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lar, entire, the pallium projecting over it as a backward directed, stout, 

 subdepressed, blunt process. 



The general color is dark umber above, yellowish testaceous below; 

 face dull olivaceous, in the female apparently darker by infuscation ; 

 antennae testaceous, more or less infuscated at the apical half; on the 

 summit of the head a clay-colored band, which partly encircles the 

 eyes and extends backward over the pronotum, on which it is very 

 slightly arched; a similar but much broader and rather paler belt 

 borders the lower margin of the lateral lobes, while a median line of 

 the same color occurs on the abdomen, a mere line in front, broadening 

 as it passes backward, extending over the whole dorsum and apically 

 confluent with the lighter color of the under surface, leaving on either 

 side between the upper and lower surfaces a broad but narrowing black 

 belt. Hind femora with the outer face dark green, more or less infus- 

 cated, sometimes nearly black, especially on the upper half, the upper 

 face ferruginous and the lower greenish yellow; hind tibiae rather dull 

 green, occasionally obscured at either extremity, the spines with their 

 apical half black, nine, rarely ten, in number in the outer series. 



Length of body, male, 14 mm., female, 18.5 mm.; antennae, male, 7.25 

 mm., female, 7 mm.; tegniina, male, 2.8 mm., female, 3 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 9 mm., female, 10.5 mm. 



Two males, 3 females. Bosque County, Texas, Belfrage. 



Found in woods on plants and bushes in the latter half of September 

 and the first half of October. Pairs were taken October 11. It is an 

 aberrant member of the present group. 



102. MELANOPLUS VARIABILIS, new species. 



(Plate XXI, fig. 8.) 

 Pezotettix varlabilis BRUNER!, MS. 



Of medium size, green, more or less infuscated, the male the darker. 

 Head a little longer than common but not otherwise prominent, oli- 

 vaceous green, sometimes feebly suffused with ferruginous, above in 

 darker examples more or less iufuscated and always darker than below, 

 with a brownish fuscous postocular band, sometimes broad, sometimes 

 confined to its upper limits, margined above by lighter tints, the 

 beginning of a subflavous stripe behind the upper part of the eyes; 

 vertex gently tumid, faintly elevated above the pronotum, the inter- 

 spa 3e between the eyes twice (male) or more than thrice (female) as 

 broad as the first antennal joint; fastigium very gently declivent, 

 broadly and shallowly (male) or very shallowly (female) sulcate; frontal 

 costa faintly narrowed above, as broad as (male) or much narrower 

 than (female) the interspace between the eyes, expanding and evanes- 

 cent next the clypeus, sulcate at and below the ocellus, sparsely punc- 

 tate throughout, above biseriately; eyes moderate in size, rather prom- 

 inent in the male, a little longer than the infraocnlar portion of the 



