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40. MELANOPLUS INDIGENS, new species. 

 (Plate XIV. fijr.4.) 



(^)f medium size, brownish fuscous above, sordid testaceous beneath. 

 Head a little i)rominent, olivaceo-testaceous tle(;ked with fuscous, above 

 blackish fuscous with a broad piceous jmstocular band: vertex some- 

 what tumid, scarcely elevated above the inoiiotum, the interspace 

 between the eyes half as broad a;;ain as the tirst antennal Joint; fas- 

 tijiium stee{)ly declivent, shallowly and broadly sulcate; fmntal costa 

 scarcely reaching the clypeus, faintly expanded at the ocellus, Init 

 otherwise equal, a little narrower than the interspace between the eyes, 

 a little sulcate below the ocellus, distinctly punctate above; eyes rather 

 large, not ijrominent, somewhat longer than the infraocular portion of 

 the genae; antennae castaneous, almost as long as the hind fem(»ra. 

 Pronotum slightly expanding on the nietazona, the sides with a per- 

 ciirrent, piceous, jmstocular stripe which is rather feeble on the nieta- 

 zona, the disk rather broadly convex, passing by a rounded shoulder, 

 l)osteriorly forming feeble lateral carinae, into the somewhat tumid 

 vertical lateral lobes; median carina distinct on the nietazona, obsoles- 

 cent on the prozona; front margin subtruncate, hind margin very 

 broadly rotundate ; prozona distinctly longitudinal, about a third longer 

 than the finely punctate metazona. Piosternal spine long, conical, 

 bluntly pointed, feebly appressed; interspace between mesosternal 

 lobes subquadrate, barely longer than broad. Tegmina abbreviate, 

 almost as long as the jironotum, slightly distant, obovate, almost twice 

 as long as broad, the tip strongly rounded. Fore and middle femora 

 somewhat tumid in the male; hind femora rather slender, somewhat 

 compressed, ferrugineo-testaceous, irregularly clouded and tlecked with 

 fuscous, the under face Havo-olivaceous, the upper genicular lobe and 

 base of lower black; hind tibiae sordid pale greenish with a fuscous 

 patellar anuulus, the spines black almost to their base, ten to twelve 

 in number in the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen hardly 

 clavate, somewhat recurved, the suiuaanal plate triangular with acut- 

 aiigulate apex, the lateral margins considerably and rather abruptly 

 elevated and mesially notched, the median sulcus distinct and i>eicur- 

 rcnt between rather narrow and sharp ridges which fade beyond the 

 middle; furcula consisting of a pair of rather slender, tapering and 

 acuminate, tumid, feebly arcuate and slightly «livergent lingers, 

 slightly longer than the last dorsal segment; cerci broad and rather 

 coarse, straight, subequal, ai)ically rounded or subangulate laminae, 

 nearly four times as long as their middle breadth, obliquely vertical 

 throughout except apically, where by a feeble twist they become verti- 

 cal: subgenital plate short and broad, the ajjical margin rising consid- 

 erably above the lateral into a slight rounded tubercle, the lateral and 

 apical margins as seen from above parabolic. 



Length of body, male, 20 mm.; anter.nae, 10 mm.: tegmina, 4.25 

 nun ; hind femora, 11 mm. 



