﻿BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCIDDEB. 
  343 
  

  

  Lengtli 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  22 
  mm., 
  female, 
  20 
  mm.; 
  antenmie, 
  male, 
  10.5 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  9.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  1G.5 
  mm, 
  female, 
  20.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  13 
  mm., 
  female, 
  14 
  lum. 
  

  

  Sixteen 
  males, 
  16 
  females. 
  North 
  C'arcdina, 
  ^Morrison; 
  Dingo 
  Blulf, 
  

   North 
  Carolina, 
  November 
  15, 
  Parker-Maynard; 
  Smithville, 
  North 
  

   Carolina, 
  November 
  22, 
  Parker-Maynard; 
  Florida, 
  Priddy 
  (L. 
  Bruuer); 
  

   Florida 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Kiley 
  (.'ollectioii); 
  Jacksonville, 
  Duval 
  County, 
  

   Florida, 
  Ashmead 
  (L. 
  Bruuer); 
  Cadet, 
  Washington 
  County, 
  Missouri, 
  

   Eiley 
  (U.S.N.M.— 
  Riley 
  eollection; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder); 
  Dallas, 
  Texas 
  

   (same). 
  

  

  117. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  DELETOR. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXIII, 
  tig. 
  2.) 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  ddelor 
  Scuddek!, 
  Proc 
  Bost. 
  Sue. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XVII 
  (1875), 
  pp. 
  475- 
  

   476; 
  Ent. 
  Notes, 
  IV 
  (1875), 
  pp. 
  74-75; 
  Cent, 
  Orth. 
  (1879), 
  pp. 
  19-20.— 
  Thomas, 
  

   Rep. 
  U. 
  8. 
  Eut. 
  Coram., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  42.— 
  Bruner, 
  ibkl., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60. 
  

  

  MelanopJus 
  deletor 
  Scuddeu, 
  Cent. 
  Orth. 
  (1879), 
  p. 
  84. 
  

  

  C>f 
  moderately 
  large 
  size, 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  darkest 
  above. 
  Head 
  

   feebly 
  prominent, 
  olivaceo 
  testaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  heavily 
  infuscated 
  

   above 
  in 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  divergent, 
  longitudinal 
  stripes; 
  vertex 
  rather 
  tumid, 
  

   distinctly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  

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

   first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  shallow, 
  with 
  slight 
  

   but 
  rather 
  sharp 
  lateral 
  margins, 
  greatly 
  expanding 
  anteriorly; 
  frontal 
  

   costa 
  broad, 
  expanding 
  a 
  little 
  at 
  the 
  ocellus 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  snlcate 
  in 
  the 
  

   same 
  part; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  large, 
  not 
  very 
  iDrominent, 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  pale 
  reddish, 
  infus- 
  

   cated 
  apically, 
  about 
  four-fifths 
  (male) 
  or 
  three 
  fourtlis 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  faintly 
  constricted 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  a 
  

   little 
  larger 
  posteriorly 
  than 
  anteriorly, 
  the 
  disk 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  feebly 
  

   striped 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  piano 
  convex, 
  passing 
  by 
  an 
  abrupt 
  but 
  

   rounded 
  shoulder 
  into 
  the 
  subvertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  which 
  are 
  luteo 
  

   testaceous 
  with 
  an 
  olivaceous 
  tinge, 
  passing 
  above 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  gradu- 
  

   ally 
  into 
  the 
  postocular 
  stripe; 
  this 
  crosses 
  the 
  prozona 
  only, 
  is 
  always 
  

   most 
  distinct 
  and 
  deeper 
  in 
  tint 
  at 
  its 
  upper 
  limit, 
  is 
  sometimes 
  con- 
  

   fined 
  to 
  that 
  and 
  often 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  broken 
  with 
  luteous; 
  median 
  

   carina 
  distinct 
  but 
  slight, 
  nearly 
  equal, 
  cut 
  only 
  by 
  the 
  ])rincipal 
  sul- 
  

   cus; 
  front 
  margin 
  subtruncate, 
  hind 
  margin 
  rounded 
  obtusangulate; 
  

   prozona 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  ([uadrate 
  (female), 
  distinctly 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  obscurely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  stout, 
  

   appressed 
  cylindrical, 
  blunt, 
  erect, 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  somewhat 
  conical; 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  fully 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  

   (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female). 
  Tegmiua 
  fully 
  reaching, 
  generally 
  some- 
  

   what 
  surpassing 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  rather 
  broad, 
  distinctly 
  tapering, 
  

   brownish 
  fuscous, 
  tlecked 
  throughout 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  more 
  conspicuously 
  

   in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area 
  from 
  alternating 
  with 
  a 
  line 
  of 
  pallid 
  spots; 
  Avings 
  

  

  