NO. 1124. 



REVISION OF THE MELANOPLISCrDDER. 39 



Length of body, male, 12.5 mm., female, 21 Dim.; antennae, male, G.5 

 mm., female, 7.5 mm.; tegiuina, male, 2 mm., female, 3.5 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 8 mm., female, 11.5 mm. 



Two males, one female. Corpus Christ! Bay, Xueces County, Texas, 

 December 11-20, E. Palmer; Lerdo, Duraugo, Mexico, December (L. 

 Brunei 1 ). 



3. CYCLOCERCtfS VALGA, new species. 

 (Plate III, fig. 6.) 



Brownish testaceous with blackish and dull luteous markings. Head 

 dull luteo-testacoous, the whole summit of the head to below the middle 

 of the eyes posteriorly blackish, with a narrow and somewhat obscure 

 luteous stripe on either side, following the sides of the entire fastigium 

 around the eyes to the middle and then passing backward, continuing 

 across the prozona on the upper margin of the lateral lobes; fastigium 

 feebly sulcate between the eyes, which are separated by a narrow space, 

 much narrower than the rather broad and subequal frontal costa; this 

 becomes obsolescent below and is shallowly sulcate in the middle and 

 sparsely and feebly punctate throughout, like the rest of the face and 

 the genae ; antennae luteo-testaceous. Pronotuin with a broad blackish 

 fuscous dorsal stripe, crossing the whole prozona between the luteous 

 stripes mentioned, coarsely and feebly rugoso-punctate ; metazona finely 

 and closely rugoso-punctate, rufo-testaceous ; lateral lobes pallid lute- 

 ous below, crossed above by a very broad mixed luteo-castaneous and 

 blackish band, greatly broadening and weakening on the metazona, 

 where it becomes rufo-testaceous; episterna pale greenish luteous; 

 epiniera subpiceous. Interspace between mesosternal lobes of male 

 subquadrate. Tegmina dark fuscous with luteous veins, about as long 

 as the prozona, linear, slightly and regularly enlarging to the rounded 

 apex. Hind femora flavo-luteous like the under surface of the abdo- 

 men, pale rufo-testaceous above, the outer field with a bluish green 

 upper margin, the whole geniculation pale rufo-testaceous; hind tibiae 

 feebly incurved apically (whence the specific name), blue-green with 

 a testaceous base, the apical half of the spines black. Supraanal plate 

 of male shield-shaped, with strongly sinuous sides, much longer than 

 broad, with a rather narrow sulcus on the basal half, bounded by slight 

 ridges; furcula wanting and the last dorsal segment parted in the mid- 

 dle; cerci somewhat tumid and large at base, tapering rapidly in the 

 basal half, the apical half laminate, tapering, acuminate, with an inferior 

 dentation at its base. 



Length of body, male, 18.5 mm. ; antennae, 8.5 mm. ; tegmina, 4 mm. ; 

 hind femora, 11.25 mm. 



One male. Sierra Nola, Tainaulipas, Mexico, December 3-6, E. 

 Palmer. 



This species differs widely from the two preceding. 



