NO. 1124. liEJISIOX OF THE MKLAXOPLI—SCVliDKn. 1(J3 



17. MELANOPLUS KENNICOTTII. 



(I'latv XI, lij;. X.) 



CalopteniiH JiUilHrntnn S«( i>i»kk!. Daws., K*]). (m'oI. K'e*-. 4!»tli par. (1875), j). lUIi. 

 Mihnioplii.'i keiiiiitcttii Scri>i»KuI, Troc. Host. 8<»i-. Nat. Hist., XI\ ( 1S7M), pp. L'ST, 



2Hi«, 21X>; Eiit. Notes, VI (1H7H), pp. 4tl, 1^, Jit.— I'.iji xkr, IJep. U. S. Knt. 



Couim., Ill (1883). p. (K); IJep. U. S. Ent., lsa"> (188fi), p. 307. 

 Mrlauitphia hilUuratus Cailkikld (pars), IJep. Ent. Soc Ont., XVIII (IHMH), 



J). 171. 

 Caloptdiiis ( Mrlaiiophta) hiliinratiix Cailkiem) (pars), (an. Kim.-. Sc, II (l'"^x7), 



!». lOl; (jiars). Ciiii. Ortli. i\xx~), p. 13. 

 Mtlanophis mtxhstim liurxEKl, MS. 



liroNViiisli testaceous, heavily mottled with fuscous. Head very dark 

 al)ove and in a postoenlar band; vertex rather tumid, i)artieular]y in 

 the male, where it is distinctly elevated above the level of tlie prono- 

 tiim; iiitersj)ace between the eyes rather broad, much broader than, in 

 tlic female nearly twice as broad as, the basal Jt)int of the antennae; 

 f;i>ti<iiuni rai)idly declivent. bioadly and rather deeply (male) or shal- 

 lowly (female) sulcate tliroujjhont; frontal costaiiot very broad, sli<4htly 

 narrowed above, narrower than the interspace between the eyes; eyes, 

 moderately large and prominent; antennae testaceous, infuscated apic- 

 ally, a little shorter thau (male) or less than two thirds as lonj,' as 

 (female) the hind femora. Prouotum short, enlarging a little }K)ste- 

 rioily, the front border truncate, the hind border obtusely ungulate, the 

 aiiule rounded, dark testaceous above, more or less heavily mottled 

 with fuscous, the lower portion of the lateral lobes lighter, but the 

 upper part, on the prozona, with a broad piceous band, occasionally 

 broken, especially in the female; median carina percurrent and slight, 

 but feebler on the prozona than on the metazona; disk passing almost 

 insensibly into the lateral lobes on the prozona, but on the metazona 

 with a distinct though rounded angle; ])rozona feebly (male) or dis- 

 tinctly (female) transverse, scarcely longer than the obscurely punctate 

 metazona. Prosternal spine short, erect, conical, very blunt; interspace 

 between mesosternal h)bes only a little longer than broad (male) or 

 (U'cidedly transverse, but narrower than the lobet. themselves (female); 

 metasternal lobes narrowly attingent (male) or approximate (female). 

 Tegniina reaching, occasionally in the female suri)assing, the tip of the 

 liind femora, moderately narrow, distinctly tapering, brownish fuscous 

 ^ith feeble tiecking along the discoidal area; wings moderately broad, 

 liyaline, most of the veins and cross veins blackish fuscous. Hind 

 femora brownish testaceous, more or less obli(|uely bifasciate with 

 I'uscous on the upper half, the genicular arc piceous, the inferior face 

 more or less but slightly fulvous: hind tibiae paler or browner testa- 

 ceous, the spines black except at base, ten to eleven in number in the 

 outer series. Extremity of male abdomen slightly clavate, upturned, 

 tbc supraanal plate triangular with nearly straight sides and acutangu- 

 lat«' ai)ex, the median sulcus percurrent, not very narrow but mesially 



