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paler maculations along the middle line; wings rather narrow, hyaline, 

 the veins very pale blue, becoming iiifuscated apically and anteriorly. 

 Legs liavous, banded with fuscous, the hind femora unequally trifasciate 

 with blackish fuscous, the fasciation only distinct above, the outer face 

 more or less olivaceous, the inner face sanguineous, and a postmedian 

 sanguineous patch below, the genicular arc black, and the whole genic- 

 ulation flecked with fuscous; hind tibiae purplish fuscous, marked 

 with dull flavous between the spines, which are black, becoming pallid 

 ba sally, flavous interiorly, eleven in number in the outer series. Ex- 

 tremity of male abdomen hardly clavate or recurved, the supraanal 

 plate subclypeate, the margins strongly and roundly bent beyond the 

 middle, the apex slightly produced, subrectangulate, and pointed, 

 the sides strongly and broadly elevated in the proximal half, the 

 median sulcus slight and only perceptible in apical half; furcula con- 

 sisting of a pair of broad flattened plates slightly more than twice as 

 long as broad, reaching to the middle of the supraanal plate, beyond 

 the middle roundly and obliquely emarginate on the inner side, apically 

 roundly and obliquely truncate exteriorly; cerci moderately broad at 

 base, almost immediately tapering rapidly by the excision of the upper 

 margin, so that the distal three-fourths forms a compressed subequal 

 finger, barely expanding at the tip, the exterior surface slightly 

 impressed or subsulcate apically, the whole straight, except for being 

 slightly bent inward near the middle, failing to reach the tip of the 

 supraanal plate; subgenital plate forming a regular well rounded 

 flaring scoop, the margin nowhere elevated, entire, the plate consider- 

 ably narrower apically than at base, and much longer than broad. 



Length of body, male, 27 mm. ; antennae, 12.5 mm. ; tegmina, 24 mm. ; 

 hind femora, 14 mm. 



One male. Bradshaw Mountain, Arizona, June 21 (L. Bruner). 



13. MELANOPLUS BOWDITCHI. 

 (Plate XI, fig. 3.) 



Melanoplus bowditchi SCUDDER!, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX (1879), p. 72; 

 Cent. Orth. (1879), p. 61. BRUNER, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., Ill (1883), p. 

 61; Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc., Ill (1893), p. 27. TOWNSEND, Ins. Life, VI 

 (1893), p. 31. 



Of medium size. Head slightly elevated, moderately arched above; 

 interspace between the eyes about half as broad again as the first 

 autennal joint, a little broader in the female than in the male; fastigium 

 rather shallowly sulcate, subspatulate in form, the lateral margins 

 thick and low; frontal costa equal, plane above, sulcate at and below 

 the ocellus; eyes rather large, rather prominent, especially in the male. 

 Prouotum simple, the metazona slightly expanding, punctulate, the 

 median carina slight but distinct upon it, but wholly wanting in front; 

 lateral carinae obsolete; transverse sulci of prozona distinct, sub- 

 continuous across the middle. Tegmiua very slender, extending beyond 



