﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISTOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  219 
  

  

  again 
  as 
  the 
  densely 
  and 
  finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosterual 
  spine 
  

   rather 
  short, 
  slightly 
  appressed 
  conical, 
  blunt, 
  erect, 
  rather 
  shorter 
  

   and 
  stouter 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   mesosternal 
  lobes 
  nearly 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  trans- 
  

   verse, 
  but 
  much 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  broad 
  

   rounded-ovate, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  attingent 
  or 
  subattiugeut, 
  

   feebly 
  subangulate 
  at 
  apex, 
  dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  

   femora 
  a 
  little 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  ferrugineo-testaceous, 
  

   sometimes 
  with 
  an 
  olivaceous 
  tinge, 
  often 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated 
  on 
  

   the 
  outer 
  face, 
  especially 
  next 
  the 
  carinae, 
  the 
  geniculation 
  infuscated, 
  

   sometimes 
  almost 
  black; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  rather 
  deep 
  red, 
  often 
  paler 
  next 
  

   the 
  base, 
  with 
  a 
  feeble 
  and 
  narrow 
  fuscous 
  patellar 
  annulus, 
  the 
  spines 
  

   black 
  almost 
  or 
  quite 
  to 
  their 
  base, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  

   series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  very 
  feebly 
  clavate, 
  somewhat 
  

   recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  long 
  subclypeate, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  

   raised 
  and 
  slightly 
  contracted 
  mesially, 
  the 
  apex 
  roundly 
  subrectangu- 
  

   late, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  rather 
  narrow, 
  equal, 
  percurrent, 
  the 
  bounding 
  

   ridges 
  not 
  very 
  high, 
  but 
  moderately 
  sharp; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  

   of 
  approximate, 
  parallel, 
  slight, 
  cylindrical, 
  tapering 
  spines, 
  projecting 
  

   over 
  the 
  snbmedian 
  ridges 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  by 
  no 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  

   length 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  rather 
  long 
  and 
  slender, 
  the 
  

   lower 
  margin 
  nearly 
  straight, 
  tapering 
  in 
  the 
  proximal 
  half 
  to 
  about 
  

   half 
  its 
  basal 
  breadth, 
  thereafter 
  sube(iual, 
  a 
  little 
  incurved 
  and 
  faintly 
  

   twisted, 
  scarcely 
  reaching 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate, 
  well 
  rounded 
  

   at 
  tip; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  pyramidal, 
  a 
  little 
  elongate 
  and 
  at 
  tip 
  sub- 
  

   tuberculate, 
  the 
  margins 
  in 
  one 
  plane, 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above 
  with 
  a 
  para- 
  

   bolic 
  curve, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  15,5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  22 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   6.25 
  mm., 
  female, 
  7.25 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  3.25 
  mm., 
  female, 
  4.25 
  mm.; 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  8.75 
  mm., 
  female, 
  11 
  mm. 
  

  

  Eighty-six 
  males, 
  103 
  females. 
  Speckled 
  Mountain, 
  Stoneham, 
  

   Oxford 
  County, 
  Maine, 
  August 
  15, 
  S. 
  I. 
  Smith; 
  the 
  same, 
  August 
  18, 
  

   A. 
  P. 
  Morse 
  (A. 
  P. 
  Morse; 
  Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology; 
  S. 
  II. 
  Scud- 
  

   der); 
  Mount 
  Sargent, 
  Mount 
  Desert 
  Island, 
  Maine, 
  August; 
  Kearsarge 
  

   Mountain, 
  North 
  Conway, 
  Carroll 
  County, 
  New 
  Hampshire, 
  2,000 
  to 
  

   3,251 
  feet, 
  September 
  4 
  (A. 
  P. 
  Morse). 
  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  repoited 
  by 
  

   McNeill 
  from 
  IJuuning 
  Lake, 
  Illinois. 
  

  

  45. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  CANCRI, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XIV, 
  fig. 
  10.) 
  

  

  Of 
  small 
  size, 
  testaceous. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  uniformly 
  testaceous, 
  

   except 
  in 
  being 
  darker 
  above 
  along 
  the 
  middle 
  line 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  

   with 
  a 
  narrow 
  postocular 
  black 
  stripe; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  scarcely 
  

   elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  hardly 
  

   as 
  wide 
  as 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  half 
  as 
  wide 
  again 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  

   antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  narrowly 
  sulcate, 
  at 
  least 
  

  

  