﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  191 
  

  

  eyes 
  large, 
  promiuent, 
  especially 
  in 
  tlie 
  male, 
  much 
  longer 
  thau 
  the 
  

   infiaocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  geuae, 
  broadly 
  convex 
  antei-iorly; 
  antennae 
  

   about 
  a 
  half 
  (male) 
  or 
  two-thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   dull 
  castaneous. 
  Pronotum 
  feebly 
  constricted 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  enlarg- 
  

   ing 
  almost 
  as 
  much 
  in 
  front 
  as 
  behind, 
  the 
  front 
  border 
  truncate, 
  the 
  

   hind 
  border 
  somewhat 
  obtusangulate, 
  fusco-castaneous, 
  profusely 
  and 
  

   rather 
  coarsely 
  punctate 
  with 
  fuscous 
  above, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  

   maculate 
  piceous 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  i^art 
  of 
  the 
  prozona, 
  often 
  divided 
  

   obliquely, 
  especiall}'' 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  by 
  a 
  dull 
  luteous 
  stripe; 
  median 
  

   carina 
  percurrent, 
  sometimes 
  feebler 
  on 
  the 
  prozoiui 
  and 
  often 
  subob- 
  

   solete 
  between 
  the 
  sulci, 
  the 
  disk 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  rounded 
  shoulder, 
  more 
  

   distinct 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  thau 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  into 
  the 
  slightly 
  tumid 
  

   lateral 
  lobes; 
  prozona 
  quadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  feebly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  

   scarcely 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  feebly 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  

   not 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  moderately 
  slender 
  (male) 
  or 
  short 
  and 
  stout 
  (female), 
  

   appressed 
  conical, 
  blunt, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  

   about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  

   (female). 
  Tegniina 
  reaching 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  

   little 
  shorter 
  than 
  that, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  abdomen 
  (female), 
  not 
  very 
  

   slender, 
  tai^eriug 
  and 
  narrowly 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip, 
  distinctly 
  maculate 
  in 
  

   the 
  discoidal 
  area, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  brownish 
  fuscous; 
  wings 
  

   moderately 
  broad, 
  ijellucid, 
  with 
  glauco-fuscous 
  veins. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  

   dark 
  testaceous 
  with 
  basal 
  patch 
  and 
  oblique 
  premedian 
  and 
  postme- 
  

   dian 
  bars 
  of 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  dull 
  red 
  beneath, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  

   black, 
  the 
  lower 
  genicular 
  lobe 
  pallid 
  marked 
  with 
  fuscous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   sordid 
  glaucous, 
  dull 
  lutescent 
  apically 
  and 
  basally, 
  occasionally 
  pale 
  

   red, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  except 
  at 
  base, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven, 
  usually 
  eleven, 
  in 
  

   number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  a 
  

   little 
  elongate, 
  Avell 
  rounded, 
  considerably 
  upturned, 
  the 
  sujiraanal 
  

   plate 
  triangular 
  with 
  subrectangulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  basally 
  

   rounded, 
  broadly 
  uprurned, 
  the 
  percurrent 
  median 
  sulcus 
  a 
  mere 
  slit 
  

   between 
  rather 
  high 
  compressed 
  walls, 
  with 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  pronounced 
  ter- 
  

   minal 
  ridges; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  rather 
  slender, 
  depressed, 
  

   tapering, 
  acuminate, 
  parallel 
  fingers^ 
  reaching 
  nearlj' 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  

   the 
  supraaual 
  plate: 
  cerci 
  small, 
  slender, 
  nearly 
  straight 
  and 
  nearly 
  

   ei,ual, 
  but 
  basally 
  tapering 
  and 
  apically 
  a 
  little 
  iiibent, 
  rather 
  stout, 
  

   well 
  rounded 
  at 
  apex, 
  and 
  Mith 
  the 
  inbeut 
  portion 
  deeply 
  dimpled 
  

   exteriorl}'; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  rather 
  broad, 
  rather 
  short, 
  considerably 
  

   and 
  abruptly 
  elevated 
  apically, 
  but 
  not 
  prolonged 
  posteriorly, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   margin 
  subtruncate, 
  distinctly 
  notched. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male 
  16 
  mm., 
  female 
  17 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male 
  0.25 
  

   mm., 
  female 
  5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male 
  12.5 
  mm., 
  female 
  11 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male 
  9.5 
  mm., 
  female 
  10 
  mm. 
  

  

  Five 
  nu^les, 
  females. 
  San 
  Francisco, 
  California, 
  Xovember 
  (U.S. 
  

   N.M.— 
  Piiley 
  collection); 
  ]\rarin 
  County, 
  California, 
  August 
  8 
  (same); 
  

   Monterey, 
  California, 
  October 
  19, 
  next 
  the 
  seashore. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  smallest 
  species 
  of 
  Melanoplns. 
  

  

  