NO. 1 124 RE VISION OF THE MELANOPLISC UDDER. 2 1 



one of yellowish white; face grayish ; abdomen with a yellow line along 

 the back, the sides brown, the sternites yellow; sternites of thorax 

 bluish gray; a whitish bar extends from base of tegmiua diagonally 

 to hind coxae; sides of hind femora brown with two yellowish stripes 

 on upper margin, below light orange; tibiae deep orange; tarsi flesh 

 color. Female tinged with greenish yellow where there is clear yellow 

 in the male; cheeks, whole sternum and lower sides of abdomen blue, 

 especially the sternites of thorax ; lower sides of hind femora and tibiae 

 deep orange. 



Mr. Samuel Henshaw, while recently in London, procured for me at 

 the British Museum a drawing of the genitalia of Walker's Caloptenus 

 med'icanus, described by him as new, showing that it was unquestion- 

 ably the present species. (See Plate II, fig. 4.) 



2. PARADICHROPLUS VARICOLOR. 

 (Plate II, fig. 6.) 



Pezoteitix varicolor STAL, Bill. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Hamll., V (1878), No. 9, pp. 9-10. 

 Faradichrophis varicolor BRUNNEH, R6v. Syst. Orth. (1893), p. 145. GiGLio-Tos, 

 Zool. Jahrb., Abtli. Syst., VIII (1895), p. 813. 



Dark ferrugineo-testaceous, lutesceut beneath, with a black lateral 

 stripe. Head with the genae not in the least tumesceut as seen from 

 above, the summit blackish fuscous, and behind the eyes a broad 

 piceous band; raised portions more or less obscured with blackish 

 fuscous; frontal costa much narrowed above, punctate, plane; fasti- 

 gium feebly sulcate anteriorly. Pronotum with the hind margin entire, 

 the lateral carinae feeble on the metazona, the upper portion of the 

 lateral lobes with a broad piceous band, the continuation of that 

 behind the eye, somewhat tinged with chocolate, accompanied on the 

 prozona by a slender black stripe between the front and middle sulcus, 

 halfway between the black band and the lower margin. Prosternal 

 spine conical. Tegmiua half as long again as broad, apically acumi- 

 nate, their inner edges subattingent, testaceous, the costal half, in 

 continuation of the pronotal stripe, infuscated. Fore and middle legs 

 ferruginous above, luteous below; hind femora with the upper half of 

 the outer and upper third of the inner face blackish, the upper face 

 ferruginous, the remainder flavous, the hind tibiae dull pale red, the 

 spines black on apical, pallid on basal half. Supraanal plate of male 

 broadly triangular, apically rectangulate, the angle rounded, the sur- 

 face nearly flat, with a percurrent rather sharply defined median sulcus; 

 furcula consisting of a pair of subattingent, very feeble, rounded lobes; 

 cerci very slender, tapering very gradually on basal half, then laminate 

 and subequal, bent abruptly inward and backward and feebly twisted, 

 terminating in a blunt point. 



Length of body, male, 11.75 mm.; tegrnina 2.75 mm.; hind femora 

 8 mm. 



One male, Columbia. Originally described from Colombia and Mex- 



