52 NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDIIDjE. 



Tegmina asymmetrically obovate, the costal margin more convex. 

 Supra-anal plate nearly as broad as long, the sides convex or sinu- 

 ate, apex rounded or acute, the supernumerary longitudinal ridges 

 feebly developed or indistinct. Furcula processes broad at base, 

 rather strongly divergent, tapering, the sides more or less sinuate, 

 once and a half or twice as long as the last dorsal segment. Cerci 

 broader than in decorus, especially at tip, the apex transversely ex- 

 cised, the ventral apical angle produced, the dorsal well rounded, 

 the extreme tip slightly recurved. Subgenital plate strongly con- 

 stricted at base, (more than in decorus), the sides less ampliate 

 basally, the apical tubercle much enlarged, produced, and curved 

 upward, the ventral length of the plate almost or quite equal to its 

 basal depth, the whole structure appearing more like a malforma- 

 tion than otherwise. 



" Color dark reddish brown, yellow beneath, sides of pronotum 

 below post-ocular stripe white, the stripe percurrent, suffusing pale 

 metepisternal fascia, continued nearly or quite to end of abdomen, 

 sometimes rather faintly in female, but more pronounced and con- 

 stant than in the females of the other species here described. The 

 body is stouter than in decorus, the hind femora shorter and stouter, 

 and usually bifasciate. 



" Length of body : Male, 15-18; female, 21.5-25 ; hind femora: 

 male, 9.5-11; female, 10.7-12; antenna: male, 8.5-9.5; female, 

 8-9 ; tegmina: male, 2X3, 2.5 X 4; female, 2.8 X 4, 4 X 5 mm." 



(See Fig. n, p. 51.) 



Virginia : Wytheville, Sept. 4, 5, 3000 to 3500 feet, near the High Rocks. 

 North Carolina : Murphy, July 25, 1800 feet ; Topton, Aug. 21, 3000 to 



4000 feet. 

 Georgia : Blue Ridge, July 25, 1700 feet. 



(Austral ?) Transition zone. Dry mountain forests, among 

 low shrubs. 



Melanoplws strumostts Morse. 



Melanoplus sirumosus. Psyche, xi, n (1904). 



" A small species with very small ovate tegmina, attingent in 

 male, a little separated in female. Disk of pronotum twice (male) 

 or once and a half (female) as long as wide, midcarina percurrent, 

 lateral carinse barely perceptible mesially. Prosternal spine pro- 

 minent, flattened cylindric, slightly curved backward, apex trans- 

 versely excised, the angles rounded. Mesosternal interspace quad- 

 rate in female, slightly longitudinal in male. Metasternal interspace 

 longitudinal, twice as long as wide (female), narrower in male. 



