﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCrDDEE. 
  193 
  

  

  LeDgth 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  10.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  22 
  mm.; 
  anteuuae, 
  male 
  

   6.25 
  mm., 
  female, 
  7 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  11.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  IG 
  mm. 
  ; 
  hiud 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  10.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  11.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  1 
  female. 
  Sacramento 
  County, 
  California 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  

   Eiley 
  collection). 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  the 
  last, 
  and 
  with 
  larger 
  material 
  

   may 
  possibly 
  i^rove 
  the 
  same. 
  

  

  30. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  SIERRANUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XIII, 
  tig. 
  1.) 
  

  

  Dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  lighter 
  beneath. 
  Head 
  fusco-olivaceous, 
  

   punctate 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  ferrugineo-testaceous 
  above, 
  with 
  a 
  postocular 
  

   black 
  strii)e 
  and 
  the 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  fastigium 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  marked 
  with 
  

   black; 
  vertex 
  very 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  hardly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  

   the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  slightly 
  wider 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  

   twice 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  strongly 
  

   declivent, 
  heavily 
  (male) 
  or 
  broadly 
  and 
  rather 
  shallowly 
  (female) 
  sul- 
  

   cate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  subequal, 
  feebly 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   the 
  ej'^es, 
  percurrent, 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  some- 
  

   times 
  to 
  the 
  base 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  seriately 
  punctate 
  laterally 
  in 
  black 
  or 
  

   fuscous 
  ; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large, 
  somewhat 
  prominent 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  rufo- 
  

   testaceous 
  (male) 
  or 
  ferruginous 
  (female), 
  about 
  four-fifths 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   three-fifths 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  

   scarcel}' 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly, 
  the 
  disk 
  nearly 
  j)lane 
  but 
  feebly 
  convex, 
  

   passing 
  by 
  a 
  well-rounded 
  angle 
  into 
  the 
  slightly 
  tumid 
  but 
  vertical 
  

   lateral 
  lobes, 
  the 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  and 
  sharp 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  

   subobsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  the 
  disk 
  ferrugineo-testaceous, 
  punctate 
  

   with 
  fuscous, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  luteo-testaceous 
  

   with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  ui^per 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  prozona, 
  in 
  the 
  

   female 
  not 
  infrequently 
  broken 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  by 
  an 
  oblique 
  luteous 
  

   stripe, 
  and 
  followed 
  below 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  section 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  by 
  a 
  

   luteous 
  patch; 
  front 
  border 
  scarcely 
  convex, 
  hiud 
  border 
  obtusangu- 
  

   late, 
  the 
  angle 
  well 
  rounded 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  prozona 
  quadrate 
  or 
  feebly 
  

   longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  feebly 
  conical 
  (male) 
  or 
  appressed 
  conical 
  

   (female), 
  moderately 
  long, 
  rather 
  slight, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   mesosternal 
  lobes 
  fully 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  less 
  than 
  half 
  

   as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  reaching, 
  occasionally 
  

   slightly 
  surpassing, 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  moderately 
  slender, 
  feebly 
  taper- 
  

   ing, 
  dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area 
  very 
  feebly 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   distinctly 
  (female) 
  maculate; 
  wings 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  hyaline, 
  the 
  veins 
  

   and 
  cross 
  veins, 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  anal 
  area, 
  blackish 
  

   fuscous 
  with 
  a 
  glaucous 
  tinge. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  fusco-ferruginous, 
  the 
  

   Proc. 
  N. 
  M. 
  vol. 
  XX 
  13 
  

  

  