﻿No.im. 
  REVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCrDBER. 
  195 
  

  

  feebler 
  on 
  the 
  prozoua 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  and 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  obsolete 
  

   between 
  the 
  sulci, 
  the 
  disk 
  passing 
  into 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  well- 
  

   rounded 
  augle, 
  becoming 
  a 
  tolerably 
  distinct 
  lateral 
  carina 
  on 
  the 
  

   metazona, 
  the 
  front 
  margin 
  subtruncate, 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangu- 
  

   late; 
  prozona 
  quadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  slightly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  scarcely 
  

   if 
  any 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  

   short, 
  erect, 
  conico 
  cylindrical, 
  feebly 
  (male) 
  or 
  considerably 
  (female) 
  

   appressed, 
  blunt; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosterual 
  lobes 
  somewhat 
  less 
  

   than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  feebly 
  transverse 
  (female). 
  

   Tegmina 
  dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  almost 
  equally 
  opaque 
  throughout, 
  

   with 
  distinct 
  maculation 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  field, 
  reaching 
  (male) 
  or 
  fall- 
  

   ing 
  somewhat 
  short 
  of 
  (female) 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  not 
  very 
  

   slender, 
  distinctly 
  tapering, 
  well 
  rounded 
  apicall}'. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  fusco- 
  

   testaceous, 
  rather 
  obscurely 
  and 
  broadly 
  fasciate 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  

   the 
  inferior 
  face 
  ferruginous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  obscure 
  pale 
  green, 
  with 
  an 
  

   obscure 
  fuscous 
  basal 
  annulus 
  and 
  often 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  flecked 
  with 
  fus- 
  

   cous, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  or 
  brown 
  with 
  pallid 
  base, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  num- 
  

   ber 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  somewhat 
  

   upturned, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  somewhat 
  long 
  triangular, 
  with 
  slightly 
  

   convex 
  and 
  gently 
  elevated 
  lateral 
  margins, 
  a 
  slightly 
  produced 
  

   acutangulate 
  apex 
  (its 
  i^roduction 
  not 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  figure), 
  a 
  rather 
  

   slender, 
  not 
  very 
  deep, 
  percurrent, 
  median 
  sulcus, 
  with 
  sharp 
  but 
  not 
  

   high 
  walls, 
  and 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  parallel, 
  slight, 
  short, 
  apical 
  ridges; 
  furcula 
  

   consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  subparallel, 
  flattened, 
  tapering, 
  acuminate 
  fin 
  

   gers 
  reaching 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  small 
  

   and 
  slender, 
  subequal 
  but 
  mesially 
  contracted 
  laminae, 
  nearly 
  four 
  

   times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  very 
  faintly 
  upcurved, 
  apically 
  a 
  trifle 
  incurved 
  

   and 
  well 
  rounded, 
  the 
  external 
  face 
  distinctly 
  punctate 
  and 
  apically 
  

   feebly 
  dimpled, 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  slight 
  inward 
  directed 
  flange 
  from 
  the 
  

   lower 
  margin 
  apically, 
  the 
  whole 
  falling 
  far 
  short 
  of 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  

   supraanal 
  plate; 
  infracercal 
  plates 
  rather 
  broad 
  and 
  sulcate, 
  but 
  con- 
  

   cealed 
  by 
  the 
  recumbent 
  cerci 
  except 
  apically, 
  as 
  they 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  larger 
  

   than 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  small, 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  

   the 
  apical 
  margin 
  transverse, 
  somewhat 
  elevated 
  but 
  not 
  prolonged, 
  

   thickened 
  and 
  distinctly 
  notched. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  18.75 
  mm., 
  female, 
  19.5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   7 
  mm; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  11.5 
  mm., 
  female 
  13 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  10.5 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  12 
  mm. 
  

  

  Two 
  males, 
  3 
  females. 
  San 
  Francisco, 
  California, 
  October, 
  November 
  

   (L. 
  Bruner; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder). 
  

  

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

   material 
  may 
  prove 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  same; 
  but 
  the 
  anal 
  cerci 
  are 
  faintly 
  larger 
  

   apically 
  than 
  mesially 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  form, 
  while 
  in 
  M. 
  sierranus 
  they 
  

   retain 
  apically 
  their 
  mesial 
  narrowness. 
  

  

  