NO. 1124. REVISION OF THE MELANOPLlSCUDDEK. G5 



with a pallid line along the position of the lateral carinae of the prozona, 

 extending also across the head where it follows the upper hinder mar- 

 gin of the eyes; above the middle of the lateral lobes, on the prozona, 

 is a more or less distinct and irregular fuscous bar, generally darkest 

 below, including on the hinder section a whitish dash in its upper part, 

 and sometimes more or less margined with pallid, especially below; 

 there is usually present, sometimes conspicuously, a narrower or broader 

 mediodorsal stripe, sometimes pale yellow or pale yellow margined more 

 or loss broadly, and generally more broadly behind than in front, with 

 reddish pink or fuscous, at other times, and especially in the female 

 where it is at least generally broader, wholly reddish pink more or less 

 infnscated. Tegmina of about the length of the abdomen in both sexes, 

 green or yellowish green, the anal area and often a little more than that 

 sometimes reddish pink, especially in the female. Legs green, the fore 

 and middle femora more or less plainly annulate with coral red before 

 the gcniculatiou, and occasionally with a line of red above the upper 

 margin of the outer face, the geniculation with a fuscous crescent both 

 on the outer and inner side; hind tibiae pale bluish green, becoming 

 more or less yellowish apically, the spines pallid on tbeir basal, blackish 

 brown on their apical half; hind tarsi pale green, more or less yellow- 

 is]^, especially at the apices of the joints. Supraanal plate of female 

 triangular, subacutely but bluntly angulate, of about equal length and 

 breadth, the margins nearly straight, the middle of either half with a 

 rather broad moderately elevated ridge, the two converging beyond the 

 middle of the plate and inclosing a deep basal sulcus; furcula consist- 

 ing of a pair of minute rounded lobes, nearly twice as distant as their 

 width; cerci considerably shorter than the supraanal plate, simple, reg- 

 uh.rly conical on basal half, the apical half subequal, bluntly pointed, 

 very feebly dowucurved ; infracercal plates almost as long as the supra- 

 anal plate, inconspicuous; last dorsal segment broadly rounded and 

 rather deeply emargiuate. 



Length of body, male, 18.5 mm., female, 30 rum.; antennae, male, 

 8.25 mm., female, 10.25 mm.; tegoriua, male, 13 mm., female, 20 mm.; 

 hind femora, male, 11.0 mm., female, 17.5 mm. 



Forty males, G8 females. Red River of the North [Minnesota or Mani- 

 toba], Uhler; southern Illinois, Kennicott; Crawford County, Iowa, 

 July 13-24, J. A. Allen; Denison, Crawford County, Iowa, July 20, 

 J. A. Allen; Jefferson, Greene County, Iowa, July 20-24, J. A. Allen; 

 Dallas County, Iowa, August, J. A. Allen; Valentine, Cherry County, 

 Nebraska, L. Bruner (U.S.N.M. [No. 712]) ; Fort Robinson, Dawes County, 

 Nebraska, August 22, L. Bruner (U.S.N.M. [No. 712]); Chadron, Dawes 

 County, Nebraska, L. Bruner (U.S.N.M. [No. 712]); Nebraska, Dodge, 

 llayden ; West Point, Cuming County, Nebraska (L. Bruuer) ; Bismarck, 

 North Dakota, July 23, G. W. Sweet ( U.S.N.M. [No. 712] ) Wyoming, Mor- 

 rison (U.S.N.M. [No. 712]) ; Fort McKinney, Johnson County, Wyoming, 

 July 26 (U.S.N.M. [No. 712]); Fort Benton, Choteau County, Montana, 

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