﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCrDDER. 
  307 
  

  

  fulvous 
  or 
  flavous, 
  more 
  (male) 
  or 
  less 
  (female) 
  thau 
  two-tliirds 
  as 
  loii^ 
  

   as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  subeijiial, 
  feebly 
  enlaiging 
  jDosteriorly, 
  

   with 
  a 
  very 
  broad 
  postocular 
  piceous 
  band, 
  occasionally 
  maculate 
  

   especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  rarely 
  surpassing 
  the 
  prozona 
  and 
  then 
  broad- 
  

   ening 
  and 
  decidedly 
  weakening 
  on 
  the 
  inetazoua; 
  disk 
  very 
  broadly 
  

   convex, 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  blunt 
  shoulder 
  nowhere 
  forming 
  distinct 
  lateral 
  

   carinae 
  into 
  the 
  vertical, 
  anteriorly 
  feebly 
  tumid, 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  

   carina 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  subobsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  sometimes 
  

   wholly 
  obsolete 
  between 
  the 
  sulci; 
  front 
  margin 
  subtruncate, 
  hind 
  

   margin 
  obtusangulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  rounded; 
  prozona 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  distinct!}" 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  

   the 
  ruguloso-puuctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  conical, 
  bluntly 
  

   pointed 
  (male) 
  or 
  appressed 
  cylindrical, 
  very 
  blunt 
  (female), 
  moderately 
  

   long, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  about 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  (female) 
  broad, 
  the 
  raetasternal 
  

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

   Thoracic 
  pleura 
  luteous, 
  the 
  incisures 
  black 
  and 
  the 
  mesothoracic 
  ej)!- 
  

   mera 
  darker 
  than 
  the 
  ground, 
  often 
  blackish 
  or 
  even 
  black. 
  Tegmina 
  

   surpassing 
  considerably 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  of 
  normal 
  breadth, 
  feebly 
  

   tapering, 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  with 
  usually 
  very 
  distinct 
  and 
  prominent 
  

   maculation 
  of 
  quadrate 
  blackish 
  spots, 
  interrupting 
  a 
  median 
  luteous 
  

   or 
  pallid 
  stripe 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  becoming 
  a 
  sprinkling 
  of 
  blackisli 
  

   dots 
  beyond, 
  sometimes 
  found 
  also 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  obscurely 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  

   areas; 
  wings 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  hyaline, 
  sometimes 
  very 
  feebly 
  infu- 
  

   mated 
  at 
  the 
  edge 
  near 
  the 
  tip, 
  the 
  veins 
  bluish 
  fuscous 
  apically 
  and 
  

   anteriorly. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  legs 
  only 
  a 
  little 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   luteo-testaceous 
  flecked 
  with 
  fuscous; 
  hind 
  femora 
  luteo-testaceous, 
  

   twice 
  barred 
  above 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  besides 
  a 
  basal 
  spot, 
  and 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  deeply 
  iufuscated 
  geniculation, 
  the 
  bars 
  liable 
  on 
  the 
  

   middle 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  to 
  fuse 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  completely 
  into 
  a 
  

   median 
  stripe, 
  which 
  sometimes 
  suffuses 
  the 
  whole 
  face; 
  lower 
  face 
  

   sometimes 
  feebly 
  roseate; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  feebly 
  valgate, 
  glaucous, 
  

   occasionally 
  feebly 
  iufuscated, 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  tip 
  feebly 
  lutescent, 
  with 
  

   a 
  narrow 
  postbasal 
  fusco-giaucous 
  annulus, 
  the 
  spines 
  rather 
  short, 
  black 
  

   beyond 
  their 
  pallid 
  bases, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

   Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  slightly 
  clavate, 
  upturned 
  but 
  scarcely 
  

   recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  ovate-triangular, 
  broadest 
  at 
  some 
  dis- 
  

   tance 
  beyond 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  sides 
  broadly 
  and 
  gently 
  uplifted, 
  the 
  eleva- 
  

   tion 
  abruptly 
  broken 
  by 
  a 
  preapical 
  lateral 
  transverse 
  sulcation, 
  the 
  

   ai)ex 
  acutangulate, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  occupying 
  only 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  

   and 
  very 
  shallow 
  and 
  equal, 
  except 
  when, 
  as 
  sometimes, 
  the 
  apical 
  por- 
  

   tion 
  is 
  much 
  compressed; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  long 
  and 
  slen- 
  

   der, 
  equally 
  tapering 
  and 
  acuminate, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  flattened, 
  slightly 
  

   divergent 
  and 
  very 
  feebly 
  arcuate 
  fingers, 
  somewhat 
  less 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  ; 
  cerci 
  small, 
  compressed, 
  subequal, 
  incurved, 
  

   lateral 
  plates, 
  gradually 
  and 
  rather 
  slightly 
  contracted 
  mesially, 
  the 
  tip 
  

  

  