﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  213 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  ruhricrus 
  Walsh! 
  , 
  MS. 
  (1865). 
  

  

  I'odisma 
  sciidderi 
  AValker, 
  Cat. 
  Derm. 
  Salt. 
  Brit. 
  Mus., 
  IV 
  (1870), 
  p. 
  718. 
  

  

  Fezoictiix 
  unicolor 
  Thomas!, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Siirv, 
  Terr., 
  V 
  (1873), 
  p. 
  151; 
  

  

  Proc. 
  Dav. 
  Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sc, 
  I 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  260.— 
  Gloveu, 
  111. 
  X. 
  A. 
  Ent., 
  Orth. 
  

  

  (1876j, 
  pi. 
  XIII, 
  fig. 
  9.— 
  Thomas, 
  Bull. 
  111. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  I 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  66; 
  

  

  Eep. 
  Geol. 
  Expl. 
  \V. 
  100th 
  Mer., 
  V 
  (1875), 
  p. 
  888, 
  pi. 
  xlv, 
  fig. 
  4.— 
  Bruner, 
  

  

  Can. 
  Ent., 
  IX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  144.— 
  Rilky, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  

  

  220, 
  226.— 
  Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  Ent. 
  111., 
  IX 
  (1880), 
  pp. 
  95, 
  118-119.— 
  Bruxer, 
  Rep. 
  

  

  IJ. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  59; 
  Bull. 
  Wasbb. 
  Coll., 
  I 
  (1885), 
  p. 
  136; 
  

  

  Publ. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  27. 
  

  

  Of 
  inedinm 
  or 
  ratber 
  small 
  size, 
  ferrugiueo-fiiscous, 
  a 
  little 
  ligliter 
  

   beneath. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  dark 
  testaceous, 
  much 
  mottled 
  with 
  

   fuscous 
  or 
  generally 
  infuscated, 
  above 
  almost 
  wholly 
  infuscated, 
  with 
  

   an 
  obscure 
  fuscous 
  postocular 
  band 
  ; 
  vertex 
  somewhat 
  tumid, 
  scarcely 
  

   elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotura, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  half 
  as 
  

   broad 
  again 
  (male) 
  or 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  tirst 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  

   fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  plane, 
  with 
  feebly 
  raised 
  lateral 
  margins; 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  fading 
  before 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  subequal, 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  breadth 
  

   as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  faintly 
  elevated 
  

   throughout 
  and 
  besides 
  that 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  

   ])unctate 
  biseriately 
  above; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large, 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  

   very 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  

   ferruginous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated 
  apically, 
  about 
  four-fifths 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   less 
  than 
  two-thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  

   often 
  heavily 
  ferruginous 
  on 
  the 
  disk, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  postocular 
  

   piceous 
  belt, 
  occasionally 
  subobsolete, 
  either 
  crossing 
  the 
  whole 
  pro- 
  

   notum 
  but 
  generally 
  enfeebled 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  or 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  

   prozona; 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  distinct 
  but 
  everywhere 
  

   distinctly 
  rouncfed 
  shoulder 
  into 
  the 
  at 
  first 
  very 
  steeply 
  declivent 
  

   and 
  afterwards 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct, 
  delicate 
  

   and 
  equal 
  throughout; 
  front 
  margin 
  very 
  feebly 
  convex 
  and 
  often 
  

   faintly 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate, 
  occasion- 
  

   ally 
  rotundato-obtusangulate; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   varying 
  from 
  quadrate 
  to 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal 
  — 
  the 
  latter 
  especially 
  in 
  

   southern 
  examples 
  (female), 
  fully 
  Ifalf 
  (male) 
  or 
  generally 
  about 
  a 
  fourth 
  

   (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  heavily 
  and 
  densely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Pro- 
  

   sternal 
  spine 
  not 
  very 
  long, 
  appressed 
  cylindrical, 
  tapering 
  apically, 
  

   bluntly 
  pointed, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  fully 
  

   twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  about 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  broad 
  ovate, 
  overlapping, 
  roundly 
  subacuminate 
  at 
  

   tip 
  (excepting 
  in 
  extreme 
  southern 
  examples, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  well 
  rounded); 
  

   wings 
  not 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  tegmina. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  

   slightly 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  ferrugineo-testaceous, 
  occa- 
  

   sionally 
  with 
  an 
  olivaceous 
  tinge, 
  feebly 
  bimaculate 
  with 
  fuscous 
  

   above, 
  the 
  spots 
  often 
  extending 
  halfway 
  across 
  the 
  inner 
  face, 
  the 
  

   lower 
  face 
  castaneous, 
  occasionally 
  ruddy, 
  the 
  whole 
  geniculation 
  fus- 
  

   cous 
  and 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  black; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  bright 
  red, 
  sometimes 
  

   feebly 
  infuscated 
  or 
  dulled 
  toward 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  fuscous 
  patellar 
  

  

  