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Length of body, male, 2L* mm., female, 2G mm.; antennae, male, 10. r> 

 mm., female, 9.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 1.6.5 mm, female, 20.5 nun.; hind 

 femora, male, 13 mm., female, 14 mm. 



Sixteen males, 16 females. North Carolina, Morrison; Dingo Bluff, 

 North Carolina, November 15, Parker-May nard; Smithville, North 

 Carolina, November 22, Parker-Maynard ; Florida, Priddy (L. Brimer); 

 Florida (U.S.N.M. Riley collection); Jacksonville, Duval County, 

 Florida, Ashmead (L. Bruuer); Cadet, Washington County, Missouri, 

 Eiley (U.S.N.M. Riley collection; S. H. Scudder); Dallas, Texas 

 (same). 



117. MELANOPLUS DELETOR. 

 (Plate XXIII, tig. 2.) 



Caloptenus (Metor SCUDDER!, Proo. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII (1875), pp. 475- 

 476; Eiit. Notes, IV (1875), pp. 74-75; Cent. Orth. (1879), pp. 19-20. THOMAS, 

 Rep. U. 8. Ent. Conmi., I (1878), p. 42. BRUNER, ibid., Ill (1883), p. 60. 



McJanopltis deletor SCUDDEK, Cent. Orth. (1879), p. 84. 



Of moderately large size, brownish fuscous, darkest above. Head 

 feebly prominent, olivaceo testaceous, more or less heavily infuscated 

 above in a pair of divergent, longitudinal stripes; vertex rather tumid, 

 distinctly elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the 

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

 tirst antennal joint; fastigium steeply declivent, shallow, with slight 

 but rather sharp lateral margins, greatly expanding anteriorly; frontal 

 costa broad, expanding a little at the ocellus and a little sulcate in the 

 same part; eyes rather large, not very prominent, somewhat longer 

 than the intraocular portion of the genae; antennae pale reddish, infus- 

 cated apically, about four-fifths (male) or three fourths (female) as long 

 as the hind femora. Prouotuui faintly constricted in the middle, a 

 little larger posteriorly than anteriorly, the disk more or less feebly 

 striped with blackish fuscous, piano convex, passing by an abrupt but 

 rounded shoulder into the subvertical lateral lobes, which are luteo 

 testaceous with an olivaceous tinge, passing above more or less gradu- 

 ally into the postocular stripe; this crosses the prozona only, is always 

 most distinct and deeper in tint at its upper limit, is sometimes con- 

 lined to that and often more or less broken with luteous; median 

 carina distinct but slight, nearly equal, cut only by the principal sul- 

 cus; front margin subtruncate, hind margin rounded obtusangulate; 

 prozona longitudinal (male) or quadrate (female), distinctly longer 

 than the obscurely punctate rnetazona. Prosternal spine short, stout, 

 oppressed cylindrical, blunt, erect, in the female somewhat conical; 

 interspace between mesosternal lobes fully twice as long as broad 

 (male) or quadrate (female). Tegmiua fully reaching, generally some- 

 what surpassing the hind femora, rather broad, distinctly tapering, 

 brownish fuscous, necked throughout with fuscous, more conspicuously 

 in the discoidal area from alternating with a line of pallid spots; wings 



