﻿Ko.n24. 
  REVISION' 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLl—SCVDDEB. 
  261 
  

  

  foiirteeu 
  iu 
  nuiuber 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extreiiiit}- 
  of 
  male 
  abdoiueii 
  

   clavate, 
  considerably 
  recurved, 
  tlie 
  supraaual 
  plate 
  long' 
  triangular, 
  a 
  

   little 
  narrowed 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  with 
  an 
  acutaugulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  lateral 
  mar- 
  

   gins 
  elevated 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  height 
  as 
  the 
  sharp 
  and 
  liigh 
  parallel 
  ridges 
  

   bounding 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus, 
  which 
  unite 
  Just 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  

   l)late, 
  and 
  are 
  crossed 
  at 
  the 
  middle 
  by 
  a 
  straight 
  transverse 
  ruga 
  

   which 
  does 
  not 
  reach 
  the 
  margins; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  

   minute 
  black 
  deuticulatious 
  overlying 
  the 
  submediau 
  ridges 
  of 
  the 
  

   supraaual 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  broad 
  at 
  base, 
  rapidly 
  narrowing 
  to 
  the 
  middle, 
  

   mainly 
  by 
  the 
  excision 
  of 
  the 
  inferior 
  margin, 
  beyond 
  agaiu 
  expanding 
  

   as 
  rapidly 
  and 
  nearly 
  as 
  much, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  curved 
  abruptly 
  

   inward, 
  the 
  apical 
  flange 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip, 
  compressed, 
  and 
  at 
  

   extreme 
  apex 
  curved 
  abruptly 
  backward; 
  subgeuital 
  plate 
  moderately 
  

   broad, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  broadly 
  and 
  considerably 
  elevated, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19.5 
  mm.: 
  antennae, 
  10.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina. 
  7.5 
  

   mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  12.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male. 
  Bee 
  Spring, 
  Edmonson 
  County, 
  Kentucky, 
  June 
  11-15, 
  

   F. 
  (t. 
  Sanborn 
  (Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology). 
  

  

  The 
  specimen 
  was 
  formerly 
  in 
  alcohol, 
  which 
  has 
  probably 
  somewhat 
  

   affected 
  the 
  colors. 
  The 
  clasping 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  cerci 
  has 
  suggested 
  the 
  

   specific 
  name. 
  

  

  73. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  SALTATOR, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XVII, 
  fig. 
  8.) 
  

  

  PezotettLr 
  horfkii 
  Sccdder!, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Comm., 
  II 
  (1881), 
  App., 
  p. 
  24, 
  pi. 
  xvii, 
  

   fig. 
  17.— 
  Bkuneij!, 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  IV 
  (1884), 
  p. 
  58; 
  Cau. 
  

   Ent.. 
  XVII 
  (188.5), 
  p. 
  12. 
  

  

  Ferrugineo-fuscous. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  almost 
  wholly 
  fuscous 
  

   above, 
  the 
  face 
  and 
  genae 
  luteo 
  testaceous, 
  punctate 
  and 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   nmrmorate 
  with 
  fuscous: 
  vertex 
  slightly 
  tumid, 
  feebly 
  elevated 
  above 
  

   the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  broad, 
  two 
  (male) 
  or 
  three 
  

   (female) 
  times 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  basal 
  antenna! 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  consider- 
  

   ably 
  declivent, 
  its 
  lateral 
  margins 
  feebly 
  (female) 
  or 
  considerably 
  (male) 
  

   elevated, 
  but 
  not 
  otherwise 
  sulcate: 
  frontal 
  costa 
  subequal 
  but 
  feebly 
  

   enlarging 
  from 
  above 
  downward, 
  slightly 
  imrrower 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  (if 
  at 
  all) 
  only 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocel- 
  

   lus, 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  moderate 
  iu 
  size, 
  not 
  i)romineut, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  ferruginous, 
  often 
  a 
  little 
  

   infuscated 
  apically, 
  fully 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  in 
  both 
  

   sexes. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  feebly 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly 
  at 
  least 
  in 
  the 
  

   female, 
  the 
  disk 
  transversely 
  convex 
  and 
  ^lassing 
  almost 
  insensibly 
  into 
  

   the 
  subvertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  the 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  of 
  a 
  little 
  lighter 
  

   color, 
  and 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  crossed 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  by 
  a 
  broad 
  i)iceous 
  

   yet 
  often 
  obscure 
  band, 
  which 
  occasionally 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  passes, 
  broad- 
  

   ened 
  and 
  diffused, 
  upon 
  the 
  metazona 
  ; 
  median 
  carina 
  slight 
  but 
  distinct 
  

   throughout, 
  feebler 
  on 
  the 
  ])rozona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  metazona: 
  front 
  margin 
  

   truncate 
  or 
  subtruncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  rotundato-obtusangulate 
  : 
  prozona 
  

  

  