wo. 1184. EEVISION OF THE MELAXOPLI^SCUDDER. 105 



fiternal lo])es (female), Tejjminji. fully half as loii^ as the abdomen, 

 eloiifrate, siibfiisifoiin, the tij) rouiully i)()inte(l, dark brown, more or 

 less variegated with yellowish and blackish, the small spots showing a 

 tendency to a longitudinal arrangement, most of the veins light; wings 

 a little shorter than the tegmina. Fore and middle femora rather 

 tumid in the male; hind femora light yeHowish brown, with a pair of 

 conspicuous, submedian, V-shaped, dark brown or blackish bands exter- 

 nally, crossing the uppci surface transversely, the extreme base and 

 tip marked with the same color; hind tibiae yellow, the spines black to 

 their base, 10 in number in the outer series. Abdomen yellowish 

 beneath, mostly reddisli-l>rown above, deepening into black, the 

 <'xtremity clav^ate and somewhat upturned in the male, the supraanal 

 phtte hastate, strongly constricted mesially, with eievated margins and 

 obtusangulate tip, the median 8ul<;us narrow, deep, and extending 

 almost to the tip; furcula (consisting of a pair of large, ])arallel,attingent, 

 tapering, acuminate, flattened lingers, reaching nearly halfway across 

 the supraanal plate; cerci short, very broad, nearly equal, strongly 

 compressed, laminate, the tip broadly rounded, slightly incurved, so 

 tiiat the outer margin is broadly convex, the inner shallowly concave; 

 subgenital plate broad and short, narrowing apically, the apical margin 

 abrui)tly, slightly, and almost uniformly elevated above the lateral mar- 

 gins and set at right angles with them, feebly notched mesially. 



Length of body, male, 17 mm., female, 20.."> mm.; antennae, male, 

 female, 7.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 7.7 mm., female, G.7."»mm.; hind femora, 

 female, ll.o mm. 



( )ne male, 3 females. Taos Peak, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 

 northern New Mexico, 13,000 feet, Lieutenant W. L. Carpenter (S. H. 

 Scndder; U.S.N.M. [Xo. 726].— Kiley collection); Colorado, '^Alpine," 

 August (U.S.N.M. [So. 72GJ.— lliley collection). 



5. PODISMA DODGEI. 



(Plate VII, tig. 7.) 



Caloptenua dodgei Thomas!, Can. Ent., Ill (1871), p. 168; Ann. Rep. IT. S. Geol. 

 Surv. Terr,, V (1872), p. 4.')1, PI. ii, tigs. 4, 5, 9.— Glover, III. N. A. Ent., Orth. 

 (1872), PI. XI, tigs. 4, 5, 9. 



Pezotettix dodgei Thomas!, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), p. l.">3; Proc. 

 Dav. Acad. Sc, I (1876), p. 259.— Uhleu, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., Ill 

 (1877), p 7%.— Thomas, Ann. Rep. Chief Eng., 1878, p. 1845 (1878).— Krcner, 

 Rep. U. S. Ent. Comiii.. Ill (1883), p.59; Bull. Div. Ent.U, 8. Dep. Agric, IV 

 (1884), p. 57.— RiLKY, Stand. Nat Hist., II (1884), p. 202.— Cockerell, Can. 

 Ent., XXII (18JK)), p.76. 



PezotetHx bohetnani Stal!, Bih. K, Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., V (1878), No, 9, j). 15. 



Pezotettix niarshallii Scudder I, Appal., I (1878), p. 263. , 



Pezotettix aspirana ScrDDERl, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX (1879). pp. 8.5-86; 

 Cent. Orth. (1879), pp. 74-75.— Bruner, Rep.U.S, Ent. Conim.. Ill (1883), p. .59. 



Vertex gently tumid, slightly elevated above the pronotum, the inter- 

 space between the eyes considerably broader than the first antennal 



