2r)2 rROCJEDIXaS OF the XJTJOXAL MCSKIM. volxx. 



the color of the upper surface of the body and have faint fuscous indi 

 cations of bifasciation above: hind tibiae ghiucous, but at the base yel 

 h)\vish with a ffhiucous or fusro-ghiucous annuhition; spines bUick with 

 a pallid base, usually eleven in number in the outer series. Tiie ui)per 

 surface and sides of the abdomen are uniform in tint, the sides unmarked 

 by any black bjind. 



Length of body, male, 19 mm., female, 27 mm.; antennae, male, 7.7r> 

 mm., female, 8 mm.; tegmina, male, 5 mm., female, (> mm.; hind femora, 

 male, 10.2.") mm., female, 14 mm. 



Ten males, 21 females. Texas, Belfrage (T.S.X.M. — Kiley collec 

 tion); Dallas, Texas, Boll (same; S. II. Scudder). 



In general appearance and in most points of itc structure this species 

 resembles .1/. (^iacolor. It may at once be distinguished from it by the 

 shape of the tegmina and the male cerci and bj- the color of the hind 

 tibiae. 



67. MELANOPLUS PUER. 



(Plate XVII, Hg. 2.) 



PezoUttlx piier ScUDDEitl (pars), I'roc. Host. Soc. Xat, Hist., XIX (1877). p. ."^7: 

 (pars), Entom. Notes, VI (1S78), p. 28.— Biunku. Rep. U. t>. Knt. Coinni., Ill 



(188S), p. :>it. 



Brownish fu.scous with a ferruginous tinge. Head feebly prominent, 

 yellowish biown, heavily mottled with dusky brown in small si)ots, 

 often deepening (especially above) to blackish brown; vertex feebly 

 tumid, elevated but slightly above the pronotum, the interspace 

 between the eyes narrow, not (male) or scarcely (female) broader than 

 the first antennal Joint; fastigium very steeply decli vent, deeply sulcate 

 throughout; frontal costa narrow, scarcely wider than the interspace 

 between the eyes, equal, i)ercurrent, sulcate at and below the ocellus; 

 eyes large and prominent, in the male as high as the vertex, much 

 larger than the intraocular portion of the genae; antennae castaneous, 

 gradually infuscated apically, nearlj' three fourths (male) or nearly 

 two thiids (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum brownish 

 yellow, more or less infuscated above, regularly expanding posteriorly, 

 very slightly iji the male, noticeably in the female, the disk feebly 

 convex transversely and passing by a tolerably distinct but smoothed 

 angle into the vertical lateral lobes, winch in the male are nuirked 

 with an exceptionally large i)iceous spot on the upper portion of the 

 ])rozona, especially on the anterior se<*tion — a mark which is (tnly indi 

 cated in the female in dull fuscous and is much broken or subobsolete: 

 median carina e<iually distinct throughout; front and hind margin> 

 truncate, the latter distinctly emarginate in the middle; i)rozona longi 

 tudinal, nearly twice as long as the more finely ])unetate nu'tazona, 

 Prosternal spine rather short, erect, lobate, very stiougly appressed. 

 well rounded, the ]>osterior face flat; interspace betweeti mesosterual 

 lobes slightly longer than broad (male) or quadrate (female), the 

 metasternal lobes subattingent (male) or approximate (female). Teg 



