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  CEEBING 
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  OF 
  THE 
  XA 
  TlOyj 
  L 
  21 
  USE 
  CM. 
  vol. 
  xx. 
  

  

  32. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  DEVASTATOR. 
  

   (Plate 
  XIII, 
  tigs. 
  3-7.) 
  

  

  MeJanoplus 
  devastator 
  Scudder 
  ! 
  (pars), 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  

   285-286, 
  287-288; 
  (pars), 
  Entom. 
  notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  46-47, 
  48-49; 
  ';pars), 
  

   Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  C'oiiim., 
  II 
  (1880), 
  App., 
  p. 
  24, 
  pi. 
  xvii, 
  figs. 
  2, 
  3, 
  19, 
  20.- 
  - 
  

   ? 
  Bruxer, 
  ibid.. 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60; 
  ? 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  II, 
  (1883), 
  

   p. 
  11;? 
  ibid., 
  IV 
  (1884), 
  p. 
  58; 
  (pars), 
  Bnll.Washb. 
  Coll., 
  I 
  (1885), 
  p. 
  138.— 
  

   Riley, 
  Ent. 
  Amer., 
  1(1885), 
  p. 
  177; 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent., 
  1885 
  (1886), 
  pp. 
  229-232, 
  

   pi. 
  VIII, 
  figs. 
  1-5 
  a-c— 
  COQUILLETT, 
  ibid., 
  1885 
  (1886), 
  pp. 
  291-295, 
  297.— 
  

   ? 
  Bruner, 
  ibid., 
  1885 
  (1886), 
  pp. 
  306, 
  307.— 
  Coquillett, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  I 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  

   227.— 
  ? 
  Riley, 
  ibid., 
  II, 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  27.— 
  Bruner, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  XXIII 
  (1891), 
  

   p. 
  193; 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  IV 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  21; 
  Rep. 
  Eut. 
  Soc. 
  Ont., 
  XXII 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  48.— 
  

   Coquillett, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  V 
  (1892), 
  pp. 
  22-23; 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  IT. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  

   XXVII 
  (1892), 
  pp. 
  3.5-57.— 
  Bruxer, 
  ibid., 
  XXVIII 
  (1893), 
  pp. 
  22-24, 
  figs. 
  10 
  

   a-d, 
  11 
  a-c; 
  Rep. 
  Nebr. 
  St. 
  Bd. 
  Agric, 
  1893 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  460, 
  fig. 
  102; 
  Rep. 
  St. 
  

   Hort. 
  Soc. 
  Xebr., 
  1894 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  163, 
  205, 
  fig. 
  70 
  ; 
  ibid., 
  1895 
  (1895), 
  p. 
  69. 
  

  

  Melanojylus 
  ajfinis 
  Coquillett 
  I, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  I 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  227. 
  

  

  CalopteuKS 
  devastator 
  Riley, 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  XXV 
  (1891), 
  pp. 
  28- 
  

   30, 
  figs. 
  6 
  a-d, 
  7 
  a-c— 
  Milliken, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  VI 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  19. 
  

  

  Varying 
  from 
  dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  to 
  ferrugineo-testaceous. 
  Head 
  

   feebly 
  prominent, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  livid 
  testaceous, 
  above 
  darker, 
  sometiraps 
  

   completely 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  sometimes 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  in 
  a 
  median 
  

   posterior 
  stripe, 
  and 
  always 
  with 
  a 
  fuscous 
  or 
  blackish 
  postocular 
  band 
  ; 
  

   vertex 
  somewhat 
  tumid, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  raised 
  well 
  above 
  the 
  

   level 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  moderate, 
  fully 
  

   as 
  broad 
  as 
  (male) 
  or 
  much 
  broader 
  than 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  

   joint; 
  fastigium 
  strongly 
  declivent, 
  deeply 
  (male) 
  or 
  shallowly 
  (female) 
  

   sulcate 
  throughout; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  percurrent, 
  rather 
  broad, 
  broader 
  

   than 
  (male) 
  or 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  

   subequal 
  but 
  a 
  little 
  contracted 
  at 
  its 
  upper 
  extremity, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  

   about 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  punctate 
  throughout, 
  but 
  especially 
  laterally 
  ; 
  eyes 
  

   pretty 
  large, 
  not 
  very 
  prominent 
  even 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  distinctly 
  longer 
  than 
  

   the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  but 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  varying 
  

   from 
  luteous 
  to 
  ferruginous, 
  often 
  a 
  little 
  iufuscated, 
  especially 
  apically. 
  

   Pronotum 
  feebly 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly, 
  faintly 
  constricted 
  mesially, 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  lobes 
  a 
  little 
  lighter 
  colored 
  than 
  the 
  disk, 
  excej)t 
  for 
  the 
  broad 
  

   pieeous 
  band 
  above, 
  which 
  extends 
  across 
  the 
  prozona, 
  occasionally 
  a 
  

   little 
  broken 
  ; 
  front 
  margin 
  faintly 
  convex, 
  hind 
  margin 
  a 
  little 
  obtus- 
  

   angulate, 
  the 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  metazoua 
  only, 
  subobsolete 
  

   between 
  the 
  sulci; 
  lateral 
  cariuae 
  feebly 
  indicated 
  in 
  the 
  abrupt 
  but 
  

   rounded 
  angle 
  by 
  which 
  the 
  disk 
  passes 
  into 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  prozona 
  

   quadrate 
  or 
  longitudinally 
  subquadrate 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  but 
  little 
  or 
  

   no 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  fiiiutly 
  punctate 
  metazoua. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  not 
  

   very 
  long, 
  moderately 
  stout, 
  cylindrical, 
  blunt, 
  erect, 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  

   and 
  a 
  little 
  appressed 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  

   lobes 
  much 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  (male) 
  or 
  slight 
  y 
  (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  

  

  