﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAyOPLI—SCrDDER. 
  347 
  

  

  ing 
  apically 
  infascated, 
  about 
  three-fourths 
  (male) 
  or 
  two 
  thirds 
  (female) 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora; 
  clypeus, 
  labrum 
  and 
  base 
  of 
  mandibles 
  

   mottled 
  like 
  the 
  face, 
  the 
  labrum 
  edged 
  with 
  black; 
  palpi 
  i^allid, 
  

   streaked 
  exteriorly 
  with 
  purplish 
  brown, 
  the 
  last 
  joint 
  tipi)ed 
  with 
  

   purplish 
  black. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  feebly 
  and 
  regularly 
  enlarging 
  

   posteriorly, 
  the 
  upper 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  abroad 
  piceons 
  

   band, 
  occasionally 
  obsolete, 
  crossing 
  the 
  prozona, 
  below 
  which 
  the 
  

   lateral 
  lobes 
  have 
  the 
  mottling 
  of 
  the 
  face; 
  disk 
  nearly 
  plane, 
  sepa- 
  

   rated 
  from 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  by 
  a 
  bluntly 
  angnlate 
  shoulder, 
  

   almost 
  forming 
  a 
  lateral 
  carina; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona, 
  subobsolete 
  on 
  the 
  prozona; 
  front 
  margin 
  subtruncate, 
  hind 
  

   margin 
  feebly 
  obtusangulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  rounded; 
  prozona 
  longitudi- 
  

   nal 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  (female) 
  

   longer 
  than 
  the 
  closely 
  punctate 
  metazoiia. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  

   blunt, 
  conical, 
  a 
  little 
  stouter 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  ami 
  

   appressed; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  about 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  

   again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  transverse 
  but 
  much 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  

   (female). 
  Tegmina 
  extending 
  backward 
  about 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  with 
  slight 
  variation, 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  distinctly 
  tapering, 
  

   brownish 
  fuscous, 
  not 
  infre(iuently 
  somewhat 
  cinereous, 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  

   delicate 
  fuscous 
  maculation 
  along 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area; 
  wings 
  not 
  very 
  

   broad, 
  hyaline, 
  sometimes 
  with 
  a 
  scarcely 
  perceptible 
  yellowish 
  tinge 
  to 
  

   the 
  anal 
  area, 
  the 
  veins 
  fuscous 
  apically 
  and 
  anteriorly 
  so 
  as 
  almost 
  to 
  

   give 
  the 
  tip 
  an 
  infumated 
  appearance. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  legs 
  tumes- 
  

   cent 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  mottled 
  with 
  the 
  colors 
  of 
  the 
  face; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   alternately 
  marked 
  externally 
  with 
  faint 
  purplish 
  brown, 
  dark 
  brown 
  

   and 
  very 
  pale 
  purplish, 
  the 
  inferio)- 
  carina 
  yellowish 
  bordered 
  with 
  

   white, 
  the 
  under 
  surface 
  yellowish; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  coral 
  red 
  with 
  a 
  basal 
  

   black 
  annulation, 
  the 
  spines 
  tii)ped 
  with 
  black, 
  eleven 
  to 
  fourteen 
  in 
  

   number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series; 
  tarsi 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  legs 
  marked 
  with 
  fuscous 
  

   deepening 
  into 
  black, 
  the 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  also 
  with 
  red. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  

   abdomen 
  clavate, 
  a 
  little 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  

   with 
  convex 
  sides 
  and 
  rectangulate 
  tip, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  feebly 
  

   elevated, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  preceding 
  species 
  but 
  with 
  rather 
  

   less 
  prominent 
  walls; 
  furcula 
  present 
  only 
  as 
  slight 
  swellings 
  of 
  the 
  

   inner 
  extremities 
  of 
  the 
  mesially 
  parted 
  lateral 
  halves 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  dorsal 
  

   segment; 
  cerci 
  pale 
  brownish 
  compressed 
  laminae, 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  gently 
  

   tapering 
  basal 
  half, 
  a 
  little 
  tumid, 
  straight 
  and 
  scarcely 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  basal 
  breadth, 
  and 
  a 
  bifurcate 
  apical 
  half, 
  the 
  forks 
  at 
  a 
  little 
  

   less 
  than 
  a 
  right 
  angle 
  to 
  each 
  other, 
  equally 
  divergent 
  from 
  the 
  basal 
  

   half, 
  the 
  lower 
  slight 
  and 
  subaculeate, 
  hardly 
  so 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  mesial 
  

   breadth 
  of 
  the 
  stem, 
  the 
  upper 
  equal 
  or 
  subspatulate, 
  fully 
  half 
  as 
  

   broad 
  and 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  stem, 
  incurved, 
  subsulcate 
  and 
  apically 
  

   rounded; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  pale 
  yellowish 
  brown, 
  broad, 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  

   as 
  long, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  entire, 
  sometimes 
  subangu- 
  

   late 
  laterally, 
  a 
  little 
  thickened 
  but 
  not 
  raised 
  above 
  the 
  lateral 
  margin 
  

  

  