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middle of the supraanal plate; eerci rather small, tapering in the 

 basal three-fifths, gently and equally above and below, beyond equal, 

 less than half as broad as the base, exteriorly sulcate apically, the tip 

 blunt and not nearly reaching the tip of the supraanal plate; subgen- 

 ilal plate as in M. herbaceus. 



Length of body, male, 25.5 mm,; antennae, 13! mm.; tegmina, 23 

 mm.; hind femora, 14 mm. 



One male. San Diego, California, Coquillett (U.S.N.M. Kiley collec- 

 tion). 



This species is very closely allied to the preceding, from which it 

 differs by its color and pattern, by the differently shaped male cerci and 

 furcula, by the extreme narrowness of the interspace between the 

 mesosternal lobes, and by the less sharply margined frontal costa. 



12. MELANOPLUS PICTUS, new species. 



(Plate XI, fig. 2.) 

 Melanoplus pictus BRUNER!, MS. 



A little above the medium size, highly variegated in coloring. Head 

 slightly prominent, bright flavous, irregularly and profusely mottled 

 and blotched with blackish fuscous, least and more delicately so above; 

 vertex moderately tumid, raised slightly above the level of the prono- 

 tum, the interspace between the eyes narrow, narrower than the first 

 joint of the antennae; fastigium rapidly and roundly declivent, distinctly 

 sulcate throughout; frontal costa rather prominent above, subequul, 

 considerably broader than the interspace between the eyes, just failing 

 to reach the clypeus, distinctly sulcate excepting above, where it is 

 biseriately punctate; eyes rather large, long, and prominent, much 

 longer than the intraocular portion of the geuae; antennae nearly as 

 long as the hind femora, flavous throughout. Pronotum subequal, 

 enlarging a little on the metazona, the sides of the prozona a little 

 tumid independently on each zone, the disk pilose, gently convex, 

 passing by a rounded shoulder into the inferiorly vertical lateral lobes, 

 the median carina distinct on the metazoua, subobsolete on the pro- 

 zona, obsolete between the sulci; front margin faintly convex with a 

 slight median emargination, hind margin obtusangulate, the angle well 

 rounded; pronotuin mostly brownish fuscous, irregularly enlivened by 

 bright flavous, especially on the anterior part of the disk, on the upper 

 most part of the lateral lobe-*, and on the lower part of the metazona of 

 the same, the brown deepening in color on the upper third or more 

 of the prozona; prozona slightly longitudinal, scarcely longer than 

 the densely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine rather short, stout, 

 conical, blunt, erect; interspace between mesosternal lobes of male 

 nearly three times as long as broad, the metasternal lobes subattingent. 

 Tegmina long, slender, subequal, far surpassing the hind femora, 

 brownish with a roseate tinge on the basal half, scarcely flecked with 



