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ward, at the tip slightly expandejl, well n)uinle«l and s( arcely tliick 

 eiied; siiboenital j)late very p nail, subpvraiiiidal, a little lonjier than 

 broail, of siibeqiial breadth, the apical margin sli«ihtly elevated and a 

 little full, entire. 



Lenjrth of body male, 15.5 mm.: antennae, 8 mm.; tepmina, .3 mm.; 

 hind femora, K^ nnn. 



One male. Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, May 6, J. II. Com- 

 stock. 



75. MELANOPLUS OBOVATIPENNIS. 



(Plate XVII, fig. 10.) 



frezotettix loHgicornis Saissure. Kev. Mag. Zool., isiU (18<U). p. l.'>9: Ortb. Nov. 



Auier., II (1?<61). p. 9.— Tno.MAs. Kep. U. S. (Jeol. Siiiv. Terr.. V (1873). p. 150.— 



Hkixer, Rep. r. S. Eiit. Coimu.. Ill (1H83), p. .'>}). 

 'i Podlnmu JitnykornhW w.KVAi. Cat. iJenii. Salt. Hrit. Mns., IV (1870). p. 718. 

 PfzoieUh- roiitndipeiinis liL.vrcnLEV I. ("an. Knt.. XXIII ( 18!«1 V ]>. 80. 

 re:oifHix oboratipeiinis BlatciileyI, Can. Eut., XXVII (181»4), pp. 241-243. 



Brownish fuscous, with a ferruginous tinge. Head prominent, par- 

 ticularly in the male, varying from idumbeo-olivaceous to feirngineo- 

 testaceous, often much tlecked with fuscous, and above almo-st wholly 

 fn .SCO ferruginous or fu.scous; vertex rather tumid, elevated a little above 

 the i)ronotum, the interspace between the ej-es rather broad, nearly twice 

 (male I or more than twice (female) as broad as the tirst antennal Joint; 

 fastigiuni steeply declivent, i»lane (female) or broadly and shallowly 

 sulcate, or at least with feebly raised lateral margins (malei: frontal 

 costa equal or subequal, slightly narrower than the interspace between 

 the eyes, percurrent, very feebly (female) or distinctly (male) sulcate 

 at and below the ocellus, punctate; eyes la: re, ] "ominent at least in the 

 male, much larger than the infraocular p» .ion «. 'le genae; antennae 

 luteo-ferruginous, apically infuscated, as long ( male) or more thaii three 

 fourths as long (female) as the hind femora. Pronotum rather long, 

 faintly (male) or distinctly (female) enlarging posteriorly with much 

 regularity, the disk blackish fuscous (male) or fusco-ferruginous (female), 

 the lateral h)bes below pallid' (male) or ^iteo testaceous (female), and 

 above with a broad piceous band which broadens and becomes feebler 

 on the metazona; disk broadly convex transversely, passing by a dis- 

 tinct though smoothed angle into the subvertical lateral lobes; median 

 <'arina equally distinct thnmghout. scarcely blunter on the jnozona than 

 on the metazona ; front margin truncate, hind margin subtruncate (male) 

 or truncate (female); prozona longitudinal (female) or very longitudinal 

 (male), fully (male) or nearly (female) twice as long as the distinctly and 

 closely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine moderately long, a littl 

 appressed conical, blunt, erect: interspace between mesosternal lobes 

 about half as long again as broad (male) or distinctly transverse, only 



Ivory Mhite. accordins; to Blatchley, who has seen tbem in fresh oon«lltion. 



