﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCVDDEK. 
  323 
  

  

  romided 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  and 
  sometimes 
  lathe 
  male; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  

   longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  or 
  feebly 
  longitudinal 
  (female), 
  generally 
  

   more 
  (male) 
  or 
  generally 
  less 
  (female) 
  than 
  one-third 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   closely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  long, 
  appressed 
  cylin- 
  

   drical, 
  blunt, 
  retrorse; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  about 
  half 
  

   as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male), 
  or 
  feebly 
  transverse 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  

   abbreviate, 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  overlapping, 
  very 
  broad 
  

   just 
  beyond 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  rapidly 
  narrowing, 
  short 
  sublanceolate, 
  the 
  

   costal 
  margin 
  roundly 
  angulate, 
  apically 
  subacuminate, 
  the 
  dorsal 
  and 
  

   lateral 
  fields 
  angularly 
  separated, 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  dorsal 
  field 
  

   often 
  cinereous, 
  the 
  lateral 
  often 
  feebly 
  flecked 
  with 
  fuscous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  

   middle 
  femora 
  very 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  testaceous 
  or 
  fiavo- 
  

   testaceous, 
  heavily 
  and 
  broadly 
  but 
  sometimes 
  confusedly 
  bifasciate 
  

   ■with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  geniculation 
  blackish, 
  the 
  inferior 
  face 
  pale 
  

   flavous, 
  pallid 
  apically; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  red, 
  blackish 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  fol- 
  

   lowed 
  by 
  an 
  obscure 
  pallid 
  annulus, 
  below 
  which 
  the 
  red 
  is 
  feebly 
  

   infuscated, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  on 
  their 
  ajjical 
  half, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven, 
  rarely 
  

   nine, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  

   strongly 
  clavate, 
  much 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular, 
  with 
  

   an 
  acutangulate 
  or 
  rectangulate 
  apex, 
  slightly 
  angulate 
  sides 
  which 
  are 
  

   considerably 
  and 
  gradually 
  elevated, 
  and 
  a 
  tolerably 
  broad, 
  percurrent, 
  

   moderately 
  deep 
  but 
  apically 
  fading 
  median 
  sulcus, 
  broadened 
  at 
  

   extreme 
  base, 
  lying 
  between 
  sharp 
  walls; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  i)air 
  

   of 
  approximate 
  denticulations 
  of 
  varying 
  length, 
  but 
  generally 
  at 
  least 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  segment, 
  generally 
  slenderer 
  than 
  represented 
  

   in 
  the 
  figure; 
  cerci 
  coarse 
  and 
  heavy, 
  broad 
  at 
  base, 
  rapidly 
  narrowing, 
  

   so 
  that 
  the 
  middle 
  is 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  extreme 
  base, 
  

   beyond 
  enlarging 
  slightly, 
  curved 
  rather 
  abruptly 
  inward, 
  and 
  strongly 
  

   and 
  abruptly 
  compressed 
  or 
  exteriorly 
  sulcate, 
  the 
  apex 
  rounded 
  sub- 
  

   truncate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  rather 
  broad 
  and 
  full, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  

   arcuate, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  gently 
  elevated 
  but 
  not 
  tuberculate, 
  entire, 
  

   both 
  margins 
  together 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above 
  subsemicircular. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  -J3 
  mm,, 
  female, 
  24 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  14 
  mm., 
  

   female, 
  10 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  9.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  8.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   male, 
  15 
  mm., 
  female, 
  13.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Twenty-one 
  males, 
  16 
  females, 
  ^"ebraska, 
  Dodge; 
  Fort 
  Eobinson, 
  

   Dawes 
  County, 
  Nebraska, 
  August 
  22, 
  L. 
  Bruuer 
  ( 
  U.S.l!^ 
  . 
  M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collec- 
  

   tion) 
  ; 
  Omaha, 
  Douglas 
  Countj', 
  Nebraska 
  (L. 
  Bruner; 
  U.S.X.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  

   collection); 
  St, 
  Louis, 
  Missouri, 
  October 
  10, 
  27 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collec- 
  

   tion); 
  Moline, 
  Rock 
  Island 
  Count}^, 
  Illinois, 
  McNeill; 
  Putnam 
  County, 
  

   Indiana, 
  June 
  30, 
  October 
  21 
  (W. 
  S. 
  Blatchley; 
  A. 
  P. 
  Morse) 
  ;Yigo 
  

   County, 
  Indiana, 
  Blatchley 
  (A. 
  P, 
  Morse), 
  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  reported 
  

   from 
  [owa 
  (Osborn). 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  Blatchley 
  and 
  Bruner 
  it 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  woods._ 
  Bruner's 
  

   specific 
  name 
  for 
  this 
  insect 
  is 
  preoccupied 
  by 
  Thomas. 
  

  

  