156 PROCKEDiyGS OF THE X.iTroyjL MUSEUM. vol. xx. 



iiiiddk' of tlie supraunal i)late; cerci rather small, tapering in tlie 

 basal tlirce-tiftlis, gently aud e<nially above and below, beyond e(iual, 

 less than half as broad as the base, exteriorly silicate apically, the tii) 

 blunt and not nearly reaching the tij) of the supraanal plate j .^ubgen- 

 ilal plate as in .1/. h< rbaceuH. 



Length of body, male, 25.5 mm.j antennae,!.'}? mm.; tegmina, 23 

 mm.; himl femora, 14 mm. 



One male. San Diego, California, Coquillett ( l^.S.N.F — Kiley collec- 

 tion). 



This species is very closely allied to the preceding, from which it 

 diti'ers by its color and pattern, by tlie differently shaped male cerci and 

 • fiircula, by the extreme narrowness of the interspace between the 

 mesosternal lobes, and by the less sharply margined frontal costa. 



12. MELANOPLUS PICTUS, new species. 



(Plate XI, tig. 2.) 



Mdanophts pictus BhinekI, MS. 



A little above the medium size, highly variegated in coloring. Head 

 slightly prominent, bright flavous, irregularly and profusely mottled 

 and blotched with blackish fuscous, least and more delicately so above; 

 vertex moderately tumid, raised slightly above the level of the prono- 

 tuin, the intersi)ace between the eyes narrow, narrower than the tirst 

 Jointof the antennae; fastigium rapidly and roundly declivent,distinctly 

 silicate throughout; frontal costa rather ])rominent above, subequal, 

 considerably broader than the intersi)ace between the eyes, just failing 

 to reach the clypeus, distinctly sulcate excepting above, where it is 

 biseriately punctate; eyes rather large, long, aud prominent, much 

 longer than the intraocular portion of the genae^ antennae nearly as 

 long as the hind femora, flavous throughout. Pronotum subequal. 

 enlarging a little on the metazona, the sides of the prozona a little 

 tumid independently on each zone, the disk pilose, gently convex, 

 passing by a rounded shoulder into the interiorly vertical lateral lobes, 

 the median carina distinct on the metazona, subobsolete on the ]no- 

 zona, obsolete between the sulci; front margin faintly convex with 

 slight median emargination, hind margin obtusangulate, the angle \a» . 

 rounded; pronotum mostly ])rownish fuscous, irregularly enlivened by 

 bright flavous, especially on the anterior part of the disk, on the ui)pei 

 most part of the lateral lobe-:, and on the ^.ower j^art of the metazona of 

 the same, the brown deepening in color on the upper third or more 

 of the ])rozona: i)rozona slightly longitudinal, scarcely longer than 

 the densely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine rather short, stout, 

 conical, blunt, erect; interspace between mesooternal lobes of male 

 nearly three times as long as broad, the metasternal lobes subattiugent. 

 Tegmina long, slender, subequal, far surpassing the hind femora, 

 brownish with a roseate tinge mi the basal half, scarcely flecked with 



