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  OF 
  THE 
  MKI.AXoPLI—srrDDKU. 
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  tbus 
  reaching 
  the 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  

   small, 
  moderately 
  broad 
  but 
  much 
  narrower 
  than 
  long, 
  the 
  apical 
  por- 
  

   tion 
  a 
  little 
  elevated 
  and 
  tumid, 
  subtuberculate. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  10 
  mm., 
  feuiale, 
  29 
  n]m. 
  : 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  mm. 
  

   (est.), 
  female, 
  10 
  mm,; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  7.."» 
  mm., 
  female, 
  J> 
  mm.: 
  liind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  11.75 
  mm.* 
  female, 
  11 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  2 
  females. 
  Locality 
  unknown 
  (J. 
  McNeill): 
  Montelovez, 
  

   Cohahuila, 
  Mexico, 
  Sei)tember 
  20, 
  E. 
  Palmer. 
  

  

  All 
  the 
  specimens 
  seen 
  have 
  been 
  immersed 
  in 
  alcohol, 
  which 
  may 
  

   have 
  somewhat 
  attected 
  their 
  colors. 
  

  

  69. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  VIRIDIPES, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XVII. 
  tig. 
  4.) 
  

  

  P«o<('«*> 
  ci/'/rftpes 
  WalshI, 
  MS. 
  (186.")). 
  — 
  BLAitiiLKY, 
  t^au. 
  Eut., 
  XXIII 
  (April. 
  

  

  1891), 
  p. 
  80; 
  ibid., 
  XXIV 
  (1892), 
  p. 
  34— 
  imdescribed. 
  

   Pezotctt'u- 
  riridicriis 
  Walsh!, 
  MS. 
  (1865). 
  

   PezoieU'u: 
  virididiis 
  [by 
  error 
  for 
  viridicnis~\ 
  McXeill, 
  P.syclie, 
  VI 
  (May, 
  1891), 
  

  

  pp. 
  75-7(3.— 
  Blatchley. 
  Can. 
  Ent.. 
  XXIV 
  (1892). 
  p. 
  34: 
  ibid.. 
  XXVI 
  (lS!t4), 
  

  

  p. 
  245 
  — 
  unde8cril)ed. 
  

  

  Of 
  'medium 
  size, 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  above, 
  liavous 
  beneath; 
  head 
  

   not 
  prominent, 
  dark 
  olivaceo-testaceous, 
  sometimes 
  i)Iumbeous, 
  above 
  

   nnich 
  iiifuscated, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  mod- 
  

   erately 
  tumid, 
  scarcely 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  prouotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  (male) 
  or 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  (female) 
  

   as 
  the 
  lirst 
  antenual 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  rather 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  (male) 
  or 
  shallowly 
  (female) 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  almost 
  per- 
  

   current, 
  slightly 
  narrowed 
  at 
  upper 
  extremity, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   otherwise 
  equal, 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  

   sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  punctate 
  throughout; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  

   large, 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  than 
  

   the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  testaceous 
  or 
  rufotesta- 
  

   ceous, 
  apically 
  iufuscated, 
  distinctly 
  longer 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  three-fourths 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  faintly 
  

   expanding 
  posteriori}^, 
  above 
  ferrugineo 
  testaceous, 
  sometimes 
  iufus- 
  

   cated, 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  flavous 
  or 
  tlavo-testaceous 
  below, 
  but 
  the 
  upper 
  por- 
  

   tion 
  wholly 
  occupied 
  by 
  a 
  very 
  broad, 
  percurrent, 
  piceous, 
  postocular 
  

   band, 
  broadening 
  slightly 
  on 
  the 
  metazoua, 
  the 
  disk 
  convex 
  and 
  pass- 
  

   ing 
  by 
  a 
  slight 
  shoulder 
  into 
  the 
  anteriorly 
  tumid 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  

   median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  though 
  rather 
  slight 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  and, 
  in 
  the 
  

   female 
  at 
  least, 
  on 
  the 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  prozona, 
  elsewhere 
  obsolete 
  or 
  sub- 
  

   obsolete; 
  front 
  margin 
  faintly 
  convex, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  with 
  a 
  scarcely 
  

   perceptible 
  emarginatiou, 
  hind 
  margin 
  rotundato 
  obtusangulate, 
  almost 
  

   subtruncate; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  or 
  faintly 
  (female) 
  longitudinal, 
  

   about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  densely 
  but 
  not 
  deeply 
  punctate 
  meta- 
  

   zoua. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short 
  and 
  rather 
  stout, 
  conical; 
  interspace 
  

  

  