﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELJNOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  299 
  

  

  above 
  the 
  pronotum 
  even 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   rather 
  narrow, 
  scarcely 
  wider 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  abont 
  half 
  as 
  wide 
  again 
  

   as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastiginm 
  rapidly 
  declivent, 
  sulcate 
  

   throughont; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  percuirent, 
  snbeqnal, 
  not 
  contracted 
  above, 
  

   as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  intersi)ace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  snlcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  

   ocellus, 
  biseriately 
  sulcate 
  above; 
  eyes 
  pretty 
  large, 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  

   nnich 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  testa- 
  

   ceous, 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  equal 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  expanding 
  a 
  little 
  and 
  

   gradually 
  on 
  the 
  metazoua, 
  more 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  the 
  disk 
  

   feebly 
  convex 
  and 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  strongly 
  rounded 
  shoulder 
  (the 
  shoulder 
  

   hardly 
  noticeable 
  on 
  the 
  prozona) 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  which 
  

   have 
  feeble 
  and 
  broken 
  or 
  no 
  indications 
  of 
  a 
  fuscous 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  

   upper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  prozona; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  

   quite 
  or 
  almost 
  wholly 
  obsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona; 
  front 
  margin 
  faintly 
  

   convex, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate; 
  prozona 
  quadrate 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   transverse 
  or 
  quadrate 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  feebly 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  

   posteriorly, 
  scarcely 
  or 
  no 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  

   short, 
  conical, 
  blunt, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  much 
  

   more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  (female) 
  as 
  broad. 
  

   Tegmiua 
  much 
  surpassing 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  exceptionally 
  slender, 
  

   scarcely 
  tapering, 
  apically 
  svell 
  rounded, 
  testaceous 
  with 
  a 
  mesial 
  line 
  of 
  

   exceedingly 
  feeble 
  and 
  sparse 
  fuscous 
  spots 
  ; 
  wings 
  narrow 
  and 
  pointed, 
  

   hyaline 
  with 
  light 
  testaceous 
  veins 
  and 
  with 
  scarcely 
  perceptible 
  

   infumation 
  at 
  the 
  extreme 
  tip. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  strongly 
  compressed, 
  the 
  

   outer 
  face 
  so 
  flattened 
  as 
  hardly 
  to 
  show 
  any 
  convexity, 
  testaceous, 
  

   immaculate, 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  sometimes 
  feebly 
  infuscated, 
  the 
  genicular 
  

   arc 
  fuscous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  luteo-testaceous, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  on 
  apical 
  half, 
  

   ten 
  to 
  eleven, 
  usually 
  ten, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  

   of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  a 
  little 
  upturned, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  long 
  

   triangular, 
  rather 
  strongly 
  contracted 
  just 
  beyond 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   margins 
  narrowly 
  elevated, 
  the 
  apex 
  acutangulate, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  

   consisting 
  of 
  a 
  basal 
  triangular 
  portion, 
  beyond 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  interrupted 
  

   and 
  again 
  appears 
  apically 
  as 
  a 
  channel 
  between 
  two 
  lateral 
  bosses; 
  

   furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  basally 
  attingeiit, 
  broad, 
  flattened 
  plates 
  

   which 
  taper 
  very 
  rapidly 
  and 
  then 
  are 
  continued 
  as 
  cylindrical, 
  parallel 
  

   needles, 
  reaching 
  at 
  least 
  two-thirds 
  way 
  across 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  

   cerci 
  slender, 
  mesially 
  contracted, 
  apically 
  spatulate, 
  compressed 
  

   laminae, 
  as 
  viewed 
  laterally 
  straight, 
  as 
  viewed 
  from 
  above 
  apically 
  

   incurved 
  and 
  then 
  feebly 
  returning 
  to 
  their 
  original 
  direction 
  at 
  

   extreme 
  tip 
  and 
  there 
  externally 
  sulcate, 
  the 
  whole 
  almost 
  reaching 
  

   the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate, 
  and 
  the 
  apex 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  base; 
  

   infracercal 
  ])lates 
  well 
  rounded 
  apically, 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  supra- 
  

   anal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  of 
  moderate 
  

   breadth, 
  a 
  little 
  broader 
  basally 
  than 
  apically, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  

   slightly 
  and 
  gradually 
  elevated, 
  well 
  rounded, 
  entire. 
  (The 
  drawing 
  

   is 
  made 
  from 
  a 
  s[)ecime.i 
  somewhat 
  distorted 
  by 
  preservation 
  in 
  spirits.) 
  

  

  