﻿NO. 
  1 
  124. 
  BE 
  VISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI— 
  SC 
  UDDER. 
  211 
  

  

  40. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  INDIGENS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XIV, 
  fig. 
  4.) 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  size, 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  above, 
  sordid 
  testaceous 
  beueath. 
  

   Head 
  a 
  little 
  prominent, 
  olivaceo-testaceous 
  flecked 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  above 
  

   blackish 
  fuscous 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  postocular 
  baud; 
  vertex 
  some- 
  

   what 
  tumid, 
  scarcely 
  elevated 
  above 
  tbe 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fas- 
  

   tigium 
  steeply 
  decliveut, 
  shallowly 
  and 
  broadly 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   scarcely 
  reaching 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  faintly 
  expanded 
  at 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  but 
  

   otherwise 
  equal, 
  a 
  little 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  

   a 
  little 
  sulcate 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  distinctly 
  punctate 
  above; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  

   large, 
  not 
  prominent, 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  

   the 
  geuae; 
  antennae 
  castaneous, 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  

   Pronotum 
  slightly 
  expanding 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  the 
  sides 
  with 
  a 
  per- 
  

   current, 
  piceous, 
  postocular 
  stripe 
  which 
  is 
  rather 
  feeble 
  on 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona, 
  the 
  disk 
  rather 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  rounded 
  shoulder, 
  

   posteriorly 
  forming 
  feeble 
  lateral 
  carinae, 
  into 
  the 
  somewhat 
  tumid 
  

   vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  obsoles- 
  

   cent 
  on 
  the 
  prozona; 
  front 
  margin 
  subtruncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  very 
  

   broadly 
  rotundate 
  ; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal, 
  about 
  a 
  third 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  finely 
  i)unctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  long, 
  conical, 
  

   bluntly 
  pointed, 
  feebly 
  appressed 
  ; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  

   lobes 
  subquadrate, 
  barely 
  longer 
  than 
  broad. 
  Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  

   almost 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  slightly 
  distant, 
  obovate, 
  almost 
  twice 
  

   as 
  hmg 
  as 
  broad, 
  the 
  tip 
  strongly 
  rounded. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  

   somewhat 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  rather 
  slender, 
  somewhat 
  

   compressed, 
  ferrugineo-testaceous, 
  irregularly 
  clouded 
  and 
  flecked 
  with 
  

   fuscous, 
  the 
  under 
  face 
  flavo-olivaceous, 
  the 
  upper 
  genicular 
  lobe 
  and 
  

   base 
  of 
  lower 
  black; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  sordid 
  pale 
  greenish 
  with 
  a 
  fuscous 
  

   patellar 
  anuulus, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  almost 
  to 
  their 
  base, 
  ten 
  to 
  twelve 
  

   in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  hardly 
  

   clavate, 
  somewhat 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  with 
  acut- 
  

   angulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  considerably 
  and 
  rather 
  abruptly 
  

   elevated 
  and 
  mesially 
  notched, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  distinct 
  and 
  percur- 
  

   rent 
  between 
  rather 
  narrow 
  and 
  sharp 
  ridges 
  which 
  fade 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   middle; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  rather 
  slender, 
  tapering 
  and 
  

   acuminate, 
  tumid, 
  feebly 
  arcuate 
  and 
  slightly 
  divergent 
  fingers, 
  

   slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  broad 
  and 
  rather 
  

   coarse, 
  straight, 
  subequal, 
  apically 
  rounded 
  or 
  subangulate 
  laminae, 
  

   nearly 
  four 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  their 
  middle 
  breadth, 
  obliquely 
  vertical 
  

   throughout 
  except 
  apically, 
  where 
  by 
  a 
  feeble 
  twist 
  they 
  become 
  verti- 
  

   cal; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  short 
  and 
  broad, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  rising 
  consid- 
  

   erably 
  above 
  the 
  lateral 
  into 
  a 
  slight 
  rounded 
  tubercle, 
  the 
  lateral 
  and 
  

   apical 
  margins 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above 
  parabolic. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  20 
  mm.: 
  antennae, 
  10 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  4.25 
  

   mm 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  11 
  mm. 
  

  

  