﻿BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  2IELAX0PLI—SC 
  UDDER. 
  SI 
  5 
  

  

  M. 
  arboreus; 
  prozona 
  quadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  transverse 
  (female), 
  

   not 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  third 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   metazona, 
  the 
  feebly 
  tumid 
  disk 
  passing 
  insensibly 
  without 
  lateral 
  

   carinae 
  into 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  though 
  these 
  are 
  sometimes 
  visible 
  in 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  section 
  as 
  on 
  the 
  metazona 
  ; 
  median 
  carina 
  occasionally 
  distinct 
  

   throughout, 
  but 
  always 
  feebler 
  and 
  sometimes 
  very 
  feeble 
  on 
  the 
  prozona; 
  

   metazona 
  closely 
  ruguloso-punctate. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  conical, 
  

   erect 
  ; 
  interval 
  between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  subquadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  

   transverse, 
  but 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  themselves 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  

   somewhat 
  surpassing 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  very 
  gradually 
  tapering 
  to 
  a 
  

   well-rounded 
  apex, 
  fusco-testaceous, 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  moderately 
  large 
  

   roundish 
  or 
  quadrate 
  fuscous 
  spots; 
  wings 
  pellucid, 
  with 
  a 
  feeble 
  

   greenish-yellow 
  tinge, 
  feebly 
  infumated 
  apically 
  where 
  the 
  veins 
  and 
  

   cross 
  veins 
  are 
  blackish 
  fuscous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  luteo- 
  or 
  

   olivaceo-testaceous 
  heavily 
  flecked 
  with 
  black, 
  showing 
  a 
  tendency 
  to 
  

   form 
  a 
  triple 
  belting; 
  hind 
  femora 
  similar, 
  the 
  black 
  forming 
  mod- 
  

   erately 
  narrow 
  basal, 
  premedian, 
  postmedian, 
  and 
  apical 
  belts, 
  which 
  

   do 
  no 
  not 
  touch 
  the 
  coralline 
  under 
  and 
  inner 
  surfaces, 
  except 
  the 
  latter 
  

   in 
  a 
  partial 
  way; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  dull 
  red, 
  with 
  a 
  postbasal 
  obscure 
  flavous 
  

   annulus, 
  before 
  which 
  they 
  are 
  sometimes 
  blackened, 
  and 
  beyond 
  which, 
  

   above 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  sides, 
  often 
  flecked 
  or 
  suffused 
  with 
  plumbeo-fuscous, 
  

   the 
  serial 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  spines 
  often 
  dull 
  luteous, 
  the 
  whole 
  pilose; 
  

   spines 
  black 
  nearly 
  or 
  quite 
  to 
  their 
  base, 
  except 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  side, 
  ten 
  

   to 
  twelve 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  theouter 
  series, 
  none 
  arising 
  very 
  near 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  

   the 
  tibiae. 
  Extremitj^ 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  abdomen 
  scarcely 
  clavate, 
  somewhat 
  

   upturned, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  triangular, 
  with 
  convex 
  lateral 
  margins 
  

   and 
  subrectangulate 
  apex, 
  its 
  median 
  sulcus 
  terminating 
  abruptly 
  in 
  

   the 
  middle, 
  rather 
  broad, 
  somewhat 
  shallow, 
  bounded 
  by 
  rather 
  sharp 
  

   walls; 
  furcula 
  entirely 
  wanting; 
  cerci 
  large, 
  broad, 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  or 
  

   less 
  subequal, 
  exteriorly 
  convex 
  and 
  punctate, 
  beyond 
  abruptly 
  expand- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  nearly 
  double 
  the 
  width 
  in 
  exactly 
  opposite 
  directions, 
  consider- 
  

   ably 
  more 
  above 
  than 
  below, 
  but 
  otherwise 
  symmetrical, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   margin 
  angulato-convex, 
  the 
  whole 
  gently 
  incurved; 
  infracercal 
  plates 
  

   surpassing 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  only 
  at 
  the 
  extreme 
  base 
  

   and 
  slightly; 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  moderately 
  broad, 
  apically 
  abruptly 
  

   elevated 
  to 
  a 
  considerable 
  degree 
  and 
  thickened, 
  but 
  only 
  a 
  little 
  

   prolonged. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  21 
  mm., 
  female, 
  28 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  

   14.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  12 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  17 
  mm., 
  female, 
  18.5 
  mm,; 
  

   hind 
  femora, 
  male, 
  10.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  12 
  mm. 
  

  

  Nineteen 
  males, 
  34 
  females. 
  Maine, 
  Packard, 
  P. 
  R. 
  Uhler; 
  North 
  

   Conway, 
  Carroll 
  County, 
  New 
  Hampshire; 
  Andover, 
  Essex 
  County, 
  

   Massachusetts, 
  November; 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Boston, 
  Massachusetts, 
  Uhler; 
  

   Cambridge, 
  Middlesex 
  County, 
  Massachusetts, 
  September 
  (Museum 
  

   Comparative 
  Zoology; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder); 
  Waltham, 
  Middlesex 
  County, 
  

   Massachusetts, 
  September 
  5, 
  C. 
  J. 
  Maynard 
  (A. 
  P. 
  Morse); 
  Sherborn, 
  

   Middlesex 
  County, 
  Massachusetts, 
  September, 
  Mrs. 
  A. 
  L. 
  Babcock 
  

  

  