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43. MELANOPLUS ARTEMISIAE. new species. 



flM.ite MV, liu. >*.) 



I'e:otettijr artemifiiar HufXEicI, MS. 

 J'coMtix iKiruhilia McNeilkI, MS. 



Of iJitliiT small size, ciiieieo-fiisroiKS. Tlciid ratlicr pronjiiient, dull 

 testaceous, heavily blotelied witli fnscous if not wholly infiiscatrd, 

 deepest on the eh'vated portions, above I'ineieo testaceous, h»»avily 

 llecked with fuscous in stripes nidiatiiiy: fioiii the fastij;iuni and in a 

 ]>ostocuIar band; vertex somewhat tumid, <listinctiy elevated above 

 the level of the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes fully half 

 as wide again (male) or fully twice as wide (female) as the first anten- 

 nal joint; fastigium rather steejdy de<'livent, sulcate; frontal costa per- 

 current, e(jual or faintly enlarging below, nearly as wide as the 

 interspace between the eyes, very feebly sulcate at and a little below 

 the ocellus, ]»unctate above; eyes not veiy large but prominent, espe- 

 cially in the male, distinctly larger than the intraocular portion of the 

 genae; antennae testaceous, live sixths (malt') or scarcely three fifths 

 (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum rather short, subeijual, 

 feebly enlarging posteiiorly, the lateral lobes with a feeble fuscous 

 l)ostocular band on the prozona, the disk freciuently ]>unctate with 

 fuscous, very broadly convex and passing by a rounded shouhler, 

 feebly angulated on the metazoini, into the anteriorly feebly tumid 

 subvertical lateral lobes; median carina peicurrent, but blunt on the 

 l)rozona, especially between the sulci where it is often subobsolete; 

 front margin truncate, hind margin rotundatoobtusangulate, slightly 

 more angulate in the male than in the female; prozomi transversely 

 subquadrate (male) or distinctly transverse (female), about a tiftli 

 longer than the densely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine rather 

 short, erect, conico-pyramidal, subapi)ressed ; interspace between meso- 

 steriml lobes truncato-cuneiforni, a little longer than broad (imile) or 

 distinctly transverse, not much narrower than the lobes (feunile). Teg- 

 mina broad-ovate, broader in the female than in the male, scarcely 

 shorter than the pronotum, attingent, the ai)ex angulate. Fore and 

 middle femora very feebly enlarged in the male; hind femora long jind 

 slender, sordid tlavo-testaceous, twice rather narrowly <lemi cingulate 

 with fuscous above and touched with fuscous at the base, the genicular 

 arc fuscous; hind tibiae very ])ale and very dull glaucous, with a fuscous 

 l)atellar spot, the spines black on the apical half, ten to eleven, rarely 

 nine, in number in the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen 

 barely clavate, scarcely recurved, the supraanal plate triangular with 

 straight or nearly straight sides, acutangulate aj)ex, the surface nearly 

 l>lane, rising mesially and basally into a pair of high, sharp, f«iebly 

 convergent ridges, inclosing a very deep and tapering median sulcus 

 which covers two thirds of the plate; furcula consisting of a pair of 

 distant minute deuticulations overlying the submcdian ridges of the 



