2(>2 PliOCEKDiyaS OF THE SATIOSAL MfSErM. vouxx. 



lobes Tienrly or qnite twice as loii^ as broad in botli sexes. Tejyniina 

 iiiiitoini li^bt yellowisli testnceoiis, witli no si^n of inaculntion, althoii^^h 

 rarely a little beclouded, reaching;" somewhat, generally far, beyond the 

 hind femora, ratiier slemler, feebly tapering, well ronnded at tip; wiu;iS 

 pellucid, the veins and cross-veins sometimes wholly j^reen, sometimes 

 partly fuscous. Hiul femora testaceous, f^enerally feebly infuscatcd in 

 the incisures of the outer face above, the inner h df of the upper face 

 ofteu bimaculate with fuscous, the under surface with a tendency to 

 become roseate, the "eficular arc bhick; hind tibnie very ])ale dingy 

 green, {^.rowing lutescent apically, the spines black with pallid base, 

 ten to ^weive usually eleven, in iiumber in the outer series. Extremity 

 of malt .,bdonien clavate, a little upturned, the supraanal plate subclyp 

 eate, with sinuate sides and rectangulate apex, with a short, shallow, 

 median sulcus and feebly elevated sides, the whole surface nearly 

 plane; furcula consisting of a pair of moderately broad, tiattened, 

 tapering, acuminate fingers, parallel or slightly divergent, reaching 

 about to the middle of the supraaiiai plate; cerci slender, subecjual but 

 basally tai)ering, feebly incurved laminae, about five times as long as 

 broad, feebly arcuate and apically well rounded, with a slight, inferior, 

 indirected tlange to the lower margin apically, the whole much shorter 

 than the supraanal plate; infracercal i)late8 as in the last species; sub- 

 genital plate about as broad as long, the lateral margin arcuate, being 

 produced both basally and apically, but especially the latter, the apical 

 margin rounded subquadrate, very feebly or not at all emarginate, 

 though thickened on either side of the middle. 



Length of body, male, 25 mm., female, 22.75 mm.; antennae, male. 

 8.5 mm., female, 6.25 mm.; tegmina, male, 21.5 mm., female, 18.5 mm.; 

 hind femora, male, 13.25 mm., female, 12 mm. 



Nine males, 8 females. Fort Redding, Shasta County, California, 

 Lieutenant Williamson ; Yuba County, California (U.S.N.M. — Riley 

 collection); Sacramento County, California, Cociuillett (same); Folsom, 

 Sacramento County, California, July 4 (same); Merced County, Cali- 

 fornia (same). 



35. MELANOPLUS ANGELICUS, new species. 

 (Plate XIII, fig. 10.) 



Of rather large size, dark brownish fuscous, more or less ferruginous. 

 Head not very prominent, plumbeous or ferruginous, more or less infus 

 cated, above hardly darker but perhaps with more fuscous patches, a 

 postocular piceous baud; vertex gently tumid, but little elevated above 

 the proiiotum, the interspace between the eyes rather broad, somewhat 

 broader than the first autennal joint; fastigium strongly decliveut, 

 deeply sulcate throughout; frontal costa broad, feebly constricte<l 

 above, percurrent, slightly broader than the interspace between the 

 eyes, gently sulcate at and below the ocellus, punctate above seriately 



