﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  JIELAXOPLI—SCUJJBEI!. 
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  O 
  

  

  88. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  CYANIPES, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XIX, 
  tig. 
  S.) 
  

  

  Melanoplns 
  cyanipes 
  Bruner!, 
  MS. 
  — 
  Coquillett, 
  Ins. 
  Life, 
  I 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  227. 
  — 
  

   Brcnek, 
  Rep. 
  St. 
  Hort. 
  Soc. 
  Xebr., 
  1894 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  163— 
  nntleseribed. 
  

   Varying 
  from 
  light 
  ferrugineo-testaceous 
  throiigli 
  ciuereo-iuscous 
  to 
  

   dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  with 
  a 
  ferruginous 
  tinge, 
  thinly 
  pilose. 
  Head 
  

   slightly 
  prominent, 
  plumbeo-testaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated, 
  some- 
  

   times 
  flecked 
  profusely 
  and 
  minutely 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  above 
  darker 
  and 
  

   generally 
  more 
  uniform 
  than 
  elsewhere, 
  often 
  blackish 
  fnscous, 
  with 
  a 
  

   l)Ostocular 
  piceous 
  band; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  above 
  

   the 
  j)ronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  moderate, 
  a 
  little 
  broader 
  

   than 
  (male) 
  or 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fas- 
  

   tigium 
  rather 
  strongly 
  declivent, 
  sulcate 
  throughout; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   rather 
  prominent 
  above, 
  but 
  not 
  contracted, 
  just 
  failing 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  

   clypeus, 
  feebly 
  broadening 
  below, 
  fully 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  shallowly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  generally 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  

   punctate 
  above; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  prominent, 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  where 
  

   they 
  rise 
  above 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  vertex, 
  very 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  luteo-fulvous, 
  four-fifths 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pro- 
  

   notum 
  subequal, 
  scarcely 
  enlarging 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  the 
  very 
  gently 
  

   convex 
  disk 
  passing, 
  with 
  a 
  pronounced 
  but 
  well-rounded 
  shoulder, 
  

   nowhere 
  forming 
  a 
  lateral 
  carina, 
  into 
  the 
  inferiorly 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  

   lobes; 
  the 
  latter 
  are 
  marked 
  above 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  equal, 
  rarely 
  broken, 
  

   piceous 
  band 
  crossing 
  the 
  prozona 
  and 
  sometimes 
  indicated 
  on 
  the 
  

   metazona 
  by 
  a 
  slight 
  darkening; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona, 
  obsolete 
  or 
  subobsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  always 
  obsolete 
  between 
  

   the 
  sulci; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate; 
  hind 
  margin 
  broadly 
  obtusangulate, 
  

   the 
  angle 
  generally 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  prozona 
  quadrate 
  

   or 
  feebly 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  or 
  feebly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  

   only 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  closely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  

   spine 
  short, 
  conical, 
  very 
  bl.uut, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  

   lobes 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  considerably 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  

   (female). 
  Pleura 
  with 
  a 
  distinct 
  flavo-testaceous 
  stripe 
  bordered 
  with 
  

   black 
  following 
  the 
  metathoracic 
  episterna. 
  Tegmina 
  surpassing 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  sometimes 
  considerably, 
  slender, 
  tapering 
  feebly, 
  well 
  

   rounded 
  apically, 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  sometimes 
  immaculate 
  but 
  generally 
  

   rather 
  sparsely 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  minute 
  fuscous 
  spots 
  throughout 
  the 
  

   discoidal 
  area 
  almost 
  or 
  quite 
  to 
  the 
  tip; 
  wings 
  rather 
  narrow, 
  hyaline, 
  

   often 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  feeble 
  citron 
  tint, 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  veins 
  black 
  or 
  fuscous. 
  

   Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  but 
  little 
  tumescent 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   slender 
  and 
  elongate, 
  testaceous 
  or 
  ferruginous, 
  obscurely 
  bifasciate 
  

   with 
  fuscous, 
  often 
  reduced 
  to 
  a 
  fuscous 
  cloud 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  face, 
  most 
  

   of 
  the 
  geniculatiou 
  black, 
  the 
  inferior 
  surface 
  and 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  interior 
  

   varying 
  from 
  luteous 
  to 
  carmine: 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  light 
  green 
  or 
  glaucous, 
  

   sometimes 
  blue, 
  with 
  a 
  postbasal 
  fuscous 
  spot 
  or 
  annulus, 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   sparse 
  pile 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  spines, 
  the 
  sj^ines 
  pallid 
  in 
  basal, 
  black 
  

  

  