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47. MELANOPLUS MERIDION ALIS, new species. 



(Date XV, fig. 2.) 



Fnsco fernifjinons, more or less liitescent beneath. ITead not promi- 

 nent, fusco-ferrnjjinous jil'ove, elsewhere <lark olivaceous, exce]>t a 

 jueeous ]>ost()('ular band, tl'j vertex pjently tiunid, slightly elevated 

 above the pronotiim, tlu^ interspace between the eyes rather broad, 

 nmch broader than, in the female fully half as broa<l a<;ain as, the first 

 antennal .joint; fastifnum rapidly declivent, abruptly broadened in 

 front, very shallowly sulcate throughout; froiital costa broad, sub- 

 e<|ual, slightly contraeted above in the male, failing to reach the elypeus, 

 ratlier s/oader than the interspace between the eyes, feejly sulcate at 

 and below tne ocellus, densely punctate; eyes of moderate size, mod- 

 el ately i)rominent in the male, longer than the infraocular portion of 

 the genae; antennae ferruginous, slightly infu.s<;at<d apic^ally, about 

 three fourths (male) or nearly two thirds (female) as long as the hind 

 femora. l*ronotum fusco ferruginous above, luteousor olivaceo-luteoiis 

 on the lower half of the lateral lobes, the U])per half on the pro/ona 

 bn^wnish fuscous, deepening below into i)iceous, or wholly <lull ])iceous; 

 sube(pial, scarcely expanding on the metazona, the disk broadly (con- 

 vex, ])assing almost insensibly, but with a very bluntly rounded angle, 

 into the vertical lateral lobes, the : ledian carina slight, ])ercurrent, and 

 similar throughout; transverse sulci feeble, not cutting the median 

 carina; prozona very sparsely and feebly punctate, longitudinal (male) 

 or longitudinally subcpiadrate (female), one-third (male) or one fourth 

 (female) longer than the obscurely and finely punctate metazona. 

 Prosternal spine moderately long (male) or rather short (female), 

 conico cylindrical, appressed, blunt; interspace between mesosternal 

 lobes nearly twice as long as broad (male) or slightly transverse 

 (female). Tegmiua broad oval, shorter than the i)ron<>tum, apically 

 broadly rounded and slightly emarginate, brownish fuscous. Hind 

 femora fusco ferruginous, the upper cariuae often fuscous, the inferior 

 i>asal half of the outer face often gradually lutescent, the inferior face 

 and base of inner face fulvous or roseate, the geniculation, including 

 most or all of the lower genicular lobe, blackish; hind tibiae glaucous, 

 <tften more or less ditfusely infuscated basally, sometimes lutescent 

 apically, clothed with rather long ])ile, the spines black with pallid 

 base, ten to eleven in number in the outer series. Extremity of the 

 male abdomen clavate, much upturned, the supraamil i)late broad tri- 

 angular, with nearly straight, narrowly and slightly raised lateral 

 margins, slightly depressed faintly acutangulate tip, and a short, tri- 

 angular, rather deeply imi)ressed, basal, median sulcus; furcula con- 

 sisting of a pair of rather large, thickened, brief, lobate expansions of 

 the last dorsal segment, overlying the bases of the apically convergent 

 ridges, which bound the median sulcus of the supraanal plate; cerci 



