NO. 1124. 



REVISION OF THE ^fKLAXOPIJSC^DDER. 337 



113. MELANOPLUS MINOR. 

 (Plate XXII, lig. 9.) 



Caloptenus minor SCUDDER!, Proc. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist, XVII (1875), p. 478; Ent. 



Notes, IV (1875), p. 77; Ann. Rep. Chief Eng., 1876(1876), p. 501; Ann. Rep. 



Geogr. Surv. 100th Mer. (1876), p. 281. BRUNER, Can. Ent.. IX (1877), 



p. 145. THOMAS, Rep. U. S. Ent. Coram., I (1878), p. 42. SCUDDKK!, Cent. 



Orth. (1879), p. 22. DODGE, Rep. U. S. Ent. Coram., II (1881), App., p. 17. 



BRUNER, ibid., Ill (1883), p. 60; Bull. Div. Ent. U. S. Dep. Agric., IV (1884), 



pp. 57, 58. 



Caloptenus occidentaUs THOMAS!, Ann. Rep. Chief Eng., 1878 (1878), 1845. 

 Melanoplus minor SCUDDKR, Cent. Orth. (1879), p. 84. BRUNER, Can. Ent., XVII 



(1885), p. 17. BLATCHLEY, ibid., XXIII (1891), p. 81. MCNEILL, Psyche, VI 



(1891), p. 74. MORSE, ibid., VI (1892), p. 250. BRUNER, Publ. Nebr. Acad. 



Sc., Ill (1893), p. 28. MORSE, Psyche, VII (1894), p. 53. BEUTENMULLER, 



Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., VI (1894), pp. 307-308. 



Of medium size, dark-brownish fuscous, often with a ferruginous 

 tinge, especially on the disk of the pronotum, luteous beneath. Head 

 very feebly prominent, testaceous, obscurely mottled with fuscous at 

 least above, where there is generally a broad, median blackish stripe 

 and a postocular piceous band; vertex gently tumid, scarcely elevated 

 above the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes nearly twice 

 (male) or nearly thrice (female) as broad as the first anteunal joint; 

 fastigium steeply declivent, narrow, equal, deeply (male) or shallowly 

 (female) sulcate, the lateral margins sharp ; frontal costa percurrent, 

 faintly narrowed next the antennae, elsewhere subequal, about as broad 

 as the space between the eyes, shallowly sulcate at and below the 

 ocellus; eyes moderately large, a little prominent, almost as long as the 

 infraocular portion of the genae; antennae rufous, apically iufuscated, 

 about two- thirds as long as the hind femora, the proportions scarcely 

 differing in the two sexes. Pronotum short, distinctly but not greatly 

 expanding on the rnetazona, the postocular stripe of the lateral lobes 

 extending over the prozona, broader and more distinct than on the 

 head, the disk very broadly convex, passing into the subvertical lateral 

 lobes by a distinct but always rounded shoulder nowhere forming 

 lateral carinae; median carina slight, scarcely less distinct on the pro 

 zona than on the raetazona, cut only by the principal sulcus; front 

 margin truncate, hind margin obtusangulate ; prozona longitudinally 

 subquadrate, feebly more longitudinal in the male than in the female, 

 distinctly longer than the finely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine 

 not very long, conico-cylindrical, more or less appressed, suberect; 

 interspace between mesosternal lobes half as long again as broad (male) 

 or a little transverse (female). Tegmina reaching about to the tips of the 

 hind femora, sometimes a little short of, sometimes surpassing them, 

 rather slender and subequal, brownish fuscous, more or less distinctly 

 but never heavily maculate with fuscous along the discoidal area; wings 

 moderately broad, hyaline with the faintest possible bluish tinge, the 

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