﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEJ'ISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLl—SCl'DDKR. 
  253 
  

  

  mina 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  minutely 
  flecked 
  witli 
  fuscous 
  iu 
  the 
  interstices 
  

   of 
  the 
  crowded 
  veins, 
  obovate, 
  well 
  rounded, 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  

   lateral, 
  widely 
  separated, 
  hardly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  prozona. 
  Legs 
  vari- 
  

   able 
  iu 
  color 
  but 
  generally 
  dull 
  yellowish 
  brown, 
  the 
  hiud 
  femora 
  

   generally 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  fuscous 
  above 
  besides 
  the 
  black 
  geniculation; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  at 
  tip 
  dull 
  yellow 
  mottled 
  with 
  brown, 
  the 
  rest 
  

   purplish 
  glancous, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  beyond 
  the 
  base, 
  nine 
  to 
  ten, 
  

   usually 
  ten, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdo- 
  

   men 
  hardly 
  clavate, 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  

   with 
  slightly 
  convex 
  sides 
  and 
  acutaugulato 
  apex, 
  tectate 
  but 
  with 
  

   elevated 
  lateral 
  margins 
  forming 
  large 
  lateral 
  sulci, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  

   deep, 
  tapering, 
  crossing 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  plate; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  

   of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  minute 
  pointed 
  projections 
  overlying 
  the 
  submedian 
  ridges 
  

   of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  slight, 
  styliform, 
  slender 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   thickened 
  base, 
  then 
  scarcely 
  tapering, 
  gently 
  incurved, 
  the 
  tip 
  bluntly 
  

   pointed; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  small, 
  subconical, 
  of 
  e([ual 
  breadth, 
  some- 
  

   what 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  apical 
  breadth, 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  erect 
  tubercle. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  10..") 
  mm., 
  female, 
  10 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  5.5 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  7 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  2.2 
  mm., 
  female, 
  2.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  8 
  mm., 
  female, 
  10 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  4 
  females. 
  Fort 
  Heed, 
  Orange 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  April 
  8-10, 
  

   J. 
  H. 
  Conistock; 
  Jacksonville, 
  Duval 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  November, 
  

   Miiynard 
  (S. 
  Henshaw). 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  smallest 
  known 
  species 
  of 
  Melanoph(s, 
  

  

  10. 
  INOKNATUS 
  SEEIES. 
  

  

  The 
  prozona 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  is 
  here 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal, 
  and 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  sex 
  quadrate, 
  

   or 
  feebly 
  longitudinal. 
  The 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum 
  is 
  either 
  

   truncate 
  or 
  very 
  broadly 
  obtusangulate. 
  The 
  tegmina 
  are 
  abbreviate 
  

   and 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  if 
  not 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  some- 
  

   times 
  rounded 
  and 
  sometimes 
  subacuminate 
  apieally. 
  The 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   are 
  generally 
  green, 
  and 
  the 
  species 
  vary 
  much 
  iu 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  spines 
  

   in 
  the 
  outer 
  series, 
  ranging 
  from 
  nine 
  to 
  fifteen. 
  

  

  The 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  is 
  triangular 
  and 
  generally 
  rather 
  flat, 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   margins 
  hardly 
  elevated; 
  the 
  furcula 
  may 
  be 
  either 
  reduced 
  to 
  slight 
  

   prominences 
  or 
  j)roduced 
  as 
  delicate 
  spines 
  crossing 
  the 
  basal 
  fourth 
  of 
  

   the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  the 
  cerci 
  again 
  vary 
  considerably, 
  being 
  either 
  

   stout, 
  strongly 
  constricted 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  widely 
  expanded 
  apieally, 
  

   or 
  tapering 
  to 
  a 
  half 
  or 
  two-thirds 
  the 
  basal 
  breadth 
  and 
  then 
  forming 
  

   a 
  relatively 
  slender, 
  slightly 
  decurved, 
  compressed 
  finger; 
  the 
  subgeni- 
  

   tal 
  plate 
  is 
  narrower, 
  generally 
  considerably 
  narrower, 
  than 
  long, 
  with 
  

   angulate, 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  and 
  tuberculate 
  extremity. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  are 
  rather 
  slender, 
  of 
  about 
  medium 
  size, 
  and 
  are 
  three 
  

   in 
  number. 
  One 
  occurs 
  in 
  Mexico, 
  a 
  second 
  in 
  North 
  Carolina, 
  and 
  the 
  

   third 
  m 
  Illinois 
  and 
  Indiana. 
  

  

  