MO. 1124. REnsWX OF THE MELA.\OPLr—SCUDDER. 159 



low, broad, subequal, the sides moderately narrow but low (male) or 

 scsjrcely sulcate (female); frontal costa broad, ecjiial, plane (male) or 

 tumid (female) above, at and below the ocellus broadly and rather 

 deeply sulfate; eyes pretty large but not very prominent. Pronotum 

 with the prozona equal, the metazona e.\pan<linj' and i)un('tato-rugulose; 

 median carina slight but distinct on the metazona. obsolete or subobso- 

 lete on the prozona; latenil carinae subobsolete; transverse sulci of 

 l>rozona slijiht but distinct, continuous. Tegniina extending a very 

 little way beyond the abdomen, surjiassing the hind femora. Suinaanal 

 l)late regularly clypeate, about as bioad as long; plates of the funula 

 shaped much as in .1/. hoinJitchi, but thickened at the tip, as long as 

 tlie ceici or nearly two-thirds as long as the sujuaanal idate; the cerci 

 have a triangular base and a long, straight, slender, bluntly terminated, 

 ecjual finger extending backward and upward and incfined inwaid, 

 starting from the lower posterior i)orti(>n of the base; it is as long as 

 the terminal Joint of the hind tarsi; subgenital plate scoop-shai)ed, 

 well rounded as viewed from above, the tip scarcely produced, entire. 



The general color is greenish yellow, sometimes a little infuscated 

 above, the head frequently mottled with fuscous; antennae uniform 

 yellowish; the usual stripe behind the eye over the ujiper i>ortionof the 

 iiiteial lobes of the pronotum is generally reduced to a very narrow 

 dusky stripe next or on the lateral carinae, diminishing in breadth i)os- 

 teiiorly; or if it is broader, it sometimes invades the disk rather than 

 the lateral lobes; the disk has a median dusky line and the summit of 

 the head a dusky basal triangle. The tegmina i)artake of the general 

 lively tone to a less extent, and the paler me<lian stripe, distinct only 

 at base, is seldom flecked intermittently with fuscous; hind femora yel- 

 low, the upper half of the outer face dusky, and two oblique dusky 

 l»atches often occur above; hind tibiae glaucous, the spines white or 

 glaucous, black tipped, ten to eleven in number in the outer series. 



Length of body, male, 20.5 mm., female, 22 mm.; antennae, male, 

 13 mm., female, 9.75 mm.; tegmina, male, 20.5 m*i., female, 22 mm.; 

 hind femora, male, 14 mm., female, 15 mm. 



Eighteen males, 20 females. Yellowstone, Montana, August (U.S.N. 

 M. — Kiley collection); Sidney, Cheyenne County, Nebraska, August 

 (L. limner); Moline, Kock Island County, Illinois, August 27, J. Mc;- 

 Xeill; Denver, Arapahoe C(mnty, Ccdorado, October 5; Morrison. Jef- 

 lerson County, Colorado, August 9; Coh)rado Springs, El Paso County, 

 Colorado, August, E. S. Tucker (University of Kansas); Garden of 

 the Gods, El Paso County, Colorado, October 0; Carri^o Springs, Dim- 

 mit County, Texas, August, Dr. A. VValgymar (l.S.N.M. — IJiley 

 collection); Las Cruces, Donna Ana County, New Mexico, July 8, T. 

 1>. A. Cockerell; Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (U.S.N. M. — Kiley 

 collection). 



It is also reported by Bruner from liarber and Comanche counties, 

 Kansas. 



