N0.1I14. REVISrOX OF THE MELAyaPLl—SCl'imER. 57 



h'. rroiiotuni <liv«r8ilied in color only by lon^itiuiin.il Mtripe«, the iIorHum ilis- 

 tin«'lly tertilorni; tegniinu Avithout ]>ale stripes (tlion^h they are orcasionally 

 intlicutftl). 

 (•-. Tejfniin.i lubifomi, no long»'r than the ]>r(>n(>tnni. 

 (V. (ieueral color dark brown, occaKionally with a tin^^e of green; t«'«inina 



short ovate, distinctly shorter than the pronotnni 4. pacifiv»» (p. 151). 



d'K (General color grass-green ; tegniina long oval, scarcely shorter than the 



pronotnni "». curtipenHix ( p. »i2). 



c '. Teuraiiia fnlly developed or abbreviate, fnlly twice or nearly twice as long as 

 the ])ronotuni. 

 d-. Ti'gniina and wings abhreviate, ninch shorter than the body. 



6, hreripninifi (li.CH), 

 d'. Tegmina and wings distinctly surpassing the .-ibdonien. or sometimes in the 



female only efjualing it 7. pratenaix (]».()4). 



A-. rronotinn teetifonii ; both ]»rozona and nieta/ona, both on dorsum and lateral 

 lohes. equally and distinctly ruguloso i<. apecioaua (p. 66). 



I. HESPEROTETTIX VIRIDIS. 

 (Plate IV, fig. 8.) 



Cahptenita viridis Thomas, Ann. I^ep. V. S. Cteol. Snrv. Terr., V (1872), p. 4.oO, pi. 



II, tig. 3.— (ii.ovEH, 111. N. A. Knt., Orth. {1X12), pi. ii, tig. 3. 

 Ovimatolampis riridis Thomas (parsi, Kep. IJ. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr., V (1873), p. 



1,'>6;? Rep. Geol. Geogr. Surv. lOOth nier., V (1875\ p. 802.— liRiXER, Can. 



Knt., IX (1877), p. 144. 

 IleaptroUtiix viridh Uhler (pars), Hull. V. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr., Ill (1877), p. 



79.'>.— ? Thomas, Ann. Kep. Chief Eng., 1878 (1878), p. 1H4."..— llurxKU (pars), 



Rep. U. S. Knt. Comm., Ill (1883), p. 59; Bull. Washb. Coll., I (1885), 



p. 137.— ? Co<iiiLLETT, Rep. U. 8. Eut., 18&5 (188(>). ]»p. 20.5, 2J>7.— Rruner, 



Pnbl. Nebr. Acad. Sc, III (1893), p. 2(5. 

 PrzoUttix viridis Stai., Bib. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. IJandl., V, No. 9 (1878), p. 14. 

 Hesperoteitb- montatiKs BruxerI, MS. 



Head varying from olivaceous to ocliraceous, sparsely and rather 

 coarsely punctate Avitli fuscous, the costae, front, and inferior margins 

 of the genae more or less pallid, an infraocnlar black bar and infra- 

 antennal black baud, the clypeal incisures black ; fastigium more or less 

 infuscated or blackish, and the vertex with a longitudinal black stripe, 

 broadening posteriorly and there sometimes inclosing a pallid thread; 

 sides of the head behind the eye more or less streaked longitudinally 

 with blackish; antennae warm testaceous, with a greenish tinge near 

 base. Pronotum of the same ground color as the head, but the dorsum 

 often with more or less of a testaceous or subferruginous tint, the sulci 

 iiairOwly marked in black, a moderjitely broad mediodorsal bright or 

 <hill white stripe rather narrowly margined, sometimes with the excej)- 

 tioii of the metazona, with black or fuscous; lateral lobes much varie- 

 uati'd on the prozona by au irregular assortment of brief, longitudinal, 

 hlack, rarely dark-green bars, sometimes more or less connected to form 

 a gently oblique moderately broad belt. Pleura and tegmina as in 

 H./'fitivus, and the femora similar, but the hind femora almost always 

 lurnished with a moderately broad pregenicular salmon colored com- 

 plete annulatiou; hind tibiae and tarsi as in U./eatuun. Supraaual 



