NO. 1124. RE VISION OF THE MEL A NO PL lSC UDDEE. 267 



Length of body, male, 17 mm.; antennae, 4.75 mm.; tegmina, 4.75 

 mm. ; hind femora, 8 mm. 



One male. Fort Keed, Orange County, Florida, April 8, J. H. Coin- 

 stock. 



I carelessly included this in Pezotettix puer when originally described, 

 but the description shows that it could not then have been examined 

 carefully, for it differs obviously both in the male cerci and in the 

 tegniiua. 



77. MELANOPLUS FASCIATUS. 

 (Plates I, fig. c; XVIII, figs. 2-4.) 



Fesotettix lorealis SCUDDER!, Can. Nat., VII (1868), p. 286; Bost. Journ. Nat. 



Hist., VII (1868), p. 464. SMITH. Proc. Portl. Soc. Nat. Hist., I (1868), p. 



149. PACKARD, Guide Ins. (1869), p. 569. THOMAS, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 



Philad., 1870 (1870), p. 78; Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., II (1871), p. 



265; Rep. U. S. Geol. Surr. Terr., V. (1873), p. 153. SCUDDER!, Hitchc. 



Rep. Geol. N. H., I (1874), p. 374; Daws. Geol. Rec. 49th Par. (1875), p. 



343. BRUNER, Can. Eut., IX (1877), p. 144. THOMAS, Bull. U. S. Geol. 



Surv. Terr., IV (1878), p. 484. GIRARD, Traite E"lcm. d'Ent., II (1879), p. 



246. SCUDDER, Can. Eut., XII (1880), p. 75. BRUNER, Rep. U. S. Ent. 



Comm., Ill (1883), p. 59; Rep. U. S. Ent., 1885 (1886), p. 307. CAULFIELD, 



Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., XVIII (1886), p. 71; Can. Rec. Sc., II (1887), p. 401; 



Can. Ortb. (1887), p. 13. FERNALD, X.E.Orth. (1888), pp. 29, 30; Ann. Rep. 



Mass. Agric. C XV (1888), pp. 113, 114. MORSE, Psyche, VII (1894), pp. 



53, 106. 

 Acridimn fasciatum BARXSTOX, MS., fide WALKER, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., 



IV (1870), p. 680. 

 Calopteints fatciatxs WALKER, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., IV (1870), p. 680; 



Can. Ent., IV (1872), p. 30. THOMAS, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), 



p. 224. CAULFIELD, Can. Rec. Sc., II (1887), p. 401 ; Can. Orth. (1887), p. 14. 

 Melanoplns rectiis SCUDDER!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), pp. 284, 



285 ; Ent. Notes., VI (1878), pp. 43, 44 ; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX 



(1879), p. 71; Cent. Orth. (1879), p. 60. BRUNER, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., 



Ill (1888), p. 60. FERNALD, Orth. X. E. (1888), pp. 31, 32; Ann. Rep. Mass. 



Agric. Coll., XXV (1888), pp. 115, 116. MORSE, Psyche, VII (1894), p. 53. 

 Mchinoplns curtiis SCUDDER!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX (1879), pp. 70-71; 



Cent. Orth. (1879), p. 59. BRUNEI*, Rep. U. S. Eut. Comm., Ill (1833), p. 



61; Can. Ent., XVII (1885), p. 17; Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc., Ill (1893), p. 



28. MORSE, Psyche, VII (1894), p. 53. 



Mehuioplu* faaciatns CAULFIELD, Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., XVIII (1886), p. 71. 

 Melanoplns borealis BEUTENMULLER, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., VI (1894), p. 



308. 



Of rather small size, dark fusco-plumbeous above, dark clay yellow 

 below. Head not prominent, dull plumbeous flecked with griseous, 

 above very dark fuscous with a broad postocular piceous baud ; vertex 

 moderately tumid, distinctly elevated above the pronetum, the inter- 

 space between the eyes as broad (male) or nearly half as broad again 

 (female) as the basal antenna! joint; fastigium strongly declivent, shal- 

 lowly depressed, but with distinct and somewhat abrupt though rounded 

 bounding walls, which diverge a very little in front of the eyes and 

 then converge; frontal costa as broad as the interspace between the 

 eyes, scarcely contracted above where its face is plane (male) or feebly 



