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eyes large, prominent, especially iii the male, much longer than the 

 intraocular portion of the genae, broadly convex anteriorly; antennae 

 about a half (male) or two-thirds (female) as long as the hind femora, 

 dull castaneous. Pronotuui feebly constricted in the middle, enlarg- 

 ing almost as much in front as behind, the front border truncate, the 

 hind border somewhat obtusaugulate, fusco-castaneous, profusely and 

 rather coarsely punctate with fuscous above, the lateral lobes with a 

 maculate piceous baud on the upper part of the prozona, often divided 

 obliquely, especially in the female, by a dull luteous stripe; median 

 carina percurrent, sometimes feebler on the prozona and often subob- 

 solete between the sulci, the disk passing by a rounded shoulder, more 

 distinct on the metazona than on the prozona, into the slightly tumid 

 lateral lobes; prozona quadrate (male) or feebly transverse (female), 

 scarcely longer than the feebly punctate metazona. Prosternal spine 

 not very long and moderately slender (male) or short and stout (female), 

 a ppressed conical, blunt, erect; interspace between inesosternal lobes 

 about half as long again as broad (male) or slightly longer than broad 

 (female). Tegmina reaching the tips of the hind femora (male) or a 

 little shorter than that, shorter than the abdomen (female), not very 

 slender, tapering and narrowly rounded at tip, distinctly maculate in 

 the discoidal area, especially in the female, brownish fuscous; wings 

 moderately broad, pellucid, with glauco-fuscous veins. Hind femora 

 dark testaceous with basal patch and oblique premedian and postine- 

 dian bars of blackish fuscous, dull red beneath, the genicular arc 

 black, the lower genicular lobe pallid marked with fuscous; hind tibiae 

 sordid glaucous, dull lutesceut apically and basally, occasionally pale 

 led, the spines black except at base, ten to eleven, usually eleven, in 

 number in the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen clavate, a 

 little elongate, well rounded, considerably upturned, the supraanal 

 plate triangular with subrectangulate apex, the lateral margins basally 

 rounded, broadly upturned, the percurreut median sulcus a mere slit 

 between rather high compressed walls, with a pair of pronounced ter- 

 minal ridges; furcula consisting of a pair of rather slender, depressed, 

 tapering, acuminate, parallel fingers, reaching nearly to the middle of 

 the supraaual plate; cerci small, slender, nearly straight and nearly 

 e^ual, but basally tapering and apically a little inbent, rather stout, 

 well rounded at apex, and with the inbent portion deeply dimpled 

 exteriorly; subgenital plate rather broad, rather short, considerably 

 and abruptly elevated apically, but not prolonged posteriorly, tlie apical 

 margin subtruneate, distinctly notched. 



Length of body, male 16 mm., female 17 mm.; antennae, male 0.25 

 mm., female 5 mm.; tegmina, male 12.5 mm., female 11 mm.; hind 

 femora, male 9.5 mm., female 10 mm. 



Five males, 9 females. San Francisco, California, November (U.S. 

 N.M. Kiley collection); Marin County, California, August 8 (same); 

 Monterey, California, October 19, next the seashore. 



This is one of the smallest species of Melanoplns. 



