﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REnSIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOrLI—SCrDDKR. 
  339 
  

  

  risou; 
  Wyoming, 
  Morrison 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  collection); 
  Fort 
  McKin- 
  

   ney, 
  Jolinson 
  County, 
  Wyoming-, 
  July 
  (same); 
  Douglas, 
  Conv^erse 
  

   County, 
  Wyoming, 
  Bruner 
  (same); 
  Harney'.s 
  Peak, 
  7,000 
  to 
  8,000 
  feet, 
  

   South 
  Dakota, 
  Bruner 
  (same); 
  Fort 
  Butbrd, 
  Williams 
  County, 
  ISTortli 
  

   Dakota 
  (same); 
  Dakota 
  (same); 
  Montana, 
  and 
  Yellowstone, 
  Montana 
  

   (same): 
  Minnesota; 
  Winnipeg, 
  Manitoba. 
  Donald 
  Gunn 
  and 
  B. 
  Kenni- 
  

   cott. 
  

  

  It 
  IS 
  also 
  reported 
  by 
  Bruner 
  from 
  Washington 
  (State), 
  and 
  from 
  

   Fort 
  Collins, 
  Larimer 
  County, 
  Colorado. 
  

  

  114. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  CONFUSUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XXII, 
  fig. 
  10.) 
  

  

  Of 
  medium 
  size, 
  flavotestaceous. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent, 
  prol)ably 
  

   flavo-luteous 
  in 
  life, 
  marked 
  with 
  fuscous 
  above 
  in 
  a 
  median 
  stripe 
  and 
  a 
  

   pairof 
  divergent, 
  posteriorly 
  enlarging 
  stripes, 
  besides 
  a 
  broad, 
  distinct, 
  

   piceous, 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  somewhat 
  tumid, 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  

   above 
  the 
  i^ronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  hardly 
  so 
  wide 
  

   as' 
  (male) 
  or 
  almost 
  twice 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  antenna! 
  joint; 
  

   fastigium 
  gently 
  declivent, 
  deeply 
  (male) 
  or 
  shallowly 
  (female) 
  sulcate; 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  subequal, 
  but 
  slightly 
  broader 
  below, 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  

   the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  distinctly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  

   ocellus, 
  biseriately 
  punctate 
  above; 
  eyes 
  of 
  moderate 
  size 
  and 
  promi- 
  

   nence, 
  only 
  slightly 
  more 
  i)rominent 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  a 
  

   little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae 
  ; 
  antennae 
  luteous, 
  

   slightly 
  mfuscated 
  ne.\t 
  tlie 
  apex, 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  (male) 
  or 
  but 
  little 
  

   more 
  than 
  a 
  half 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  with 
  

   the 
  prozona 
  subequal 
  except 
  for 
  the 
  tumid 
  sides, 
  the 
  metazona 
  expand- 
  

   ing 
  considerably, 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  piceous, 
  

   postocular 
  band, 
  which 
  is 
  sometimes 
  a 
  little 
  maculate 
  or 
  strigose 
  with 
  

   luteous, 
  the 
  disk 
  broadly 
  convex 
  and 
  passing 
  by 
  a 
  well-rounded 
  shoul- 
  

   der, 
  forming 
  blunt 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  and 
  extreme 
  front 
  of 
  

   prozona, 
  into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct, 
  sub- 
  

   equal, 
  percurrent; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  with 
  feeblest 
  sign 
  of 
  minute 
  

   emargination, 
  hind 
  margin 
  obtusaugulate; 
  prozona 
  distinctly 
  longi- 
  

   tudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  longitudinally 
  subquadrate 
  (female), 
  very 
  sparsely 
  

   punctate, 
  not 
  a 
  great 
  deal 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  finely 
  and 
  densely 
  punctate 
  

   metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long, 
  compressed, 
  blunt 
  coni- 
  

   cal, 
  feebly 
  retrorse 
  (male), 
  or 
  rather 
  short, 
  appressed 
  conical, 
  very 
  

   blunt, 
  erect 
  (female); 
  interspace 
  between 
  inesosternal 
  lobes 
  about 
  half 
  

   as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  

   lobes 
  approximate 
  (male) 
  or 
  moderately 
  distant 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  

   long 
  and 
  rather 
  slender, 
  subequal, 
  slightly 
  or 
  considerably 
  surpassing 
  

  

  'Uudoubtedly 
  wider 
  in 
  life, 
  the 
  exceptionnlly 
  deep 
  sulcation 
  of 
  the 
  fastigium 
  of 
  

   the 
  single 
  male 
  indicating 
  a 
  contraction 
  of 
  the 
  intraocnlar 
  space 
  from 
  drying 
  after 
  

   immersion 
  in 
  alcohol. 
  

  

  