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reach or nearly reach the tip of the supraanal plate and are apically 

 sulcate, with parallel or subparallel distant forks to the furcula. 



The species are all found west of the Mississippi, ranging from 

 British Columbia and Assiniboia to Central Mexico, but are not known 

 in California except in the north. 



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96. MELANOPLUS PACKARDII. 

 (Plate XXI, figs. 1-4.) 



Caloptenus fasciatus SCUDDER!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII (1875), p. 477; 

 Ent. Notes, IV (1875), p. 76; Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., II (1876), p. 261. 

 BRUNER, Can. Ent., IX (1877), p. 144. THOMAS, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., I 

 (1878), p. 42. SCUDDER!, Cent. Orth. (1879), p. 21. 



Melanoplus packardii SCUDDER!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), p. 287; 

 Ent. Notes, VI (1878), p. 46; Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., II (1881), App., 

 p. 24, pi. XVH. figs. 7-8. BRUNER, ibid., Ill (1883), p. 60; Can. Ent., XVII 

 (1885), p. 18; Bull. Washb. Coll., I (1885), p. 139; Rep. U. S. Ent., 1885 (1886), 

 p. 307. CAULFIELD, Rep. Eut. Soc. Out., XVIII (1888), p. 71. KOEHELE, 

 Bull. Div. Ent. U. S. Dep. Agric., XXII (1890), p. 94. BRUNER, Publ. Nebr. 

 Acad. So., Ill (1893), p. 27. 



Melanophts packardii rafipes COCKERELL, Entoui., XXII (1889), p. 127. 



Pezoteltix arJcansana MCNEILL!, MS. 



Of tolerably large size, brownish yellow. Head a little prominent, 

 luteo testaceous; a broad dark brown or blackish median band extends 

 from the vertex between the eyes to the posterior extremity of the 

 pronotum, broadest on the latter and occupying about one-third of it, 

 but sometimes, and especially in southern examples, wholly absent 

 from the pronotum; besides this, another band runs from behind 

 the eye to the anterior margin of the metazona; generally this is 

 comparatively narrow and often obscure, but often sends off streaks 

 of blackish fuscous down the incisures, and is sometimes tolerably 

 distinct and uniformly deep in tint; vertex considerably tumid, well 

 raised above the level of the pronotum, the interspace between the 

 eyes fully half as broad again ( male) or more than twice as broad 

 (female) as the first antennal joint; fastigium strongly declivent, 

 slender, with parallel sides, and rather deeply sulcate; frontal costa as 

 broad as the interspace between the eyes, equal, scarcely sulcate below 

 the ocellus, biseriately punctate above; eyes large, not very prominent 

 even in the male, elongate but no longer than the infraocular portion of 

 the genae; antennae yt j llow, somewhat infuscated apically, fully three- 

 fourths (male) or but little more than two-thirds (female) as long as the 

 hind femora. Prouotum slightly expanding posteriorly, the disk 

 broadly convex and passing by a well rounded shoulder, which only 

 posteriorly forms the semblance of lateral carinae, into the vertical 

 lateral lobes ; median carina scarcely perceptible except on the meta- 

 zona, where it is distinct but not prominent; transverse sulci distinct; 



