﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCrDDEE. 
  275 
  

  

  very 
  long, 
  appressed 
  conical, 
  blunt, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesoster- 
  

   nal 
  lobes 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  transverse 
  but 
  

   narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  pronotum, 
  attingent, 
  elliptical, 
  but 
  attenuate 
  basally, 
  well 
  rounded 
  

   apically, 
  a 
  little 
  less 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous. 
  

   Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  somewhat 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  not 
  

   very 
  slender, 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  

   face 
  inclosing 
  a 
  small 
  median 
  testaceous 
  spot, 
  fuscous 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  face 
  

   externally, 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  carina 
  dull 
  llavous, 
  the 
  inner 
  face 
  and 
  inner 
  

   half 
  of 
  upper 
  face 
  flavous 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  broadly 
  bimaculate 
  or 
  bifasciate 
  

   with 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  lower 
  third 
  of 
  outer 
  face 
  flavous, 
  becoming 
  pale 
  orange 
  

   below 
  like 
  the 
  lower 
  face, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  black 
  and 
  the 
  lower 
  genicu- 
  

   lar 
  lobe 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  pale 
  red 
  or 
  glaucous, 
  pallid 
  

   at 
  extreme 
  base, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half, 
  nine 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  

   number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  strongly 
  

   clavate, 
  strongly 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  i)late 
  concealed 
  in 
  the 
  single 
  

   specimen 
  seen 
  ; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  very 
  distant, 
  very 
  slight, 
  

   parallel 
  spines, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment; 
  cerci 
  large 
  and 
  

   broad, 
  whollj- 
  inbent, 
  subeijual 
  laminae, 
  somewhat 
  and 
  not 
  very 
  broadly 
  

   constricted 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  apical 
  portion 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  and 
  longer 
  than 
  

   the 
  basal, 
  and 
  broadly 
  and 
  angularly 
  sulcate, 
  apicallj- 
  angulate, 
  the 
  

   whole 
  somewhat 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad; 
  subgenital 
  i^late 
  

   somewhat 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  breadth^ 
  subequal 
  excej)t 
  for 
  the 
  ele- 
  

   vation 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  margin, 
  which, 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above, 
  is 
  transverse, 
  

   entire, 
  and 
  makes 
  the 
  apical 
  breadth 
  equal 
  to 
  the 
  length. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  17.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  22.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male 
  and 
  

   female, 
  4.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male 
  and 
  female, 
  11 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male, 
  1 
  female. 
  Magdalena, 
  Socorro 
  County, 
  New 
  Mexico. 
  July, 
  

   r. 
  H. 
  Snow 
  (University 
  of 
  Kansas). 
  

  

  The 
  antennae 
  of 
  both 
  specimens 
  are 
  imperfect. 
  The 
  species 
  is 
  named 
  

   for 
  Chancellor 
  F. 
  H. 
  Snow, 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Kansas, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  A. 
  

   Snow, 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  institution, 
  father 
  and 
  son, 
  entomologists 
  of 
  note. 
  

  

  19. 
  FEMUR-EUBRUM 
  SERIES. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  dominant 
  and 
  homogeneous 
  group 
  of 
  medium 
  or 
  rather 
  small- 
  

   sized 
  species, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  male 
  prozona 
  varies 
  from 
  slightly 
  transverse 
  

   to 
  slightly 
  longitudinal, 
  and 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  

   lobes 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  sex 
  is 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  spretus 
  series. 
  The 
  tegmina 
  are 
  

   always 
  fully 
  developed 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  abbreviated 
  (so 
  as 
  to 
  fall 
  a 
  little 
  

   short 
  of 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora), 
  immaculate 
  or 
  slightly 
  maculate 
  

   along 
  the 
  middle 
  line. 
  The 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  normally 
  red 
  and 
  have 
  ten 
  

   to 
  fourteen 
  spines 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

  

  The 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  is 
  clypeate, 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  and 
  mesially 
  con- 
  

   stricted. 
  The 
  furcula 
  consists 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  parallel 
  or 
  nearly 
  parallel, 
  

   long 
  or 
  moderately 
  long, 
  generally 
  separated, 
  slender, 
  tapering, 
  sub- 
  

   cylindrical 
  lingers 
  or 
  spines. 
  The 
  cerci 
  are 
  compressed 
  subfalcate 
  

  

  