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  PEOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  ward, 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  slightly 
  expanded, 
  well 
  rounded 
  and 
  scarcely 
  tliick- 
  

   ened; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  very 
  small, 
  subpyramidal, 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  

   broad, 
  of 
  subequal 
  breadth, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  and 
  a 
  

   little 
  full, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  15.5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  8 
  mm.; 
  tegmina. 
  3 
  mm,; 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  10 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male. 
  Jacksonville, 
  Duval 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  May 
  6, 
  J. 
  11. 
  Corn- 
  

   stock. 
  

  

  75. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  OBOVATIPENNIS. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XYII, 
  fig. 
  10.) 
  

  

  IPezotettix. 
  longkornis 
  Savssure, 
  Rev. 
  Mag. 
  ZooL, 
  1861 
  (1861), 
  p. 
  1-59; 
  Orth. 
  Xov. 
  

  

  Amer., 
  II 
  (1S61). 
  p. 
  9.— 
  Tjiomas, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Terr., 
  V 
  (1873). 
  p. 
  150.— 
  

  

  Bkt-ner, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  59. 
  

   1 
  Podisma 
  7o»^icor«is 
  Walker. 
  Cat. 
  Derm. 
  Salt. 
  Brit. 
  Mns., 
  lY 
  (1870), 
  p. 
  718. 
  

   Pezoieliix 
  rotundrpennis 
  Blatchley!, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  XXIII 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  80. 
  

   Pezoietiix 
  oVoratipeunis 
  Blatchley!, 
  Can, 
  Ent., 
  XXVII 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  211-243. 
  

  

  Brownish 
  fuscous, 
  with 
  a 
  ferruginous 
  tinge. 
  Head 
  prominent, 
  par- 
  

   ticularly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  varying 
  from 
  plumbeo-olivaceous 
  to 
  ferrugineo- 
  

   testaceous, 
  often 
  much 
  flecked 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  and 
  above 
  almost 
  wholly 
  

   fnsco-ferrnginous 
  or 
  fuscous; 
  vertex 
  rather 
  tumid, 
  elevated 
  a 
  little 
  above 
  

   the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  rather 
  broad, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  (female) 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  tirst 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  

   fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  plane 
  (female) 
  or 
  broadly 
  and 
  shallowly 
  

   snlcate, 
  or 
  at 
  least 
  with 
  feebly 
  raised 
  lateral 
  margins 
  (male); 
  frontal 
  

   costa 
  equal 
  or 
  subequal, 
  slightly 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   the 
  eyes, 
  percurrent, 
  very 
  feebly 
  (female) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  sulcate 
  

   at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  prominent 
  at 
  least 
  in 
  the 
  

   male, 
  much 
  larger 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  

   luteo-ferrugiuous, 
  apically 
  infuscated, 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  more 
  than 
  three- 
  

   fourths 
  as 
  long 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  rather 
  long, 
  

   faintly 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  (female) 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly 
  Avith 
  much 
  

   regularity, 
  the 
  disk 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  (male) 
  or 
  fusco-ferruginous 
  (female), 
  

   the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  below 
  pallid' 
  (male) 
  or 
  luteo-testaceous 
  (female), 
  and 
  

   above 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  band 
  which 
  broadens 
  and 
  becomes 
  feebler 
  

   on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex 
  transversely, 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  dis- 
  

   tinct 
  though 
  smoothed 
  angle 
  into 
  the 
  subvertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  

   carina 
  equally 
  distinct 
  throughout, 
  scarcelj' 
  blunter 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  than 
  

   on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  subtruncate 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  truncate 
  (female) 
  ; 
  prozona 
  longitudinal 
  (female) 
  or 
  very 
  longitudinal 
  

   (male), 
  fully 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  (female) 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  distinctly 
  and 
  

   closely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long, 
  a 
  little 
  

   appressed 
  conical, 
  blunt, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  

   about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  transverse, 
  only 
  

  

  ' 
  Ivory 
  Tvhite, 
  according 
  to 
  Blatchley, 
  who 
  has 
  seen 
  them 
  in 
  fresh 
  condition. 
  

  

  