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rounded, not nearly reaching the tip of the supraaual plate; infracer- 

 cal plates well developed, laterally twice as broad as the cerci, well 

 rounded, distinctly shorter than the supraanal plate; subgenital plate 

 scoop-shaped, but slightly augulate behind laterally, the apical margin 

 scarcely elevated and most feebly notched. 



Length of body, male, 19 mm. ; antennae, 9 mm. ; tegmina, 15.75 mm. ; 

 hind femora, 11.25 mm. 



Two males. Northern Minnesota; Sidney, Cheyenne County, 

 Nebraska, August 25 (L. Bruner). 



93. MELANOPLUS COCCINEIPES, new species. 

 (Plate XX, figs. 3-5.) 



Caloptenus minor SCUDDER!, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., II (1876), p. 261. 

 Melanoplus devastator SCUDDER! (pars), Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), 

 pp. 285-286,287-288; (pars), Eiit. Notes, VI (1878), pp. 46-47, 48-49. 



Of medium or small size, dark fuscous, often with a ferruginous 

 tinge. Head slightly prominent, luteo-testaceous, sometimes flecked 

 or irrorate with fuscous on the face, above much infuscated often with 

 a ferruginous tinge, and a more or less distinct piceous or subpiceous 

 postocular stripe; vertex gently tumid, raised a little above the level 

 of the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes moderately broad, 

 half as broad again (male) or twice as broad (female) as the first 

 an teunal joint; fastigiuin rapidly declivent, slightly (male) or scarcely 

 (female) sulcate throughout; frontal costa just failing to reach the 

 clypeus, equal or feebly broader below, scarcely narrower than the 

 interspace between the eyes, feebly sulcate at and below the ocellus, 

 biseriately punctate; eyes moderately large and prominent, as long as 

 the infraocular portion of the genae; antennae more than three-fourths 

 (male) or a little more than three-fifths (female) as long as the hind 

 femora, fulvous, sometimes feebly infuscated. Prouoturn dark fuscous, 

 occasionally ferruginous, the disk sometimes with a distinct, broad, 

 equal, piceous band crossing the prozona above and occasionally 

 vaguely continued across the metazona, usually marked beneath by 

 luteous, or the whole lower portion luteous; disk very broadly convex, 

 passing by an abruptly rounded shoulder, nowhere* forming lateral 

 carinae, into the vertical lateral lobes, which are slightly tumid anteri- 

 orly; median carina subobsolete on the prozona; front margin faintly 

 convex, hind margin not very obtusely angulate; prozona longitudinal 

 (male) or quadrate (female), a little (male) or scarcely (female) longer 

 than the closely but somewhat obscurely punctate metazona. Pro- 

 sternal spine not very long, cylindrical, erect, very blunt; interspace 

 between raesosternal lobes twice (female) or four times (male) as long 

 as broad, the rnetasternal lobes attingent for some distance (male) or 

 subattingent (female). Tegmiua reaching or a little surpassing the 

 tips of the hind femora (varying in both sexes), tapering gently, brown- 

 ish fuscous more or less indistinctly maculate with fuscous, sometimes 



