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  113. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  MINOR. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXII. 
  lig. 
  It.) 
  

  

  Culoptenus 
  minor 
  ScrDDEii!, 
  Proc 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Xat. 
  Hist., 
  XVII 
  (1875), 
  jt. 
  478; 
  Ent. 
  

  

  Notes, 
  IV 
  (1875). 
  p. 
  77; 
  Auu. 
  Kep. 
  Chief 
  Eng., 
  1876(187t5), 
  p. 
  501; 
  Auu. 
  Rep. 
  

  

  Geogr. 
  Surv. 
  lOOth 
  Mer. 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  281.— 
  Bhunek, 
  Can. 
  Eut., 
  IX 
  (1877), 
  

  

  p. 
  145.— 
  Thomas, 
  Kep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Coram., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  42.— 
  Sciddki; 
  !, 
  Cent. 
  

  

  Ortb. 
  (1879), 
  p. 
  22.— 
  Dodge, 
  Rep. 
  l\ 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comni., 
  II 
  (1881), 
  App., 
  p. 
  17.— 
  

  

  Bri-nek, 
  ibid.. 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60; 
  Bull. 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dep. 
  Agvic, 
  IV 
  (1884), 
  

  

  ])p. 
  57, 
  .58. 
  

   Caloptenns 
  oecidentalis 
  Thomas!, 
  Ann. 
  Rep. 
  Chief 
  Eng., 
  1878 
  (1878), 
  1845. 
  

   Melanoplns 
  minor 
  Scudder, 
  Cent. 
  Orth. 
  (1879), 
  p. 
  84. 
  — 
  Bruxer, 
  Can. 
  Eut., 
  XA'II 
  

  

  (1885), 
  p. 
  17.— 
  Blatchley, 
  ibid., 
  XXIII 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  81.— 
  McNeill, 
  Psyche, 
  VI 
  

  

  (1891), 
  p. 
  74.— 
  Morse, 
  ibid., 
  VI 
  (1892), 
  p. 
  250.— 
  Briner, 
  Pnbl. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  

  

  So., 
  Ill 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  28.— 
  Morse, 
  Psyche, 
  VII 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  53.— 
  Beutenmulleh, 
  

  

  Bnll.Amer, 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  VI 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  307-308. 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  size, 
  dark-brownish 
  fuscous, 
  often 
  with 
  a 
  ferruginous 
  

   tinge, 
  especially 
  on 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  luteous 
  beneath. 
  Head 
  

   very 
  feebly 
  prominent, 
  testaceous, 
  obscurely 
  mottled 
  with 
  fuscous 
  at 
  

   least 
  above, 
  wliere 
  there 
  is 
  generally 
  a 
  broad, 
  median 
  blackish 
  stripe 
  

   and 
  a 
  postocular 
  piceous 
  band; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  scarcely 
  elevated 
  

   above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  Ciyes 
  iiearl}- 
  twice 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  nearly 
  thrice 
  (female) 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  Joint; 
  

   fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  narrow, 
  eciual, 
  deeply 
  (male) 
  or 
  shallowly 
  

   (female) 
  sulcate, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  sharp 
  ; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  percurrent, 
  

   faintly 
  narrowed 
  next 
  the 
  antennae, 
  elsewhere 
  subequal, 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  

   as 
  the 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  shallowly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  

   ocellus; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large, 
  a 
  little 
  prominent, 
  almost 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  rufous, 
  apically 
  infuscated, 
  

   about 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  the 
  proportions 
  scarcely 
  

   differing 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  sexes. 
  Pronotum 
  short, 
  distinctly 
  but 
  not 
  greatly 
  

   expanding 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  the 
  postocular 
  stripe 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  

   extending 
  over 
  the 
  prozona, 
  broader 
  and 
  more 
  distinct 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  

   head, 
  the 
  disk 
  very 
  broadly 
  convex, 
  passing 
  into 
  the 
  subvertical 
  lateral 
  

   lobes 
  by 
  a 
  distinct 
  but 
  always 
  rounded 
  shoulder 
  nowhere 
  forming 
  

   lateral 
  carinae; 
  median 
  carina 
  slight, 
  scarcely 
  less 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  pro 
  

   zona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  cut 
  only 
  by 
  the 
  principal 
  sulcus; 
  front 
  

   margin 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusangulate; 
  prozona 
  longitudinally 
  

   subquadrate, 
  feebly 
  more 
  longitudinal 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  

   distinctly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosteriial 
  spine 
  

   not 
  very 
  long, 
  conico-cylindrical, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  appressed, 
  suberect; 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  a 
  little 
  transverse 
  (female). 
  Tegmiiia 
  reaching 
  about 
  to 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  sometimes 
  a 
  little 
  short 
  of, 
  sometimes 
  surpassing 
  them, 
  

   rather 
  slender 
  and 
  subequal, 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinctly 
  

   but 
  never 
  heavily 
  maculate 
  with 
  fuscous 
  along 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area; 
  wings 
  

   moderately 
  broad, 
  hyaline 
  with 
  the 
  faintest 
  possible 
  bluish 
  tinge, 
  the 
  

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  N. 
  M. 
  vol. 
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