Nu 1124 EEnaiuS OF THE MELASOl'Ll—srrDUEU. 2G1 



loiirtt'eu in iniinlKM" in the outer series. Kxtreniity «»t' nialr alMlnnien 

 eliivate, eonsiiliMahly recurved, the supraanal phite Ion;; trian;;niar, a 

 little nairowed at the tip. witii an acutanguhite apex, the lateral mar- 

 gins ('h'\ ated to tlw same h«'ij^ht as the sharp ami hi^'h parallel ri<ly:es 

 boundinj; the median sulcus, which unite just beyond the middle of the 

 plate, and arc crossed at the middle by a strai^^ht transverse ru<;.i 

 which does not reach the nnir^ins; furcula ('onsistinjj: of a pair of 

 minute black ilcnticulations ovt'rlying the subnu'dian rid<^es of the 

 supraanal plate; cerci broa<l at base, rapidly narrowing t<> the middle, 

 niaiidy by the excision of the inferior mar;;in. beyond a^ain cxpandin^i: 

 MS lapidly and nearly as much, and at the sanu' time curved abruptly 

 in\vai<l, the apical tlaufje broadly rounded at tip, coini)re8setl, and at 

 extreme apex curved abruptly backward; subgenital plate moderately 

 broad, the api<*al mar;»in broadly and <'onsiderably elevateil, entire. 



Length of body, male, 10.;") mm.: antennae, 10.5 mm.; teju'Uiina. T.."* 

 nun.; hind tiMuora, 1-.5 mm. 



One juale. I»ee Spring;. Edmonson County, Kentucky. June 14-ir», 

 F. (I. Sanborn (Museum Comparative Zoology). 



The specimen was formerly in alcohol, which has i)robably somewhat 

 atVected the colors. The clasping form of the cerci has suggested the 

 si)ecittc name. 



73. MELANOPLUS SALTATOR, new species. 



(Plate XVII, li<;. 8.) 



Pfcrt/f/fjj />«>•( a;; ScrnnEu:, K'ejt. 1'. S. Eut. ('oiiiin..II (1881), Api>..p.24, iil, x\ 11, 

 li«>;. 17.— liRi xiu:, r>iill. Div. Ent. I'. S. Dep. Ayiio., IV U^^*)- !»• ^8; Cau. 

 Ent.. XVII (1S8.-)), ].. 12. 



Ferrugineo fuscous. Hea<l not promiiient, almost wholly fuscous 

 above, the face and ^cuae luteo testaceous, punctate and more or less 

 niarniorate with fuscous: vertex slightly tumid, feebly elevated above 

 the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes broad, two (male) or three 

 (female) times as broad as the basal antennal joint; fastigium consider- 

 iibly declivent, its lateral margins feebly (female) or consi<lerably (male) 

 elevated, but not otherwise sulcate; frontal costa subequal but feebly 

 eiihirging from abi>ve downward, slightly luirrower than, the interspace 

 between the eyes, feebly sulcate (if at all) only at and below the ocel- 

 lus. })unctate; eyes moderate in size, not i)rominent. about as long as 

 the infraocular jmrticui of the genae; antennae ferruginous, often a little 

 intuscated ai)ically, fully tw^o-thirds as long as the hind femora in both 

 sexes. Pronotum subequal, feebly enlarging posteriorly at least in the 

 female, the disk transversely convex ivnd passing almost insensibly into 

 th<* subvertical lateral lobes, the lower part of the latter of a little lighter 

 color, and the upper part crossed on the juozona by a broad piceous 

 yet often obscure band, which occasionally in the female passes, broad- 

 ened and ditt'used, upon the metazona : median carina slight but distinct 

 throughout, feebler on the i)r()zona than on the metazona: front margin 

 truncate or subtruncate, hind margin rotundato-obtusangulate: prozona 



