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  PEOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  subgeuital 
  plate 
  broad, 
  fully 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  

   abruptly 
  slightly 
  aud 
  e(iually 
  elevated, 
  entire, 
  the 
  whole 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  

   plate 
  as 
  seen 
  from 
  above 
  subquadrate. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  19 
  mm., 
  female, 
  27 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  ^J) 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  9.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  14 
  mm., 
  female, 
  17 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  10.75 
  mm., 
  female, 
  13.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Sixteen 
  males, 
  17 
  females. 
  Dallas 
  County, 
  Iowa, 
  August 
  8-10, 
  J. 
  A. 
  

   Allen; 
  Brookfield, 
  Linn 
  County, 
  Missouri, 
  E. 
  P. 
  Austin; 
  Williams- 
  

   ville, 
  Wayne 
  County, 
  Missouri, 
  S. 
  W. 
  Denton 
  (A. 
  P. 
  Morse) 
  ; 
  Nebraska, 
  

   Dodge 
  (U.S.N. 
  ^L 
  — 
  Kiley 
  collection; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder); 
  West 
  Point, 
  Cum- 
  

   ing 
  County, 
  Nebraska, 
  August 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  collection; 
  L. 
  Bruner) 
  ; 
  

   Sidney, 
  Cheyenne 
  County, 
  Nebraska, 
  August 
  (L. 
  Bruner) 
  ; 
  Fort 
  Robin- 
  

   son, 
  Dawes 
  County, 
  Nebraska, 
  August 
  (same); 
  Dakota 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  

   Riley 
  collection); 
  Colorado, 
  Morrison 
  (S. 
  Heushaw); 
  Wyoming, 
  Mor- 
  

   rison 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  collection); 
  Mason 
  Valley, 
  Esmeralda 
  County, 
  

   Nevada, 
  June 
  30, 
  A. 
  S. 
  Richardson 
  (same); 
  Easton, 
  Kittitas 
  County, 
  

   Washington 
  (same). 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  also 
  reported 
  from 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  St. 
  Louis, 
  Missouri 
  (Riley), 
  

   Reno 
  and 
  Barber 
  counties, 
  Kansas 
  (Bruner), 
  and 
  the 
  Yellowstone 
  region, 
  

   Montana 
  (Bruner). 
  

  

  iig. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  COLLINUS. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXIII, 
  Iig. 
  6.) 
  

  

  Melanoplus 
  coUmiis 
  Scuddek!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  285; 
  

   Eut. 
  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  44.-Bruner, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Comni., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  

   60.— 
  Fernald, 
  Oith. 
  N. 
  Eugl. 
  (1888), 
  pp. 
  31, 
  32; 
  Ann. 
  Kep. 
  Mass. 
  Agric. 
  

   Coll., 
  XXV 
  (1888), 
  pp. 
  11.5, 
  116.— 
  Smith, 
  Cat. 
  Ins. 
  N. 
  J. 
  (1890), 
  p. 
  413.— 
  

   Davis, 
  Ent. 
  Amer., 
  V 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  81.— 
  Blatchley!, 
  Can. 
  Eut., 
  XXIII 
  (1891), 
  

   p. 
  99.— 
  McNeill!, 
  Psyche, 
  VI 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  74.— 
  Smith, 
  Bnl]. 
  N. 
  .1. 
  I':xp. 
  St 
  , 
  

   XC 
  (1892), 
  p. 
  34.— 
  Bruner, 
  Pnbl. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  28.— 
  Morse 
  !, 
  

   Psyche, 
  VI 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  406; 
  ibid., 
  VII 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  53.— 
  Bla 
  tchley 
  !, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  

   XXVI 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  244.— 
  Beutenmuller, 
  Bull. 
  Am. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  VI 
  (1894), 
  

   pp. 
  306-307. 
  

  

  Medium 
  or 
  rather 
  small 
  sized, 
  dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  beneath 
  more 
  

   or 
  less 
  pale 
  lemon-yellow. 
  Head 
  not 
  prominent 
  but 
  rather 
  large, 
  the 
  

   face 
  and 
  genae 
  mottled 
  with 
  brownish 
  purple 
  aud 
  faint 
  puri)lish 
  white, 
  

   the 
  latter 
  sometimes 
  supphmted 
  by 
  an 
  olivaceous 
  tint, 
  the 
  summit 
  with 
  

   fuscous 
  or 
  puiplish 
  longitudinal 
  streaks 
  and 
  a 
  black 
  postocuhu- 
  band 
  

   edged 
  above 
  by 
  i)urplish 
  or 
  yellowish; 
  vertex 
  rather 
  tumid, 
  distinctly 
  

   elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  slightly 
  

   broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  

   autennal 
  joint: 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  shallowly 
  sulcate, 
  broaden- 
  

   ing 
  considerably 
  in 
  front; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  just 
  failing 
  to 
  reach 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  

   equal, 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  breadth 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  depressed 
  

   at 
  and 
  generally 
  sulcate 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  punctate 
  throughout, 
  biseri- 
  

   ately 
  above; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large, 
  moderately 
  prominent, 
  a 
  little 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae, 
  mottled 
  with 
  faintly 
  

   purplish 
  black 
  and 
  faintly 
  purplish 
  white; 
  antennae 
  ferruginous 
  grow- 
  

  

  