﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCVDDER. 
  327 
  

  

  female 
  narrowly 
  traverses 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  pronotuin 
  nearly 
  or 
  

   quite 
  to 
  the 
  lateral 
  cariuae; 
  the 
  tegmiiia 
  are 
  of 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  

   the 
  pronotum 
  and 
  immaculate. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  clay 
  yellow 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   iufuscated 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  often 
  obscure 
  blackish 
  bars; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   glaucous, 
  pallid 
  at 
  base, 
  with 
  a 
  blackish 
  annulus, 
  the 
  spines 
  pallid 
  in 
  

   basal 
  black 
  in 
  apical 
  half, 
  twelve 
  to 
  thirteen, 
  generally 
  twelve, 
  in 
  

   number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  21.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  23 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  8,5 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  7.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  C 
  mm,, 
  female, 
  G.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  12.5 
  mm,, 
  female, 
  14 
  mm. 
  

  

  Nine 
  males, 
  13 
  females. 
  Texas, 
  Belfrage, 
  Lincecum 
  (U.S.N^.M. 
  — 
  

   liiley 
  collection; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder); 
  Dallas, 
  Texas, 
  Boll 
  (same; 
  L. 
  

   Bruner). 
  

  

  This 
  si)ecies 
  resembles 
  M. 
  Jiabellatus 
  in 
  general 
  appearance. 
  

  

  107. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  GRACILIS. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXII, 
  fig. 
  3.) 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  gracilis 
  Bruner!, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  VIII 
  (July, 
  1876), 
  p. 
  124; 
  ibid, 
  IX 
  (1877), 
  

   p. 
  114.— 
  Scudder, 
  Cau. 
  Ent., 
  XII 
  (1880), 
  p. 
  75.— 
  Bruner, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  

   Cojiim., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  59.— 
  Blatchley!, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  XXIII 
  (1891), 
  p, 
  81.— 
  

   McNeill, 
  Psyche, 
  VI 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  76.— 
  Osborn, 
  Proc. 
  Iowa 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  I, 
  Pt. 
  11 
  

   (1892), 
  p, 
  117.— 
  Bruner, 
  Piibl. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  27.— 
  Gar.man, 
  

   Orth. 
  Ky. 
  (1894), 
  p, 
  7.— 
  Blatchley, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  XXVI 
  (1894j, 
  p. 
  233. 
  

  

  Pezoietiix 
  mitiutipennisTHOMASl, 
  Bull. 
  111. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  I 
  (December, 
  1S76), 
  

   p. 
  66.— 
  Scudder, 
  Can, 
  Eut., 
  XII 
  (1880), 
  p. 
  75.— 
  Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  Ent. 
  111., 
  IX 
  

   (1880), 
  pp. 
  90, 
  95, 
  119-120. 
  

  

  A 
  little 
  below 
  the 
  medium 
  size, 
  brownish 
  testaceous 
  above, 
  luteo- 
  

   flavous 
  beneath, 
  the 
  whole 
  tinged 
  with 
  green, 
  with 
  bright 
  green 
  hind 
  

   legs. 
  Head 
  hardly 
  prominent, 
  luteo 
  tlavous, 
  generally 
  tinged 
  with 
  

   green 
  and 
  somewhat 
  embrowned, 
  above 
  brownish 
  testaceous 
  with 
  a 
  

   greenish 
  tinge, 
  sometimes 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  distinct 
  slender 
  flavous 
  stripe 
  

   from 
  the 
  broad 
  piceous 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  scarcely 
  at 
  all 
  tumid, 
  

   not 
  at 
  all 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  i)ronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  

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

   the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  strongly 
  declivent, 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  very 
  feebly 
  and 
  broadly 
  (female) 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  prominent, 
  

   percurrent, 
  equal, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  feebly 
  

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

   moderate 
  in 
  size, 
  moderately 
  (female) 
  or 
  very 
  (male) 
  i^rominent, 
  con- 
  

   siderably 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  

   luteous, 
  feebly 
  infuscated 
  apically, 
  more 
  than 
  four-fifths 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  

   more 
  than 
  two-thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  

   subequal, 
  faintly 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly, 
  above 
  brownish 
  testaceous, 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  broad 
  and 
  conspicuous 
  piceous 
  percurrent 
  

   postocular 
  belt 
  above, 
  sometimes 
  enfeebled 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  below 
  

   varying 
  from 
  bright 
  llav^ous 
  to 
  flavo-testaceous, 
  the 
  disk 
  very 
  broadly 
  

   subtectate, 
  passing 
  by 
  an 
  abrupt 
  but 
  rounded 
  shoulder, 
  forming 
  feeble 
  

  

  