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the inner apical angle sometimes feebly asserting itself as in the allied 

 species; cerci slender, not very long, incurved gently and a little 

 upcurved, tapering gently in less than the basal iialf, beyond cylindri- 

 cal, blunt tipped, reaching^ almost to the tip of the su]>raaual plate; 

 subgenital plate moderately broad, sube(iual,the lateral margins straight 

 but faintly rising at the apex, which is broadly rounded as seen from 

 above. 



Length of body, male, 29.5 mm., female, 30 mm.; anteunae, nvdWy 15 

 mm., female, 9.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 28 mm., female, 2(i.5 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 17 mm., female, 15 mm. 



Five males, 4 females. Finney County, Kansas, September, H. W, 

 Meuke (University of Kansas); Las Cruces, Donna Ana County, New 

 Mexico, July 8, T. D. A. Cockerell; Mexico (Museum Comparative 

 Zoology); Lerdo, Durango, Mexico, November (L. Bruuer); Cuanajuato, 

 Mexico, A. Duges (U.S.N. M. — Riley collection); Bledos, San Luis 

 Potosi, Mexico, October, E. Palmer. 



This species differs fron^ the two preceding by its slender elongate 

 form, the simplicity of its male furcula, and by its general markings. 



4. GLAUCIPES SEUIKS. 



The two species placed together here have comparatively little in 

 common to warrant their combination as a series, and each should 

 perhaps be made the basis of a distinct series if other forms are found 

 allied to one and tho other: but falling together by the characters given 

 in our table, I have thought it best for the present to connect them. 

 They have these common characteristics: 



The mesosternum in front of the lobes is plane in the male. The more 

 or less maculate tegmina extend only to the tip of the hind femora, and 

 the hind tibiae have from ten to twelve spines in the outer series. The 

 supraanal plate is simple, without elevated sides; the furcula is devel- 

 oped as a pair of minute triangular denticles; the cerci are broad and 

 short, only abcmt twice as long as broad, a little upcurved, and apically 

 broadly rounded, while the subgenital plate is moderately broad, pro- 

 longed, and scarcely elevated apically. 



The species are of small or medium size; one occurs in Texas and 

 northern Mexico, the other from Montana to Alaska. 



i6. MELANOPLUS GLAUCIPES. 



(Plate XI, fig. ♦!.) 



CaloptenKS ylaucipis ScrDDERl, Proc. Bust. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII (187;")). pp. 



47«)-477; Eut. Notes, IV (1X75), pp. 7.">-7»). — Thomas, Rep. U. t?. Eut. 



Comm., I (IH78), p. 42.— Scudder!, Ceut. Oith. (1879), pp. 20-21. 

 Melanoplun (jlauoipet ScuddekI, Can.Ent., XII (1^'80), p. 7.'). 



Wood-brown. Head and pronotum yellowish brown, heavily liecked 

 with blackish, more heavily and minutely above, giving it a wood-brown 

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