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17. MELANOPLUS KENNICOTTII. 

 (Plate XI, fig. S.) 



Calopienus lilituratus SCUDDER!, Daws., Rep. Geol. Rec. 49th par. (1875), p. 343. 

 Mt-lanoplm kennicottii SCUDDER!, Proc. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), pp. 287, 



289, 290; Ent. Notes, VI (1878), pp. 46, 48, 49. BRUNER, Rep. U. S. Ent. 



Coinm., Ill (1883), p. 60; Rep. U. S. Ent., 1885 (1886), p. 307. 

 Melauoplus bilituratus CAULFIELD (pars), Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., XVIII (1886), 



p. 171. 

 Calopteniis (Melanoplus) lilituratus CAULFIELD (pars), Can. Rec. So., II (1887), 



p. 401; (pars), Can. Orth. (1887), p. 13. 

 MelanoplMS modestus BRUNER!, MS. 



Brownish testaceous, heavily mottled with fuscous. Head very dark 

 above and in a postocular baud; vertex rather tumid, particularly in 

 the male, where it is distinctly elevated above the level of the prono- 

 tum; interspace between the eyes rather broad, much broader than, in 

 the female nearly twice as broad as, the basal joint of the antennae; 

 fastigium rapidly declivent. broadly and rather deeply (male) or shal- 

 lowly (female) sulcate throughout ; frontal costa not very broad, slightly 

 narrowed above, narrower than the interspace between the eyes; eyes 

 moderately large and prominent; antennae testaceous, infuscated apic- 

 ally, a little shorter than (male) or less than two-thirds as long as 

 (female) the hind femora. Pronotum short, enlarging a little poste- 

 riorly, the front border truncate, the hind border obtusely angulate, the 

 angle rounded, dark testaceous above, more or less heavily mottled 

 with fuscous, the lower portion of the lateral lobes lighter, but the 

 upper part, on the prozona, with a broad piceous band, occasionally 

 broken, especially in the female; median carina percurrent and slight, 

 but feebler on the prozona than on the metazona; disk passing almost 

 insensibly into the lateral lobes on the prozona, but on the metazoua 

 with a distinct though rounded angle; prozona feebly (male) or dis- 

 tinctly (female) transverse, scarcely longer than the obscurely punctate 

 metazoua. Prosternal spine short, erect, conical, very blunt; interspace 

 between mesosternal lobes only a little longer than broad (male) or 

 decidedly transverse, but narrower than the lobes themselves (female); 

 metasternal lobes narrowly attingent (male) or approximate (female). 

 Tegmina reaching, occasionally in the female surpassing, the tip of the 

 hind femora, moderately narrow, distinctly tapering, brownish fuscous 

 with feeble flecking along the discoidal area; wings moderately broad, 

 hyaline, most of the veins and cross veins blackish fuscous. Hind 

 femora brownish testaceous, more or less obliquely bifasciate with 

 fuscous on the upper half, the genicular arc piceous, the inferior face 

 more or less but slightly fulvous; hind tibiae paler or browner testa- 

 ceous, the spines black except at base, ten to eleven in number in the 

 outer series. Extremity of male abdomen slightly clavate, upturned, 

 the supraaual plate triangular with nearly straight sides and acutangu- 

 late apex, the median sulcus percurreut, not very narrow but mesially 



