﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BE 
  VISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SC 
  UDDEli. 
  315 
  

  

  99. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  CONSPERSUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XXI, 
  fig. 
  5.) 
  

  

  A 
  stoat, 
  medium-sized 
  or 
  ratlier 
  less 
  than 
  medium 
  sized 
  sjiecies, 
  

   btowiiisb 
  fuscous 
  above, 
  testaceous 
  beneath. 
  Head 
  a 
  little 
  prominent, 
  

   luteo-testaceous 
  clouded 
  with 
  plumbeous, 
  broadly 
  strii)ed 
  above 
  with 
  

   blackish 
  fuscous, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  subpiceous 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  

   gently 
  tumid, 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes 
  considerably 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  

   broad 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  anteunal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  

   distinctly 
  sulcate 
  throughout; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  percurrent, 
  subequal, 
  almost 
  

   (female) 
  or 
  quite 
  (male) 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  

   distinctly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  biseriately 
  punctate 
  above; 
  

   eyes 
  moderate, 
  slightly 
  prominent 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  hardly 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  red, 
  becoming 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   infuscated 
  apically, 
  about 
  four-fifths 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  three 
  fourths 
  

   (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  stout, 
  distinctly 
  enlar- 
  

   ging 
  from 
  in 
  front 
  backward, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  feebly 
  tinged 
  with 
  

   ferruginous, 
  the 
  ui^per 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  prozoua 
  glisten- 
  

   ing 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  disk 
  very 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  passing 
  into 
  the 
  

   subvertical 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  well-rounded 
  shoulder, 
  hardly 
  forming 
  

   lateral 
  carinae 
  except 
  feebly 
  on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  median 
  carina 
  percur- 
  

   rent, 
  more 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  alike 
  in 
  the 
  

   two 
  sexes; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate; 
  pro- 
  

   zona 
  feebly 
  transverse, 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  length 
  as 
  the 
  rather 
  obscurely 
  punc- 
  

   tate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  not 
  very 
  high, 
  stout, 
  considerably 
  

   appressed, 
  tapering 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  in 
  front, 
  blunt; 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   mesosternal 
  lobes 
  almost 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  feebly 
  trans- 
  

   verse 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  attingent 
  (male) 
  or 
  approximate 
  

   (female). 
  Tegmiua 
  reaching 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  of 
  moderate 
  

   breadth, 
  tapering 
  from 
  the 
  basal 
  fourth, 
  brown, 
  heavily 
  sprinkled 
  

   with 
  fuscous 
  dots 
  most 
  abundant 
  in 
  but 
  not 
  confined 
  to 
  the 
  discoidal 
  

   area, 
  where 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  they 
  alternate 
  with 
  pallid 
  dashes; 
  wings 
  

   moderate, 
  hyaline 
  with 
  pale 
  greenish 
  veins, 
  which 
  become 
  rather 
  feebly 
  

   infuscated 
  anteriorly 
  and 
  apically. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  a 
  little 
  

   tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  very 
  stout, 
  testaceous 
  or 
  pallid 
  testace- 
  

   ous, 
  the 
  upper 
  face 
  slightly 
  ferruginous, 
  except 
  the 
  lower 
  third 
  twice 
  

   very 
  obliquely 
  and 
  very 
  broadly 
  fasciate 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  

   inferior 
  third 
  flavous, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  blackish 
  fuscous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   feebly 
  valgate, 
  bright 
  red, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  to 
  their 
  base 
  except 
  on 
  their 
  

   inner 
  side, 
  ten 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  n)ale 
  abdo- 
  

   men 
  somewhat 
  clavate, 
  slightly 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  subtri- 
  

   angular 
  with 
  basally 
  angulate 
  sides 
  and 
  acutangulate 
  tip, 
  the 
  surface 
  

   nearly 
  flat 
  but 
  stepped, 
  the 
  apical 
  half 
  or 
  less 
  at 
  a 
  lower 
  level 
  and 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  margins 
  slightly 
  crenate 
  in 
  consequence, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  

   rather 
  slender, 
  percurrent 
  but 
  slight 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  half; 
  furcula 
  consist- 
  

  

  