. 1124. REVISION OF THE MELANOPLlSCUDDER. 261 



fourteen in number iii the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen 

 olavate, considerably recurved, the supraaual plate long triangular, a 

 little narrowed at the tip, with an acutangulate apex, the lateral mar- 

 gins elevated to the same height as the sharp and high parallel ridges 

 bounding the median sulcus, which unite just beyond the middle of the 

 plate, and are crossed at the middle by a straight transverse ruga 

 which does not reach the margins; furcula consisting of a pair of 

 minute black denticulations overlying the submedian ridges of the 

 suprnaual plate; cerci broad at base, rapidly narrowing to the middle, 

 mainly b} T the excision of the inferior margin, beyond again expanding 

 as rapidly and nearly as much, and at the same time curved abruptly 

 inward, the apical flange broadly rounded at tip, compressed, and at 

 extreme apex curved abruptly backward; subgenital plate moderately 

 broad, the apical margin broadly and considerably elevated, entire. 



Length of body, male, 19.5 mm.; antennae, 10.5 mm.; tegmiua, 7.5 

 mm.; hind femora, 12.5 mm. 



One male. Bee Spring, Edmonsou County, Kentucky, June 14-15, 

 F. G. Sanborn (Museum Comparative Zoology). 



The specimen was formerly in alcohol, which has probably somewhat 

 affected the colors. The clasping form of the cerci has suggested the 

 specific name. 



73. MELANOPLUS SALTATOR, new species. 

 (Plate XVII, fig. 8.) 



Pezotettix borckii SCUDDER!, Rep. II. S. Ent. Comm., II (1881), App., p. 24, pi. xvn, 

 fig. 17. BRUNER!, Bull. Div. Ent. U. S. Dep. Agric., IV (1884), p. 58; Can. 

 Ent., XVII (1885), p. 12. 



Ferrugineo-fuscous. Head not prominent, almost wholly fuscous 

 above, the face and geiiae luteo testaceous, punctate and more or less 

 marmorate with fuscous; vertex slightly tumid, feebly elevated above 

 the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes broad, two (male) or three 

 (female) times as broad as the basal antenna! joint; fastigiuin consider- 

 ably decliveut, its lateral margins feebly (female) or considerably (male) 

 elevated, but not otherwise sulcate; frontal costa subequal but feebly 

 enlarging from above downward, slightly narrower than the interspace 

 between the eyes, feebly sulcate (if at all) only at and below the ocel- 

 lus, punctate; eyes moderate in size, not prominent, about as long as 

 the intraocular portion of the genae; antennae ferruginous, often a little 

 infuscated apically, fully two-thirds as long as the hind femora in both 

 sexes. Pronotum subequal, feebly enlarging posteriorly at least in the 

 female, the disk transversely convex and passing almost insensibly into 

 the subvertical lateral lobes, the lower part of the latter of. a little lighter 

 color, and the upper part crossed on the prozona by a broad piceous 

 yet often obscure band, which occasionally in the female passes, broad- 

 ened and diffused, upon the metazona; median carina slight but distinct 

 throughout, feebler on the prozona than on the metazoua; front margin 

 truncate or subtruncate, hind margin rotundato-obtusangulate ; prozona 



