﻿186' 
  rnocEEDiXGS 
  of 
  the 
  xatioxal 
  irrsEu.v. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  Head 
  somewhat 
  prominent, 
  light 
  fusco-olivaceous, 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  

   piceous, 
  postocular 
  band, 
  and 
  above 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infiist-aled 
  or 
  dulled 
  

   in 
  color, 
  often 
  with 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  longitudinal 
  fuscous 
  stripes; 
  vertex 
  rather 
  

   tumid, 
  raised 
  considerably 
  above 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  prouotuni, 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  twice 
  as 
  

   broad 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  Joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  

   rather 
  deeply 
  (male) 
  or 
  shallowly 
  (female) 
  suleate 
  throughout; 
  frontal 
  

   costa 
  moderately 
  prominent, 
  distinctly 
  failing 
  tO 
  reach 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  

   slightly 
  narrowed 
  above, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  and 
  broadly 
  suleate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  

   the 
  ocellus, 
  feebly 
  punctate, 
  above 
  biseriately; 
  eyes 
  not 
  very 
  large 
  

   nor 
  very 
  prominent, 
  not 
  more 
  so 
  in 
  the 
  .male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  (unus- 
  

   ual 
  in 
  Melanoplns), 
  slightly 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   genae 
  ; 
  antennae 
  testaceous, 
  nearly 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  scarcely 
  relatively 
  shorter 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  

   Pronotum 
  very 
  short, 
  equal 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  expanding 
  somewhat 
  on 
  

   the 
  metazona, 
  light 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  often 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   lobes 
  with 
  a 
  much 
  broken 
  and 
  maculate 
  postocular 
  j)iceous 
  or 
  dark 
  

   fuscous 
  band 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  prozona, 
  the 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  passing 
  

   into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  rounded 
  angle 
  forming 
  a 
  blnnt 
  

   shoulder 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  and 
  posterior 
  section 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  only; 
  

   median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  and 
  antero-posteriorly 
  convex 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  

   feeble 
  and 
  often 
  subobsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  

   hind 
  margin 
  feebly 
  obtusangulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  sometimes 
  rounded; 
  pro- 
  

   zona 
  distinctly 
  transverse, 
  more 
  so 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   shorter 
  (particularly 
  in 
  the 
  female) 
  than 
  the 
  finely 
  and 
  very 
  feebly 
  

   punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  rather 
  long, 
  appressed, 
  feebly 
  

   conical, 
  very 
  blunt, 
  erect, 
  shorter 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  from 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  to 
  twice 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  excepticmally 
  long, 
  

   far 
  surpassing 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  not 
  very 
  narrow, 
  subequal, 
  brownish 
  

   testaceous, 
  heavily 
  flecked 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  usually 
  through 
  tlie 
  

   discoidal 
  area 
  but 
  sometimes 
  confined 
  tt) 
  the 
  middle 
  line; 
  wings 
  ami)le, 
  

   hyaline, 
  the 
  veins 
  mostly 
  fuscous, 
  but 
  testaceous 
  next 
  tlie 
  costal 
  margin. 
  

   Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  only 
  a 
  little 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   testaceo-ferrnginous 
  clouded 
  with 
  fuscous 
  above, 
  particularly 
  in 
  broad 
  

   basal, 
  premedimi 
  and 
  postmedian 
  patches, 
  the 
  geniculation 
  mostly 
  

   blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  lower 
  genicular 
  lobe 
  pallid 
  testaceous 
  with 
  a 
  basal 
  

   blackish 
  bar, 
  the 
  inferior 
  surface, 
  especially 
  externally, 
  flushed 
  with 
  

   roseate; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  bright 
  red 
  throughout, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  almost 
  to 
  

   the 
  \evy 
  base, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven, 
  rarely 
  twelve, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

   Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  a 
  little 
  clavate, 
  somewhat 
  recurved, 
  the 
  

   supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  or 
  subhastate, 
  faintly 
  comj)ressed 
  just 
  

   beyond 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  margins 
  feebly 
  elevated 
  on 
  basal 
  half, 
  the 
  apex 
  

   subacutangulate, 
  the 
  median 
  carina 
  percurrent 
  and 
  rather 
  deep, 
  between 
  

   rather 
  high 
  and 
  sharp 
  ridges; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  slight, 
  

   tai)eiing 
  and 
  acuminate, 
  flattened, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  divergent 
  spines, 
  about 
  

  

  