NO. 1124. RE VISION OF THE MELA NOPLISC UDDER. 329 



108. MELANOPLUS INOPS, new species. 

 (Plate XXII, fig. 4.) 



Of medium size, brownish fuscous. Head not prominent, ferrugineo- 

 testaceous, very heavily punctate with fuscous above the clypeus, the 

 summit dark brownish fuscous; vertex very feebly tumid, elevated a 

 little above the level of the pronotum, but not above the upper level of 

 the eyes, the interspace between the latter of the same width as the 

 first antennal joint; fastigium strongly declivent, feebly and broadly 

 sulcate; frontal costa percurrent, equal, fully as broad as the interspace 

 between the eyes, scarcely sulcate at and below the ocellus, sparsely 

 and feebly punctate; eyes large, very prominent, nearly twice as long as 

 the intraocular portion of the genae; auteunae(?). Pronotum feebly 

 enlarging from in front backward, a broad, piceous, percurrent, postoc- 

 ular band occupying more than the upper half of the lateral lobes, 

 below which these are ferrugineo testaceous, the disk broadly convex 

 and passing by a well-rounded shoulder nowhere forming lateral carinae 

 into the vertical lateral lobes; median carina slight, equal, percurrent; 

 front margin faintly convex, feebly margined, hind margin subtruncate, 

 very feebly convex, mesially faintly emarginate; prozona sparsely, 

 coarsely, and shallowly punctate, distinctly longitudinal, fully half as 

 long again as the finely, densely, and rather shallowly punctate meta- 

 zoua. Prosternal spine of moderate length, strongly appressed cylin- 

 drical, subtruncate; interspace between mesosternal lobes more than 

 twice as long as broad. Tegmina abbreviate, nearly as long as the 

 pronotum, attingent or subattingeut, rotundato-ovate, bro.adly rounded 

 apically, about half as long again as broad, brownish fuscous. Fore 

 and middle femora a little tumid; hind femora moderately slender, 

 ferrugineo- fuscous above, graduating into dull flavous below, without 

 fasciation, the upper half of the geuicular arc fuscous; hind tibiae pale 

 dull green, growing gradually dingy luteous basally, the whole basal 

 half feebly infuscated, the spines black beyond their base, eleven in 

 number in the outer series. Abdomen ferruginous, the extremity in the 

 male strongly clavate, much recurved, the supraanal plate broad tri- 

 angular, nearly plane, with a short and narrowing shallow median 

 sulcus; furcula obsolete; cerci moderately large, compressed, moder- 

 ately broad at base, narrowing on basal third, the middle third sub- 

 equal and about two-thirds as broad as the base, the apical third again 

 expanding slightly, well rounded and slightly tumid at tip, the whole 

 feebly curved upward and more distinctly inward; subgenital plate 

 small, subconical, the apical margin gradually and feebly elevated 

 above the lateral, the apex tumid, forming a sort of blunt, coarse, 

 rounded tubercle, hardly represented in the figure. 



Length of body, male, 15 mm.; tegmina, 3.5 mm.; hind femora, 

 10.25 mm. 



One male. Florida, Priddey (L. Bruner). 



