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conical, about as long as broad, ending in a slight postmarginal tubercle, 

 the margins in one plane, broadly rounded, entire. 



Length of body, male, 15 mm., female, 20.5 mm.; antennae, male, 

 6.75 mm., female, 7.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 3.5 mm., female, 4 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 9 mm., female, 11.25 mm. 



Six males, 4 females. California (U.S.N.M. Eiley collection); San 

 Bernardino County, California, May (same); Los Angeles, California, 

 Coquillett (same); San Diego County, May (U.S.X.M.); between San 

 Luis Obispo and San Simeon Bay, California, E. Palmer. 



This species is very close indeed to the preceding, but differs from k 

 in lacking the lateral carinaeof the prouotumand the angulations rep- 

 resenting the furcula, in the possession of an apical tubercle to the 

 supra-anal plate, and in the heavier flavous stripe of the disk of the 

 pronotum. 



The name, apparently chosen from the color of the hirid tibiae, is not 

 very closely descriptive of them. 



65. MELANOPLUS SCITULUS, new species. 

 (Plate XVI, fig. 10.) 



Of small size, brownish fuscous. Head not prominent, olivaceo- 

 fuscous, above much infuscated, with a broad piceous postocular band; 

 vertex very gently tumid, feebly elevated above the pronotum, the inter- 

 space between the eyes scarcely broader than (male) or nearly twice as 

 broad as (female) the first antenual joint; fastigiuin moderately decliv- 

 ent, feebly sulcate; frontal costa almost or quite percurrent, equal, 

 about as broad as (male) or slightly narrower than (female) the inter- 

 space between the eyes, feebly sulcate at and below the ocellus (male), 

 or distinctly sulcate almost throughout (female), feebly punctate; eyes 

 rather large, only moderately prominent even in the male, considerably 

 longer than the mfraocular portion of the genae; antennae luteo-testa- 

 ceous, slightly infuscated apically, about three-fifths (male) or but 

 little more than one-half (female) as long as the hind femora. Prono- 

 tum very gently enlarging from in front backward, varying from testa- 

 ceo-fuscous to blackish fuscous, always with more or less ferruginous, 

 luteo-testaceous on the lower half of the lateral lobes, with a broad, 

 piceous, postocular band either confined to the prozona or extending 

 obscurely and more widely upon the metazona, the disk broadly convex, 

 passing by an abruptly rounded shoulder into the inferiorly vertical 

 lateral lobes; median carina equally distinct and sharp throughout; 

 front margin truncate, hind margin very broadly rounded, subtruncate; 

 prozona sparsely and shallowly punctate, distinctly longitudinal, much 

 more than half as long again as the sharply and closely punctate meta- 

 zona. Prosternal spine appressed subconical, not very long, trans- 

 versely and broadly rounded apically; interspace between mesosternal 

 lobes slightly longer than broad (male) or transverse, but much nar- 

 rower than the lobes (female). Tegmina abbreviate, somewhat shorter 



