158 PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL MUSEUM. vouxx. 



(male) or fully to (female) the tip of tlie abdomen. Supraanal plate sub- 

 (juadrate, l(yiij;er than broad, the lateral margins subparallel on basal 

 half, beyond tapering rapidly, the tip triangularly produced, sharply 

 angiilated; i)lates of furcula stout, depressed, attingent at base, ))eyond 

 with the inner margin:-; separated at an angle of 45°, the outer mar- 

 gins straight and ])arallel, the extremity obliquely docked and scarcely 

 incurved, more tlian half the length of t)'e supraanal i)late and nearly 

 three times as long as the basal breadth: anal cerci forming long, 

 slender, i traight, compressed fingers, much expanded above at the 

 extreme base, beyon<l scarcely tapering, bluntly and roundly terminated, 

 directed backward, somewiiat upward and a little inward, about as 

 long as the tirst hind tarsal joint; subgenital plate elongated scoop- 

 shaped, the extremity a little ])ioduced, entire: bas.il tooth of lower 

 valve of ovipositor of female blunt, triangular, large, broader than 

 long. 



The general color is a grayish brown, the eyes margined above with 

 dull ",.;le-yellow, the face and genae olivaceous Mith transverse mot- 

 tlii '" dusky ferruginous; antennae dull pale castaneous: behind the 



eye a broad piceous belt, sometimes broken, sometimes entire, crosses 

 the })rozona on the upper half of the lateral lobes; disk of pronotum 

 brownish yellow, heavily i)unctate or mottled with fuscous. Tegmina 

 with an obscure median series of alternate dusky and j)allid spots; 

 hind femora brownish yellow, more or less tinged with plumbeous, the 

 incisures dusky, with faint indications on upper surface of dusky trans- 

 verse stripes; hind tibiae bluish green, sometimes dotteu with black 

 and with black spines, ten in number in the outer series. 



Length of body, male, -J3 mm., female, 26 mm.; antennae, male, 10 

 mm.: tegmina, mule and female, 20 mui.; hind femora, male, 13 mm., 

 female. 14 mm. 



Four males, .} females. Lakin, Kearny County, Kansas, 3,000 feet, 

 September 1; Pueblo, Colorado, 4,700 feet, August 30-31; Chaves, 

 Bernalillo County, Xew Mexico, August G (L. Bruner); Las Cruces, 

 Donna Ana County, New Mexico, July 8, T. J). A. Cockerell. 



It is also re])orted by Townsend from Sabinal, Socorro County, and 

 Belen, Valencia County, New Mexico, August 7. 



14. MELANOPLUS FLAVIDUS. 



(Plate XI. lig. 4.) 



MelnnupJus ffaridus Scudder!, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX (1879), p. 74; 



Cent. Orth. (1879), p.63.— Bhuner. Rep. U. S. Ent. Coinm., Ill (1ks3), p. t»l; 



Bull. Washb. Coll., I (1885), p. 38; iWui.. I (1886), p. 200; Publ. Nebr. Aca«l. 



Sci., Ill (1893), p. 27. 

 MeJatiophis cenchri McNeill!, Psyche, VI (1891), pp. 74-75. 



Moderately large in size. Head rather large, slightly elevated and 

 well arched above; interspace between the eyes nearly (male) or quite 

 (female) half as broad again as the first antennal joint; fastigium shal- 



