﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REriSION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  229 
  

  

  apically 
  in 
  that 
  to 
  which 
  the 
  name 
  M. 
  d. 
  completns 
  may 
  be 
  given. 
  The 
  

   hitter 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  rarer 
  and 
  has 
  so 
  far 
  been 
  found 
  only 
  in 
  Dakota 
  

   and 
  at 
  Eed 
  River, 
  Manitoba. 
  We 
  owe 
  its 
  discovery 
  to 
  Professor 
  

   Biuuer. 
  

  

  51. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  GLADSTONI, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plates 
  I, 
  fig. 
  h; 
  XV, 
  fig. 
  6.) 
  

   Melanoplus 
  gladstoni 
  Bruner!, 
  MS. 
  

  

  Very 
  dark 
  testaceous, 
  much 
  infuscated, 
  especially 
  above. 
  Head 
  not 
  

   prominent, 
  luteo-castaueous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  clouded 
  or 
  blotched 
  with 
  

   fuscous, 
  above 
  wholly 
  fuscous, 
  with 
  a 
  narrow, 
  posteriorly 
  broadening, 
  

   testaceous 
  stripe, 
  following 
  the 
  posterior 
  upper 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  eye 
  and 
  

   separating 
  the 
  vertex 
  from 
  a 
  piceous 
  or 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  postocular 
  

   band; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  very 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  

   the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  rather 
  broad, 
  nearly 
  (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  

   (female) 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  basal 
  antenna! 
  Joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  

   declivent, 
  broadl}'^ 
  sulcate 
  throughout; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  

   as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  equal, 
  percurrent 
  or 
  almost 
  

   percurrent, 
  punctate 
  especially 
  laterally, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  

   the 
  ocellus; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large, 
  not 
  very 
  prominent, 
  anteriorly 
  sub- 
  

   trnncate, 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  

   untcnnae 
  luteo-ferruginous, 
  gradually 
  and 
  slightly 
  infuscated 
  apically, 
  

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

   femora. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  feebly 
  enlarging 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  ferru- 
  

   gineo-testaceous, 
  much 
  infuscated 
  on 
  the 
  disk, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  

   broad, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct, 
  dark, 
  sometimes 
  piceous 
  band 
  crossiiig 
  the 
  

   ]U'ozona 
  above; 
  disk 
  nearly 
  plane, 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  tolerably 
  distinct 
  but 
  

   rounded 
  angle 
  into 
  the 
  anteriorly 
  slightly 
  tumid 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  

   median 
  carina 
  slight, 
  percurrent, 
  somewhat 
  feebler 
  and 
  blunter 
  on 
  the 
  

   ])n)zona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  front 
  margin 
  subtruncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  

   obtusangulate; 
  prozona 
  quadrate, 
  sometimes 
  feebly 
  longitudinal 
  in 
  the 
  

   mule, 
  scarcely 
  if 
  any 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  closely 
  but 
  feebly 
  punctate 
  meta- 
  

   zona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  rather 
  stout, 
  moderately 
  long, 
  appressed 
  conical, 
  

   blunt, 
  feebly 
  retrorse; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  fully 
  half 
  

   as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  slightly 
  transverse 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  

   reaching 
  and 
  sometimes 
  a 
  little 
  surpassing 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   moderately 
  slender, 
  distinctly 
  tapering, 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  distinctly 
  

   but 
  not 
  conspicuously 
  maculate 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area; 
  wings 
  hyaline, 
  

   with 
  mostly 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  veins. 
  Fore 
  femora 
  of 
  male 
  not 
  greatly 
  

   tumid; 
  hind 
  femora 
  flavo-testaceous, 
  twice 
  broadly 
  and 
  very 
  obliquely 
  

   banded 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  with 
  a 
  basal 
  patch 
  of 
  the 
  same, 
  all 
  some- 
  

   times 
  continent 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  face, 
  which 
  it 
  then 
  nearly 
  fills, 
  the 
  lower 
  

   face 
  and 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  inner 
  face 
  immaculate, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  black; 
  

   liintl 
  tibiae 
  faintly 
  valgate, 
  red 
  with 
  an 
  inconspicuous 
  fuscous 
  patellar 
  

   spot, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  except 
  their 
  pallid 
  bases, 
  ten 
  to 
  twelve, 
  usually 
  

   eleven, 
  in 
  luimber 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  

  

  