﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  REVISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLl—SCLDDER. 
  397 
  

  

  with 
  a 
  median 
  black 
  stripe 
  and 
  a 
  broad 
  postocular 
  piceous 
  baiid 
  

   broadly 
  margined 
  with 
  Havo-testaceous; 
  vertex 
  well 
  arched, 
  slightly 
  

   or 
  not 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotuni, 
  the 
  inters[)ace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  a 
  

   little 
  broader 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  fully 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (female) 
  the 
  first 
  

   antennal 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  considerably 
  declivent, 
  rather 
  deeply 
  sulcatej 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  alinost 
  percurrent, 
  e([ual, 
  abont 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   distinctly 
  narrower 
  than 
  (female) 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  

   strongly 
  sulcate 
  throughout, 
  sparsely 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  moderate 
  in 
  size, 
  

   I)rominent 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  i^alc 
  red, 
  feebly 
  infuscated 
  apically, 
  

   fully 
  four-fiftlis 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotuni 
  short, 
  subcylindrical, 
  a 
  little 
  compressed, 
  in 
  

   the 
  female 
  feebly 
  and 
  regularly 
  enlarging 
  posteriorly, 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  

   equal 
  on 
  the 
  j^rozona 
  and 
  faintly 
  flaring 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  the 
  

   disk 
  in 
  both 
  sexes 
  transversely 
  convex 
  and 
  passing 
  quite 
  insensibly 
  

   into 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  the 
  ground 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  prouotum 
  

   is 
  flavo-testaceous, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  heavily 
  overlaid 
  with 
  black 
  somewhat 
  

   irregularly, 
  which 
  however 
  forms 
  a 
  broad 
  dorsal 
  band 
  (divided 
  

   in 
  the 
  female 
  by 
  a 
  mediodorsal 
  flavous 
  stripe) 
  crossing 
  the 
  prozona 
  

   only, 
  and 
  very 
  broad 
  pi(;eous 
  (male) 
  or 
  brownish 
  fus(;ous 
  (female) 
  

   postocular 
  bands 
  cnjssing 
  the 
  whole 
  pronotuni, 
  broken 
  to 
  some 
  extent, 
  

   and 
  especially 
  i)osteriorly 
  divided, 
  by 
  a 
  flavo-testaceous, 
  posteriorly 
  

   flavous, 
  longitudinal 
  stripe 
  running 
  through 
  its 
  u])per 
  portion; 
  the 
  

   transverse 
  sulci 
  are 
  also 
  marked 
  in 
  black 
  and 
  the 
  lower 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  

   lobes 
  are 
  broadly 
  bordered 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous; 
  the 
  disk 
  of 
  the 
  

   metazona 
  is 
  feriuginous 
  or 
  rufous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  infuscated 
  laterally; 
  

   median 
  carina 
  obsolete; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate 
  (male) 
  or 
  gently 
  and 
  

   mesially 
  arcuate 
  (female), 
  hind 
  margin 
  truncate; 
  prozona 
  very 
  sparsely 
  

   punctate, 
  subquadrate, 
  only 
  a 
  third 
  longer 
  (the 
  principal 
  sulcus 
  arcuate, 
  

   opening 
  backward) 
  than 
  the 
  finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  

   spine 
  short, 
  conical, 
  blunt; 
  interspace 
  between 
  mesosterual 
  lobes 
  half 
  

   as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  a 
  little 
  broader 
  than 
  long 
  (female). 
  

   Tegmina 
  wanting. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  considerably 
  swollen 
  in 
  the 
  

   male, 
  ferrugineo 
  flavous 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  varying 
  from 
  flavo-testaceous 
  to 
  

   ferruginous 
  and 
  very 
  broadly 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  black, 
  the 
  fasciations 
  so 
  

   confused 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  face, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  that 
  this 
  often 
  

   becomes 
  wholly 
  black 
  with 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  pronounced 
  flavous 
  incisures, 
  

   the 
  lower 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  flavous, 
  sometimes 
  linearly 
  dotted 
  

   with 
  black, 
  the 
  lower 
  face 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  sanguineous, 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  

   geniculation 
  black 
  except 
  the 
  flavous 
  apical 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  genic- 
  

   ular 
  lobe; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  feebly 
  incurved 
  apically, 
  fusco-glau- 
  

   cous 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  patellar 
  annulus, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  in 
  their 
  apical 
  half, 
  

   ten, 
  rarely 
  nine 
  or 
  eleven, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Abdomen 
  witli 
  

   meso-and 
  metathorax 
  dull 
  flavo-testaceous, 
  heavily 
  overlaid 
  with 
  black 
  

   in 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  broken 
  continuation 
  of 
  the 
  pronotal 
  stripes 
  and 
  bands, 
  the 
  

   slender 
  mediodorsal 
  flavous 
  stripe 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  also 
  repeated 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  