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68. MELANOPLUS INORNATUS, new species. 



(IMat.- XVII, fij;. 3.) 

 PczoUttir inonuitiix MrNKil.i.I. MS. 



A little above iiiedimii size, feiiu^^iiieo-testiit'eous. Head not pioin- 

 ineut, ferriijiiiieo-testaceous. a little darker above, with a broad pieeous 

 postoculai- band; vertex soniewliat tumid, sli<jlitly elevated above the 

 proiiotiini, the interspace between the eyes as broad as (male) or fully 

 half as broa<l aj^ain as (female) the tirst anteniial Joint; fasti.uium 

 stee})ly deelivent, faintly and broadly sulcate; frontal eosta nearly j>er 

 current, equal, as broad as the interspace between the eyes, feebly sul- 

 cate at and below the ocellus, punctate tlirou*;hout ; eyes inoderaj;e1y 

 larj^e, slit^htly ]>romineiit in the male, only a little longer than the 

 infraocular i)ortion ofthegenae; antennae testaceous, a little infuscated 

 apically. about three fourths (male) or tive sevenths (female) as huig as 

 the hind femora. Pronotum subecpial but leebly expanding posteriorly, 

 the sides with a broad, ])iceous, postocular band contined to the prozcma, 

 the disk broadly subtectate and gently convex, passing by a tolerably 

 i\brui)t shoulder, forming tolerably distinct lateral carinae at least on 

 the i)osterior part of the jirozoiia, into tlie anteriorly tumid subvertical 

 lateral lobes; nuMlian carina tolerably distinct and i)ercurrent, sharper 

 on the metazima than on the prozoua, and on the latter very feebly 

 arched longitndinally; front margin faintly convex, hind margin very 

 obtusangulate; prozona sparsely and very shallowly ]»unctate and 

 longitudinal (male) or quadrate or longitudinally sub<piadrate (female), 

 about a third as long again as the closely and not very deeply punctate 

 nietazona. Prostenril s])ine moderate, appressed conical, retrorse, 

 stouter in the female than in the male; interspace between niesosternal 

 lobes somewhat longer than broad with diverging sides (nude) or 

 h)ngitndinally subcjuadrate (female). Tegmina abbreviate, somewhat 

 longer than the pronotum, overlapping, ovate-lanceolate, apically sub 

 acnminate, ferrugineo fuscous. Fore and middle femora only a very 

 little tumid in tlie male; hind .c-mora rather slender, compressed, tes 

 ta<'eouswith a ferruginous tinge, growing flavescent interiorly, the gen 

 iculation fuscous; hind tibiae rufo-testaceous, the si)ines black on the 

 apical half^ eleven to twelve in number in the outer series. Extremity 

 of male abdomen clavate, somewhat recurved, the supraanal plate 

 triangular with acutangulate apex, the margins not elevated, a trans 

 verse, percurrent, median jdica, and a median sulcus which is triangulm 

 on the basal half, slender in the apical half, and crosses two-thirds ot 

 the plate; furcula consisting of the feebly projecting lobular expan 

 sions of the inner extremities of the divided lateral halves of the last 

 dorsal segment; cerci rather large and clepsydral, strongly contracte<l 

 before the middle, the basal portion tapering but slightly, while tlif 

 larger apical portion expands greatly, especially above, the lounded tip 



