2C){) VIt«)CKEIHS(iS (tr THE yATKtSAl MrSKIM. VOL. XX. 



eloiipntp. apically strongly iiscurvtMl lingers, tiipt'iiii;: uiiitonnly to tlie 

 iiiidilU' so a.s to be tlieie Ic.hs t h;;:! h[\]i' as lnosul as at Ikuo. then slijjlitly 

 eiilaijiin^r to form an apicj i roiUHlod lobe a little mow than lialf as 

 bioad as the base, expaudinj,' below more than ab(»ve, the apical mar- 

 gin rounded but .sometimes leebly einarginate so as to appeal- faintly 

 bitid: snb^n'iiital plate rather small ami very narrow, narrowinji api- 

 cally, the apical mar^^in wrll lounded, faintly and broadly tiilu'rculate. 



Leii}ith of body, male, 11>..j mm.; antennae, U.") mm.; tegmina, 4.25 

 mm.: hind femora, 11 mm. 



Three males. Smith ville, iirunswick County, Xorth Carolina, Novem- 

 ber I'li, Maynaril. 



This can not be the Pezoietii.r /«»<^^//cor//M of Saussure, described from 

 Carolina, from its lack of (listinct lateral <-ariuae and its convex pronotal 

 disk. 



72. MELANOPLUS AMPLECTENS, new species. 



(Plate XVII. »!<;. 7.) 



A little above medium size, luteo- testaceous. Head a little promi- 

 nent, luteo testaceous, above very broadly and feebly strijud with fus 

 cons, with a broad. pice<nis. postocular baud; vertex somewhat tumid, 

 sonu'what elevated above the pronotuin, the interspace between the 

 eyes about half as broad a<;ain as the tirst anteniial joint; fastij^iuiii 

 steeply declivent, angularly sulcate throughout; frontal costa fadiiiji 

 just before the clypeus, subeipial. slightly broader than the intersi)a('e 

 between the eyes, feebly sulcate at and below the ocellus, sparsely' and 

 linely punctate throughout; eyes large, very prominent, considerably 

 huiger than the infraocular portion of the geuae; antennae luteous, a 

 little infuscated apically, fully tive-sixths as long as tlie himl ftMuoni. 

 Pronotum sube(pnil, the sides of the prozona with a broad fuscous 

 postocular band, the disk brcKidly convex. i>assing by an abrupt 

 rounded sln)ulder into the anteriorly feebly tumid, vertical, lateral 

 lobes; median carina di:>^tinct and sharp on the metazona. feeble bur 

 tolerably sharp and e<|ual on the prozona; front margin faintly convex 

 and faintly and narrowly enuirginate, nariowly llaring feebly, himl 

 margin broadly obtusangulate; prozona distinctly longitudinal, more 

 than half as long again as the shar[)iy but not very closely punctate 

 metazona. Vrosternal si)ine rather long, conical, a little rctrorse. tlie 

 hinder face straight ; interspace between mesosternal lobes neai ly 

 half as long again as broad. Tegmina abbreviate, but reaching nearly 

 to the middle of the hind femora, slender lanceolate, the tip very 

 bluntly subacuminate, brownish fuscous deepening abov^e to blackish 

 on the lateral face, cinereous on the dorsal face. Fore and middle 

 femora somewhat tumid in the nude; hind femora lutei)-testace<Mis, 

 broadly and almost comi>letely bifasciate with olackish fuscous, wliidi 

 is angularly disposed on the outer face, the whole geniculation blackish 

 fuscous, the inferior face luteous; hind tibiae luteo-tiavous, infuscat»'<l 

 at base, the spines black almost or (piite to their very base, twelve t'> 



