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apically dimpled, with a sligjlit, inferior, indirected flange to the lower 

 margin apically, the whole much shorter than tlie supraanal plate; 

 infracercal plates extending noticeably beyond the sui>raanal plate and 

 so ex])Osed beyond the tips of the cerci to a considerable degree; sub- 

 genital plate longer than broad, broa<l and rcctangnlate at base, apic- 

 ally elevated but not prolonged, the apical border thickened and 

 emarginate. 



Length of body, male, 20.5 mm., female 22.5 mm.; antennae, male, 

 8.5 mm., female, 8 mm.; tegmina, maie, 17 mm., female, 17.."> mm.; 

 hind femora, male, n.r> mm., female, 13 mm. 



Eleven males, 12 females. California, II. Edwards; oiskiyou County, 

 California, July (T.S.^J.M. — Kiley collection); Fort Kedding, Shasta 

 C(,unty, California, Lieutenant AVilliamson; Butte County, California 

 (U.S.N.M. — Kiley collection); Sierra Valley, Sierra County, California, 

 J. G. Lemmon (same) ; Sacramento County, California, Coquillett (same; 

 J. McNeill). 



34. MELANOPLUS UNIFORMIS, new species. 



(Plate XIII, fig. 9.) 



MeJanoplus devastaior Sci'DDEkI (pars), Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), 

 pp. 285-286, 287-288; (pars), Entom. Notes, VI (1878), pp. 46-47, 48-4!t. 



^ight and nearly uniform testaceous, more or less feebly tinged above 

 with ferruginous. Head somewhat prominent, particularly in the male, 

 liallid testaceous, darker above, with occasionally a feeble postocular 

 fuscous line at the upper limit of the normal Melanoplau postocular 

 band; vertex tumid, well elevated above the pronotum, the interspace 

 between the eyes rather broad, half as broad again (male) or twice as 

 broad (female) as the first anteunal joint; fastigiuni strongly declivent, 

 sulcate throughout, more deeply and narrowly in the male than in the 

 female; frontal costa broad, subequal, scarcely attaining the clypeus, 

 fully as broad as the interspace between the eyes, feebly impressed about 

 the ocellus, punctate throughout; eyes large, rather prominent, much 

 larger than the infraocular portion of the genae ; antennae luteous, grow- 

 ing slightly fulvous apically, nearly two-thirds (male) or scarcely more 

 than half (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum feebly enlarged 

 jiosteriorly, the lateral lobes slightly paler than the disk, and rarely 

 with a few faint duskier streaks in the place of the postocular band, 

 tlie disk passing into the lateral lobes by a rounded shoulder, which 

 jilmost develops into a lateral carina on the metazona; median carina 

 slight, percurrent, only slightly feebler on the prozona than on the meta- 

 ;^(»na; front margin subtruncate, hind margin obtusangulate; prozona 

 (juadrate (male) or slightly transverse (female), scarcely or not longer 

 than the closely and finely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine not 

 very long, couico-cylindrical, appressed, blunt, blunter in the female 

 than in the male, slightly retrorse; interspace between mesosternal 



