NO. 1124. RKVISIOX OF THE MELASiU'LI—SCl'DDKU. 229 



ain'cally in that to wliich the name .1/. d. comphtnH may bo given. The 

 latter appears to be rarer and lias so far been found only in Dakota 

 and at Red Kiver, Manitoba. We owe its discovery to Professor 

 limner. 



51. MELANOPLUS GLADSTONE new species. 



(Plates I, fi^'. /»; XV, fi«. 0.) 

 M*!laiiophi8 (flathfoni BruxkrI, MS. 



Very dark testaceous, much infnscated, especially above. Head not 

 prominent, luteo castaneous, more or less clouded or blotched with 

 fuscous, above wholly fuscous, with a narrow, ])osteriorly broadeninjf, 

 testaceous stripe, following the jiosterior upper edge of the eye and 

 separating the vertex from a piceous or blackish fuscous i)ostocuhir 

 band; vertex gently tumid, very slightly elevated above the i)ronotuin, 

 the interspace between the eyes rather broad, nearly (male) or fully 

 (female) twice as broad as the basal antennal Joint; fastigium steeply 

 declivent, broadly sulcate throughout; frontal costa rather prominent, 

 as broad as the interspace between the eyes, eiiual, percurrent or almost 

 l)ercurrent, ])unctate especially laterally, feebly sulcate at and below 

 the ocellus; eyes moderately large, not very prominent, anteriorly sub- 

 truncate, a little longer than the infraocular i>ortion of the genae; 

 antennae luteo ferruginous, gradually and slightly infnscated apical ly, 

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

 femora. Pronotum subequal, feebly eidarging on the m?ta/.ona, ferru- 

 giiieo-testaceous, much inlnscated on the disk, the lateral lobes with a 

 broad, more or less distinct, dark, sometimes piceous band crossing the 

 ]»r<)zona above; disk nearly ])laiie, passing by a tolerably distinct but 

 i(mnded angle into the anteriorly slightly tumid vertical lateral lobes; 

 median carina slight, ])ercurrent, somewhat feebler and blunter on the 

 ])rozona than on the metazona; front margin subtruncate, hind margin 

 obtusangulate; prozona (juadrate, sometimes feebly longitudinal in the 

 male, scarcely if any longer than the closely but feebly punctate meta- 

 z<ma. Prosternal spine rather stout, moderately long, appressed conical, 

 blunt, feebly retrorse; interspace between mesosternal lobes fully half 

 as long agaiii as broad (male) or slightly transverse (female). Tegmina 

 reaching and sometimes a little surpassing the tips of the hind femora, 

 moderately slender, distinctly tapering, brownish fuscous, distinctly 

 but not conspicuously maculate in the discoidal area; wings hyaline, 

 with mostly brownish fuscous veins. Fore femora of male not greatly 

 tumid; hin<l femora tiavo-testa(;e(ms, twice brojidly and very oblifpiely 

 banded with blackish fuscous, with a basal patch of the same, a!l some- 

 times conHuent on the outer face, which it then nearly fills, the lower 

 face and lower half of inner face immaculate, the genicular arc black; 

 hind tibiae faintly valgate, red with an inconspicuous fuscous patellar 

 S!K)t, the spines black except their pallid bases, ten to twelve, usually 

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



