﻿NO. 
  1 
  1 
  24. 
  BE 
  VISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MEL 
  A 
  XOPL 
  I—SC 
  I'D 
  DEIL 
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  two 
  from 
  Florida 
  only; 
  another 
  only 
  from 
  Oregon 
  and 
  Washington; 
  a 
  

   fifth 
  from 
  Kentucky; 
  a 
  sixth 
  from 
  North 
  Carolina; 
  a 
  seventh 
  from 
  

   Indiana, 
  Texas, 
  and, 
  perhaps, 
  Carolina; 
  while 
  the 
  eighth 
  occurs 
  across 
  

   the 
  continent 
  from 
  Newfoundland 
  and 
  New 
  Jersey 
  in 
  the 
  east 
  to 
  Wash- 
  

   ington 
  in 
  the 
  west, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  Saskatchewan 
  to 
  Colorado. 
  

  

  The 
  most 
  aberrant 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  series 
  is 
  M. 
  hortalii^. 
  None 
  of 
  

   them 
  are 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  confounded. 
  

  

  71. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  ATTENUATUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XVII, 
  fig. 
  6.) 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  size 
  and 
  very 
  slender, 
  light 
  ferrugiueo-fuscous. 
  Head 
  

   rather 
  prominent, 
  flavo-testaceous, 
  fuscous 
  above, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  

   postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  moderately 
  tumid, 
  a 
  little 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  

   pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  

   antenna! 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent. 
  distinctly' 
  but 
  not 
  deeply 
  

   sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  j^ercurrent, 
  subequal, 
  faintly 
  narrower 
  above, 
  

   slightly 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  faintly 
  depressed 
  

   at 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  iiunctate 
  throughout, 
  biseriately 
  above; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  A'ery 
  

   prominent, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  

   antennae 
  fusco-testaceous, 
  fully 
  four-fifths 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  

   Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  faintly 
  expanding 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  ferrugineo-tes- 
  

   taceous 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infusciited 
  above, 
  fiavous 
  or 
  fusco-tlavous 
  on 
  the 
  

   sides, 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  piceous, 
  postocular 
  band 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  pro/ona, 
  

   the 
  disk 
  gently 
  convex, 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  rather 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  shoulder 
  

   into 
  the 
  auteriorlj" 
  tumid 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  dis- 
  

   tinct, 
  percurrent, 
  equal; 
  front 
  margin 
  feebly 
  convex, 
  hind 
  margin 
  sub- 
  

   truncate 
  ; 
  prozona 
  very 
  longitudinal, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  sharply 
  

   and 
  densely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  rather 
  long, 
  feebly 
  

   conical, 
  very 
  blunt, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  some- 
  

   what 
  longer 
  than 
  broad. 
  Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  

   pronotum, 
  attingentor 
  subattingent, 
  elliptical, 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  apically, 
  

   a 
  little 
  less 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  fusco-testaceous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  

   middle 
  femora 
  somewhat 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  slender, 
  light 
  

   ferruginous, 
  dull 
  fiavous 
  beneath, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  and 
  a 
  basal 
  bar 
  on 
  

   the 
  lower 
  genicular 
  lobes 
  blackish 
  fuscous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  pale 
  green 
  

   apically, 
  pale 
  ferrugineo 
  fiavous 
  basally 
  , 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  nearly 
  to 
  their 
  

   base, 
  twelve 
  to 
  fourteen 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  

   male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  considerably 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  long- 
  

   triangular, 
  a 
  little 
  and 
  narrowly 
  compressed 
  just 
  beyond 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  

   tip 
  acutaugulate 
  but 
  well 
  rounded, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  somewhat 
  ele- 
  

   vated, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  lying 
  between 
  sharp 
  but 
  not 
  high 
  walls 
  in 
  the 
  

   basal 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  the 
  plate, 
  beyond 
  which 
  are 
  a 
  jjair 
  of 
  more 
  distant, 
  

   short, 
  subparallel, 
  blunt, 
  longitudinal 
  ridges; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  

   l)air 
  of 
  very 
  slender, 
  tapering 
  and 
  acuminate, 
  divergent 
  fingers, 
  crossing 
  

   scarcely 
  the 
  basal 
  fourth 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  very 
  slender 
  and 
  

  

  