﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEriSlOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDEE. 
  329 
  

  

  io8. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  INOPS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXII, 
  tig. 
  4.) 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  size, 
  brownish 
  fuscous. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  ferrugineo- 
  

   testaceous, 
  very 
  heavily 
  punctate 
  with 
  fuscous 
  above 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  the 
  

   summit 
  dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous; 
  vertex 
  very 
  feebly 
  tumid, 
  elevated 
  a 
  

   little 
  above 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  prouotum, 
  but 
  not 
  above 
  the 
  upper 
  level 
  of 
  

   the 
  eyes, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  latter 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  width 
  as 
  the 
  

   first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigmm 
  strongly 
  declivent, 
  feebly 
  and 
  broadly 
  

   sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  percurient, 
  etpial, 
  fully 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  scarcely 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  sparsely 
  

   and 
  feebly 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  very 
  prominent, 
  nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  (f). 
  Pronotum 
  feebly 
  

   enlarging 
  from 
  in 
  front 
  backward, 
  a 
  broad, 
  i)iceous, 
  percurrent, 
  postoc- 
  

   ular 
  band 
  occupying 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  

   below 
  which 
  these 
  are 
  ferrugineo 
  testaceous, 
  the 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex 
  

   and 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  well-rounded 
  shoulder 
  nowhere 
  forming 
  lateral 
  earinae 
  

   into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  slight, 
  equal, 
  percurrent; 
  

   front 
  margin 
  faintly 
  convex, 
  feebly 
  margined, 
  hind 
  margin 
  subtruncate, 
  

   very 
  feebly 
  convex, 
  mesially 
  faintly 
  emarginate; 
  prozona 
  sparsely, 
  

   coarsely, 
  and 
  shallowly 
  punctate, 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal, 
  fully 
  half 
  as 
  

   long 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  finely, 
  densely, 
  and 
  rather 
  shallowly 
  jjunctate 
  meta- 
  

   zona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  of 
  moderate 
  length, 
  strongly 
  appressed 
  cylin- 
  

   drical, 
  subtruncate; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  more 
  than 
  

   twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad. 
  Tegmina 
  abbreviate, 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   pronotum, 
  attingent 
  or 
  subattingent, 
  rotundato-ovate, 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  

   ai^ically, 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad, 
  brownish 
  fuscous. 
  Fore 
  

   and 
  middle 
  femora 
  a 
  little 
  tumid; 
  hind 
  femora 
  moderately 
  slender, 
  

   ferrugineo-fuscous 
  above, 
  graduating 
  into 
  dull 
  tlavous 
  below, 
  without 
  

   fasciation, 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  fuscous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  pale 
  

   dull 
  green, 
  growing 
  gradually 
  dingy 
  luteous 
  basally, 
  the 
  whole 
  basal 
  

   half 
  feebly 
  iufuscated, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  beyond 
  their 
  base, 
  eleven 
  in 
  

   number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Abdomen 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  extremity 
  in 
  the 
  

   male 
  strongly 
  clavate, 
  much 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  broad 
  tri- 
  

   angular, 
  nearly 
  i^lane, 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  and 
  narrowing 
  shallow 
  median 
  

   sulcus; 
  furcula 
  obsolete; 
  cerci 
  moderately 
  large, 
  compressed, 
  moder- 
  

   ately 
  broad 
  at 
  base, 
  narrowing 
  on 
  basal 
  third, 
  the 
  middle 
  third 
  sub- 
  

   equal 
  and 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  apical 
  third 
  again 
  

   expanding 
  slightly, 
  well 
  rounded 
  and 
  slightly 
  tumid 
  at 
  tij), 
  the 
  whole 
  

   feebly 
  curved 
  upward 
  and 
  more 
  distinctly 
  inward; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  

   small, 
  subconical, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  gradually 
  and 
  feebly 
  elevated 
  

   above 
  the 
  lateral, 
  the 
  apex 
  tuluid, 
  forming 
  a 
  sort 
  of 
  blunt, 
  coarse, 
  

   rounded 
  tubercle, 
  hardly 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  figure. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  15 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  3.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   10.25 
  mm. 
  

  

  One 
  male. 
  Florida, 
  Priddey 
  (L. 
  Bruner). 
  

  

  