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  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  broad, 
  liyaliue, 
  glistening, 
  the 
  veins 
  fuscous 
  only 
  near 
  extreme 
  apex. 
  

   Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  distinctly 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  dull 
  brownish, 
  

   the 
  middle 
  femora 
  blackish 
  above, 
  especially 
  apically, 
  all 
  the 
  tarsi 
  

   marked 
  with 
  blackish; 
  hind 
  femora 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  outer 
  half 
  blackish, 
  

   sometimes 
  broken 
  into 
  very 
  oblique 
  dashes 
  by 
  a 
  median 
  and 
  post 
  basal 
  

   yellowish 
  streak; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  red, 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  black 
  basal 
  aniinlus, 
  

   the 
  spines 
  black 
  beyond 
  the 
  base, 
  eleven 
  to 
  thirteen 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  

   onter 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  abdomen 
  a 
  little 
  clavate, 
  slightly 
  

   recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular, 
  with 
  roundly 
  angulate, 
  feebly 
  

   and 
  broadly 
  elevated 
  sides 
  and 
  subrectangnlate 
  apex, 
  the 
  median 
  

   sulcus 
  broad 
  and 
  deep, 
  occupying 
  only 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  and 
  inclosed 
  

   between 
  very 
  high 
  and 
  sharp 
  ridges, 
  which 
  apically 
  diverge 
  abruptly 
  

   at 
  right 
  angles 
  to 
  the 
  sulcus; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  slight 
  and 
  

   distant 
  denticulations 
  lying 
  Just 
  outside 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  

   ridges; 
  cerci 
  long 
  and 
  slender, 
  compressed, 
  a 
  little 
  incurved, 
  broadest 
  

   at 
  the 
  base, 
  uniformly 
  and 
  very 
  slightly 
  tapering 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  half, 
  

   beyond 
  ecpial, 
  bent 
  a 
  little 
  upward, 
  broadly 
  and 
  roundly 
  truncate 
  at 
  

   tip, 
  and 
  emitting 
  from 
  the 
  inferior 
  angle 
  a 
  slender, 
  compressed, 
  scarcely 
  

   tapering 
  shoot, 
  rounded 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  running 
  in 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  

   margin 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  cerci 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  general 
  plane; 
  

   subgenital 
  i»late 
  rather 
  broad, 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   margin 
  feebly 
  elevated, 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  and 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  23.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  30.5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   11.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  12 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  21 
  mm., 
  female, 
  22 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  14.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  IG 
  mm. 
  

  

  Sixteen 
  males, 
  21 
  females. 
  San 
  Antonio, 
  Bexar 
  County, 
  Texas, 
  

   May 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collection); 
  Bosque 
  County, 
  Texas, 
  November 
  

   l,Belfragc 
  (same; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder); 
  Dallas, 
  Texas, 
  Boll 
  (S. 
  H. 
  Scudder; 
  

   U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Hi 
  ley 
  collection; 
  Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology); 
  Agricul- 
  

   tural 
  College, 
  Mississippi 
  (H. 
  E.Weed); 
  Georgia, 
  Morrison 
  (U.S 
  N.M. 
  — 
  

   Eiley 
  collection; 
  S, 
  Tf. 
  Scudder); 
  Jacksonville, 
  Duval 
  County, 
  Florida, 
  

   Maynard 
  (S. 
  Henshaw). 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  the 
  preceding 
  smaller 
  species, 
  but 
  may 
  

   be 
  distinguished 
  from 
  it 
  by 
  the 
  points 
  brought 
  out 
  in 
  the 
  table. 
  

  

  ii8. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  LURIDUS. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXIII, 
  tig 
  7.) 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  luridus 
  Dodge!, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  VIII 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  11.— 
  Uruxei;, 
  ibid., 
  IX 
  

   (1S87), 
  p. 
  145.— 
  Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Coinm., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  j). 
  42.— 
  Riley, 
  

   ibid., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  220; 
  Stand. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  II 
  (1884), 
  p. 
  195. 
  

  

  MelaiiopJiis 
  luridiis 
  Bruxer, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60; 
  Bull. 
  Wasbb. 
  

   Coll., 
  I 
  (1885), 
  p. 
  138; 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent., 
  1885 
  (1886), 
  p. 
  807.— 
  Osuohn, 
  Proc. 
  

   Iowa 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  I, 
  Pt. 
  ii 
  (1892), 
  p. 
  118.— 
  Brpxek, 
  I'ubl. 
  Nobr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  

   (1893), 
  p. 
  28. 
  

  

  Rather 
  small 
  in 
  size, 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  ferruginous. 
  

   Head 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  prominent, 
  dull 
  pallid 
  testaceous, 
  feebly 
  flecked 
  with 
  

   fuscous, 
  above 
  with 
  widening 
  dull 
  fuscous 
  stripes 
  and 
  a 
  narrow 
  fus- 
  

   cous 
  postocular 
  band; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  slightly 
  or 
  not 
  elevated 
  

  

  