﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  \rELANOPLI—SCrDDER. 
  303 
  

  

  rounded, 
  not 
  nearly 
  reaching 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  infracer- 
  

   cal 
  plates 
  well 
  developed, 
  laterally 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  cerci, 
  well 
  

   rounded, 
  distinctly 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  

   scoop-shaped, 
  but 
  slightly 
  angulate 
  behind 
  laterally, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  

   scarcely 
  elevated 
  and 
  most 
  feebly 
  notched. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  tegmina, 
  15.75 
  mm. 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  11.25 
  mm. 
  

  

  Two 
  males. 
  Northern 
  Minnesota; 
  Sidney, 
  Cheyenne 
  County, 
  

   Nebraska, 
  August 
  25 
  (L. 
  Bruner). 
  

  

  93. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  COCCINEIPES, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XX, 
  figs. 
  3-5.) 
  

  

  Caloptenm 
  minor 
  Scudder 
  !, 
  Bull. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Snrv. 
  Terr., 
  II 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  261. 
  

   Melanophis 
  devastator 
  Scudder! 
  (pars), 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1878), 
  

   pp. 
  285-286,287-288; 
  (pars), 
  Eut. 
  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  46-47, 
  48-49. 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  or 
  small 
  size, 
  dark 
  fuscous, 
  often 
  with 
  a 
  ferruginous 
  

   tinge. 
  Head 
  slightly 
  prominent, 
  luteo-testaceous, 
  sometimes 
  flecked 
  

   or 
  irrorate 
  with 
  fuscons 
  on 
  the 
  face, 
  above 
  much 
  infuscated 
  often 
  with 
  

   a 
  ferruginous 
  tinge, 
  and 
  a 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct 
  piceous 
  or 
  subpiceous 
  

   postocular 
  stripe; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  raised 
  a 
  little 
  above 
  the 
  level 
  

   of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  

   half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  (male) 
  or 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  

   an 
  tennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  rapidly 
  declivent, 
  slightly 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  

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

   clypeus, 
  equal 
  or 
  feebly 
  broader 
  below, 
  scarcely 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  

   biseriately 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large 
  and 
  prominent, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  geuae; 
  antennae 
  more 
  than 
  three-fourths 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  three-fifths 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  fulvous, 
  sometimes 
  feebly 
  infuscated. 
  Pronotum 
  dark 
  fuscous, 
  

   occasionally 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  disk 
  sometimes 
  with 
  a 
  distinct, 
  broad, 
  

   equal, 
  piceous 
  band 
  crossing 
  the 
  prozona 
  above 
  and 
  occasionally 
  

   vaguely 
  continued 
  across 
  the 
  metazona, 
  usually 
  marked 
  beneath 
  by 
  

   luteous, 
  or 
  the 
  whole 
  lower 
  portion 
  luteous; 
  disk 
  very 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  

   passing 
  by 
  an 
  abruptly 
  rounded 
  shoulder, 
  nowhere 
  forming 
  lateral 
  

   carinae, 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  which 
  are 
  slightly 
  tumid 
  anteri- 
  

   orly; 
  median 
  carina 
  subobsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona; 
  front 
  margin 
  faintly 
  

   convex, 
  hind 
  margin 
  not 
  very 
  obtusely 
  angulate; 
  prozona 
  longitudinal 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  a 
  little 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  (female) 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  closely 
  but 
  somewhat 
  obscurely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Pro- 
  

   sternal 
  spine 
  not 
  very 
  long, 
  cylindrical, 
  erect, 
  very 
  blunt; 
  intersi^ace 
  

   between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  twice 
  (female) 
  or 
  four 
  times 
  (male) 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  broad, 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  attingent 
  for 
  some 
  distance 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   subattingent 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  reaching 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  surpassing 
  the 
  

   tips 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  (varying 
  in 
  both 
  sexes), 
  tapering 
  gently, 
  brown- 
  

   ish 
  fuscous 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  indistinctly 
  maculate 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  sometimes 
  

  

  