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  24. 
  REVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDEIi. 
  251 
  

  

  66. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  FLABELLATUS. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XVII, 
  tig. 
  1.) 
  

  

  Pvzotettix 
  ftaleUatus 
  ScuddekI. 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XX 
  (1879), 
  pj). 
  82-83; 
  

   Cent. 
  Orth. 
  (1879), 
  pp. 
  71-72.— 
  Briner, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eiit. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  

   p. 
  59. 
  

  

  Somewhat 
  above 
  the 
  medium 
  size. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent 
  ; 
  vertex 
  feebly 
  

   tumid, 
  barely 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  prouotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  

   eyes 
  slightly 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  (female) 
  

   the 
  first 
  autennal 
  joint; 
  fastigiam 
  rather 
  steej)ly 
  decliveut, 
  shallow, 
  

   broad, 
  subspatulate, 
  with 
  distinct 
  but 
  low 
  and 
  coarse 
  bounding 
  walls; 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  broad, 
  equal, 
  rather 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  

   (female) 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  tiat 
  throughout 
  or 
  laintly 
  suL 
  

   cate 
  down 
  the 
  middle 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  biseriately 
  punctate 
  above; 
  

   eyes 
  nu)derately 
  large, 
  moderately 
  prominent, 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   iufraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  geuae; 
  antennae 
  nearly 
  four-fifths 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  four-sevenths 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Prouotum 
  very 
  

   simple, 
  enlarging 
  backward 
  uniformly 
  but 
  slightly, 
  and 
  less 
  so 
  in 
  the 
  

   male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  gently 
  

   angulato-arcuate; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct, 
  slight, 
  equal, 
  percurreut; 
  

   lateral 
  carinae 
  scarcely 
  indicated 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  wholly 
  obsolete; 
  

   whole 
  disk 
  gently 
  punctate, 
  the 
  prozona 
  more 
  sparsely 
  than 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona; 
  prozoua 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  or 
  feebly 
  lou- 
  

   gitudiiuil 
  (female), 
  fully 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  (fenmle) 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  

   the 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long, 
  apj)ressed 
  conical, 
  

   blunt, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  fully 
  half 
  as 
  long- 
  

   again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  transverse 
  but 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female). 
  

   Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  prouotum, 
  rounded 
  ovate, 
  

   half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad, 
  the 
  apex 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  produced, 
  slightly 
  over- 
  

   lapping 
  at 
  their 
  inner 
  margins. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  a 
  little 
  

   clavate, 
  somewhat 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular, 
  of 
  about 
  

   equal 
  length 
  and 
  breadth, 
  the 
  apex 
  bluntly 
  pointed, 
  the 
  sides 
  very 
  

   nearly 
  straight, 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  transverse 
  median 
  ridge 
  not 
  reaching 
  the 
  

   sides; 
  furcula 
  formed 
  of 
  two 
  rather 
  distant, 
  nearly 
  straight, 
  subconical 
  

   processes, 
  scarcely 
  reaching 
  the 
  transverse 
  ridge; 
  cerci 
  simi)le, 
  (ionical, 
  

   scarcely 
  curved, 
  tapering 
  more 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  than 
  the 
  apical 
  half, 
  about 
  

   half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  broader 
  than 
  

   long, 
  the 
  lateral 
  and 
  apical 
  margins 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  plane, 
  well 
  rounded 
  or 
  

   feebly 
  angulate 
  apically, 
  entire, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  incurved 
  basally. 
  

  

  The 
  general 
  color 
  above 
  is 
  either 
  a 
  very 
  pale 
  brownish 
  yellow 
  or 
  a 
  

   brownish 
  griseous; 
  below 
  dirty 
  yellow 
  with 
  a 
  greenish 
  tinge; 
  antennae 
  

   fulvous, 
  lutescent 
  basally, 
  darker 
  apically; 
  a 
  broad 
  blackish 
  fuliginous 
  

   belt 
  runs 
  from 
  behiiul 
  the 
  eye 
  across 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  prouotum, 
  

   generally 
  broadening 
  slightly 
  and 
  fading 
  a 
  little 
  on 
  the 
  metazona. 
  The 
  

   pleura 
  are 
  marked 
  as 
  in 
  .1/. 
  texainis 
  and 
  the 
  tegmina 
  areunicolorous 
  and 
  

   of 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  prouotum. 
  The 
  hind 
  femora 
  partake 
  of 
  

  

  