212 PR CEEDING S OF THE NA Tl OXAL M USE UM. 



One male. Salmon City, Leinhi County, Idaho, August (L. Bruner). 



This species has a close general resemblance to Podisma inarsliallii 

 with its much shorter antennae and wide separation of the mesosternal 

 lobes. 



11. MANCUS SEEIES. 



In this group, composed of species mostly of small size, the prozona 

 of the male varies from quadrate to distinctly longitudinal, and the 

 interspace bet ween the mesosternal lobes of the same sex varies from a 

 little longer than broad to more than twice as long as broad. Tl e 

 antennae of the male are rarely as long as the hind femora. The teg- 

 mina are always abbreviate, about as long as the pronotuui, usually 

 rather broad and either augulate or more or less acuminate at tip. The 

 hind tibiae are red, rarely greenish, and have nine to sixteen, more com- 

 monly about eleven, spines in the outer series. 



The extremity of the male abdomen is usually very feebly clavato, 

 and the supraanal plate usually triangular and rather flat except for the 

 submediaii ridges; but it is sometimes long subclypeate with margins 

 more or less raised; the furcula always consists of a feeble or rather 

 feeble pair of denticulations ; the cerci are generally rather small, some- 

 times nearly equal, at others tapering more or less in the basal half, 

 but rarely anywhere very slender, generally incurved or inbent, and 

 occasionally somewhat arcuate as seen laterally, always well rounded 

 apically and generally exteriorly sulcate on the apical half; the sub- 

 genital plate is broad, generally also short, subconical or subpyramidal, 

 the lateral and apical margins in the same plane and entire. 



The species are five in number and have together a wide range, though 

 all but one are rather local, so far as known. The one which is widely 

 distributed occurs from Nebraska and Kansas to Texas in the West, 

 and from southern New England and central New York to Virginia in 

 the East. The other species are known respectively from Lower Cali- 

 fornia, Colorado, Idaho, and northern New England, but the last is also 

 reported from Illinois. 



This series represents in brachypterous forms the glaucipes series in 

 macropterous, and in an ideal arrangement the series should not be so 

 widely separated as here. 



41. MELANOPLUS SCUDDERI. 



(Plate XIV, figs. 5, 6.) 



Pezotettix scudderi UHLER!, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 11(1864), p. 555. SMITH, Rep. 

 Conn. Bd. Agric., 1872 (1872), pp. 370, 381. THOMAS, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Terr., V (1873), p. 152; Bull. 111. Mus. Nat. Hist., I (1876), p. 67. BRUNER, 

 Can. Ent., IX (1877), p. 144. SCUDDER, ibid., XII (1880), p. 75. THOMAS, 

 Rep. Ent. 111., IX (1880), pp. 91, 95, 121. BRUNER, Rep. U. S. Eut. Comin., 

 Ill (1883), p. 59. COMSTOCK, Intr. Ent. (1888), p. 107. DAVIS, Ent. Amer., 

 V (1889), p. 80. SMITH, Cat. Ins. N. J. (1890), p. 412. BLATCHLEY ! , Can. 

 Ent., XXIII (1891), p. 80. MCNEILL!, Psyche, VI (1891), p. 76. OSBOKX, 

 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sc., I, ii (1892), p. 117. BRUNER, Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc., 

 Ill (1893), p. 27. MORSE, Psyche, VII (1894), p. 106. GARMAN, Orth. Ky. 

 (1894), p. 8. BKUTENMPLLER, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., VI (1894), p. 309, 

 pi. vin, fig. 6. 



