﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  221 
  

  

  The 
  prozona 
  is 
  quadrate 
  or 
  subquadrate 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  in 
  some 
  

   brachypterous 
  forms 
  longitudinal. 
  The 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  meso- 
  

   sternal 
  lobes 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  sex 
  is 
  always 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  and 
  sometimes 
  

   more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad. 
  The 
  tegmina 
  are 
  either 
  fully 
  devel 
  

   oped 
  or 
  slightly 
  abbreviate 
  so 
  as 
  not 
  to 
  surpass 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  or 
  

   else 
  they 
  are 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  and 
  then 
  apically 
  rounded 
  or 
  

   very 
  bluntly 
  subaeumiuate, 
  generally 
  slightly 
  maculate. 
  The 
  hind 
  

   tibiae 
  vary 
  in 
  color, 
  and 
  have 
  from 
  nine 
  to 
  thirteen 
  spines 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  

   series. 
  

  

  The 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  is 
  generally 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  femur-rubrum 
  

   series, 
  but 
  the 
  apical 
  third 
  or 
  more 
  is 
  frequently 
  depressed. 
  The 
  fur- 
  

   cula 
  is 
  very 
  variable, 
  being 
  either 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  devastator 
  series, 
  but 
  gen- 
  

   erally 
  rather 
  shorter, 
  or 
  reduced 
  to 
  distant 
  slight 
  dentations 
  or 
  to 
  

   rounded 
  x»i^rtially 
  projecting 
  lobes. 
  The 
  cerci 
  are 
  generally 
  symmetric- 
  

   ally 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip 
  and 
  otherwise 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  femur-rubrum 
  series, 
  or 
  

   with 
  very 
  slight 
  ditterence 
  in 
  breadth 
  basally 
  and 
  apically, 
  usually 
  

   rather 
  short, 
  and 
  in 
  one 
  instance 
  bent 
  abruptly 
  inward 
  at 
  less 
  than 
  a 
  

   right 
  angle. 
  The 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  is 
  usually 
  broad 
  throughont, 
  the 
  

   apical 
  margin 
  well 
  rounded 
  and 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  bnt 
  not 
  emarginate? 
  

   but 
  sometimes 
  it 
  is 
  rather 
  narrow 
  throughout 
  and 
  not 
  apically 
  elevated. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  of 
  this 
  group, 
  seven 
  in 
  number, 
  are 
  divided 
  unequally 
  

   between 
  macropterous 
  and 
  brachypterous 
  forms, 
  one 
  species, 
  being 
  di- 
  

   morphic, 
  four 
  others 
  brachypterous, 
  and 
  two 
  macropterous. 
  They 
  

   occur 
  almost 
  wholly 
  in 
  the 
  great 
  interior 
  region 
  between 
  the 
  Mississii)pi 
  

   Eiver 
  and 
  the 
  Rocky 
  Mountains, 
  and 
  extend 
  from 
  Alberta 
  and 
  Assiui- 
  

   boia 
  to 
  central 
  Mexico. 
  No 
  species 
  are 
  known 
  from 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Coast 
  

   and 
  only 
  one 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  in 
  Georgia 
  and 
  North 
  Carolina. 
  

  

  46. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  REFLEXUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XV, 
  fig. 
  1.) 
  • 
  

  

  Dull 
  ferruginous 
  brown, 
  lutescent 
  below 
  and 
  on 
  abdomen. 
  Head 
  

   luteo-testaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  marmorate 
  with 
  light 
  fuscous, 
  fusco-ferrug- 
  

   inous 
  above, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  postocular 
  piceous 
  patch 
  ; 
  vertex 
  very 
  gently 
  

   tumid, 
  not 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  

   eyes 
  rather 
  broad, 
  much 
  broader 
  than, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as, 
  

   the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  rather 
  rapidly 
  declivent, 
  very 
  feebly 
  

   and 
  broadly 
  sulcate 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  nearly 
  plane 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   broad, 
  failing 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  slightly 
  contracted 
  above, 
  at 
  least 
  

   in 
  the 
  male, 
  almost 
  (female) 
  or 
  fully 
  (male) 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  and 
  narrowly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocel- 
  

   lus, 
  punctate 
  throughout 
  but 
  nowhere 
  seriately 
  ; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large, 
  

   not 
  prominent, 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  

   antennae 
  ferruginous, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  less 
  than 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  short, 
  subequal, 
  very 
  faintly 
  and 
  uniformly 
  

   enlarging 
  i)osteriorly, 
  rather 
  full 
  than 
  contracted 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  very 
  

  

  