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yellow, black interrupted with luteo-testaceous on the inner face y 

 beneath vinous red; hind tibiae varying from vinous to bright red r 

 more or less irifuscated on basal half, with a blackish fuscous subbasal 

 aunulus, the spines black to the base, eleven to twelve in number in 

 the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen considerably thickened, 

 forming a subglobose mass; supraanal plate shield-shaped, triangularly 

 produced at the apex, narrowly and deeply sulcate down the middle; 

 no furcula; cerci stout, compressed, constricted in the middle as seen 

 from the side, beyond incurved, expanded especially above, the apical 

 border much compressed, convex in the middle half, straight above 

 and below, or feebly einarginate at the union of the convex and straight 

 portions; iufracercal plates completely concealed; subgenital plate 

 moderately broad, slightly, broadly, and uniformly elevated apically, 

 hardly prolonged. 



Length of body, male, 28.5 mm., female, 36 mm.; antennae, male, 15 

 mm., female, 14.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 17 mm., female, 18.5 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 17 mm., female, 21 mm. 



Two males, 1 female. Georgia, Morrison. 



124. MELANOPLUS FURCATUS, new species. 



(Plate XXIV, fig. 3.) 



Brownish-ferruginous, the top of head and prozona very faintly dotted 

 with fuscous. Head gently tumid above, the interspace between the 

 eyes broad, but distinctly narrower than the frontal costa, the fastigiuni 

 most feebly depressed, running without break into the frontal costa, 

 which is broad, equal, shallowly sulcate at and below the ocellus, punc- 

 tate on either side; eyes pretty large, rather elongate, not very promi- 

 nent; antennae fulvous, becoming a little infuscated apically, almost as 

 long as the hind femora in both sexes, being relatively almost as long* 

 in the female as in the male. Pronotum enlarging slightly posteriorly, 

 at least in the female, the disk very flatly tectate, the median carina 

 very slight and subequal throughout, the lateral carinae merely forming 

 blunt angles separating the disk from the lateral lobes, the front margin 

 scarcely convex, the hind margin broadly and roundly angulate ; disk of 

 prozona feebly longitudinal, sparsely feebly and shallowly punctate lat- 

 erally, about a fourth longer than the finely and closely punctate meta- 

 zona, minutely einarginate in the middle posteriorly; lateral lobes 

 marked precisely as in M. clypeatus. Prosternal spine rattier long, 

 slightly retrorse, cylindrical, but a little enlarged on the apical half. 

 Tegmina not much shorter than the abdomen, but not nearly reaching 

 the tip of the hind femora, testaceo cinereus in the anal field, the rest 

 fuscous, with dark fuscous flecks (male) or blotches (female) in tbe dis- 

 coidal area; wings impure hyaline, with very pale brown veins and cross 

 veins, becoming more and more fuscous in the upper half, especially 

 toward the apex. Fore and middle femora only a little tumid in the 

 male, uniform in color; hind femora long and rather stout and tumid, 



