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  VliOCEEDIXGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  XATIOXAL 
  MUSEVM. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  elongate, 
  apically 
  strongly 
  incurved 
  fingers, 
  tapering 
  uniformly 
  to 
  tlie 
  

   middle 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  there 
  less 
  tliau 
  half 
  as 
  hroad 
  as 
  at 
  base, 
  then 
  slightly 
  

   enlarging 
  to 
  form 
  an 
  apical 
  rounded 
  lobe 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  

   broad 
  as 
  the 
  base, 
  expanding 
  beh)w 
  more 
  than 
  above, 
  the 
  apical 
  mar- 
  

   gin 
  rounded 
  but 
  sometimes 
  feebly 
  emarginate 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  appear 
  faintly 
  

   bifid; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  rather 
  small 
  and 
  very 
  narrow, 
  narrowing 
  api- 
  

   cally, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  well 
  rounded, 
  faintly 
  and 
  broadly 
  tuberculate. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19.5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  9.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  4.25 
  

   mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  11 
  mm. 
  

  

  Three 
  males. 
  Smithville, 
  Brunswick 
  County, 
  Xorth 
  Carolina, 
  Novem- 
  

   ber 
  22, 
  Maynard. 
  

  

  This 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  the 
  Pezotcttlv 
  Jongiconiis 
  of 
  tSaussure, 
  described 
  from 
  

   Carolina, 
  from 
  its 
  lack 
  of 
  distinct 
  lateral 
  cariuae 
  and 
  its 
  convex 
  pronotal 
  

   disk. 
  

  

  72. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  AMPLECTENS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XVII, 
  fig. 
  7.) 
  

  

  A 
  little 
  above 
  medium 
  size, 
  luteo-testaceous. 
  Head 
  a 
  little 
  promi- 
  

   nent, 
  luteo 
  testaceous, 
  above 
  very 
  broadly 
  and 
  feebly 
  striped 
  with 
  fus- 
  

   cous, 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  piceous, 
  postocular 
  baud; 
  vertex 
  somewhat 
  tumid, 
  

   somewhat 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  

   eyes 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  anteunal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  

   steeply 
  declivent, 
  angularly 
  sulcate 
  throughout: 
  frontal 
  costa 
  fading- 
  

   just 
  before 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  subequal, 
  slightly 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  sparsely 
  and 
  

   finely 
  punctate 
  throughout; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  very 
  prominent, 
  considerably 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  iufraocular 
  portiou 
  of 
  tlie 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  luteous, 
  a 
  

   little 
  infuscated 
  apically, 
  fully 
  five-sixths 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  

   Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  fuscous 
  

   postocular 
  band, 
  the 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  passing 
  by 
  an 
  abrupt 
  

   rounded 
  shoulder 
  into 
  the 
  anteriorly 
  feebly 
  tumid, 
  vertical, 
  lateral 
  

   lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  and 
  shari) 
  on 
  the 
  metazona. 
  feeble 
  but 
  

   tolerably 
  sharp 
  and 
  equal 
  ou 
  the 
  prozona; 
  front 
  margin 
  faintly 
  convex 
  

   and 
  faintly 
  and 
  narrowly 
  emarginate, 
  narrowly 
  flaring 
  feebly, 
  hind 
  

   nmrgin 
  broadly 
  obtusangnlate; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal, 
  more 
  

   than 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  sharply 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  closely 
  punctate 
  

   metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  rather 
  long, 
  conical, 
  a 
  little 
  retrorse, 
  the 
  

   hinder 
  face 
  straight 
  ; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  nearly 
  

   half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad. 
  Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  but 
  reaching 
  nearly 
  

   to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  slender 
  lanceolate, 
  the 
  tip 
  very 
  

   bluntly 
  subacuminate, 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  deepening 
  above 
  to 
  blackish 
  

   on 
  the 
  lateral 
  face, 
  cinereous 
  ou 
  the 
  dorsal 
  face. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  

   femora 
  somewhat 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male: 
  hind 
  femora 
  luten-testaceous, 
  

   broadly 
  and 
  almost 
  (•omi)letely 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  which 
  

   is 
  angularly 
  dis[)osed 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  face, 
  the 
  whole 
  geniculatiou 
  blackish 
  

   fuscous, 
  the 
  inferior 
  face 
  luteous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  luteo-fiavous, 
  infuscated 
  

   at 
  base, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  almost 
  or 
  (piite 
  to 
  their 
  very 
  base, 
  twelve 
  to 
  

  

  