﻿X0.1124. 
  REVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  285 
  

  

  There 
  is 
  but 
  a 
  single 
  annual 
  brood 
  whicli 
  begins 
  to 
  appear 
  full 
  fledged 
  

   in 
  ]Srew 
  England 
  late 
  in 
  July. 
  According 
  to 
  Riley, 
  the 
  egg^ 
  are 
  not 
  

   laid 
  in 
  a 
  single 
  mass, 
  but 
  at 
  intervals 
  in 
  several; 
  he 
  has 
  twice 
  obtained 
  

   four 
  successive 
  pods 
  from 
  a 
  single 
  female, 
  covering 
  a 
  period 
  of 
  nearly 
  

   two 
  months 
  and 
  containing 
  eggs 
  amounting 
  in 
  all 
  to 
  from 
  ninety-six 
  to 
  

   one 
  hundred 
  and 
  ten. 
  The 
  eggs 
  have 
  a 
  quadrilinear 
  arrangement 
  in 
  

   the 
  pods. 
  

  

  At 
  Andover, 
  Massachusetts, 
  on 
  October 
  5 
  many 
  years 
  ago 
  I 
  observed 
  

   a 
  pair 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  male 
  and 
  female, 
  near 
  together 
  alternately 
  sig- 
  

   naling 
  to 
  each 
  other 
  with 
  a 
  slight 
  quick 
  movement 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  legs 
  

   upon 
  the 
  tegmina, 
  as 
  if 
  stridulating. 
  I 
  made 
  no 
  note 
  of 
  whether 
  any 
  

   sound 
  was 
  actually 
  produced 
  and 
  do 
  not 
  now 
  recall 
  any. 
  

  

  Many 
  interesting 
  notes 
  regarding 
  this 
  species 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  

   first 
  report 
  of 
  tlie 
  United 
  States 
  Entomological 
  Commission. 
  

  

  83. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  PROPINQUUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XVIII, 
  fig. 
  9.) 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  femnr-ruhrum 
  Scudder!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Xat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  86; 
  

  

  Ent. 
  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  27; 
  Psyche, 
  II 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  154. 
  

   Fezotcttix 
  propinquus 
  McNeill!, 
  MS. 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  size, 
  closely 
  resembling 
  the 
  preceding 
  species 
  in 
  colora- 
  

   tion, 
  but 
  generally 
  of 
  a 
  somewhat 
  lighter 
  tint. 
  Head 
  a 
  little 
  promi- 
  

   nent, 
  flavo-testaceous, 
  generally 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated 
  above, 
  with 
  

   a 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  tumid, 
  the 
  intersiDace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   scarcely 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  

   first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   rather 
  shallowy 
  (female) 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  just 
  failing 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  

   clypeus, 
  sube(iual, 
  of 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  

   sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  (especially 
  in 
  the 
  male) 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  biseriately 
  

   punctate 
  above; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  prominent 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  much 
  

   longer, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  very 
  much 
  longer, 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  

   the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  ferruginous, 
  feebly 
  infuscated 
  apically, 
  five-sixths 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  less 
  than 
  two-thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  

   Pronotum 
  slightly 
  and 
  regularly 
  enlarging 
  from 
  in 
  front 
  backward, 
  the 
  

   disk 
  feebly 
  convex 
  and 
  passing 
  into 
  the 
  anteriorly 
  feebly 
  tumid, 
  ver- 
  

   tical, 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  well-rounded 
  but 
  abrupt 
  shoulder, 
  the 
  disk 
  

   brownish 
  fuscous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  feebly 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  dull 
  

   luteo-testaceous, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  postocular 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  prozoua; 
  median 
  

   carina 
  slight 
  and 
  percurrent, 
  feebler 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona; 
  front 
  margin 
  subtruncate, 
  very 
  faintly 
  flariug 
  at 
  least 
  in 
  the 
  

   male, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  well 
  rounded; 
  prozoua 
  

   feebly 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  feebly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  scarcely 
  if 
  any 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  closely 
  but 
  shallowly 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  

   spine 
  rather 
  long, 
  suberect, 
  appressed 
  cylindrical, 
  blunt, 
  rather 
  longer 
  

   and 
  less 
  appressed 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  less 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  

  

  