﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISIOy 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELASOPLI—SCrDDEB. 
  217 
  

  

  43. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  ARTEMISIAE, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  Xn% 
  lig. 
  8.) 
  

  

  Pezofelfix 
  artemisiae 
  Bruxek!, 
  MS. 
  

   PezotetUx 
  parahilis 
  McNeill!, 
  MS. 
  

  

  Of 
  rather 
  small 
  size, 
  cinereo-fuscons. 
  Head 
  ratber 
  prominent, 
  dull 
  

   testaceous, 
  heavily 
  blotched 
  with 
  fuscous 
  if 
  not 
  wholly 
  infuscated, 
  

   deepest 
  ou 
  the 
  elevated 
  portions, 
  above 
  cinereo-testaceous, 
  heavily 
  

   flecked 
  with 
  fuscous 
  in 
  stripes 
  radiating 
  from 
  the 
  fastigium 
  and 
  in 
  a 
  

   postocular 
  baud; 
  vertex 
  somewhat 
  tumid, 
  distinctly 
  elevated 
  above 
  

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

   as 
  wide 
  again 
  (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  twice 
  as 
  wide 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  anten- 
  

   nal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  rather 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  per- 
  

   curreut, 
  equal 
  or 
  faintly 
  enlarging 
  below, 
  nearly 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  very 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  below 
  

   the 
  ocellus, 
  punctate 
  above; 
  eyes 
  not 
  very 
  large 
  but 
  prominent, 
  espe- 
  

   cially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  distinctly 
  larger 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   genae; 
  antennae 
  testaceous, 
  five-sixths 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  three-fifths 
  

   (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  rather 
  short, 
  subequal, 
  

   feebly 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  feeble 
  fuscous 
  

   postocular 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  i^rozona, 
  the 
  disk 
  frequently 
  punctate 
  with 
  

   fuscous, 
  very 
  broadly 
  convex 
  and 
  i^assing 
  by 
  a 
  rounded 
  shoulder, 
  

   feebly 
  angulated 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  into 
  the 
  anteriorly 
  feebly 
  tumid 
  

   subvertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  percurrent, 
  but 
  blunt 
  on 
  the 
  

   prozona, 
  especially 
  between 
  the 
  sulci 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  often 
  subobsolete; 
  

   front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  rotundato-obtusangijilate, 
  slightly 
  

   more 
  angulate 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  prozona 
  transversely 
  

   subquadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  about 
  a 
  fifth 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  densely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  rather 
  

   short, 
  erect, 
  conico-pyramidal, 
  subappressed 
  ; 
  interspace 
  between 
  meso- 
  

   sternal 
  lobes 
  truncato-cuneiform, 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   distinctly 
  transverse, 
  not 
  much 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female). 
  Teg- 
  

   mina 
  broad-ovate, 
  broader 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  scarcely 
  

   shorter 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  attingent, 
  the 
  apex 
  angulate. 
  Fore 
  and 
  

   middle 
  femora 
  very 
  feebly 
  enlarged 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  long 
  and 
  

   slender, 
  sordid 
  tiavo-testaceous, 
  twice 
  rather 
  narrowly 
  demi-cingulate 
  

   with 
  fuscous 
  above 
  and 
  touched 
  with 
  fuscous 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  genicnhir 
  

   arc 
  fuscous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  pale 
  and 
  very 
  dull 
  glaucous, 
  with 
  a 
  fuscous 
  

   patellar 
  spot, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven, 
  rarely 
  

   nine, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  

   barely 
  clavate, 
  scarcely 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  with 
  

   straight 
  or 
  nearly 
  straight 
  sides, 
  acutangulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  surface 
  nearly 
  

   plane, 
  rising 
  mesially 
  and 
  basally 
  into 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  high, 
  sharp, 
  feebly 
  

   convergent 
  ridges, 
  inclosing 
  a 
  very 
  deep 
  and 
  tapering 
  median 
  sulcus 
  

   Avhich 
  covers 
  two 
  thirds 
  of 
  the 
  plate; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  

   distant 
  minute 
  denticulations 
  overlying 
  the 
  submedian 
  ridges 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  