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131. MELANOPLUS PUNCTULATUS. 

 (Plate XXV, fig. 4.) 



Caloptenus punctulatus UHLER!, MS. (1862). SCUDDER!, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., 

 VII (1862), p. 465. SMITH, Proc, Portl. Soc. Nat. Hist., I (1868), p. 150. 

 WALKER, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mas., IV (1870), p. 678. THOMAS, Rep. U.S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), p. 163. BRUNER, Can. Ent.., IX (1877), p. 145. 

 THOMAS, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., I (1878), p. 43. BRUNER, ibid., Ill 

 (1883), p. 60. 



Caloptenus griseus THOMAS, Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr., V (1872), p. 454. 

 GLOVER, 111. N. A. Eiit., Orth. (1872), pi. xn, fig. 14. THOMAS, Rep. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), p. 165. BRUNER, Can. Ent., IX (1877), p. 144. 

 THOMAS, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., I (1878), p. 42. BRUNER, ibid., Ill (1883), p. 60. 



Mel anoplus punctulatus SCUDDER!, Hitchc. Rep. Geol. N. H., I (1874), p. 376; 

 Proc. Bost. Soc, Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), p. 285; Ent. Notes, VI (1878), 

 p. 44. FERNALD, Orth. N. E. (1888), pp. 31, 32; Ann. Rep. Mass. Agric. Coll., 

 XXV (1888), pp. 115, 116. DAVIS, Ent.Amer.,V (1889), p. 81. SMITH, Cat. 

 Ins. X. J. (1890), p. 413. MCNEILL, Psyche, VI (1891), p. 74. SMITH, Bull. 

 N. J. Exp. St., XC (1892), p. 34. SCUDDER, Psyche, VII (1894), p. 55. 

 MORSE, ibid., VII (1894), pp. 55, 106. BEUTENMULLKR, Bull. Amer. Mus. Xat, 

 Hist., VI (1894), pp. 252, 307. 



Caloptenus helluo SCUDDEK!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Xat. Hist., XVII (1875), p. 476; 

 Ent. Notes, IV (1875), p. 75. THOMAS, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., I (1878), 

 p. 43. SCUDDER!, Cent. Orth. (1879), p. 20. BRUNER, Rep. U. S. Ent. 

 Comm., Ill (1883), p. 60. 



Pezotettix helluo STAL, Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., V, No. 9 (1878), p. 14. 



Melanoplus lielluo SCUDDER!, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), p. 285; 

 Ent. Notes, VI (1878), p. 44; Psyche, VII (1894), p. 55. MORSE, ibid., VII 

 (1894), p. 55. 



Melanoplus griseus BLATCHLEY !, Can. Ent., XXIV (1892), pp. 30-31. BRUNER, 

 Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc., Ill (1893), p. 28. SCUDDEK, Psyche, VII (1894), 

 p. 55. MORSE, ibid., VII (1894), p. 55. BLATCHLEY!, Can. Ent., XXVI 

 (1894), p. 245. 



Dark brownish fuscous much mottled with blackish and often tinged 

 with dull olivaceous, beneath ferrugineo- testaceous. Head varying 

 from pale dull olivaceous to f err ugineo- testaceous, irregularly mottled 

 with blackish fuscous and with a blackish band behind the eyes and a 

 widening median stripe of the same upon the summit; vertex tumid; 

 fastigium rapidly declivent, sulcate throughout, the margins much 

 raised between the eyes, which are separated by a space less than the 

 width of the frontal costa; the latter prominent above, moderate in 

 breadth, subequal, sulcate below the ocellus, sparsely punctate through- 

 out, each point marked by a dark olivaceous dot; eyes large and in the 

 male very prominent, in both sexes much longer than the infraocular 

 portion of the genae; antennae varying from fusco luteous to fusco- 

 ferruginous, much longer (male) or a little or no shorter (female) than 

 the hind femora. Pronotum subequal, widening a little at the metazona 

 in the female, slightly flaring in front to receive the head, especially in 

 the male, varying from luteo-testaceous to brownish fuscous, often 

 much flecked and punctate with black or blackish fuscous, the lateral 

 lobes more heavily marked above with black on the prozona, forming 

 generally a broken or maculate band; front and hind margin as in 



