NO. 1124. 



REVISION OF THE MELANOPLISCUDDER. 15 



outer series. Lateral margin of the subgenital plate of the male straight 

 from base outward, at the tip slightly elevated into a minute erect 

 tubercle; cerci simple, conical. 



This genus is very distinct from anything known to me, and I have 

 been in some doubt as to whether it should be placed in Melanopli, 

 especially as in the only male I have seen there were but eight spines 

 on the outer side of the hind tibiae; but Professor L. Bruner informs 

 me that he has an immature male with nine spines, which agrees with 

 what I find in the female, so that this feature must be looked on as 

 variable, as it is in some other genera of Melanopli. 



Although I have placed it at an extreme distance from Aptenopedes, 

 from which it is clearly widely separated in the lack of any basal 

 ampliation of the subgenital plate of the male, it recalls that genus in 

 its general appearance and especially in the triangular vertex of the 

 head; it differs, however, much from it in its subcylindrical slender 

 body and the close approximation of the sternal lobes. 



It is represented by a single species occurring in Florida. 



GYMNOSCIRTETES PUSILLUS, new species. 

 (Plate II, fig. 1.) 



Gymnoscirtetex pusillus BRUNER!, MS. 



Head above and in front between the lateral carinae of the face 

 lighter or darker chestnut brown; lower part of the genae of a similar 

 color but in a lighter tint, while the upper part of the genae is lemon 

 yellow in continuation of the body stripe of that color ; vertex with a 

 mediodorsal, greatly widening, blackish fuscous stripe including a yel- 

 lowish thread; basal joint of antennae yellow, the remainder dark 

 testaceous. Pronotum luteo-testaceous, above the median carina fus- 

 cous; upper half of lateral lobes piceous, forming a broad longitudinal 

 band which extends forward to the eyes (where it is margined above 

 with dull yellow) and behind over the abdomen, becoming there some- 

 what narrowed posteriorly and broken beneath, fading out on the 

 terminal segments; lower half of lateral lobes of pronotuin lemon 

 yellow, forming a baud which extends forward over the head and back- 

 ward over the meso- and metathorax, and on the abdomen (growing 

 duller) becomes a part of the general color of the under surface. Meta- 

 zona and extreme anterior part of prozona feebly and rather sparsely 

 punctulate; upper surface of meso- and metanota and of abdomen 

 like the pronotum, but more or less infuscated. Hind femora yellow 

 luteous, the upper half or less of the outer face more or less plumbeous; 

 hind tibiae pale dull green, the spines black, pallid at base. Supra- 

 anal plate of male large, triangular, the apex acuminate, a little blunt, 

 the whole central basal portion elevated to form another similar triangle 

 in which lies a pronounced demi lanceolate, basal sulcus, with sh^rp 

 walls, considerably less than half as long as the plate; furcula consist- 



