﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  223 
  

  

  47. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  MERIDIONALIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XV, 
  fig. 
  2.) 
  

  

  Fusco-ferruginous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  lutescent 
  beneath. 
  Head 
  not 
  promi- 
  

   nent, 
  fusco-feiTuginous 
  above, 
  elsewhere 
  dark 
  olivaceous, 
  except 
  a 
  

   piceous 
  postocular 
  baud, 
  the 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  

   above 
  the 
  prouotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  rather 
  broad, 
  

   much 
  broader 
  than, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  fully 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as, 
  the 
  first 
  

   antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  rapidly 
  declivent, 
  abruptly 
  broadened 
  in 
  

   front, 
  very 
  shallowly 
  sulcate 
  throughout; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  broad, 
  sub- 
  

   equal, 
  slightly 
  contracted 
  above 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  failing 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  

   rather 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  

   and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  densely 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  of 
  moderate 
  size, 
  mod- 
  

   erately 
  prominent 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  

   the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  ferruginous, 
  slightly 
  infuscated 
  apically, 
  about 
  

   three-fourths 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  two-thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  

   femora. 
  Pronotum 
  fusco-ferruginous 
  above, 
  luteous 
  or 
  olivaceo-luteous 
  

   on 
  the 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  

   brownish 
  fuscous, 
  deepening 
  below 
  into 
  piceous, 
  or 
  wholly 
  dull 
  piceous; 
  

   snbequal, 
  scarcely 
  expanding 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  the 
  disk 
  broadly 
  con- 
  

   vex, 
  passing 
  almost 
  insensibly, 
  but 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  bluntly 
  rounded 
  angle, 
  

   into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  the 
  median 
  carina 
  slight, 
  percurrent, 
  and 
  

   similar 
  throughout; 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  feeble, 
  not 
  cutting 
  the 
  median 
  

   carina; 
  prozona 
  very 
  sparsely 
  and 
  feebly 
  punctate, 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  longitudinally 
  subquadrate 
  (female), 
  one-third 
  (male) 
  or 
  one 
  fourth 
  

   (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  obscurely 
  and 
  finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  

   Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  rather 
  short 
  (female), 
  

   conico-cylindrical, 
  appressed, 
  blunt; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  

   lobes 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  slightly 
  transverse 
  

   (female). 
  Tegmina 
  broad 
  oval, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  apically 
  

   broadly 
  rounded 
  and 
  slightly 
  emarginate, 
  brownish 
  fuscous. 
  Hind 
  

   femora 
  fusco 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  upper 
  carinae 
  often 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  inferior 
  

   basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  often 
  gradually 
  lutescent, 
  the 
  inferior 
  face 
  

   and 
  base 
  of 
  inner 
  face 
  fulvous 
  or 
  roseate, 
  the 
  geniculation, 
  including 
  

   most 
  or 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  genicular 
  lobe, 
  blackish; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  glaucous, 
  

   often 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  diffusely 
  infuscated 
  basally, 
  sometimes 
  lutescent 
  

   apically, 
  clothed 
  with 
  rather 
  long 
  pile, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  with 
  pallid 
  

   base, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  the 
  

   male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  much 
  upturned, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  broad 
  tri- 
  

   angular, 
  with 
  nearly 
  straight, 
  narrowly 
  and 
  slightly 
  raised 
  lateral 
  

   margins, 
  slightly 
  depressed 
  faintly 
  acutangulate 
  tip, 
  and 
  a 
  short, 
  tri- 
  

   angular, 
  rather 
  deeply 
  impressed, 
  basal, 
  median 
  sulcus; 
  furcula 
  con- 
  

   sisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  rather 
  large, 
  thickened, 
  brief, 
  lobate 
  expansions 
  of 
  

   the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment, 
  overlying 
  the 
  bases 
  of 
  the 
  aj^ically 
  convergent 
  

   ridges, 
  which 
  bound 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  

  

  