﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCVDDER. 
  233 
  

  

  a 
  little 
  louger 
  than 
  the 
  rather 
  feebly 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  

   si)iue 
  short, 
  trans 
  v^erse, 
  apically 
  subtruucate; 
  interspace 
  between 
  meso- 
  

   sternal 
  lobes 
  a 
  little 
  transverse, 
  much 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes, 
  alike 
  in 
  

   both 
  sexes, 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  subattingent 
  (male) 
  or 
  rather 
  distant 
  

   (female). 
  Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  attin- 
  

   gent, 
  ovato-fusiform, 
  broader 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  apically 
  

   acuminate, 
  blackish 
  ferruginous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  considerably 
  

   tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  very 
  dull 
  brownish 
  testaceous, 
  heavily 
  

   bifasciate 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  premedian 
  fasciation 
  angulate 
  on 
  

   the 
  outer 
  face, 
  the 
  whole 
  geniculation, 
  except 
  sometimes 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  

   lower 
  genicular 
  lobe 
  blackish, 
  the 
  inferior 
  face 
  dull 
  tlavous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   red, 
  the 
  extreme 
  base 
  and 
  a 
  subbasal 
  annulatioii 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  spines 
  

   bhick 
  almost 
  to 
  their 
  very 
  base, 
  ten 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

   Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  distinctly 
  clavate, 
  considerably 
  recurv'ed, 
  

   the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  with 
  slightly 
  convex, 
  basally-raised 
  

   lateral 
  margins, 
  acutangulate 
  apex 
  and 
  moderately 
  broad 
  and 
  deep 
  

   eijual 
  median 
  sulcus 
  extending 
  over 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  

   the 
  plate, 
  its 
  bounding 
  ridges 
  sharp 
  and 
  moderately 
  high; 
  furcula 
  con- 
  

   sisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  approximate, 
  slight 
  but 
  rather 
  coarse, 
  parallel 
  

   deiiticulations, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  rather 
  small, 
  

   subfalcate, 
  being 
  slightly 
  curved 
  upward 
  but 
  not 
  incurved, 
  tapering 
  

   somewhat 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  beyond 
  equal 
  and 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  

   extreme 
  base, 
  the 
  tip 
  well 
  rounded, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  

   subgenital 
  plate 
  small, 
  subconical, 
  apically 
  subtuberculate, 
  moderately 
  

   narrow, 
  subequal, 
  the 
  margin 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above 
  well 
  rounded, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19 
  mm., 
  female, 
  26 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  

   tegmina, 
  male, 
  5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  5.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  9*5 
  mm., 
  

   female, 
  11.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Three 
  males, 
  2 
  females. 
  Montana 
  (L. 
  Bruner; 
  U.S.X.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  col- 
  

   lection). 
  

  

  I 
  formerly 
  ^ 
  gave 
  Thomas's 
  name 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  to 
  .1/. 
  monticola, 
  q. 
  v. 
  

  

  54. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  WASHINGTONIANUS. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XV, 
  fig. 
  9.) 
  

  

  PezoMtix 
  wash'nu/ton'uinus 
  Bruner!, 
  Cau. 
  Eiit., 
  XVII, 
  1885, 
  pp. 
  14-15. 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  size, 
  rather 
  stout-bodied, 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  tinged 
  with 
  

   ferruginous, 
  tiavo 
  testaceous 
  beneath. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  fusco- 
  

   testaceous 
  with 
  a 
  feeble 
  olivaceous 
  tinge, 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  above, 
  some- 
  

   times 
  blotched 
  with 
  testaceous, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  postocular 
  piceous 
  band; 
  

   vt 
  rtex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  ieebly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  tbe 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  nearly 
  (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  (female) 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  

   as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fasfigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  dee})ly 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   moderately 
  (female) 
  and 
  broadly 
  sulcate; 
  fiontal 
  costa 
  failing 
  to 
  reach 
  

   the 
  clyi>eus, 
  subei^ual 
  but 
  slightly 
  contracted 
  above, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  'Appaliichia, 
  1, 
  263. 
  

  

  