NO. 1124. RE VISION OF THE MEL A NO PLISC UDDER. 315 



99. MELANOPLUS CONSPERSUS, new species. 

 (Plate XXI, fig. 5.) 



A stout, medium-sized or rather less than medium sized species, 

 brownish fuscous above, testaceous beneath. Head a little prominent, 

 luteo-testaceous clouded with plumbeous, broadly striped above with 

 blackish fuscous, and with a subpiceous postocular band; vertex 

 gently tumid, slightly elevated above the pronotum, the interspace 

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

 broad as (female) the first anteiinal joint; fastigium steeply declivent, 

 distinctly sulcate throughout; frontal costa percurrent, subequal, almost 

 (female) or quite (male) as broad as the interspace between the eyes, 

 distinctly sulcate at and below the ocellus, biseriately punctate above; 

 eyes moderate, slightly prominent in the male, hardly so long as the 

 infraocular portion of the genae; antennae red, becoming more or less 

 ID fa seated apically, about four-fifths (male) or about three-fourths 

 (female) as long as the hind femora. Prouotum stout, distinctly enlar- 

 ging from in front backward, especially in the female, feebly tinged with 

 ferruginous, the upper half of the lateral lobes of the prozona glisten- 

 ing brownish fuscous, the disk very broadly convex, passing into the 

 subvertical lateral lobes by a well-rounded shoulder, hardly forming 

 lateral carinae except feebly on the metazona; median carina percur- 

 rent, more distinct on the metazoua than on the prozona, alike in the 

 two sexes; front margin truncate, hind margin obtusangulate; pro- 

 zona feebly transverse, of the same length as the rather obscurely punc- 

 tate metazona. Prosterual spine not very high, stout, considerably 

 appressed, tapering as seen from in front, blunt; interspace between 

 mesosternal lobes almost twice as long as broad (male) or feebly traits- 

 verse (female), the metasterual lobes attingent (male) or approximate 

 (female). Tegmina reaching as far as the hind femora, of moderate 

 breadth, tapering from the basal fourth, brown, heavily sprinkled 

 with fuscous dots most abundant in but not confined to the discoidal 

 area, where in the female they alternate with pallid dashes; wings 

 moderate, hyaline with pale greenish veins, which become rather feebly 

 infuscated anteriorly and apically. Fore and middle femora a little 

 tumid in the male; hind femora very stout, testaceous or pallid testace- 

 ous, the upper face slightly ferruginous, except the lower third twice 

 very obliquely and very broadly fasciate with blackish fuscous, the 

 inferior third flavous, the genicular arc blackish fuscous; hind tibiae 

 feebly valgate, bright red, the spines black to their base except on their 

 inner side, ten in number in the outer series. Extremity of male abdo- 

 men somewhat clavate, slightly recurved, the supraanal plate subtri- 

 angular with basally angulate sides and acutangulate tip, the surface 

 nearly flat but stepped, the apical half or less at a lower level and the 

 lateral margins slightly crenate in consequence, the median sulcus 

 rather slender, percurrent but slight in the apical half; furcula consist- 



