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74. MELANOPLUS ROTUNDIPENNIS. 

 (IMate XVII. tij?. !».) 



PrzoUtlif rntnndlpfn»!M Srrni»F.R:. IMoc. Ho^r. Soo. Xat. Hint.. XIX (IhT7>. pp. 



H«»->7: r.iit. N«.tes, VI ilwTb), pp. -*7--'h.— |Uu XKK. Kcp. I . S. Kut. ( «.mni., 

 Ill ilWA). p. :.!>. 



Hcjul llavo testaceous, tlie snininit deeply iiitnscate<l. tlie wliolr more 

 or less mottled with small I'uscoiis spots: antennae dull hrownisli itnl, 

 apieally infuscated, at U-.isv paler, foui- liftlis as Nm;; a the liin<l femora. 

 Tronotum ai»ove brownish tiiscous mottle*! slightly wi^^h du? ky yellow, 

 the median carimi hhuk; lateral lohcs brownish yellow below, above 

 occupied by a broa<l piceous stripe, running; from the ey<'s nearly to the 

 midille of the abdomen, broader and with ^a<^ue boundaries on the 

 abdomen and i>artially interrupted by a slender, oblique, brownish yel- 

 low stiipe on the erest of the metathoraeie eprterna. Tejrniina but 

 little longer than luoad. hardly lousier than the prozona, rotund, ovate^ 

 black concealed by profuse rufous veins. Lejis dull yellowish brown, 

 the mi<ldle and hind femora heavily spotted with black, the hind tibiae 

 dull tuseo-glaucous, pale at base, the spines black beyond the pallid 

 base, twelve in number in the outer series. 



Head not prominent; vertex slightly tumid, a little elevated above 

 the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes scarcely so br<»ad as the 

 basal Joint of the antennae; fastigium steeply declivent, shallowly and 

 lu'oadly suhate in advance of the eyes; fnmtal costa moderately broad, 

 asbniad as the interspace between the eyes, shallowly sulcate through- 

 out, slightly and regularly expamling below, obsoles<'ent next the cly- 

 peus; eyes large and prominent, nearly twice as long as the intraocular 

 jiortion of the genae. Pronotum broadening slightly and regularly 

 rhroughout, the prozona distinctly huigitudinal, almost twice as long 

 as the metazona, its surface very faintly and very sparsely punctate, 

 the median carina sharj) but sligiit and equal; metazona with the 

 median carina not sliarj) but rather inconspicu(Uis, the surface of the 

 lobe both above and on the sides delicately rugulose; lateral carinae 

 wholly obsolete, the nearly phme disk parsing by a well roun<led angle 

 into the lateral lobes; b<>th front and hind margins subtruncate. the 

 latter minutely emarginate in the middle. Prosternal spine not very 

 long, appressed cylindrical, very blunt, a little retrorse; interspace 

 lietween mesosternal lobes about twice as long as broad. Extremity 

 of male abdomen tumid, strongly upcurved; supraaiial plate triangular 

 with subrectangulate apex, the sides gently convex, gently upturned. 

 the median sulcus extremely broad, short and shallow; furcula consist- 

 ing of the slightly produced inner angulation of the widely parted and 

 diverging halves of the last dorsal segment; cerci rather stout but 

 laminate, tapering at the very base, beyond nearly equal, moderately 

 broad, directed inward and backward and bent obliquely a little down- 



