﻿2r)2 
  PliOCEEDIXGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  XATIOXAL 
  MFSEVM. 
  

  

  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  and 
  have 
  faint 
  fuscous 
  indi- 
  

   cations 
  of 
  bifasciation 
  above; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  glaucous, 
  but 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  yel 
  

   lowish 
  with 
  a 
  glaucous 
  or 
  fusco-glaucous 
  annulation; 
  spines 
  hlaek 
  with 
  

   a 
  pallid 
  base, 
  usually 
  eleven 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  The 
  upper 
  

   surface 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  are 
  uniform 
  in 
  tint, 
  the 
  sides 
  unmarked 
  

   by 
  any 
  black 
  band. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19 
  mm., 
  lemale, 
  27 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  T.T.j 
  

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

   male, 
  10.25 
  mm., 
  female, 
  14 
  mm. 
  

  

  Ten 
  males, 
  21 
  females. 
  Texas, 
  Belfrage 
  (U.S.N.M.— 
  Eiley 
  collec- 
  

   tion); 
  Dallas, 
  Texas, 
  Boll 
  (same; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder). 
  

  

  In 
  general 
  appearance 
  and 
  in 
  most 
  points 
  of 
  its 
  structure 
  this 
  species 
  

   resembles 
  M. 
  discolor. 
  It 
  may 
  at 
  once 
  be 
  distinguished 
  from 
  it 
  by 
  the 
  

   shape 
  of 
  the 
  tegmina 
  and 
  the 
  male 
  cerci 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  

   tibiae. 
  

  

  67. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  PUER. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XVII, 
  fig. 
  2.) 
  

  

  rezotettlx 
  inter 
  Scudder! 
  (pars), 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  87; 
  

   (pars), 
  Entom. 
  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  28.— 
  Bruner, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  

   (1883), 
  p. 
  ^^^. 
  

  

  Brownish 
  fuscous 
  with 
  a 
  ferruginous 
  tinge. 
  Head 
  feebly 
  prominent, 
  

   yellowish 
  brown, 
  heavily 
  mottled 
  with 
  dusky 
  brown 
  in 
  small 
  spots, 
  

   often 
  deepening 
  (especially 
  above) 
  to 
  blackish 
  brown; 
  vertex 
  feebly 
  

   tumid, 
  elevated 
  but 
  slightly 
  above 
  the 
  pronotura, 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes 
  narrow, 
  not 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  (female) 
  broader 
  than 
  

   the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint 
  ; 
  fastigium 
  very 
  steeply 
  decli 
  vent, 
  deeply 
  sulcate 
  

   throughout; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  narrow, 
  scarcely 
  wider 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  equal, 
  percurrent, 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus; 
  

   eyes 
  large 
  and 
  prominent, 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  as 
  high 
  as 
  the 
  vertex, 
  much 
  

   larger 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  castaneous, 
  

   gradually 
  infuscated 
  apically, 
  nearly 
  three 
  fourths 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  

   two-thiids 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  tlie 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotura 
  brownisli 
  

   yellow, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated 
  above, 
  regularly 
  expanding 
  posteriorly, 
  

   very 
  slightly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  noticeably 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  the 
  disk 
  feebly 
  

   convex 
  transversely 
  and 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  tolerably 
  distinct 
  but 
  smoothed 
  

   angle 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  wliich 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  are 
  marked 
  

   with 
  an 
  exceptionally 
  large 
  piceous 
  spot 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   l)rozona, 
  especially 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  section 
  — 
  a 
  mark 
  which 
  is 
  <ndy 
  indi- 
  

   cated 
  in 
  tlie 
  female 
  in 
  dull 
  fuscous 
  and 
  is 
  much 
  broken 
  or 
  subobsolete: 
  

   median 
  carina 
  equally 
  distinct 
  throughout; 
  front 
  and 
  hind 
  margins 
  

   truncate, 
  the 
  latter 
  distinctly 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  middle; 
  prozona 
  longi- 
  

   tudinal, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  more 
  finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  

   Prosternal 
  spine 
  rather 
  short, 
  erect, 
  lobate, 
  very 
  strongly 
  appressed, 
  

   well 
  rounded, 
  the 
  posterior 
  face 
  flat; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  

   lobes 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  the 
  

   metasternal 
  lobes 
  subattingent 
  (male) 
  or 
  a})i)roximate 
  (female). 
  Teg 
  

  

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