HO. 1124. PEvrsroy (PF the MKLAMn'i.i—scrDHEn. 219 



ay:}iiii as tlie «l«Mise)y and finely pinictate in<'ta/.oiia. I'rostrrnal spine 

 ratlier Hhort, slij^litly appressi'd conii-al, blunt, orrrt, rather shorter 

 and stouttT in tin* tVniale than in th«* inaU'; int»'rspare between 

 inesostvrnal hilu'S nearly halt' as lon^^ a;4ain as broad i male) or trans- 

 verse, but inu<rh narrower than the lobes ( frinale). Tej^nnna broad 

 rounded-ovate, shorter than the ])ron(»tuin, attinj^ent or subattinjjent, 

 feebly suban;;ulate at apex, dark brownish fusecuis. Kore and middle 

 t'euiora a little tumid in the male; hind femora ferru^ineo testaeeoiis, 

 siunetnnes with an olivaceous tin;je, often more or less infuseated on 

 the outer face, especially next the carinae, the ;jenienlation infuseate*!, 

 sometimes almost black; hind tibiae rather <leep red, often paler next 

 the base, witii a feeble and narrow fuscous ])atellar annulus, the spiiu'S 

 black almost or (piite to their base, ten to eleven in number in the outer 

 series. Extremity of male abdomen very feebly clavate, somewhat 

 re<'urved, the supraanal plate long subcdypeate, the lateral maiffins 

 raised and slijjjhtly contracted meslally, the apex roundly subrectangu- 

 late, the median sulcus rather narrow, e(jual, percurrent, the bounding; 

 ridji:e8 not very hij;h, but moderately sharp; furcula consisting of a ])air 

 of approximate, i)arallel, slight, cyliiidri(;al, tai)ering spines, projecting 

 over the submedian ridges of the supraanal plate by uo more than the 

 length of the last dorsal segment; cerci rather long and slender, the 

 lower margiii nearly straight, ta])ering m the i)roximal half to about 

 half its basal breadth, tiiereafter subeipial, a little incurved and faintly 

 twisted, scarcely reaching the tip of the supraanal ])late, well rouiuled 

 at tip; subgenital i)late i)yramidal, a little elongate and at tip siib- 

 tuberculate, the margins in one plane, as seen from above with a para- 

 bolic curve, entire. 



Length of body, male, 15.5 mm., female, 22 mm.; antennae, male, 

 6.25 mm., female, 7.25 mm.; tegmina, male, .'i.25 mm., female, 4.25 mm.; 

 hind femora, male, 8.75 mm., female, 11 mm. 



Eighty-six males, 103 females. Si>eckled Mountain, Stoneham, 

 Oxford County, Maine, August 15, S. 1. Smith; the same, August 18, 

 A. P.Morse (A. P. Morse; Museum Comparative Zoology; S. 11. Scud- 

 der); Mount Sargent, Mount Desert Island, Maine, August: Kearsarge 

 Mountain, North Conway, Carroll County, New Hampshire, 2, (MM) to 

 ii,251 feet, September 4 ( A. P. Morse). It has also been repoited by 

 McNeill from liunuing Lake, Illinois. 



45. MELANOPLUS CANCRI, new species. 

 (PhiteXIV, fig. 10.) 



Of small size, testaceous. Head not prominent, uniformly testaceous, 

 except in being darker above along the middle line in the male, and 

 with a narrow ])Ostocular black stripe: vertex gently tumid, scarcely 

 elevated above the pnuiotum, the interspace between the eyes hardly 

 as wide as (male) or scarcely half as wide again as (female) the first 

 antenual joint; fastigium steeply declivent, narrowly sulcate, at least 



