212 rRocEEinxiiS of the XATwyji museum. vol.xx. 



One inalo. Siilmon City, Leiiihi County, Idaho. August (L. IJruner). 



This spetdes has a chjse gen«*ral resemblance to Vodismn hKirshallii 



witli its much shorter antennae and wide separation of the uiesosternal 



lobes. 



11. MANCrS SERIES. 



In this group, composed of si)ecies mostly of small size, the prozona 

 of the male varies from quadrate to distinctly lougitmliual, and the 

 interspace between the mesosternal lobes of the same sex vaiics from a 

 little longer than broad to more than twice as long as broa«l. Tl e 

 antennae of the male are rarely as long as the hind femora. The teg 

 niina are always abbreviate, about as long as the i)ronotuu), usually 

 rather broad and either ungulate or nu)re or less acuminate at tip. The 

 liind tibiae are red, rarely greenish, and have nine to sixteen, more com 

 iDonly about eleven, spines in the outer series. 



The extremity of the male abdomen is usually very feebly <'lavatr, 

 and tiie supraanal plate usually triangular and rather tlat ex(ei»t fortlie 

 subnu'dian ridges; but it is sometimes long subclypeate with margins 

 more or less raised; the furcula always consists of a feeble or ratlu-r 

 feeble pair of denticulations; the cerci are generally rather small, some- 

 times nearly equal, at others tapering more or less in the basal half, 

 but rarely anywhere very slender, generally incurved or inbent, and 

 occasionally somewhat arcuate as seen laterally, always well rounded 

 apically and geuerally exteriorly sulcate on the apical half; the sub 

 genital plate is broad, generally also short, subccmicalor ^ubpyramidal, 

 the lateral and apical margins in the sauie i)lane and entire. 



The species are ti ve in number and have together a wide range, though 

 all but one are rather local, so far as kuown. Tiie one which is widely 

 distributed occurs from ]!!febraska and Kansas to Texas in the West. 

 and from southern New England and central New York to Virginia in 

 the East. The other species are knowu respectively from Lower Call 

 fornia, Colorado, Idaho, and northern New England, but the last is also 

 reported from Illinois. 



This series represents in brachypterous forms the glaucipes seiies in 

 macropterous, and in an ideal arrangement the series should not be so 

 widely separated as here. 



41. MELANOPLUS SCUDDERI. 



(Plate XIV, tigs. 5, (>.) 



rezotcttix svHddoi I'hlerI, Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil., II (1864), p. 555.— Smith, Kej). 

 Conu. B(l. A<-ric., 1872 (1872), pj.. 370, 381.— Thomas, Kep. U. S. Geol. Stirv. 

 Terr., V (1873), p. 152; Bull. 111. Mns. Nat. Hist., I (1876), p. 67.— Hhixki:, 

 Can. Eut., IX (1877), p. 144.— Sccddku, ibid., XII (1880), p. 75.— Thomas, 

 Rep. Eut. 111., IX (1880), pp. 91, 95, 121.— Brixeh, Rep. l\ S. Eut. Comm . 

 Ill (1883), p. 59.— CoMSToCK, lutr. Eut. (18^8), p. 107.— Davis, Eut. Amcr . 

 V (1889), p. 80.— Smith, Cat. Jus. N. .1. (1890), p. 412.— Blatchley!, C;ni. 

 Eut., XXIII (1891), p. 80.— McNeill:, Psyobe, VI (1891), p. 76.— Osbgiiv, 

 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sc, I, ii (1892), p. 117.— Buinek, Publ. Nebr. Acad. S.., 

 Ill (1893), p. 27.— Morse, Psyche. VII (1894). p. 106.— (Jahmav, Orth. Kv. 

 (1894), p. 8.— BKUTEXMiLLiR, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., VI (1894), p. 3itL», 

 pi. VIII, lig. 6. 



