246 rmn LKIHSas ni lllh: SATIuSM. mi ski M. vouxx. 



iiu'urvt'd, tli(^ tip bluntly an^^ulato below, tlio whole fully twice as loiiy; 

 as basal bicadtli; sub^eiiital plate Ion;; and narrow, narr«>west in the 

 middle, the lateral niar;;ins ainpliateand well rounded at the base, and 

 as a whole sinuate, rising a;;ain at the apex, the apieal margin as seen 

 I'lom behind broiully an;4:ulate, entire. 



lAMi^th of body, male, 1<> mm., female, \li\ mm.; antetimie, male, 7 mm., 

 female, 8 mm.; te^niina, male, •> mm., female, •4.7''> mm.: liind temora, 

 male, 10 mm., female, ir)..") mm. 



Three uiales, 5 females. Monterey County, ralifornia, M. K. Curran 

 (L. IJruneri; bos An^^eles, ralfornia, Co(|uillett (same); Ii<)s Anj^eh's 

 County, California, Koebele isame); San Bernardino County, ('alitor 

 nia, Aujjust IS ( T.S.N.M. — Kiley iollectiou); Kern County, Cali 

 foriiia(U.S.N.M.^. 



As then' is considerable variation in the slenderness of the te^niina. 

 the name ••iven by ]\b'Neill is iu)t closely ai>plicable. 



It is possible that the single female from Monterey County does not 

 beh)ng here, as it varies from the others, as indicated in part by the 

 descri]>tion, in having a subbasal annulus on the hind tibiae, and has 

 considerably broader tegmina than any of the others and hardly any 

 trace of markings on the hind femora. If it is distinct, it indicates an 

 undescribed species of this same series very closely aUied to the present. 



63. MELANOPLUS MISSIONUM, new species. 

 (IMat»' X\ 1, ti;;. X.) 



Of average size, <buk, ferrugineo-fuscous. Head feebly prominent, at 

 least in the male, testaceous, heavily punctate with fuscous, above 

 blackish fuscous, enlivened by a testaceous stripe tbllowing the margin 

 of the eye posteriorly, and separating the fuscous summit from the broad 

 piceous ])ostocular band ; vertex gently tumid, distinctly elevated above 

 the level of the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes nearly 

 (male) or fully (female) half as broad again as the tirst antennal Joint; 

 fastigium somewhat declivent, throughout distinctly (nuile) or scarcely 

 (female) sulcate; frontal costa rather prominent, almost reaching the 

 clypeus, equal or, in the male, sometimes feebly narrowed above, slightly 

 broader than the interspace between the eyes, feebly sulcate at, and in 

 the male below, the ocellus, rather closely punctate throughout like the 

 rest of the face; eyes moderately large, slightly prominent, much longer 

 than the intraocular portion of the genae; antennae luteo testaceous, 

 about three fourths (niale) or more than three-tifths (female) as long as 

 the hind femora. Pronotum feebly expanding posteriorly, the disk 

 broadly convex, i)assing by a distinct tlnmgh slight ruga or rougli 

 angulation into the vertical lateral lobes, these lateral carinae marked. 

 at least in the male, by a slender Havous stripe, followed beneath on 

 the lateral lobes by a slender (female) or broad but posteriorly narrow- 

 ing (male) piceous postocular band, mostly or wholly contined to the 

 prozona; median carina percurrent and distinct, but duller on the 



