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5. MELANOPLUS CUNEATUS, new species. 



(Plate X. tig. 5.) 

 MelanophiK riintatitx hlvsv.K], MS. 



Brownish testaceous, darker above. Head liiteo-testaceons, with 

 tlu' lateral ridjjfes of the tastifjfiuin black, the i)osteiior part of the 

 vert<^x with a median trianjrnlar blackish strijie, a broken bla(;k e(l<jfinjLr 

 to the upper posterior i)art of the eyes and, Joinin«; it, a bhu^k band 

 behind the eyes; vertex tumid, much elevated above th«* ])ronotuin, 

 the inters])ace between the eyes not very broad, about as broad as the 

 basal antennal Joint, the fastijjium deeply sulcate; frontal costa sub- 

 ejpial, rather narrower than the interspace between the eyes, shallowly 

 sulcate excepting above: eyes rather large, i>rominent, about as long 

 as the infraocular })ortiou of the genae; antennae fulvo testaceous, 

 about three-fourths as long as the hind femora. Proiiotum feebly 

 constricted mesially, expanding almost as much anteriorly as posteri- 

 orly, the front margin feebly convex, the hind margin obtusangulate, 

 the lateral lobes lighter colored than the disk, but on the prozona 

 marked above with a broken blackish fuscous band, the imi)ressed 

 middle line of the i)osterior section black; median carina i)ercurrent, 

 but slighter on the i)roz()na than on the metazona, subobsolete between 

 the sulci, the lateral carinae forming a rounded shoulder (ui tlui meta- 

 zona, obsolete on the prozona. Prosternal spine moderately short, 

 appressed conical, blunt, slightly retrorse: interspace between meso- 

 sternal lobes of male half as long again as broad. Tegmina suri)assing 

 a little the hind femora, not very slender, subequal, much maculate 

 along the discoidal area but not elsewhere; wings hyaline. Hind 

 femora brownish testaceous, crossed above and externally by two very 

 obliijue fuscous bars, which above are jnemedian and postmedian, the 

 inner and under surfaces pale coralline, the genicular arc black; hind 

 tibiae glaucous with a slender dusky jiatellar spot, the spines black nearly 

 to the base, nine to ten, usually ten, in number in the outer series. 

 Extremity of male abdomen feebly compressed, not clavate, scarcely 

 u])turned, the supraanal plate triangular, either lateral half broadly 

 and shallowly sulcate and separated by sharp but not very high walls 

 tiom the rather deep and apically narrowing and fading median sulcus; 

 fuicula composed of a pair of minute projecting angulations surmount- 

 ing the ridges of the supraanal plate; cerci bent inwards almost from 

 the base, very broad, broadening mesially by their inferior expansion, 

 the lower margin suddenly bent at the middle, so that the ai)ical half 

 narrows rapidly and has an upward direction, v.ell and rather narrowly 

 rounded, even subangulate, at tip, the whole only half as long again 

 as broad and yet longer than the supraanal plate; subgenital plate 

 exceedingly small and of about e(iual length and breadth, subconical, 

 with scarcely any trace of an apical tul)ercle, except that formed by 

 the shape of the plate as a whole. 



