120 riWCKEDINdS OF THE SATIOXAL Ml'SElM. vouxx. 



of the lateral earinae of the proiiotuin in his lijiure as arcuate in an 

 opposite sense to that here deseribeti; but his (les('rij)tion aj^rees so 

 perfectly with the other characteristics of the s[)eciniens before me that 

 I rejrard this as an accident. Nevertheless, lappeiul hereto tlie<les(;rip- 

 tiou furnished by hiiu, with the sketch sent me, which he kindly permits 

 me to publish (see Plate IX, tif^. 5). 



I'AHATYLOTHOPIDIA sp. 



Colore ciiHtaneo. Pronotnin disco deplanato. carina media percnrrente, iieciiou 

 ntriiKjiu^ carina louj^itudinali tlava delineato. Klytra abbreviata, a<-UMiiiiata, fascia 

 tiava secnnduni venani nlnarcm ornata. I'einora postica carina siipeiiore a<-nta 

 in.strncti", snperne Hava. Tibiae ]>osticac f'nsco-violaceac, spinulis albis, apicc uigris. 

 in utioqne niar<;ine nunieio 10 ad 12 Lamina snjjraanalis ^ trianj^nlnris, acumi- 

 nata, plana. Ccrci g dcplauiita. basi latissinii, apicc acnniinati. Lamina Hub<;eni- 

 talis (^ olon^ata, ultra apicem laminae supraaualis valde prumiuula. Ovipusitor 

 valvulis acute costatis sed hand dcuticulatis. 



mm. mm. 



Long, corp 30 38 



l>roii ; H 10 



• Ivtr 9 12 



leiu.post i 16..5 'JO 



Patria: Dallas, Texas. Jirunner, 1895. 



23. MELANOPLUS. 

 (Mf'/laf, black; oTtXa, armor.) 



Melanoplua Stal, Rec. Orth., I (1873), p. 79. 



Body moderately stout, rarely slender, generally feebly compressed, 

 more or less but generally feebly pilose. IJead moderately, rarely not 

 at all, prominent, generally but little if any longer than the prozona, 

 unless the latter (as rarely) is distinctly transverse; face almost verti 

 cal or a little oblique, its angle with the fastigium rarely less than To-': 

 vertex gently tumid; eyes rounded oval, never more generally less than 

 half as long again as broad, the anterior murgin subtruucate or feebly 

 convex, separated above rather or verj' narrowly, at most but little 

 farther apart than the widtli of the e(iual or subeciual frontal costa: 

 fastigium more or less sometimes very declivent, passing insensibly into 

 the frontal costa, always more or less sulcate or with elevated lateral 

 margins, generally more deei)ly sulcate in the male than in the female: 

 frontal costa moderately prominent, generally sulcate below, usually 

 more or less punctate; antennae slender, of variable length, but never 

 very short, never longer than the hind femora, and rarely if ever more 

 than twice as long as the pronotum, ev^en when this is subtruncate pos- 

 teriorly. Pronotum generally subcompressed, rarely or never twice as 

 long as the average breadth, generally only half as long again as the 

 average breadth even in the male, tin* metazona generally more or less 

 flaring, its disk plane and densely punctate, while that of the prozona 



