w«» U24 HKi'isioy itF Tin: MtJ.ASni'i.i—sci inn:ii. 249 



conical, sihoiif nHlong asl>r():i(1,(>iHliii^ in a sliy^lit postinarpiiial tnherchs 

 t)i«' inai-^iiiH ill oik* piano, broadly roiiinlcd, cntin'. 



Ii('nf(tli ot body, nniie, ITi nun., tiMnah'. LM>.r> nun.: nnttMiiuie, iniile, 

 <*.75 mm., ticniale, 7.5 uim.; tc^niina. male. ',\.'* mm., t'onuile. \ mm.; Iiiml 

 t'(Mnora, male, *.» mm., fcmaks ILlT) mm. 



8i\ maicH, 4 b'malrM. (/alitbrnia (n.S.N.M. — Kiiey collection); San 

 lU*rnai<iino ('t>unty, riilifornia, May (same); liOH Anjrclcs, riibfoiiiiu, 

 ('(K(iiiilctt (same); San Dic^'o County, May (IT.S.N.M.i; between San 

 i.uis (M)is|H) and San Simeon Hay, ralitbrnia, E. I*almer. 



TliiH species is very close incb'cd to the piecedinjf. but ditters from il 

 in lactviuK the hiterai carinaeot' tiie ]>ronotumand the anovulations re]t 

 resentinjj: tlie fuicula, in the possession of an apical tubercle to the 

 supraanal plate, and in tiie heavier tlavous stripe of the disk of the 

 priuiotum. 



The name, apparently chosen from the color of the hind tibiae, is not 

 veiy closely descriptive of them. 



65. MELANOPLUS SCITULUS, ntw species. 

 (PIat«' XVI, tijr. 10. > 



Of small size, brownish fuscous. Head not prominent, olivaceo- 

 fuscous, above much infuscated, with a broad pu^eous p<>stocular band; 

 vertex very jfcntly tumid, feebly elevated above the ])ronotum, the inter 

 space between the eyes scarcely broader than (male) or nearly twice as 

 brojid as (female) the tirst antennal joint; fasti^ium mo<lerately decliv- 

 ent, feebly sulcate; frontal coata abnost or ipiite percurrent, equal, 

 about as broad as (male) or slightly narr<>wer than (female) the inter 

 sjKJce between the eyes, feebly sulcate at and below the ocellus (male), 

 or tlistinctly suh-ate almost throughout (fenmle), feebly punctate; eyes 

 rather large, only moderately prominent even in the male, considerably 

 longer than the intraocular imrtion of the genae; antennae luteo-testa 

 < eous, slightly infuscated apically, about three ti ft hs (male) or but 

 little moie than oiu*-half (fenuile) as long as the hind femora. Prono- 

 tum very gently enlarging from in front backward, varying from testa- 

 ceo-fuscous to blackish fuscous, always with more or less ferruginous, 

 luteo testaceous on the lower half of the lateral lobes, with a broad, 

 l>iceous, postocular band either confined to the prozona or extending 

 "<])scurely and more widely upon the metazona, the disk broadly convex, 

 jiassing by an abrui>tly rounded shoulder int<> the interiorly vertical 

 lateral lobes; median carina equally distinct and sharp throughout; 

 tiont margin truncate, hind margin very broadly rounded, subtrun«*ate; 

 prozona sjjarsely and shallovvly i)unctate, distinctly longitudinal, much 

 more than half as long again as the sharply and clo>ely i)unctate meta- 

 zona. Trosternal spine appressed subconical, not very huig, trans 

 vcrsely and broadly' roumled apically; interNpace between mesosternal 

 i'»bes slightly longer than broad (male) or transverse, but much nar- 

 rower than the lobes (female). Tegmina abbreviute, somewhat shorter 



