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55. MELANOPLUS WALSHII. new species. 



(IMttteXV, tig. 10.) 

 Vrzoielt'u HCHddrri Walhii !, MS. 



leather above tlio iiHMliitin size, ciiHTCMvfuacuHis. Ilea*! not proiiii- 

 iieiit, (lull testaceous, more or less irilu. seated, espeeially aWovr, with a 

 (listiiiet or obsolett^ [)i<*eous |M>stoeuiar baiul; vertex t;ently tumid, 

 r«'ebly (devated above the proiiotum, the interspace between the eyes 

 almost (male) or mneli more than (female) twi(;e as broad as th«> first 

 antennal joint; !'asti;;ium steeply detdivent, broadly and moderately 

 (male) or very shallowly ( female) snicate; frontal costa hardly reaching; 

 tlieclypeus, ecpial, a little (male) or distinctly (female) narrower than 

 the interspact^ between the eyes, faintly and bnnidly snicate at and 

 below the ocellus, ptmetat*' throujjhont, but above juirticnlarly in lat- 

 eral series; eyes not \ery larj^e, moderately prominent, particularly in 

 tlie male, the front mar«;in truncal*^ in tin* female, a little (female) <u* 

 distinctly (male) lonjjer than the infraocnlar poition of the jjenae; 

 antennae testaceous, basally Intescent, apically fuscescent, slij;htly 

 more than two thirds as lonj^ as the hind femora in the female. l*ro- 

 iiotumecpial except for a feeble posterior eidar^ement of themeta/ona, 

 tlie sides with a very broad piceous postocniar band crossing; the pro- 

 zoini and, obscurely, also the metazona (male) or with scarcudy the 

 sli<;htest trace of the same, but at most a jj^rowinjj: depth of tint at the 

 upper limit of the lateral lobes (female), the disk piano convex, i)assing 

 into the snbvertical lateral lobes by a well but abruptly rounded anjjii- 

 l:ition,formiii^dull lateralcarinae; median carinadistinct but low on the 

 metazona, obsolete on the ])ro/.ona except sometimes a slij^^ht appear- 

 ance at extreme front: front mar«4:in truncate, hind mar<;in stronj;Iy 

 ohrusan^uiate; prozona distin(;tly longitudinal (male) or quadrate or 

 snhquatlrate (female), much longer than, generally half <»r nearly half 

 as long again as, the ruguloso-punctate metazona. I'rosternal spine 

 moderately long and stout, especially in the fennile, appressed conical. 

 Hot very blunt, ere(;t; interspace between mesosterual lobes truncato- 

 ciiiieiform, <iuadrate (male) or distinctly transverse but narrower than 

 tlie lobes (female). Tegmina abbreviate, a little longer than the prc- 

 iintum, overlapping, with angularly separsited dorsal an<l lateral fields, 

 |>;irticularly in the male, ovate lancc'olate, apically bluntly acuminate, 

 tli(' costal nnirgin rotundato-angulate, cmereo fuscous, the dorsal field 

 ottcii wholly cinereous; wings briefer than the tegmina. Fore and 

 iiiidflle femora not greatly tumid in the male; hind femora testaceous 

 01 luteo testaceous, rather bioadly and distinctly bifasciate with fus- 

 cous or blackish fuscous, sometimes suffused on the upper face, the 

 iiiit'iior face pale red<lish, the genicular arc black; hind tibiae bright 

 it'l. at extreme base infuscated, with a fuscous patellar s])ot, followed 

 beyond by a broad but not very consi)icuous pallid aniuilus, the si)i]ies 



