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  FBOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIOJ^AL 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  One 
  male. 
  Salmon 
  City, 
  Lemhi 
  County, 
  Idaho, 
  August 
  (L. 
  Bruner). 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  has 
  a 
  close 
  general 
  resemblance 
  to 
  Fodisma 
  inarsJudlii 
  

  

  with 
  its 
  much 
  shorter 
  antennae 
  and 
  wide 
  separation 
  of 
  the 
  mesosterual 
  

  

  lobes. 
  

  

  11. 
  MANOUS 
  SEEIES. 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  group, 
  composed 
  of 
  species 
  mostly 
  of 
  small 
  size, 
  the 
  prozona 
  

   of 
  the 
  male 
  varies 
  from 
  quadrate 
  to 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal, 
  and 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  sex 
  varies 
  from 
  a 
  

   little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  to 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad. 
  Tl 
  e 
  

   antennae 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  are 
  rarely 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  The 
  teg- 
  

   mina 
  are 
  always 
  abbreviate, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  usually 
  

   rather 
  broad 
  and 
  either 
  angulate 
  or 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  acuminate 
  at 
  tip. 
  The 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  red, 
  rarely 
  greenish, 
  and 
  have 
  nine 
  to 
  sixteen, 
  more 
  com- 
  

   monly 
  about 
  eleven, 
  spines 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

  

  The 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  abdomen 
  is 
  usually 
  very 
  feebly 
  clavate, 
  

   and 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  usually 
  triangular 
  and 
  rather 
  flat 
  except 
  for 
  the 
  

   subniedian 
  ridges; 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  sometimes 
  long 
  subclyi)eate 
  with 
  nuirgins 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  raised; 
  the 
  furcula 
  always 
  consists 
  of 
  a 
  feeble 
  or 
  rather 
  

   feeble 
  pair 
  of 
  denticulations 
  ; 
  the 
  cerci 
  are 
  generally 
  rather 
  small, 
  some- 
  

   times 
  nearly 
  equal, 
  at 
  others 
  tapering 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  

   but 
  rarely 
  anywhere 
  very 
  slender, 
  generally 
  incurved 
  or 
  inbent, 
  and 
  

   occasionally 
  somewhat 
  arcuate 
  as 
  seen 
  laterallj', 
  always 
  well 
  rounded 
  

   apically 
  and 
  generally 
  exteriorly 
  sulcate 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half; 
  the 
  sub- 
  

   genital 
  plate 
  is 
  broad, 
  generally 
  also 
  short, 
  subconicalor 
  subpyramidiil, 
  

   the 
  lateral 
  and 
  apical 
  margins 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  plane 
  and 
  entire. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  are 
  five 
  in 
  number 
  and 
  have 
  together 
  a 
  wide 
  range, 
  though 
  

   all 
  but 
  one 
  are 
  rather 
  local, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  known. 
  The 
  one 
  which 
  is 
  widely 
  

   distributed 
  occurs 
  from 
  Nebraska 
  and 
  Kansas 
  to 
  Texas 
  in 
  the 
  West, 
  

   and 
  from 
  southern 
  New 
  England 
  and 
  central 
  New 
  York 
  to 
  Virginia 
  in 
  

   the 
  East. 
  The 
  other 
  species 
  are 
  known 
  respectively 
  from 
  Lower 
  Cali- 
  

   fornia, 
  Colorado, 
  Idaho, 
  and 
  northern 
  New 
  England, 
  but 
  the 
  last 
  is 
  also 
  

   reported 
  from 
  Illinois. 
  

  

  This 
  series 
  represents 
  in 
  brachypterous 
  forms 
  the 
  glaucipes 
  series 
  in 
  

   macropterous, 
  and 
  in 
  an 
  ideal 
  arrangement 
  the 
  series 
  should 
  not 
  be 
  so 
  

   widely 
  separated 
  as 
  here. 
  

  

  41. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  SCUDDERI. 
  

   (Plate 
  XIV, 
  figs. 
  5, 
  6.) 
  

   Fezoteitix 
  smddcri 
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  Ent. 
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  p. 
  555.— 
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  Eep. 
  

   Conn. 
  B(l. 
  Agric, 
  1872 
  (1872), 
  pp. 
  370, 
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  Thomas, 
  Kep. 
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   Terr., 
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  (1873), 
  p. 
  152; 
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  111. 
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  Nat. 
  Hist., 
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  (1876), 
  p. 
  67.— 
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  Eut., 
  IX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
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   Ill 
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  p. 
  59.— 
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   Eut., 
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   Proc. 
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  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  

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  p. 
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   (1894), 
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   pi. 
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  fig. 
  6. 
  

  

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