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REVISIOS OF THE MELAyOPLl—SCUDDK/i. 15 



ovf«'r series. Lateral margin of the snbjjenital i>lat<' of tlie inah' strai;;bt 

 from base outwrH at the tip slightly elevated into a minute erect 

 tnUercle; cerci simple, conical. 



This gen.is is very distinct from anything known to nie, and I have 

 been ill some doubt as Ut whether it should be placed in Melaiioi)li, 

 especially as in the oidy male I have seen there were but eight spines 

 on the outer side of the hind tibiae; but Professor L. IJruner informs 

 nic ^hat he has an immature male with nluo f: 'mCS, which agrees with 

 wliat I lind in the fenmle, so that this feaiu. i. ust be looked on as 

 variable, as it is in some other genera of Melanopb. 



Although I have placed it at an extreme distaiice fro»M Apfennpedes^ 

 torn which it is clearly wiilely separated in the lack of vuiy basal 

 ampliation of the subgcnital plate of the male, it recalls that irenus in 

 its general appearance and especially in the triangular verte.. of the 

 hea<l; it ditfers, however, nuudi from it in its subcylindricral slender 

 body and the close approximation of the sternal lobes. 



It is represented by a single species occurring in Flori<la. 



GYMNOSCIRTETES PUSILLUS, new species. 

 (Plate II, tig. 1.) 

 Gymnoscirteten ptisiUiis BnvyER^., "SIS. 



Head above and in front between the lateral carinae of the face 

 lighter or darker chestnut brown; lower part of the genae of a similar 

 color but in a lighter tint, while the upper part of the genae is lemon 

 yellow in continuation of the body stripe of that color; vertex with a 

 mediodorsal, greatly widening, blackish fuscous stripe including a yel- 

 lowish thread; basal joint of antennae yellow, the remainder dark 

 testaceous. Pronotum luteo-testaceous, above the median carina fus- 

 cous; upper half of lateral lobes piceous, forming a broad longitudinal 

 band which extends forward to the eyes (where it is uiargined above 

 with dull yellow) and behind over the abdomen, becoming there some 

 what narrowed posteriorly and broken beneath, fading out on the 

 terminal segments; lower half of lateral lobes of jironotum lemon 

 yellow, forming a band which extends forward over the head and back- 

 ward over the meso and metathorax, and on the abdomen (growing 

 4uller) becomes a part of the general color of the under surface. Meta- 

 aona and extreme anterior part of prozona feebly and rather sparsely 

 punctulate; upper surface of meso- and nietanota and of abdomen 

 like the pronotum, but more or less infuscated. Hind femora yellow 

 fateous, the upper half or less of the outer face more or less i)lumbeous; 

 hind tibiae pale dull green, the spines black, pallid at base. Supra- 

 anal plate of male large, triangular, the apex acuminate, a little blunt, 

 the whole central basal portion elevated to form another similar triangle 

 in which lies a pronounced demi lanceolate, basal sulcus, with sharp 

 walls, considerably less than half as long as the plate j furcula* consist- 



