﻿BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOI'LI—SCrDDER. 
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  beneath, 
  broadening 
  tlie 
  band; 
  disk 
  of 
  prozona 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  flecked 
  

   with 
  dark 
  brown, 
  sometimes 
  collected 
  into 
  a 
  V-shaped 
  patch 
  opening 
  

   forward, 
  the 
  apex 
  at 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  metazona; 
  hind 
  margin 
  dotted 
  

   with 
  blackish 
  ; 
  metazona 
  profusely, 
  prozona 
  sparsely, 
  both 
  shallowly, 
  

   punctate: 
  sides 
  of 
  metathorax 
  with 
  a 
  pale 
  obUipie 
  stripe 
  narrowing 
  

   upward 
  to 
  a 
  i)oiut. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long, 
  stout, 
  subcylin- 
  

   drical, 
  feebly 
  appressed,erect,blunt-tipped. 
  Teginina 
  reaching 
  (female) 
  

   or 
  slightly 
  surpassing 
  (male) 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  darker 
  or 
  

   lighter 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  flecked 
  rather 
  distantly 
  with 
  brownish 
  spots, 
  

   relieved 
  by 
  similar 
  jiale 
  si)ots 
  along 
  the 
  middle, 
  occasionally 
  more 
  or 
  

   less 
  confluent. 
  Legs 
  of 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  under 
  surface, 
  the 
  fore 
  and 
  

   middle 
  femora 
  a 
  little 
  deeper 
  or 
  duskier; 
  hind 
  femora 
  broadl}^ 
  bifasciate 
  

   with 
  blackish, 
  broken 
  by 
  the 
  pale 
  incisures, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  black 
  on 
  

   both 
  sides; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  yellow, 
  occasionally 
  tinged 
  with 
  red, 
  paler 
  next 
  

   the 
  base 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  annulus, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  to 
  their 
  very 
  base, 
  ten 
  

   to 
  twelve, 
  usually 
  eleven, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity' 
  of 
  

   male 
  abdomen 
  subclavate, 
  upturned 
  slightly, 
  well 
  rounded; 
  supraanal 
  

   plate 
  broad, 
  clypeate, 
  with 
  slightly 
  produced 
  rectangulate 
  apex, 
  slightly 
  

   sinuate 
  sides, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  gently 
  elevated, 
  the 
  middle 
  longitudi- 
  

   nal 
  half 
  very 
  broadly 
  tectate 
  with 
  a 
  moderately 
  broad 
  and 
  deep 
  median 
  

   sulcus 
  extending 
  over 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  half; 
  furcula 
  wanting 
  

   or 
  sometimes 
  indicated 
  by 
  the 
  merest 
  angle; 
  cerci 
  very 
  stout, 
  subspatu- 
  

   late, 
  compressed, 
  largest 
  at 
  tip, 
  the 
  basal 
  two-fifths 
  eijual 
  and 
  straight, 
  

   the 
  remainder 
  expanding 
  into 
  an 
  obliquely 
  transverse, 
  obovate, 
  rounded 
  

   lobe, 
  its 
  outer 
  border 
  convex, 
  directed 
  upward 
  and 
  more 
  i)roduced 
  

   above 
  than 
  below, 
  making 
  the 
  tip 
  fully 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  base; 
  

   infracercal 
  plates 
  visible 
  oidy 
  by 
  their 
  feeble, 
  narrow, 
  blunt-tipped 
  

   l)rojection 
  beyond 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  not 
  very 
  broad, 
  

   the 
  apex 
  both 
  produced 
  and 
  elevated 
  a 
  little. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  20.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  34.5 
  mm. 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   13.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  15 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  21 
  mm., 
  female, 
  21 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  17.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  21 
  mm. 
  

  

  Twenty-two 
  males, 
  18 
  females. 
  Texas, 
  Belfrage; 
  Dallas, 
  Texas, 
  Boll 
  

   (U.S.N.M.— 
  Eiley 
  collection; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder); 
  Gulf 
  coast 
  of 
  Texas, 
  

   Aaron. 
  

  

  Although 
  the 
  single 
  male 
  type 
  of 
  Cah 
  ponderosus 
  has 
  been 
  lost, 
  I 
  

   have 
  no 
  doubt 
  from 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  material 
  now 
  at 
  hand 
  that 
  

   it 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  Cal. 
  rohnstus^ 
  described 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  and 
  place. 
  

  

  122. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  VIOLA. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXIV, 
  fig. 
  1.) 
  

  

  Pezoteltix 
  viola 
  Thomas!, 
  Bull. 
  111. 
  Mns. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  I 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  68.— 
  Riley, 
  Rep. 
  

  

  U.S. 
  Ent. 
  Comin., 
  I 
  (1878). 
  pp. 
  220. 
  226.— 
  Scudder 
  !, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  XII 
  (1880), 
  p. 
  

  

  75.— 
  Thomas!. 
  Rep. 
  Ent. 
  111.. 
  IX 
  (1880). 
  pp. 
  90. 
  95. 
  121.— 
  McNeill. 
  Psyche. 
  VI 
  

  

  (1891), 
  p. 
  76.— 
  Brcxer, 
  Publ. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  (1893^ 
  p. 
  27.— 
  Garmax, 
  

  

  Ortli.Ky. 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  8. 
  

   ColopieiiKs 
  (iffiJiatiis 
  Uhler!, 
  MS. 
  

   rezotctli'- 
  apilifitus 
  Scuddei:!, 
  (_au. 
  Ent., 
  XII 
  (1880), 
  p. 
  75. 
  

  

  