N0.1124. REVISION (H' Tin: MKI.ASOVLI-Si' I'DDER, 109 



Proiiotiiin subetjual, feebly ox|):iiMlinj; on tlie iiietii/ona, especijilly in 



the teiiiahs tlie «lisk of tlie prozona often enlivened with the lij^iiter 



colors of I lie faee, the upper half of the lateral lobes of the pro/ona 



occnpieil 1)y a picM'ous pateli or band, sometimes broken in the female, 



the diskeoiivex and passing into the vertical lateral lobes by a rounded 



shoulder, rarely jinj;ulate, without forming lateral earinae; median 



carina weak. j)ereurreot, sub'i<|ual, butsli;xlitly teebler <ui the prozona 



than on themetazona: front Piarjjin '.n^Hate, hind marjiin broadly rotun- 



(hite, oecasionally feebly an;^ulate in . ' '^"tnale; prozona sli^ihtly loii^a- 



ttidinal (male) or slij;htly transverse (feniaie),distiiK'tly lon«;er than the 



linely punctate metazoiia. Prosternal spine short and stout, scarcely 



tjiperiiifr, very blunt, appressed: interspace between niesosternal lobes 



fully half as broad ajjain as lonjj (male) or ab(»ut t\iee as broad as 



lon;.^ barely narrower than the lobes (female), the iii^tasternal lobes 



approximate (male; or hardly half as distant as the mesosio'iial lobes 



(female). Teyniina about aslon^as the prouotum, moderately distant, 



elliptical, about twice as lonj:^ as broad, apieally subacuminate, fuscofer- 



1 urinous. Fore and middle femora considerably tumid in the male ; hind 



h'lnora moderately stout, testaceous often tinj^ed with ferrujjinous, ver 



o1>li(iuely bifasciate with fuscous, generally interru])ted on the outer h' 



of the upj)er face, the under face tlavous, verging on orange, the ^ 



iculation mote or less infuscated; hind tibiae dull greenish, a little p. .^^ 



next the base, with a fusccms patellar spot, the spines black almost 



to their base, eight to eleven, usually nine, in number in the outer 



series. Extremity of male abdomen clavate, somewhat re<'urved, the 



sui)raaual plate long hastate with expanded base, roundly angulate 



sides aud rectaugulate apex, the lateral margins considerably elevated, 



the median sulcus deep and conspicuous between high and sharp walls, 



tciiiiinating apieally in a cochlearate depression; furcula consisting of 



a pair of slender, tapering, acuminate, divergent lingers hardly a fifth 



as long as the supraanal jdate; cerci rather broad, gently tapering in 



the basal half, beyond ecpial, apieally rounded, nearly straight except 



tor being gently incurved, less than three times as long as the middle 



breadth ; subgenital plate short and very broad, the lateral aud apical 



margins in nearly the same plane, rotuudato-angulate as seen from 



above, entire. 



Length of body, male, 19 nun., female, 20 mm. ; antennae, male, mm., 

 t'eiuale, 5.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 4 mm., female, 5.5 mm.; hind femora, 

 male, 10.5 mm., female, 11.5 mm. 



Ten males, eleven females. Mount Lincoln, (^olorado, 11,000 to 113,000 

 feet, August V\ (S. H. Scudder; [U.S.N.M. No. 7l*8J). It has also been 

 leported from the "mountains of southern Colorado" by Thomas; and 

 by myself, but erroneously, from Sierra Blanca, Colorado, and northern 

 Nen Mexico; for in ditl'erent papers I have formerly referred to this 

 species what are here described as Mclanoplna altitudimnn and Podisma 

 '(»'i;iei. The present species has a close general resemblance to MeJano- 

 inns indigens, extending to the abdominal appendages of the male. 



