﻿N0.1124. 
  REriSlON 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDER. 
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  aud 
  geuae; 
  eyes 
  uot 
  very 
  large, 
  moderately 
  (female) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  

   prominent, 
  scarcely 
  longer 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  (female) 
  than 
  the 
  

   intraocular 
  jiortion 
  of 
  the 
  genae: 
  antennae 
  castaneons, 
  apieally 
  fns- 
  

   cescent, 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  (female) 
  two 
  thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  feebly 
  and 
  gradually 
  enlarging 
  

   posteriorly, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  witli 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  postncular 
  band 
  con- 
  

   fined 
  to 
  tlie 
  prozona 
  and 
  sometimes 
  followed 
  beneath 
  by 
  lighter 
  spots, 
  

   the 
  disk 
  piano 
  convex, 
  passing 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  dis- 
  

   tinct 
  but 
  rounded 
  angulatiou 
  forming 
  dull 
  lateral 
  carinae, 
  most 
  distinct 
  

   on 
  the 
  posterior 
  section 
  of 
  the 
  prozona; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  and 
  

   moderately 
  high 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  subobsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  often 
  

   obsolete 
  between 
  the 
  sulci; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtus- 
  

   angulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  in 
  tl.e 
  female; 
  prozona 
  slightly 
  

   longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  considerably 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  not 
  (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  ruguloso 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  

   spine 
  rather 
  short, 
  conical 
  with 
  a 
  blunt 
  point, 
  suberect; 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  sulxjuadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  transverse, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  

   the 
  lobes 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  approximate 
  (male) 
  or 
  distant 
  

   (female). 
  Tegmina 
  somewhat 
  abbreviate, 
  attaining 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  

   of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  overlapi)ing, 
  long 
  lanceolate, 
  very 
  roundly 
  acumi- 
  

   nate 
  at 
  tip, 
  the 
  dorsal 
  field 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  ferrugineo-testaceous, 
  the 
  

   rest 
  blackish 
  griseous, 
  the 
  whole 
  profusely 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  blackish 
  

   fuscous 
  spots; 
  wings 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  tegmina. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  

   femora, 
  and 
  especially 
  the 
  latter, 
  a 
  little 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   testaceous 
  or 
  ferrugineo-testaceous, 
  rather 
  narrowly 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  

   blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  geniculation 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  lightest 
  region 
  of 
  the 
  

   femora 
  being 
  a 
  not 
  very 
  broad, 
  dull 
  flavo 
  testaceous, 
  pregenicular 
  

   annulation, 
  tlie 
  inferior 
  surface 
  and 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  inner 
  surface 
  very 
  

   dark 
  red; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  dark 
  and 
  generally 
  bright 
  red, 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  

   fuscous 
  patellar 
  annulation, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  almost 
  to 
  their 
  very 
  base, 
  

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

   male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  considerably 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  tri- 
  

   angular, 
  the 
  apex 
  acutangulate, 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  or 
  more 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   maigins 
  feebly 
  convex 
  and 
  feebly 
  and 
  broadly 
  elevated, 
  the 
  median 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  three-fifths 
  of 
  the 
  plate 
  broadly 
  elevated 
  and 
  pro- 
  

   vided 
  with 
  a 
  deep 
  and 
  equal 
  median 
  sulcus; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  

   pair 
  of 
  distant, 
  feeble, 
  blunt 
  denticulations, 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  

   last 
  dorsal 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  slender, 
  and 
  tapering 
  rapidly 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  

   fourth 
  or 
  third, 
  mainly 
  by 
  the 
  excision 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  margin, 
  beyond 
  

   subequal, 
  gently 
  incurved 
  aud 
  faintly 
  curved 
  upward, 
  apieally 
  rounded, 
  

   faintly 
  sulcate 
  exteriorly 
  at 
  tip, 
  but 
  failing 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  

   supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  subconical, 
  nearly 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  

   apieally 
  tuberculate. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  20 
  mm,, 
  female, 
  28 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  8 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  9 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  9.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  10 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  11.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  13 
  mm. 
  

  

  