﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAN()rLI—SCUDDEB. 
  249 
  

  

  conical, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  ending 
  in 
  a 
  slight 
  postmarginal 
  tubercle, 
  

   the 
  margins 
  in 
  one 
  plane, 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  15 
  mm., 
  female, 
  20,5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   C.75 
  mm., 
  female, 
  7.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  3.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  4 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  mm., 
  female, 
  11.25 
  mm. 
  

  

  Six 
  males, 
  4 
  females. 
  California 
  (U.S.X.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collection); 
  San 
  

   Bernardino 
  County, 
  California, 
  ^ray(same); 
  Los 
  Angeles, 
  California, 
  

   Cof|uillett 
  (same); 
  San 
  Diego 
  County, 
  May 
  (U.S.X.M.); 
  between 
  San 
  

   Luis 
  Obispo 
  and 
  San 
  Simeon 
  Bay, 
  California, 
  E. 
  Palmer. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  very 
  close 
  indeed 
  to 
  the 
  preceding, 
  but 
  differs 
  from 
  i«t 
  

   in 
  lacking 
  the 
  lateral 
  carinaeof 
  the 
  pronotumand 
  the 
  angulations 
  rep- 
  

   resenting 
  the 
  furcula, 
  in 
  the 
  possession 
  of 
  an 
  apical 
  tubercle 
  to 
  the 
  

   supraanal 
  plate, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  heavier 
  Havous 
  stripe 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  

   pronotum. 
  

  

  The 
  name, 
  apparently 
  chosen 
  from 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae, 
  is 
  not 
  

   very 
  closely 
  descriptive 
  of 
  them. 
  

  

  65. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  SCITULUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Platte 
  XVI, 
  tig. 
  10.) 
  

  

  Of 
  small 
  size, 
  brownish 
  fuscous. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  olivaceo- 
  

   fuscous, 
  above 
  much 
  infuscated, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  postocalar 
  band; 
  

   vertex 
  very 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  feebly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   S|)ace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  scarcely 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  

   broad 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  anteuual 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  moderately 
  decliv- 
  

   ent, 
  feebly 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  almost 
  or 
  quite 
  percurrent, 
  equal, 
  

   about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (male) 
  or 
  slightly 
  narrower 
  than 
  (female) 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   sj^ace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus 
  (male), 
  

   or 
  distinctly 
  sulcate 
  almost 
  throughout 
  (female), 
  feebly 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  

   rather 
  large, 
  only 
  moderately 
  prominent 
  even 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  considerably 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  luteo-testa- 
  

   ceous, 
  slightly 
  infuscated 
  apically, 
  about 
  three-fifths 
  (male) 
  or 
  but 
  

   little 
  more 
  than 
  one-half 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  Prono- 
  

   tum 
  very 
  gently 
  enlarging 
  from 
  in 
  front 
  backward, 
  varying 
  from 
  testa- 
  

   ceo-fuscous 
  to 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  always 
  with 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  ferruginous, 
  

   luteo-testaceous 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  

   piceous, 
  postocular 
  band 
  cither 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  prozona 
  or 
  extending 
  

   obscurely 
  and 
  more 
  widely 
  upon 
  tlie 
  metazona, 
  the 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  

   passing 
  by 
  an 
  abruptly 
  rounded 
  shoulder 
  into 
  the 
  interiorly 
  vertical 
  

   lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  equally 
  distinct 
  and 
  sharp 
  throughout; 
  

   front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  very 
  broadly 
  rouuded, 
  subtruncate; 
  

   prozona 
  sparsely 
  and 
  shallowly 
  punctate, 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal, 
  much 
  

   more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  sharply 
  and 
  closely 
  punctate 
  meta- 
  

   zona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  aj)pressed 
  subconical, 
  not 
  very 
  long, 
  trans- 
  

   versely 
  and 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  apically: 
  iiitersi)ace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  

   lobes 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  transverse, 
  but 
  much 
  nar- 
  

   rower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  somewhat 
  shorter 
  

  

  