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female narrowly traverses the lateral lobes of the pronotum nearly or 

 quite to the lateral carinae; the tegmina are of the color of the disk of 

 the pronotum and immaculate. Hind femora clay yellow more or less 

 infuscated and with a pair of often obscure blackish bars; hind tibiae 

 glaucous, pallid at base, with a blackish annulus. the spines pallid in 

 basal black in apical half, twelve to thirteen, generally twelve, in 

 number in the outer series. 



Length of body, male, 21.5 mm., female, 23 mm.; antennae, male, 8.5 

 mm., female, 7.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 6 mm., female, 6.5 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 12.5 mm., female, 14 mm. 



Nine males, 13 females. Texas, Belfrage, Lincecum (U.S.N.M. 

 Ri ley collection; S. H. Scudder); Dallas, Texas, Boll (same; L. 

 Bruner). 



This species resembles M. flabellatus in general appearance. 



107. MELANOPLUS GRACILIS. 

 (Plate XXII, fig. 3.) 



Pezotettiv gracilis BRUNER!, Can. Ent., VIII (July, 1876), p. 124; ibid, IX (1877), 

 p. 144. SCUDDER, Can. Ent., XII (1880), p. 75. BRUNER, Rep. U. S. Ent. 

 Comm., Ill (1883), p. 59. BLATCHLEY !, Can. Ent., XXIII (1891), p, 81. 

 McNEiLL, Psyche, VI (1891), p. 76. OSBORN, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sc., I, Pt. n 

 (1892), p. 117. BRUNER, Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc., Ill (1893), p. 27. GARMAN, 

 Orth. Ky. (1894), p. 7.^BLATCHLEY, Can. Ent., XXVI (1894), p. 233. 



Pezotettix minutipennis THOMAS!, Bull. 111. Mus. Nat. Hist., I (December, 1876), 

 p. 66. SCUDDER, Can. Ent., XII (1880), p. 75. THOMAS, Rep. Ent. 111., IX 

 (1880), pp. 90, 95, 119-120. 



A little below the medium size, brownish testaceous above, luteo- 

 flavous beneath, the whole tinged with green, with bright green hind 

 legs. Head hardly prominent, luteo flavous, generally tinged with 

 green and somewhat embrowned, above brownish testaceous with a 

 greenish tinge, sometimes separated by a distinct slender flavous stripe 

 from the broad piceous postocular band; vertex scarcely at all tumid, 

 not at all elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the 

 eyes scarcely broader than (male) or nearly twice as broad as (female) 

 the first an tennal joint; fastigiuin strongly declivent, distinctly (male) 

 or very feebly and broadly (female) sulcate; frontal costa prominent, 

 percurrent, equal, as broad as the interspace between the eyes, feebly 

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

 moderate in size, moderately (female) or very (male) prominent, con- 

 siderably longer than the infraocular portion of the genae; antennae 

 luteous, feebly infuscated apically, more than four-fifths (male) or a little 

 more than two-thirds (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum 

 subequal, faintly enlarging posteriorly, above brownish testaceous, the 

 lateral lobe^ with a very broad and conspicuous piceous percurrent 

 postocular belt above, sometimes enfeebled on the metazona, below 

 varying from bright flavous to flavo- testaceous, the disk very broadly 

 subtectate, passing by an abrupt but rounded shoulder, forming feeble 



