﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLISCUDDEIi. 
  293 
  

  

  cinereous 
  in 
  tlie 
  discoidal 
  area, 
  and 
  often 
  very 
  feebly 
  dotted 
  with 
  

   obscure 
  fuscous 
  outside 
  of 
  it; 
  wings 
  hyaline, 
  the 
  apical 
  and 
  anterior 
  

   veins 
  testaceous. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  luteo-ferruginous, 
  obliciuely 
  bifasciate 
  

   on 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  with 
  brownish 
  or 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  

   basal 
  spot 
  of 
  the 
  same, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  black, 
  but 
  the 
  inferior 
  genicu- 
  

   lar 
  lobe 
  light 
  colored 
  with 
  only 
  a 
  basal 
  fleck 
  of 
  fuscous; 
  under 
  half 
  

   luteous 
  or 
  rosaceous, 
  externally 
  more 
  pallid 
  than 
  the 
  rest; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   dull 
  green 
  becoming 
  lutescent 
  at 
  the 
  extremities, 
  with 
  a 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   obscure 
  fuscous 
  postbasal 
  aunulus, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  beyond 
  their 
  

   pallid 
  base, 
  eleven 
  to 
  twelve 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  P^xtremity 
  

   of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  somewhat 
  upturned, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  jilate 
  

   strongly 
  compressed 
  apically 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  give 
  the 
  sides 
  a 
  very 
  tortuous 
  

   course 
  and 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  composed 
  of 
  two 
  parts: 
  the 
  larger 
  basal 
  part 
  

   nearly 
  plane, 
  broader 
  than 
  long, 
  longer 
  laterally 
  than 
  mesially, 
  the 
  

   immediate 
  margins 
  elevated 
  slightly 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  overhanging 
  by 
  expan- 
  

   sion, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  moderately 
  deep 
  and 
  not 
  broad, 
  uniform 
  ; 
  and 
  

   an 
  apical 
  narrow 
  triangular 
  tip 
  with 
  strongly 
  elevated 
  margins 
  forming 
  

   the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  very 
  deep 
  median 
  sulcus, 
  fully 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  basal 
  portion, 
  the 
  tip 
  strongly 
  acutangulate 
  bat 
  blunt; 
  furcula 
  con- 
  

   sisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  parallel, 
  tlattened, 
  regularly 
  tapering, 
  rather 
  bluntly 
  

   acuminate 
  fingers, 
  except 
  at 
  extreme 
  base 
  lying 
  wholly 
  outside 
  the 
  

   median 
  sulcus, 
  nearly 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  entire 
  plate; 
  cerci 
  slender, 
  

   regularly 
  and 
  considerably 
  incurved 
  throughout, 
  narrowing 
  gently 
  and 
  

   then 
  as 
  gently 
  enlarging 
  to 
  a 
  regular 
  and 
  rounded 
  spatulate 
  tip 
  not 
  

   quite 
  so 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  extreme 
  base, 
  the 
  whole 
  fully 
  five 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  narrowest 
  breadth 
  and 
  reaching 
  to 
  about 
  halfway 
  between 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  angle 
  and 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  infracercal 
  plates 
  

   slightly 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  supraanal; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  haustrate, 
  moder- 
  

   ately 
  broad 
  but 
  considerably 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  of 
  subequal 
  breadth, 
  

   but 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  slightly 
  and 
  roundly 
  elevated 
  at 
  base, 
  and 
  the 
  

   a])ical 
  margin 
  feebly 
  elevated, 
  well 
  rounded, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body 
  male, 
  2^.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  31.5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male 
  

   {estimated), 
  12 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  21.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  23 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  14.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  IG 
  mm. 
  

  

  Three 
  males, 
  two 
  females. 
  Texas, 
  Schaupp 
  (S. 
  Henshaw); 
  Tiger 
  

   Mill, 
  Burnet 
  County, 
  Texas 
  (L. 
  Bruner); 
  San 
  Antonio, 
  Bexar 
  County, 
  

   Texas, 
  M. 
  Newell 
  (L. 
  Bruner). 
  

  

  The 
  name 
  is 
  given 
  from 
  the 
  prominence 
  of 
  the 
  furcula. 
  

  

  87. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  TERMINALIS. 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XIX, 
  fig. 
  7.) 
  

  

  Brownish 
  fuscous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  ferruginous. 
  Head 
  hardly 
  prominent, 
  

   lighter 
  or 
  darker 
  castaneous, 
  often 
  much 
  flecked 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  mouth- 
  

   parts 
  paler, 
  above 
  darker 
  being 
  much 
  infuscated, 
  and 
  especially 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  fastigium 
  are 
  marked 
  in 
  black, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  

   piceous 
  postocular 
  band 
  often 
  streaked 
  with 
  testaceous; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  

  

  