﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEE. 
  201 
  

  

  apically 
  dimpled, 
  with 
  a 
  slight, 
  inferior, 
  indirected 
  flange 
  to 
  the 
  lower 
  

   margin 
  apically, 
  the 
  whole 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  

   infracercal 
  plates 
  extending 
  noticeably 
  beyond 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  and 
  

   so 
  exposed 
  beyond 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  cerci 
  to 
  a 
  considerable 
  degree; 
  sub- 
  

   genital 
  plate 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  broad 
  and 
  rectangulate 
  at 
  base, 
  apic- 
  

   ally 
  elevated 
  but 
  not 
  prolonged, 
  the 
  apical 
  border 
  thickened 
  and 
  

   emargiuate. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  20.5 
  ram., 
  female 
  22.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   8.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  8 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  17 
  mm., 
  female, 
  17.5 
  mm.; 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  11.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  13 
  ram. 
  

  

  Eleven 
  raales, 
  12 
  females. 
  California, 
  H. 
  Edwards; 
  Siskiyou 
  County, 
  

   California, 
  July 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collection); 
  Fort 
  Eedding, 
  Shasta 
  

   County, 
  California, 
  Lieutenant 
  Williamson 
  ; 
  Butte 
  County, 
  California 
  

   (L^.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collection); 
  Sierra 
  Valley, 
  Sierra 
  Countj', 
  California, 
  

   J. 
  G. 
  Lemmon 
  (same) 
  ; 
  Sacramento 
  County, 
  California, 
  Coquillett 
  (same; 
  

   J. 
  McNeill). 
  

  

  34. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  UNIFORMIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XIII, 
  fig. 
  9.) 
  

  

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

   pp. 
  285-286, 
  287-288; 
  (pars), 
  Eutom. 
  Notes, 
  YI 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  46-47, 
  48-49. 
  

  

  ^ight 
  and 
  nearly 
  uniform 
  testaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  feebly 
  tinged 
  above 
  

   with 
  ferruginous. 
  Head 
  somewhat 
  prominent, 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   pallid 
  testaceous, 
  darker 
  above, 
  with 
  occasionally 
  a 
  feeble 
  postocular 
  

   fuscous 
  line 
  at 
  the 
  upper 
  limit 
  of 
  the 
  normal 
  Melanoplan 
  postocular 
  

   band; 
  vertex 
  tumid, 
  well 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes 
  rather 
  broad, 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  (male) 
  or 
  twice 
  as 
  

   broad 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigiuni 
  strongly 
  declivent, 
  

   sulcate 
  throughout, 
  more 
  deeply 
  and 
  narrowly 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  

   female; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  broad, 
  subequal, 
  scarcely 
  attaining 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  

   fully 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebl}- 
  impressed 
  about 
  

   the 
  ocellus, 
  punctate 
  throughout; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  rather 
  prorainent, 
  rauch 
  

   larger 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  tlie 
  genae 
  ; 
  antennae 
  luteous, 
  grow- 
  

   ing 
  slightly 
  fulvous 
  apically, 
  nearly 
  two-thirds 
  (raale) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  more 
  

   than 
  half 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  feebly 
  enlarged 
  

   posteriorly, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  slightly 
  paler 
  than 
  the 
  disk, 
  and 
  rarely 
  

   with 
  a 
  few 
  faint 
  duskier 
  streaks 
  in 
  the 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  postocular 
  band, 
  

   the 
  disk 
  passing 
  into 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  rounded 
  shoulder, 
  which 
  

   almost 
  develops 
  into 
  a 
  lateral 
  carina 
  on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  median 
  carina 
  

   slight, 
  percnrrent, 
  only 
  slightly 
  feebler 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona; 
  front 
  margin 
  subtruncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate; 
  prozona 
  

   quadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  slightly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  scarcely 
  or 
  not 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  closely 
  and 
  finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  not 
  

   very 
  long, 
  conico-cylindrical, 
  appressed, 
  blunt, 
  blunter 
  in 
  the 
  feraale 
  

   than 
  in 
  the 
  raale, 
  slightly 
  retrorse; 
  interspace 
  between 
  raesosternal 
  

  

  