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prozona, though in the female, excepting between the sulci, it is nearly 

 as elevated though not so sharp as on the metazona; front margin sub- 

 truncate, hind margin produced, but broadly truncate, with the faintest 

 possible indication of eruargination ; prozona distinctly longitudinal 

 (male) or longitudinally subquadrate (female), very faintly and sparsely 

 punctate, about half as long again as the closely and sharply punctate 

 metazona. Prosternal spine moderately long, conical, rather blunt ; 

 interspace between mesosternal lobes about twice as long as broad 

 (male) or quadrate (female.) Tegmina abbreviate, much shorter than 

 the pronotum, rather distant, obovate, nearly twice as long as broad, 

 well rounded apically. Fore and middle femora of male only moderately 

 tumid; hind femora testaceous or ferrugineo testaceous, more or less 

 confusedly bifasciate with blackish fuscous, the entire geniculation 

 blackish fuscous, the inner half of under surface and lower half of inner 

 surface pale sanguineous; hind tibiae very dark glaucous, almost pur- 

 plish, the spines pallid in basal, black in apical half, nine to ten, usually 

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

 strongly recurved, the supraaual plate triangular, with subrectangulate 

 apex and feebly and broadly crenate margins, the sharp and low ridges 

 bounding the exceptionally shallow and flat median sulcus forming a 

 broad triangle in somewhat less than the basal half of the plate, though 

 the sulcus continues as a delicate incision and broadens a little at the 

 apex; furcula consisting only of the rectangulate but projecting inner 

 corners of the gradually broadening divided lateral halves of the last 

 dorsal segment; cerci broad at base, gently tumid, rapidly and regu- 

 larly narrowing in the basal half, beyond subequal, very slender, hardly 

 a fourth as broad as at base, incurved, the tip bluntly pointed, the 

 whole about twice as long as the basal breadth; subgenital plate long 

 and narrow, the lateral and apical margins in nearly the same plane, but 

 feebly elevated apically, as seen from above well rounded, entire. 



Length of body, male, 16.5 mm., female, 20.5 mm.; antennae, male, 

 7.5 mm., female, 8 mm. ; tegmina, male and female, 4 mm. ; hind femora, 

 male, 10.5 mm., female, 12.75 mm. 



Two males, 1 female. Los Angeles, California, Coquillett (U.S.N.M. 

 Kiley collection). 



This species differs from the preceding mainly in coloring and in the 

 larger and bulkier female. 



64. MELANOPLUS FUSCIPES, new species. 



(Plate XVI, %. !).) 

 s I'ezoteitijr fuscipes McNEiLL,!, MS. 



Of rather small size, dark ferrugineo-fuscous with black markings. 

 Head feebly prominent, testaceous, heavily flecked or sometimes suf- 

 fused with fuscous, above dark fuscous mesially, separated by a dull 

 flavo testaceous stripe bordering the eye from the broad piceous post- 

 ocular band; vertex moderately tumid, elevated somewhat above the 



