﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEnSlOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCVDDEB. 
  305 
  

  

  94. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  ANGUSTIPENNIS. 
  

   (Plate 
  XX, 
  fig. 
  6.) 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  angustipennis 
  Dodge, 
  Can. 
  Eut., 
  IX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  111. 
  — 
  Bkuner, 
  ibid.. 
  

   IX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  145.— 
  Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  43.— 
  Bruxek, 
  

   ibid., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60. 
  

  

  Melanoplus 
  angustipennis 
  Bruner, 
  Bull. 
  Wasbb. 
  Coll., 
  I 
  (1885), 
  p. 
  138; 
  Bull. 
  

   Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  XIII 
  (1887), 
  p. 
  11.— 
  Osborx, 
  Proc. 
  Iowa 
  

   Aoad. 
  Sc, 
  I, 
  Pt. 
  II 
  (1892), 
  p. 
  118.— 
  Biuner, 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agric, 
  

   XXVIII 
  (1893), 
  pp. 
  24-25, 
  fig. 
  12; 
  Publ. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  27. 
  

  

  Of 
  mediam 
  size, 
  dark-fuscous. 
  Head 
  feebly 
  prominent, 
  plumbeo- 
  or 
  

   ferrugiiieo- 
  testaceous, 
  often 
  mottled 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  above 
  much 
  infus- 
  

   cated, 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  eyes, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  postocular 
  piceous 
  

   band; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotuni, 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  considerably 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  

   twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  strongly 
  

   declivent, 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  or 
  feebly 
  (female) 
  sulcate 
  throughout; 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  equal, 
  percurrent, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  

   eyes, 
  faintly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  biseriately 
  punctate; 
  

   eyes 
  moderately 
  large 
  and 
  prominent, 
  as 
  long- 
  as 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  

   of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  fulvous, 
  about 
  five-sixths 
  (male) 
  or 
  two-thirds 
  

   (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  dark 
  fuscous, 
  lighter 
  on 
  

   the 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  with 
  a 
  subluteous 
  median 
  streak, 
  bordei'ing 
  a 
  broad 
  

   postocular 
  i)iceous 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  prozona; 
  disk 
  feebly 
  enlarging 
  pos- 
  

   teriorly, 
  very 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  passing 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  

   roundly 
  angulated 
  shoulder, 
  forming 
  tolerably 
  distinct 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  

   on 
  the 
  posterior 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  

   metazona, 
  obsolete 
  (male) 
  or 
  subobsolete 
  (female) 
  on 
  the 
  prozona; 
  front 
  

   margin 
  snbtruncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate; 
  i)rozona 
  longitudinal 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  (female) 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  closely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  not 
  very 
  long, 
  

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

   more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   sternal 
  lobes 
  attingent 
  over 
  a 
  brief 
  space 
  (male) 
  or 
  approximate 
  (female). 
  

   Tegmina 
  reaching 
  or 
  slightly 
  surpassing 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   slender, 
  tapering, 
  browni.sh-fuscous, 
  immaculate 
  or 
  with 
  very 
  obscure 
  

   and 
  feeble 
  maculation 
  along 
  the 
  middle 
  line; 
  wings 
  moderately 
  narrow, 
  

   hyaline, 
  iridescent, 
  with 
  relatively 
  few 
  dark 
  veins 
  and 
  these 
  not 
  so 
  

   dark 
  as 
  usual. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  distinctly 
  but 
  not 
  greatly 
  tumid 
  

   in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  olivaceo-luteous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infumated 
  or 
  

   infuscated 
  excepting 
  below, 
  the 
  inner 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  face 
  feebly 
  

   bifasciate 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  and 
  the 
  geniculation 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  glaucous, 
  apically 
  growing 
  feebly 
  lutescent, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  

   apically, 
  pallid 
  basally, 
  nine 
  to 
  twelve 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

   Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  a 
  little 
  clayate 
  but 
  scarcely 
  recurved, 
  the 
  

   supraanal 
  plate 
  long 
  triangular 
  with 
  broadly 
  upturned 
  basally 
  convex 
  

   Proc. 
  N. 
  M. 
  vol. 
  XX 
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