﻿N0.1124. 
  BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI—SCrDDER. 
  357 
  

  

  siderably 
  to 
  au 
  obliquely 
  transverse, 
  broad, 
  oval 
  lobe 
  with 
  regularly 
  

   rounded 
  contour, 
  above 
  expanding 
  twice 
  as 
  much 
  as 
  below, 
  tbe 
  whole 
  

   feebly 
  incurved 
  and 
  surpassing 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  infracercal 
  plates 
  

   hardly 
  visible, 
  briefer 
  than 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  rather 
  

   narrow, 
  subequal, 
  abruptly, 
  roundly, 
  and 
  considerably 
  elevated 
  ajucally, 
  

   but 
  not 
  produced, 
  entire. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male 
  and 
  female, 
  1'5 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  15 
  mm., 
  

   female, 
  lli 
  mm,; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  13.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  9 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   male 
  and 
  female, 
  10 
  mm. 
  The 
  female 
  measured 
  has 
  exceptionally 
  short 
  

   tegmina. 
  

  

  Nine 
  males, 
  12 
  females. 
  St. 
  Louis, 
  Missouri 
  (LT.S.X.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collec- 
  

   tion); 
  central 
  Missouri 
  (same): 
  Illinois, 
  L'hler; 
  southern 
  Illinois. 
  Ken- 
  

   nicott, 
  Thomas. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  reported 
  from 
  central 
  Illinois 
  (Thomas): 
  Eunning 
  

   Lake, 
  Illinois, 
  July 
  15, 
  September 
  (McNeill); 
  Anderson, 
  Fulton, 
  Hop- 
  

   kins 
  and 
  Christian 
  counties 
  and 
  Elk 
  Lick 
  Falls, 
  Kentucky 
  ((iarman); 
  

   southeast 
  Nebraska 
  (Bruner). 
  It 
  would 
  thereiore 
  appear 
  to 
  have 
  a 
  

   rather 
  narrow 
  range, 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  Mississippi 
  Valley, 
  between 
  latitude 
  

   370-40°, 
  and 
  longitude 
  860-9Gc>. 
  

  

  123. 
  MELANOFLUS 
  CLYPEATUS. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXIV, 
  fig. 
  2.) 
  

  

  CaloptenHS 
  clypeatus 
  Scl'dder 
  !, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  40; 
  Eut. 
  

  

  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  18.— 
  Bkuner, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883). 
  p. 
  60. 
  

   Melanoplus 
  cliipeaius 
  Scudder!, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  XII 
  (1880), 
  p. 
  75. 
  

  

  Brownish 
  testaceous. 
  Front 
  of 
  head 
  varying 
  from 
  dull 
  luteous 
  to 
  

   dull 
  reddish 
  brown, 
  faintly 
  dotted 
  with 
  fuscous; 
  tips 
  of 
  mandibles 
  and 
  

   lower 
  edge 
  of 
  labrum 
  marked 
  with 
  black; 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  

   a 
  little 
  (male) 
  or 
  much 
  (female) 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  autennal 
  joint, 
  

   very 
  slightly 
  depressed 
  centrally, 
  at 
  least 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   broad, 
  subequal, 
  slightly 
  depressed 
  at 
  the 
  ocellus; 
  antennae 
  luteous, 
  

   inluscated 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half, 
  nearly 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  (female) 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hiud 
  femora. 
  Pronotuni 
  scarcely 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly, 
  

   with 
  but 
  slight 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  and 
  a 
  slight 
  median 
  carina, 
  equal 
  and 
  

   percurrent 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  interrupted 
  slightly 
  between 
  the 
  sulci 
  in 
  the 
  

   male; 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  indistinct, 
  rou)ided; 
  top 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  i^ronotum 
  

   dotted 
  faintly 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  paler, 
  marked 
  

   next 
  the 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  streak, 
  which 
  narrows 
  and 
  dis- 
  

   ap[)ears 
  posteriorly, 
  broadens 
  anteriorly 
  and 
  extends 
  slightly 
  ui^on 
  

   the 
  head. 
  Prostcrnal 
  spine 
  rather 
  long, 
  cylindrical 
  or 
  couico-cylin- 
  

   drical, 
  blunt-tipped, 
  feebly 
  retrorse. 
  Tegmina 
  not 
  reaching 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  

   the 
  abdomen, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  femora, 
  the 
  costal 
  field 
  dark 
  testa- 
  

   ceous, 
  the 
  discoidal 
  field 
  blackish, 
  and 
  the 
  anal 
  field, 
  which 
  is 
  sepa- 
  

   rated 
  angularly 
  from 
  the 
  rest, 
  light 
  testaceous 
  or 
  wood-brown. 
  Fore 
  

   and 
  middle 
  legs 
  of 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  body; 
  hind 
  femora 
  long 
  and 
  moder- 
  

   ately 
  stout, 
  blackish 
  on 
  their 
  outer 
  face, 
  but 
  the 
  inferior 
  outer 
  carina 
  

  

  