﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOrLI—SCrDDER. 
  3(55 
  

  

  frout 
  of 
  the 
  fastigium 
  but 
  avoids 
  the 
  eyes; 
  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  broad, 
  equaling 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa, 
  the 
  

   fastigium 
  broadly, 
  equally, 
  and 
  very 
  sballowly 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   broad, 
  subequal, 
  with 
  rounded 
  margins, 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  

   the 
  ocellus, 
  feebly 
  punctate 
  laterally; 
  eyesasin 
  Jf./e/«or«^«s; 
  antennae 
  

   ferruginous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  considerably 
  and 
  broadly 
  infnscated 
  apicall}', 
  

   about 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  (female) 
  as 
  the 
  liind 
  

   femora. 
  Pronotum 
  enlarging 
  a 
  little 
  from 
  iu 
  front 
  backward, 
  more 
  

   feebly 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  the 
  disk 
  as 
  in 
  M.femoratus, 
  the 
  

   median 
  carina 
  slight 
  but 
  distinct 
  throughout, 
  generally 
  slighter 
  (bnt 
  

   only 
  a 
  little) 
  between 
  the 
  sulci, 
  the 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  obscure, 
  consisting 
  

   of 
  a 
  rounded 
  angle, 
  the 
  front 
  margin 
  very 
  feebly 
  convex, 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  

   broadly 
  rounded 
  or 
  obtusely 
  rotundato-angulate; 
  i)rozona 
  distinctly 
  

   longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  generally 
  a 
  third 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  

   fourth 
  (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  metazona, 
  with 
  very 
  faint 
  and 
  exceed- 
  

   ingly 
  sj)arse 
  punctation, 
  the 
  metazona 
  finely 
  and 
  closely 
  punctate; 
  disk 
  

   very 
  dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  rather 
  broadly 
  bordered 
  laterally, 
  including 
  

   the 
  lateral 
  carinae, 
  with 
  an 
  equal, 
  generally 
  i^erciirrent, 
  fulvotestaceous 
  

   or 
  pallid 
  testaceous 
  stripe, 
  usually 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa, 
  and 
  

   wliich 
  is 
  bordered 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  narrowly 
  and 
  irregularly 
  on 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   lobes 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  fading 
  below 
  into 
  fuscous, 
  

   except 
  in 
  the 
  sulci. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  as 
  in 
  M.femoraius. 
  Tegmina 
  

   attaining 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  surpassing 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  generally 
  longer 
  iu 
  the 
  

   male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  (in 
  a 
  single 
  instance 
  seen, 
  a 
  female, 
  no 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  femora 
  themselves) 
  brownish 
  or 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  anal 
  

   vein 
  marked 
  bj' 
  a 
  slender 
  llavous 
  stripe, 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area 
  not 
  darker 
  

   than 
  the 
  rest, 
  generally 
  almost 
  clear 
  bat 
  frequently 
  with 
  faint 
  and 
  del- 
  

   icate 
  juottling; 
  wings 
  hyaline, 
  the 
  cross-veins, 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  inner 
  half 
  

   of 
  the 
  expanded 
  anal 
  area, 
  fuscous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  ferrugi- 
  

   nous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  heavily 
  infuscated 
  above; 
  hind 
  femora 
  rather 
  long 
  

   and 
  moderately 
  stout, 
  ferrugineo 
  testaceous, 
  the 
  outer 
  and 
  generally 
  

   the 
  inner 
  faces 
  black 
  above, 
  tiavo-testaceous 
  below, 
  the 
  inner 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  

   upper 
  face 
  thrice 
  very 
  broadly 
  banded 
  with 
  black, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  and 
  

   a 
  basal 
  transverse 
  stripe 
  across 
  the 
  lower 
  genicular 
  lobe 
  black 
  on 
  both 
  

   sides; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  passing 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  gradually, 
  at 
  varying 
  points 
  but 
  

   generall}' 
  near 
  the 
  middle, 
  from 
  purplish 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  greenish 
  yellow 
  

   (very 
  rarely 
  red 
  or 
  reddish) 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  the 
  patella 
  of 
  the 
  lighter 
  color, 
  

   followed 
  in 
  lighterexamples 
  by 
  a 
  narrow 
  black 
  annulus. 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  

   almost 
  or 
  quite 
  to 
  their 
  base, 
  ten 
  to 
  thirteen 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  tlie 
  outer 
  

   series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  rounded, 
  "well 
  upturned, 
  

   the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  clypeate, 
  with 
  strongly 
  sinuous 
  sides, 
  rectangulate 
  

   tip, 
  a 
  slender 
  percurrent 
  very 
  deep 
  median 
  sulcus, 
  bounded 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  

   half 
  or 
  more 
  by 
  sharp 
  walls, 
  between 
  which 
  and 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  the 
  

   whole 
  plate 
  is 
  longitudinally 
  hollowed; 
  cerci 
  very 
  broad, 
  laminate, 
  ex- 
  

   ternally 
  con 
  vex, 
  gently 
  incurved, 
  surpassing 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate, 
  shaped 
  

   almost 
  precisely 
  as 
  in 
  Jl.feinoratus 
  but 
  more 
  elongate, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  

  

  