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apically dimpled, with a slight, inferior, indirectecl flange to the lower 

 margin apically, the whole much shorter than the supraanal plate; 

 infracercal plates extending noticeably beyond the supraaiial plate and 

 so exposed beyond the tips of the cerci to a considerable degree; sub- 

 genital plate longer than broad, broad and rectaugulate at base, apic- 

 ally elevated but not prolonged, the apical border thickened and 

 eniarginate. 



Length of body, male, 20.5 mm., female 22.5 mm. ; antennae, male, 

 8.5 mm., female, 8 mm.; tegmina, male, 17 mm., female, 17.5 mm.; 

 hind femora, male, 11.5 mm., female, 13 mm. 



Eleven males, 12 females. California, H. Edwards ; Siskiyou County, 

 California, July (U.S.KM. Eiley collection); Fort Redding, Shasta 

 County, California, Lieutenant Williamson ; Butte County, California 

 (U.S.KM. Riley collection); Sierra Valley, Sierra County, California, 

 J. Gr. Leminon (same) ; Sacramento County, California, Coquillett (same; 

 J. McXeill). 



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34. MELANOPLUS UNIFORMIS, new species. 

 (Plate XIII, fig. 9.) 



Melanoplm devastator SCUDDER! (pars), Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), 

 pp. 285-286, 287-288; (pars), Entom. Notes, VI (1878), pp. 46-47, 48-49. 



^.ight and nearly uniform testaceous, more or less feebly tinged above 

 with ferruginous. Head somewhat prominent, particularly in the male, 

 pallid testaceous, darker above, with occasionally a feeble postocular 

 fuscous line at the upper limit of the normal Melanoplan postocular 

 band; vertex tumid, well elevated above the pronotum, the interspace 

 between the eyes rather broad, half as broad again (male) or twice as 

 broad (female) as the first an tenual joint; fastigium strongly declivent, 

 sulcate throughout, more deeply and narrowly in the male than in the 

 female; frontal costa broad, subequal, scarcely attaining the clypeus, 

 fully as broad as the interspace between the eyes, feebly impressed about 

 the ocellus, punctate throughout; eyes large, rather prominent, much 

 larger than the iufraocular portion of the geuae ; antennae luteous, grow- 

 ing slightly fulvous apically, nearly two- thirds (male) or scarcely more 

 than half (female) as long as the hind femora. Prouotuui feebly enlarged 

 posteriorly, the lateral lobes slightly paler than the disk, and rarely 

 with a few faint duskier streaks in the place of the postocular baud, 

 the disk passing into the lateral lobes by a rounded shoulder, which 

 almost develops into a lateral cariua on the inetazona; median carina 

 slight, percurreut, only slightly feebler on the prozoua than on the ineta- 

 zona $ front margin subtruncate, hind margin obtusaugulate; prozona 

 quadrate (male) or slightly transverse (female), scarcely or not longer 

 than the closely and finely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine not 

 very long, conico-cylindrical, appressed, blunt, blunter in the female 

 than in the male, slightly retrorse; interspace between inesosternal 



