wo. 1124. RKVISfoy OF THE MKLASnVLI-SCntDKR. 2'Jl 



Tiu^ pro/oiia is (|tiii<lriit(' or sulM|ua(lriit<^ in tiic iiiah', l>ut in homio 

 bra«'liy|)t(M'oiis toriiiH lon^itiKliiiul. Tlit^ iiit«M-s|»a<sr l>utwi>eii i\\v incso- 

 Htenial lohuM in tlif .sanu'.H»x is always loii^tM* than broad and sonu^tirneH 

 more than twirr as lonj; as broad. The te^Mnina are either t'nily devel 

 oped or sh^htly a'nbreviate so aH not to surpaHs the hind femora, or 

 else ^hey are shorter tliaii the proiiotum. and then apieally rounded or 

 very bluntly subaeuminate, i;enerally sli;;litly maculate. The hind 

 tibiae vary in color, aiul have I'rom nine to thirteen spines in the »)Uter 

 serieH. 



Tiie snpraiinal phite ot' tlie male is ;;«'iu*rally as in the femur rul)rum 

 series, l)ut the apical third or more is frcMpiently depressed. The fur- 

 cula is very variable, bein;; either as in the devastator series, but gen- 

 erally rather shorter, or reduced to distant slijjht dentations <»r to 

 rounded partially projecting: lobea. The cerci are y;eru'rally symmetric- 

 ally rounded at tij) and otherwise as in the feumr-rubrum series, or 

 with very slijjht dilVerence in breadth basally and api<'ally, usually 

 rather short, and in one instance bent abruptly inward at less than a 

 rij;ht an<,de. The subj^enital plate is usually broad thKui^^hout, the 

 apical mar<j:in well rouiub'd and slightly elevated but not emar^Mnate? 

 but aonu'tiujes it is rather narrow throu;;hout and not apically elevated. 



The species of this group, seven in number, are divided ufie<pially 

 between macropterous and bra(diypt«'rous forms, one species being di- 

 morphic, four others brachyjjterous, and two macropterous. They 

 occur almost wholly in the great interior region between the Mississippi 

 liiver and the Kocky Mountains, and extend from Alberta ami Assiui- 

 boia to central Mexico. No species are known from the l'aciti<' ('oast 

 ami only one east of the Mississippi, in Georgia and North Carolina. 



46. MELANOPLUS REFLEXUS, new species. 

 (Plate XV, fig. 1.) 



Dull ferruginous brown, lutesi;ent below and on abdomen. Head 

 luteo-testaeeous, more or less marmorate with light fuscous, fusco-ferrug- 

 inous above, with a broad postocular piceous patch ; vertex very gently 

 tumid, not elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the 

 eyes rather broad, much broader than, in the fenude twice as l)road as, 

 the tirst antennal Joint; fastigium rather ra{)idly <leclivent, very feebly 

 and broadly sulcate in the male, nearly plane in the female; frontal costa 

 broad, failing to reach the clypeus, slightly contra<;ted above, at least 

 in the male, almost (female) or fully (male) as broad as the interspace 

 between the eyes, feebly and narrowly sulcate at and below the ocel- 

 lus, punctate throughout but nowhere seriately; eyes moderately large, 

 not prominent, a little longer than the infraocular portion of the genae; 

 antennae ferruginous, in the female less than two-thirds as long as the 

 hind femora. Pronotum short, subequal, very faintly and uniformly 

 enlarging posteriorly, rather full than contracted in the middle, very 



