﻿374 
  PnOCEEDIXGS 
  of 
  the 
  national 
  museum. 
  vol. 
  XX, 
  

  

  131. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  PUNCTULATUS. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXV, 
  fig. 
  4.) 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  punctulattis 
  Uhler!, 
  MS. 
  (1862).— 
  Scudder!, 
  Bost. 
  Journ. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  

   VII 
  (1862), 
  p. 
  465.— 
  Smith, 
  Proc. 
  Portl. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  I 
  (1868), 
  p. 
  150.— 
  

   Walker, 
  Cat. 
  Derm. 
  Salt. 
  Brit. 
  Mas., 
  IV 
  (1870), 
  p. 
  678.— 
  Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  IT. 
  S. 
  

   Geol. 
  Siirv. 
  Terr., 
  V 
  (1873), 
  p. 
  163.— 
  Bruner, 
  Cau. 
  Eut., 
  IX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  145.— 
  

   Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  43.— 
  Bruner, 
  ibid., 
  Ill 
  

   (1883), 
  p. 
  60. 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  griseits 
  Thomas, 
  Ann. 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  3. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Terr., 
  V 
  (1872), 
  p. 
  454. 
  — 
  

   Glover, 
  111. 
  N. 
  A. 
  Eut., 
  Orth. 
  (1872), 
  pi. 
  xii, 
  fig. 
  14.— 
  Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Terr., 
  V 
  (1873), 
  p. 
  165.— 
  Bruner, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  IX 
  (1877), 
  p. 
  144.— 
  

   Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  42.— 
  Bruner, 
  ibid., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60, 
  

  

  Melanophis 
  piinctulatm 
  Scudder!, 
  Hitchc. 
  Rep. 
  Geol. 
  N. 
  H., 
  I 
  (1874), 
  p. 
  376; 
  

   Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  285; 
  Ent. 
  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  

   p. 
  44.— 
  Fernald, 
  Orth. 
  N. 
  E. 
  (1888), 
  pp. 
  31, 
  32; 
  Ann. 
  Rep. 
  Mass. 
  Agric. 
  Coll., 
  

   XXV 
  (1888), 
  pp. 
  11.5, 
  116.— 
  Davis, 
  Ent. 
  Amer.,V 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  81.— 
  Smith, 
  Cat. 
  

   Ins. 
  N, 
  J. 
  (1890), 
  p. 
  413.— 
  McNeill, 
  Psyche, 
  VI 
  (1891), 
  p. 
  74.— 
  Smith, 
  Bull. 
  

   N. 
  J. 
  Exp. 
  St., 
  XC 
  (1892), 
  p. 
  34.— 
  Scudder, 
  Psyche, 
  VII 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  55.— 
  

   Morse, 
  ibid., 
  VII 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  55, 
  106. 
  — 
  Beutenmuller, 
  Bull. 
  Amer. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  

   Hist., 
  VI 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  2.52, 
  307. 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  helUio 
  Scudder!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XVII 
  (1875), 
  p. 
  476; 
  

   Ent. 
  Notes, 
  IV 
  (1875), 
  p. 
  75.— 
  Thomas, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  Comm., 
  I 
  (1878), 
  

   p. 
  43.— 
  Scudder!, 
  Cent. 
  Orth. 
  (1879), 
  p. 
  20.— 
  Bruner, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Ent. 
  

   Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60. 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  hellno 
  Stal, 
  Bih. 
  K. 
  Sv. 
  Vet.-Akad. 
  Handl., 
  V, 
  No. 
  9 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  14. 
  

  

  Melanophis 
  helluo 
  Scudder!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  285; 
  

   Ent. 
  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  44; 
  Psyche, 
  VII 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  55.— 
  Morse, 
  ibid., 
  VII 
  

   (1894), 
  p. 
  .55. 
  

  

  Melanoplns 
  (/risers 
  Blatchley!, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  XXIV 
  (1892), 
  pp. 
  30-31. 
  — 
  Bruner, 
  

   Publ. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  28.— 
  Scudder, 
  Psyche, 
  VII 
  (1894), 
  

   p. 
  55. 
  — 
  Morse, 
  ibid., 
  VII 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  55. 
  — 
  Blatchley!, 
  Can. 
  Ent., 
  XXVI 
  

   (1894), 
  p; 
  245. 
  

  

  Dark 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  much 
  mottled 
  with 
  blackish 
  and 
  often 
  tinged 
  

   with 
  dull 
  olivaceous, 
  beneath 
  ferrugineo-testaceous. 
  Head 
  varying 
  

   from 
  pale 
  dull 
  olivaceous 
  to 
  ferrugineo-testaceous, 
  irregularly 
  mottled 
  

   with 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  blackish 
  baud 
  behind 
  the 
  eyes 
  and 
  a 
  

   widening 
  median 
  strii^e 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  upon 
  the 
  summit; 
  vertex 
  tumid; 
  

   fastigium 
  rapidly 
  declivent, 
  sulcate 
  throughout, 
  the 
  margins 
  much 
  

   raised 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  which 
  are 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  space 
  less 
  than 
  the 
  

   width 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa; 
  the 
  latter 
  prominent 
  above, 
  moderate 
  in 
  

   breadth, 
  subequal, 
  sulcate 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  sparsely 
  punctate 
  through- 
  

   out, 
  each 
  point 
  marked 
  by 
  a 
  dark 
  olivaceous 
  dot; 
  eyes 
  large 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   male 
  very 
  prominent, 
  in 
  both 
  sexes 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  

   iwrtion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  varying 
  from 
  fusco 
  luteous 
  to 
  fusco- 
  

   ferrugiuous, 
  much 
  longer 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  or 
  no 
  shorter 
  (female) 
  than 
  

   the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  subequal, 
  widening 
  a 
  little 
  at 
  the 
  metazona 
  

   iu 
  the 
  female, 
  slightly 
  flaring 
  in 
  front 
  to 
  receive 
  the 
  head, 
  especially 
  in 
  

   the 
  male, 
  varying 
  from 
  luteo-testaceous 
  to 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  often 
  

   much 
  flecked 
  and 
  punctate 
  with 
  black 
  or 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  lateral 
  

   lobes 
  more 
  heavily 
  marked 
  above 
  with 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  forming 
  

   generally 
  a 
  broken 
  or 
  maculate 
  band; 
  front 
  and 
  hind 
  margin 
  as 
  in 
  

  

  