﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDEB. 
  239 
  

  

  on 
  the 
  upper 
  face, 
  the 
  lower 
  face 
  pale 
  red, 
  the 
  geniculatioii 
  hardly 
  

   infuvscated; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  pale 
  testaceous 
  with 
  a 
  faint 
  <ireenish 
  tinge, 
  

   especially 
  upon 
  the 
  upper 
  half, 
  often 
  minutely 
  flecked 
  witli 
  fuscons, 
  the 
  

   spines 
  pallid 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  black 
  at 
  tip, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  

   the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  considerably 
  

   recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  or 
  subhastate 
  with 
  acutangu- 
  

   late 
  apex, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  broadly 
  and 
  gently 
  elevated 
  on 
  the 
  

   basal 
  half, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  i^ercurrent, 
  deep 
  basally 
  and 
  gradually 
  

   shallowing; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  parallel, 
  approximate, 
  slen- 
  

   der, 
  acuminate 
  spines, 
  less 
  than 
  one-fourth 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  

   plate; 
  cerci 
  small, 
  slender, 
  tapering 
  gently 
  on 
  basal 
  third, 
  beyond 
  

   equal, 
  nearly 
  straight 
  but 
  feebly 
  incurved, 
  well 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip, 
  much 
  

   shorter 
  than 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  small, 
  subequal, 
  

   a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  the 
  lateral 
  and 
  apical 
  margins 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   plane, 
  angulate 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  14 
  mm., 
  female, 
  18 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  7 
  mm., 
  

   female, 
  4.75 
  mm.; 
  tegmiiia, 
  male, 
  4.25 
  mm., 
  female, 
  4.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  fem- 
  

   ora, 
  male, 
  9 
  mm,, 
  female, 
  10 
  mm. 
  

  

  Three 
  males, 
  1 
  female. 
  Los 
  Angeles, 
  California, 
  Coquillett 
  (U.S.X.M. 
  — 
  

   Riley 
  collection; 
  L, 
  Biuner). 
  

  

  58. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  GENICULATUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XVI, 
  fig. 
  3.) 
  

  

  Of 
  every 
  small 
  size, 
  fusco-testaceous, 
  the 
  legs 
  and 
  under 
  surface 
  

   flavous. 
  Head 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  flavous. 
  more 
  

   or 
  less 
  feebly 
  punctate 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  above 
  with 
  a 
  i)air 
  of 
  divergent 
  

   obscure 
  fuscous 
  stripes; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  above 
  

   the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  scarcely 
  (male) 
  or 
  only 
  

   (female) 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  

   rather 
  deeply 
  sulcate, 
  broadening 
  anteriorly 
  to 
  double 
  the 
  basal 
  width; 
  

   face 
  considerably 
  oblique, 
  the 
  frontal 
  costafading 
  just 
  before 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  

   equal 
  excei)t 
  for 
  a 
  slight 
  contraction 
  above, 
  a 
  little 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  distinctly 
  sulcate 
  throughout 
  excepting 
  

   above, 
  feebly 
  and 
  biseriately 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  prominent, 
  much 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  rufo-testace- 
  

   ous, 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  

   (female) 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  subeciual 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  flar- 
  

   ing 
  a 
  little 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  with 
  no 
  piceous 
  postocular 
  band, 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  lobes 
  short 
  and 
  nearly 
  unicolorous, 
  the 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex 
  and 
  

   passing 
  insensibly 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  faint 
  

   and 
  slight 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  obsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  

   male; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate 
  or 
  subtruncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  truncate 
  and 
  

   very 
  feebly 
  and 
  broadly 
  emarginate; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  punctate 
  and 
  

   transversely 
  rugose, 
  at 
  least 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  subquadrate, 
  almost 
  twice 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  the 
  densely 
  and 
  rather 
  heavily 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  

   spine 
  of 
  moderate 
  size, 
  erect, 
  strongly 
  appressed 
  conical; 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  niesosternal 
  lobes 
  quadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  transverse 
  but 
  much 
  

  

  