﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCrnDEB. 
  331 
  

  

  sometimes 
  marked 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  the 
  abdomeu 
  with 
  a 
  lateral 
  black 
  

   band, 
  sometimes 
  continuous 
  and 
  equal, 
  sometimes 
  confined 
  to 
  small 
  

   triangular 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  segments; 
  hind 
  femora 
  sometimes 
  a 
  

   little 
  infuscated 
  externally, 
  the 
  genicular 
  lobes 
  sometimes 
  blackish, 
  the 
  

   bind 
  tibiae 
  rather 
  dark 
  olivaceous, 
  the 
  apical 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  spines 
  black. 
  

   The 
  summit 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  is 
  sometimes 
  marked 
  with 
  black 
  in 
  broad 
  

   median 
  and 
  diverging 
  supraorbital 
  stripes. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body 
  (.1/. 
  m. 
  amjjlus), 
  male, 
  17.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  22 
  mm.; 
  

   antennae, 
  male, 
  8 
  mm., 
  female, 
  7 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  15 
  mm., 
  female, 
  

   18 
  mm. 
  (est.); 
  hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  10 
  mm., 
  female, 
  12.5 
  mm. 
  Length 
  of 
  

   body 
  {M.m. 
  pauper), 
  male, 
  14.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  20 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  6.25 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  4.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  5.5 
  mm.; 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  8 
  mm., 
  female, 
  11 
  mm. 
  

  

  Nine 
  males, 
  8 
  females. 
  California 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collection); 
  

   Natoma 
  vineyard, 
  Folsom, 
  Sacramento 
  County, 
  California, 
  April, 
  C. 
  H. 
  

   Dwinell 
  (same); 
  Atwater, 
  Merced 
  County, 
  California, 
  July 
  27, 
  D. 
  W. 
  

   Coquillett 
  (same); 
  southern 
  California, 
  H. 
  W. 
  Henshaw; 
  Fort 
  Tejou, 
  

   California, 
  July 
  20, 
  H. 
  W. 
  Henshaw. 
  

  

  The 
  National 
  Museum 
  contains 
  a 
  male 
  and 
  female 
  of 
  the 
  different 
  

   forms 
  taken 
  in 
  coitn. 
  

  

  no. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  PAROXYOIDES, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plates 
  I, 
  fig. 
  A-; 
  XXII, 
  fig. 
  6.) 
  

  

  Of 
  rather 
  small 
  or 
  niedinm 
  size, 
  ferrngineo-testaceous, 
  with 
  a 
  marked 
  

   black 
  postocular 
  band. 
  Head 
  not 
  pron)iuent, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  olivaceo- 
  

   luteous, 
  clouded 
  with 
  fuscous 
  on 
  face 
  and 
  genae, 
  with 
  fuscous 
  stripes 
  

   above, 
  and 
  a 
  black 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  very 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  not 
  ele- 
  

   vated 
  above 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   narrow, 
  not 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  (female) 
  wider 
  than 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  

   joint; 
  fastigium 
  rather 
  rapidly 
  declivent, 
  shallowly 
  (male) 
  or 
  very 
  slial- 
  

   lowly 
  (female) 
  sulcate 
  throughout; 
  face 
  retreating 
  more 
  than 
  u.sual,the 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  rather 
  prominent 
  above, 
  percurrent, 
  equal, 
  fully 
  as 
  broad 
  

   as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  sulcate 
  excepting 
  above, 
  strongly 
  

   punctate; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  large, 
  prominent 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  very 
  much 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  luteous 
  or 
  rufo- 
  

   hiteous, 
  about 
  five-sixths 
  (male) 
  or 
  two-thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  long, 
  subequal, 
  hardly 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly 
  

   even 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  the 
  upper 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  

   broad 
  solid 
  black 
  band 
  crossing 
  the 
  prozona, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  in 
  a 
  dif- 
  

   fused 
  form 
  the 
  metazona, 
  below 
  which 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  are 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   obscurely 
  luteous; 
  disk 
  pilose, 
  transversely 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  separated 
  

   from 
  the 
  interiorly 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  rounded 
  shoulder, 
  nowhere 
  

   forming 
  lateral 
  carinae; 
  median 
  carina 
  uniform, 
  percurrent; 
  front 
  mar- 
  

   gin 
  subtruncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  longi- 
  

   tudinal 
  esi>ecially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  fully 
  a 
  fourth 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  finely 
  and 
  

  

  