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43. MELANOPLUS ARTEMISIAE, new species. 

 (Plate XIV, tig. 8.) 



Pezolettix artemiaiae BRUNER!, MS. 

 Pezotettix parabllis McNEiLLl, MS. 



Of rather small size, cinereo-fuscous. Head rather prominent, dull 

 testaceous, heavily blotched with fuscous if not wholly infuscated, 

 deepest on the elevated portions, above ciuereo-testaceous, heavily 

 flecked with fuscous in stripes radiating from the fastigiurn and in a 

 postocular band; vertex somewhat tumid, distinctly elevated above 

 the level of the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes fully half 

 as wide again (male) or fully twice as wide (female) as the first anten- 

 nal joint; fastigium rather steeply declivent, sulcate; frontal costa per- 

 current, equal or faintly enlarging below, nearly as wide as the 

 interspace between the eyes, very feebly sulcate at and a little below 

 the ocellus, punctate above; eyes not very large but prominent, espe- 

 cially in the male, distinctly larger than the infraocular portion of the 

 geuae; antennae testaceous, five-sixths (male) or scarcely three-fifths 

 (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum rather short, subequal, 

 feebly enlarging posteriorly, the lateral lobes with a feeble fuscous 

 postocular band on the prozona, the disk frequently punctate with 

 fuscous, very broadly convex and passing by a rounded shoulder, 

 feebly angulated on the metazona, into the anteriorly feebly tumid 

 subvertical lateral lobes; median carina percurreut, but blunt on the 

 prozona, especially between the sulci where it is often subobsolete; 

 front margin truncate, hind margin rotuudato-obtusangulate, slightly 

 more augulate in the male than in the female; prozona transversely 

 subquadrate (male) or distinctly transverse (female), about a fifth 

 longer than the densely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine rather 

 short, erect, conico-pyramidal, subappressed ; interspace between meso- 

 sternal lobes truncato-cuneiform, a little longer than broad (male) or 

 distinctly transverse, not much narrower than the lobes (female). Teg- 

 mina broad-ovate, broader in the female than in the male, scarcely 

 shorter than the pronotum, attiugent, the apex angulate. Fore and 

 middle femora very feebly enlarged in the male; hind femora long and 

 slender, sordid flavo-testaceous, twice rather narrowly demi-cingulate 

 with fuscous above and touched with fuscous at the base, the genicular 

 arc fuscous; hind tibiae very pale and very dull glaucous, with a fuscous 

 patellar spot, the spines black on the apical half, ten to eleven, rarely 

 nine, in number in the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen 

 barely clavate, scarcely recurved, the supraanal plate triangular with 

 straight or nearly straight sides, acutangulate apex, the surface nearly 

 plane, rising rnesially and basally into a pair of high, sharp, feebly 

 convergent ridges, inclosing a very deep and tapering median sulcus 

 which covers two-thirds of the plate; furcula consisting of a pair of 

 distant minute denticulations overlying the subinedian ridges of the 



