﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCrDBER. 
  297 
  

  

  above 
  with 
  fuscous 
  in 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  parallel 
  longitudinal 
  streaks; 
  vertex 
  

   moderately 
  tumid, 
  somewhat 
  elevated 
  above 
  tlie 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  not 
  very 
  broad, 
  a 
  little 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  lirst 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  

   moderately 
  decliveut, 
  sulcate 
  broadly 
  throughout, 
  more 
  deeply 
  in 
  the 
  

   male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  rather 
  prominent 
  above, 
  equal, 
  

   just 
  faihng 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  clypeus,as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  

   eyes, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  biseriately 
  punctate 
  above; 
  

   eyes 
  large, 
  moderately 
  prominent, 
  very 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  iufraoc- 
  

   ular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  luteous 
  or 
  fulvous, 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Prono- 
  

   tum 
  subequal, 
  feebly 
  expanding 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  the 
  disk 
  feebly 
  con- 
  

   vex 
  and 
  passing, 
  by 
  a 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  shoulder 
  occasionally 
  feebly 
  

   indicating 
  a 
  lateral 
  carina, 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  which 
  are 
  

   marked 
  above 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  by 
  an 
  often 
  partially 
  broken 
  piceous 
  band, 
  

   followed 
  beneath 
  by 
  irregular 
  quadrate 
  patches 
  of 
  sallow 
  luteous; 
  

   median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  almost 
  or 
  quite 
  obsolete 
  on 
  the 
  

   prozona; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  slightly 
  obtusangulate; 
  

   prozona 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  scarcely 
  if 
  anj^ 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  rather 
  closely-punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  

   conico-cylindrical, 
  blunt, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosteriial 
  lobes 
  

   more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  

   (female). 
  Teginina 
  surpassing, 
  generally 
  to 
  a 
  considerable 
  degree, 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  slender, 
  gently 
  tapering, 
  apically 
  well 
  rounded, 
  brownish 
  

   fuscous, 
  finely 
  speckled 
  throughout 
  with 
  cinereous 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  slender 
  

   line 
  of 
  aliernate 
  pale 
  and 
  dark 
  bars 
  and 
  dots 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area 
  and 
  

   sometimes 
  a 
  second 
  line 
  along 
  the 
  upper 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  anal 
  area; 
  wings 
  

   ample, 
  very 
  delicate, 
  glistening 
  hyaline 
  with 
  gl 
  a 
  uco- 
  fuscous 
  veins. 
  

   Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  somewhat 
  tumescent 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  all 
  the 
  femora 
  

   luteo 
  ferruginous 
  flecked 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  hind 
  pair 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  

   fuscous, 
  which 
  is 
  transverse 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  face, 
  very 
  oblique 
  and 
  con- 
  

   fined 
  to 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  face, 
  the 
  lower 
  face 
  a 
  little 
  ruddy; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  pale 
  blue, 
  rarely 
  with 
  a 
  luteous 
  tinge, 
  the 
  spines 
  pallid 
  in 
  

   their 
  basal, 
  black 
  in 
  their 
  apical 
  half, 
  ten 
  to 
  twelve, 
  usually 
  ten, 
  in 
  

   number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  considerably 
  

   clavate, 
  well 
  rounded, 
  not 
  greatly 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  rather 
  

   long 
  triangular 
  with 
  feebly 
  acutangulate 
  apex 
  and 
  scarcely 
  elevated 
  

   lateral 
  margins, 
  nearly 
  plane, 
  feebly 
  depressed, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  only 
  

   ajiparent 
  at 
  tip 
  where 
  it 
  passes 
  between 
  two 
  slight 
  lateral 
  bosses; 
  

   furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  basally 
  adjacent, 
  very 
  broad, 
  flattened, 
  

   tapering 
  fingers, 
  apically 
  produced 
  as 
  slender 
  aciculate 
  extensions, 
  

   reaching 
  fully 
  three-fourths 
  of 
  the 
  way 
  across 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  ; 
  cerci 
  

   moderately 
  narrow, 
  basally 
  tapering, 
  compressed 
  laminae, 
  which 
  at 
  the 
  

   middle 
  are 
  abruptly 
  bent 
  inward 
  at 
  right 
  angles 
  but 
  with 
  a 
  rounded 
  

   curve, 
  and 
  then 
  bent 
  at 
  extreme 
  tip 
  backward 
  again, 
  all 
  the 
  while 
  

   broadening 
  feebly, 
  the 
  whole 
  outer 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  bent 
  portion 
  broadly 
  

  

  