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beneath, broadening the band; disk of prozona more or less flecked 

 with dark brown, sometimes collected into a V-shaped patch opening 

 forward, the apex at the middle of the metazona; hind margin dotted 

 with blackish; metazona profusely, prozoua sparsely, both shallowly, 

 punctate; sides of metathorax with a pale oblique stripe narrowing 

 upward to a point. Prosterual spine moderately long, stout, subcylin- 

 drical, feebly appressed, erect, blunt- tipped. Tegmiua reaching (female) 

 or slightly surpassing (male) the tips of the hind femora, darker or 

 lighter brownish fuscous, flecked rather distantly with brownish spots, 

 relieved by similar pale spots along the middle, occasionally more or 

 less confluent. Legs of the color of the under surface, the fore and 

 middle femora a little deeper or duskier; hind femora broadly bifasciate 

 with blackish, broken by the pale incisures, the genicular arc black on 

 both sides; hind tibiae yellow, occasionally tinged with red, paler next 

 the base with a black annulus, the spines black to their very base, ten 

 to twelve, usually eleven, in number in the outer series. Extremity of 

 male abdomen subclavate, upturned slightly, well rounded; supraaual 

 plate broad, clypeate, with slightly produced rectangulate apex, slightly 

 sinuate sides, the lateral margins gently elevated, the middle longitudi- 

 nal half very broadly tectate with a moderately broad and deep median 

 sulcus extending over a little more than the basal half; furcula wanting 

 or sometimes indicated by the merest angle; cerci very stout, subspatu- 

 late, compressed, largest at tip, tire basal two-fifths equal and straight, 

 the remainder expanding into an obliquely transverse, obovate, rounded 

 lobe, its outer border convex, directed upward and more produced 

 above than below, making the tip fully half as broad again as the base; 

 infracercal plates visible only by their feeble, narrow, blunt-tipped 

 projection beyond the supraanal plate; subgeuital plate not very broad, 

 the apex both produced and elevated a little. 



Length of body, inale, 29.5 mm., female, 34.5 mm.; antennae, male, 

 13.5 mm., female, 15 mm.; tegmina, male, 21 mm., female, 24mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 17.5 mm., female, 21 mm. 



Twenty-two males, 18 females. Texas, Belfrage; Dallas, Texas, Boll 

 (U.S.N.M. Riley collection; S. H. Scudder); Gulf coast of Texas, 

 Aaron. 



Although the single male type of Cal. ponderosus has been lost, I 

 have no doubt from the study of the larger material now at hand that 

 it is the same as Cal. robustus, described at the same time and place. 



122. MELANOPLUS VIOLA. 

 (Plate XXIV, fig. 1.) 



Pezotettix riola THOMAS!, Bull. 111. Mus. Nat. Hist., I (1876), p. 68. RILE Y, Rep. 



U. S. Ent. Comm., I (1878), pp. 220, 226. SCUDDER !, CaD. Ent., XII (1880), p. 



75. THOMAS !, Rep. Ent. 111., IX (1880), pp. 90, 95, 121. MCXEILL. Psych>. VI 



(1891), p. 76. BRUNER, Pnbl. Xebr. Acad. Sc., Ill (1893), p. 27. GARM \x. 



Ortli.Ky. (1894), p. 8. 

 Calopieimx (tffillattta UHLER!, MS. 

 l'e:otcitic ajfiliatu* SCUDDEK!, Can. Ent., XII (1880), p. 75. 



