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sometimes marked with black and the abdomen with a lateral black 

 band, sometimes continuous and equal, sometimes confined to small 

 triangular spots on the anterior segments; hind femora sometimes a 

 little infuscated externally, the genicular lobes sometimes blackish, the 

 hind tibiae rather dark olivaceous, the apical half of the spines black. 

 The summit of the head is sometimes marked with black in broad 

 median and diverging supraorbital stripes. 



Length of body (Jf. m. amplus), male, 17.5 mm., female, 22 mm.; 

 antennae, male, 8 mm., female, 7 mm.; tegmiua, male, 15 mm., female, 

 18 mm. (est.); hind femora, male, 10 mm., female, 12.5 mm. Length of 

 body (M. m. pauper], male, 14.5 mm., female, 20 mm.; antennae, male, 

 mm., female, 6.25 mm.; tegmiua, male, 4.5 mm., female, 5.5 mm.; 

 hind femora, male, 8 mm., female, 11 mm. 



Xiiie males, 8 females. California (U.S.N.M. Eiley collection); 

 Xatoma vineyard, Folsoin, Sacramento County, California, April, C. H. 

 Dwinell (same); Atwater, Merced County, California, July 27, D. W. 

 Coquillett (same); southern California, H. W. Heushaw; Fort Tejou, 

 California, July 26, H. W. Henshaw. 



fThe National Museum contains a male and female of the diflereut 

 brms taken in coitu. 



no. MELANOPLUS PAROXYOIDES, new species. 

 (Plates I, fig. fc; XXII, fig. 6.) 



Of rather small or medium size, ferrugineo-testaceous, with a marked 

 black postocular baiid. Head not prominent, more or less olivaceo- 

 luteous, clouded with fuscous on face and genae, with fuscous stripes 

 above, and a black postocular band; vertex very gently tumid, not ele- 

 vated above the level of the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes 

 narrow, not (male) or scarcely (female) wider than the first antenna! 

 joint; fastigium rather rapidly declivent, shallowly (male) or very shai- 

 lowly (female) sulcate throughout; face retreating more than usual, the 

 frontal costa rather prominent above, percurrent, equal, fully as broad 

 as the interspace between the eyes, sulcate excepting above, strongly 

 punctate; eyes rather large, prominent in the male, very much longer 

 than the infraocular portion of the genae; antennae luteous or rufo- 

 Inteous, about five-sixths (male) or two-thirds (female) as long as the 

 hind femora. Pronotum long, subequal, hardly enlarging posteriorly 

 even on the metazoua. the upper portion of the lateral lobes with a 

 broad solid black band crossing the prozona, and sometimes in a dif- 

 fused form the metazoua, below which the lateral lobes are more or less 

 obscurely luteous; disk pilose, transversely broadly convex, separated 

 from the inferiorly vertical lateral lobes by a rounded shoulder, nowhere 

 forming lateral carinae; median carina uniform, percurrent; front mar- 

 gin subtruncate, hind margin obtusangulate; prozona distinctly longi- 

 tudinal especially in the male, fully a fourth longer than the finely and 



