﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCrDDER. 
  247 
  

  

  prozoiia, 
  though 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  excepting 
  between 
  the 
  sulci, 
  it 
  is 
  nearly 
  

   as 
  elevated 
  though 
  not 
  so 
  sharp 
  as 
  on 
  the 
  iiietazona; 
  front 
  margin 
  sub- 
  

   truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  produced, 
  but 
  broadly 
  truncate, 
  with 
  the 
  faintest 
  

   possible 
  indication 
  of 
  emarginatiou; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  lougitudinally 
  subquadrate 
  (female), 
  very 
  faintly 
  and 
  sparsely 
  

   puuctate, 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  closely 
  and 
  sharply 
  jjunctate 
  

   metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long, 
  conical, 
  rather 
  blunt; 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  about 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female.) 
  Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  

   the 
  pronotum, 
  rather 
  distant, 
  obovate, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  

   well 
  rounded 
  apically. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  of 
  male 
  only 
  moderately 
  

   tumid; 
  hind 
  femora 
  testaceous 
  or 
  ferrugineo 
  testaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   confusedly 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  entire 
  geniculation 
  

   blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  inner 
  half 
  of 
  under 
  surface 
  and 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  inner 
  

   surface 
  pale 
  sanguineous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  dark 
  glaucous, 
  almost 
  pur- 
  

   plish, 
  the 
  spines 
  pallid 
  in 
  basal, 
  black 
  in 
  apical 
  half, 
  nine 
  to 
  ten, 
  usually 
  

   nine, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  

   strongly 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular, 
  with 
  subrectaugulate 
  

   apex 
  and 
  feebly 
  and 
  broadly 
  crenate 
  margins, 
  the 
  sharp 
  and 
  low 
  ridges 
  

   bounding 
  the 
  exceptionally 
  shallow 
  and 
  Hat 
  median 
  sulcus 
  forming 
  a 
  

   broad 
  triangle 
  in 
  somewhat 
  less 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  plate, 
  though 
  

   the 
  sulcus 
  continues 
  as 
  a 
  delicate 
  incision 
  and 
  broadens 
  a 
  little 
  at 
  the 
  

   apex; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  only 
  of 
  the 
  rectangulate 
  but 
  projecting 
  inner 
  

   corners 
  of 
  the 
  gradually 
  broadening 
  divided 
  lateral 
  halves 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  

   dorsal 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  broad 
  at 
  base, 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  rapidly 
  and 
  regu- 
  

   larly 
  narrowing 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  beyond 
  subecjual, 
  very 
  slender, 
  hardly 
  

   a 
  fourth 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  at 
  base, 
  incurved, 
  the 
  tip 
  bluntly 
  pointed, 
  the 
  

   whole 
  about 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  basal 
  breadth; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  long 
  

   and 
  narrow, 
  the 
  lateral 
  and 
  ai)ical 
  margins 
  in 
  nearly 
  the 
  same 
  plane, 
  but 
  

   feebly 
  elevated 
  apically, 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above 
  well 
  rounded, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  16.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  20. 
  .5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   7.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  8 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male 
  and 
  female, 
  4 
  mm. 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   male, 
  10.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  12.75 
  mm. 
  

  

  Two 
  males, 
  1 
  female. 
  Los 
  Angeles, 
  California, 
  Coquillett 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  

   IJiley 
  collection). 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  differs 
  from 
  the 
  preceding 
  mainly 
  in 
  coloring 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   larger 
  and 
  bulkier 
  female. 
  

  

  64. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  FUSCIPES, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (I'latf 
  XVI, 
  li<;-. 
  !t.) 
  

   re:ot€tti.f 
  fiiacijn's 
  McNeill 
  I, 
  MS. 
  

  

  Of 
  rather 
  small 
  size, 
  dark 
  ferrugineo 
  fuscous 
  with 
  black 
  markings. 
  

   Head 
  feebly 
  prominent, 
  testaceous, 
  heavily 
  Hecked 
  or 
  sometimes 
  suf- 
  

   fused 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  above 
  dark 
  fuscous 
  mesially, 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  dull 
  

   tiavo 
  testaceous 
  stripe 
  bordering 
  the 
  eye 
  from 
  the 
  broad 
  piceous 
  post- 
  

   ocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  moderately 
  tumid, 
  elevated 
  somewhat 
  above 
  the 
  

  

  