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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIOyAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  longitudinal, 
  feebly 
  convex 
  antero-posteriorly, 
  fully 
  a 
  half 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   about 
  a 
  third 
  (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  closely 
  and 
  finely 
  ijunctate 
  

   metazoua. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  rather 
  stout, 
  conical, 
  a 
  little 
  blunter 
  in 
  the 
  

   female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  longi- 
  

   tudinally 
  sub(iuadrate 
  or 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  trans- 
  

   versely 
  subcjuadrate 
  or 
  feebly 
  transverse 
  (female). 
  Pleura 
  marked 
  as 
  

   in 
  .1/. 
  pacificnH. 
  Tegmina 
  a 
  little 
  or 
  considerably 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  prono- 
  

   tum, 
  broad 
  or 
  very 
  broad 
  oval, 
  attingent 
  or 
  subattingent, 
  well 
  rounded 
  

   apically, 
  usually 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  but 
  sometimes 
  little 
  longer 
  

   than 
  broad, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  brownish 
  fuscous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  mid- 
  

   dle 
  femora 
  very 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  ferrugiueo-fuscous, 
  

   very 
  obliquely 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  proximal 
  fasciation 
  

   usually 
  narrow, 
  the 
  distal 
  broad, 
  sometimes 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  suffused 
  on 
  

   the 
  outer 
  face, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  black, 
  the 
  lower 
  surface 
  sanguineous, 
  

   though 
  the 
  outer 
  half 
  is 
  sometimes 
  flavous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  dark 
  

   bluish 
  purple, 
  sometimes 
  dull 
  dark 
  glaucous 
  and 
  then 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  

   subbasal, 
  pallid 
  annulation, 
  the 
  spines 
  long, 
  pallid 
  at 
  base, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   half 
  or 
  more 
  black, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven, 
  rarely 
  nine, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  

   series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  strongly 
  recurved, 
  tbe 
  

   supraanal 
  plate 
  precisely 
  as 
  in 
  M.paviJicKs; 
  furcula 
  as 
  there, 
  but 
  slightly 
  

   more 
  i)rominent; 
  cerci 
  broad, 
  somewhat 
  rounded 
  and 
  tumid 
  at 
  base, 
  

   in 
  the 
  middle 
  third 
  tapering 
  rapidly, 
  the 
  apical 
  third 
  subequal, 
  very 
  

   slender, 
  incurved 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  arcuate 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  the 
  side, 
  the 
  tip 
  

   bluntly 
  pointed 
  and 
  almost 
  attaining 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  j)late, 
  

   scarcely 
  differing 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  parts 
  in 
  21. 
  pacijicus', 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  

   as 
  there, 
  but 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  rather 
  angulate 
  than 
  rounded 
  at 
  base. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19 
  mm., 
  female, 
  24.5; 
  antenime, 
  male, 
  6.75 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  8 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  4.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  13 
  mm., 
  female, 
  14 
  mm. 
  

  

  Eight 
  males, 
  12 
  females. 
  California, 
  Ricksecker 
  (S. 
  Henshaw); 
  Cali- 
  

   fornia, 
  Behrens 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Kiley 
  collection); 
  Sonoma 
  and 
  Marin 
  coun- 
  

   ties, 
  California, 
  Baron 
  Osten 
  Sacken; 
  Sauzalito, 
  Marin 
  County, 
  Cali- 
  

   fornia, 
  July 
  20, 
  September, 
  Behrens; 
  Santa 
  Cruz 
  Mountains, 
  California 
  

   (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Iviley 
  collection); 
  Los 
  Angeles, 
  California, 
  Coquillett 
  (L. 
  

   Bruner) 
  ; 
  between 
  San 
  Luis 
  Obispo 
  and 
  San 
  Simeon 
  Bay, 
  California, 
  

   E. 
  Palmer. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  reported 
  from 
  Washington, 
  Montana, 
  Idaho, 
  and 
  

   Wyoming 
  by 
  Bruner. 
  

  

  62. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  TENUIPENNIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XVI, 
  fig. 
  7.) 
  

   Pezotetiix 
  tenuipennis 
  McNeill!, 
  MS. 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  or 
  rather 
  above 
  the 
  medium 
  size, 
  the 
  female 
  robust, 
  rather 
  

   dark 
  testaceous. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  testaceous, 
  feebly 
  and 
  sparsely 
  

   punctate 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  above 
  sometimes 
  faintly 
  infuscated 
  especially 
  

   along 
  the 
  middle, 
  and 
  with 
  faint 
  and 
  narrow 
  or 
  no 
  postocular 
  band; 
  

  

  