﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOrLI—SCUDDER. 
  321 
  

  

  103. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  LEPIDUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XXI, 
  fig. 
  9.) 
  

  

  Slightly 
  below 
  inediiim 
  size, 
  blackisli 
  fuscous, 
  with 
  a 
  feeble 
  ferrugi- 
  

   nous 
  tiuge. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  testaceous, 
  very 
  hea^■ily 
  flecked 
  and 
  

   punctate 
  and 
  often 
  suffused 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  above 
  almost 
  wholly 
  blackish 
  

   fuscous, 
  with 
  a 
  slender 
  testaceous 
  stripe 
  separating 
  the 
  dark 
  vertex 
  

   from 
  the 
  broad, 
  piceous, 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   scarcely 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  

   first 
  anteunal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  deeply 
  (male) 
  or 
  mod- 
  

   erately 
  (female) 
  sulcate 
  throughont: 
  frontal 
  costa 
  percurrent, 
  laintly 
  

   narrowed 
  above 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  otherwise 
  e(iual, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  punctate 
  through- 
  

   out, 
  above 
  biseriately; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large, 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  espe- 
  

   cially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocnlar 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   genae; 
  antennae 
  castaneous, 
  nearly 
  five-sixths 
  (male) 
  or 
  hardly 
  three- 
  

   fifths 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  subeiinal. 
  faintly 
  

   expanding 
  posteriorly 
  throughout 
  (female) 
  or 
  only 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  

   (male), 
  the 
  lower 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  ferrugiiieo-testaceous, 
  

   the 
  upi)er 
  piceous, 
  at 
  least 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  obscurely 
  so 
  

   on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  the 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex 
  and 
  i)assing 
  by 
  a 
  scarcely 
  

   augulate 
  well-rounded 
  shoulder, 
  nowhere 
  with 
  a 
  semblance 
  of 
  lateral 
  

   carinae, 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  very 
  slight, 
  on 
  

   the 
  prozona 
  subobsolete; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtus- 
  

   angulate; 
  prozona 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  (piadrate 
  (female), 
  sparsely, 
  

   coarsely, 
  and 
  very 
  shallowly 
  ])unctate, 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  

   finely 
  and 
  closely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prostcrnal 
  spine 
  rather 
  long, 
  

   conical, 
  erect, 
  very 
  blunt, 
  feebly 
  appressed, 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  and 
  coarser 
  

   in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  

   nearly 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  

   abbreviate, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  attingent 
  or 
  feebly 
  over- 
  

   lapping, 
  broad 
  ovate, 
  nearly 
  or 
  somewhat 
  less 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   broad, 
  apically 
  angulate, 
  blackish 
  fuscous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  

   somewhat 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  slender, 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  

   female, 
  dull 
  ferrugiueo-testaceous, 
  generally 
  very 
  broadly 
  bifasciate 
  

   with 
  fuscous, 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  geniculation 
  fuscous, 
  but 
  these 
  markings 
  

   often 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  suffused 
  and 
  confused, 
  the 
  lower 
  face 
  warm 
  testa- 
  

   ceous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  glaucous 
  or 
  dark 
  glaucous, 
  generally 
  paler 
  at 
  the 
  

   base, 
  with 
  a 
  glaucous 
  or 
  fusco 
  glaucous 
  patellar 
  annulus, 
  the 
  spines 
  

   black 
  beyond 
  the 
  pallid 
  base, 
  eleven 
  to 
  thirteen 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  

   series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  considerably 
  clavate 
  and 
  recurved, 
  

   the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular, 
  with 
  feebly 
  angulate 
  sides 
  and 
  sub- 
  

   acutaugulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  margins 
  gently 
  elevated, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  

   e(pial, 
  percurrent, 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  rather 
  deep, 
  between 
  sharp 
  but 
  

   little 
  elevated 
  walls, 
  with 
  a 
  straight 
  median 
  transverse 
  plica; 
  furcula 
  

   Proc. 
  N. 
  M. 
  vol. 
  XX 
  21 
  

  

  