﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOFLl—SCVDDEB. 
  263 
  

  

  74. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  ROTUNDIPENNIS. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XVII, 
  fig. 
  9.) 
  

  

  Pezotcttix 
  rotundipennis 
  Scudder!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist.. 
  XIX 
  (1877), 
  pp. 
  

   86-87; 
  Ent. 
  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  27-28.— 
  Bruxer, 
  Kep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  

   Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  59. 
  

  

  Head 
  flavo-testaceoas, 
  the 
  summit 
  deeply 
  infascated, 
  the 
  whole 
  more 
  

   or 
  les.s 
  mottled 
  with 
  small 
  fuscous 
  spots: 
  auteuuae 
  dull 
  brownish 
  red, 
  

   apieally 
  iufuscated, 
  at 
  base 
  paler, 
  four-fifths 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  

   Prouotum 
  above 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  mottled 
  slightly 
  with 
  dusky 
  yellow, 
  

   the 
  mediau 
  carina 
  black; 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  brownish 
  yellow 
  below, 
  above 
  

   occupied 
  by 
  a 
  broad 
  piceons 
  stripe, 
  running 
  from 
  the 
  eyes 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  

   middle 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  broader 
  and 
  with 
  vague 
  boundaries 
  on 
  the 
  

   abdomen 
  and 
  partially 
  interrupted 
  by 
  a 
  slender, 
  oblique, 
  brownish 
  yel- 
  

   low 
  stripe 
  on 
  the 
  crest 
  of 
  the 
  metathoracic 
  episterna. 
  Tegmina 
  but 
  

   little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  hardly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  prozona, 
  rotund, 
  ovate, 
  

   black 
  concealed 
  by 
  profuse 
  rufous 
  veins. 
  Legs 
  dull 
  yellowish 
  brown, 
  

   the 
  middle 
  and 
  hmd 
  femora 
  heavily 
  spotted 
  with 
  black, 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   dull 
  fusco-glaucous, 
  pale 
  at 
  base, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  beyond 
  the 
  pallid 
  

   base, 
  twelve 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

  

  Head 
  not 
  prominent; 
  vertex 
  slightly 
  tumid, 
  a 
  little 
  elevated 
  above 
  

   the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  scarcely 
  so 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  

   basal 
  joint 
  of 
  the 
  antennae; 
  fasfcigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  shallowly 
  and 
  

   broadly 
  sulcate 
  in 
  advance 
  of 
  the 
  eyes; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  

   as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  shallowly 
  sulcate 
  through- 
  

   out, 
  slightly 
  and 
  regularly 
  expanding 
  below, 
  obsolescent 
  next 
  the 
  cly- 
  

   peus; 
  eyes 
  large 
  and 
  prominent, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  infraocular 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae. 
  Pronotum 
  broadening 
  slightly 
  and 
  regularly 
  

   throughout, 
  the 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal, 
  almost 
  twice 
  as 
  long- 
  

   as 
  the 
  metazona, 
  its 
  surface 
  very 
  faintly 
  and 
  very 
  sparsely 
  punctate, 
  

   the 
  median 
  carina 
  sharp 
  but 
  slight 
  and 
  equal; 
  metazona 
  with 
  the 
  

   mediau 
  carina 
  not 
  sharp 
  but 
  rather 
  inconspicuous, 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  

   lobe 
  both 
  above 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  delicately 
  rugulose; 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  

   wholly 
  obsolete, 
  the 
  nearly 
  plane 
  disk 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  well 
  rounded 
  angle 
  

   into 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  both 
  front 
  and 
  hind 
  margins 
  subtruncate, 
  the 
  

   latter 
  minutely 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  not 
  very 
  

   long, 
  appressed 
  cylindrical, 
  very 
  blunt, 
  a 
  little 
  retrorse; 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  about 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad. 
  Extremity 
  

   of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  tumid, 
  strongly 
  upcurved; 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  

   with 
  subrectangulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  sides 
  gently 
  convex, 
  gently 
  upturned, 
  

   the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  extremely 
  broad, 
  short 
  and 
  shallow; 
  fnrcula 
  consist- 
  

   ing 
  of 
  the 
  slightly 
  produced 
  inner 
  angulation 
  of 
  the 
  widely 
  parted 
  and 
  

   diverging 
  halves 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  rather 
  stout 
  but 
  

   laminate, 
  tapering 
  at 
  the 
  very 
  base, 
  beyond 
  nearly 
  equal, 
  moderately 
  

   broad, 
  directed 
  inward 
  and 
  backward 
  and 
  bent 
  obliquely 
  a 
  little 
  down- 
  

  

  