and 
  produced 
  mostly 
  by 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  expansion 
  of 
  the 
  metazoua, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated 
  and 
  

   often 
  also 
  ferruginous 
  above, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  generally 
  distinct 
  

   and 
  entire 
  but 
  sometimes 
  broken 
  or 
  maculate, 
  broad, 
  piceous, 
  postocular 
  

   band, 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  i)rozona 
  ; 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex 
  and 
  passing 
  into 
  

   the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  somewhat 
  abruptly 
  but 
  with 
  a 
  well-rounded 
  

   shoulder, 
  simulating 
  but 
  nowhere 
  really 
  forming 
  distinct 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  ; 
  

   median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  and 
  well 
  marked 
  on 
  the 
  metazoua, 
  obscure 
  and 
  

   generally 
  subobsoleteon 
  the 
  prozonaif 
  not 
  indeed 
  obsolete, 
  particularly 
  

   between 
  the 
  sulci 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate 
  but 
  very 
  

   narrowly 
  and 
  minutely 
  flaring, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  

   very 
  slightly 
  rounded; 
  prozona 
  subquadrate 
  — 
  a 
  little 
  variable 
  on 
  either 
  

   side 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  rarely 
  and 
  then 
  feebly 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  densely 
  punctate 
  inetazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  variable, 
  

   usually 
  short, 
  conical, 
  a 
  little 
  blunt, 
  slightly 
  appressed, 
  erect 
  (male) 
  or 
  

  

  