NO 1124. EEriSIOX OF THE MELJXOPLl—SCrDDEn. 2»5 7 



Length of body, male, 17 niiii.: aiiteiiiiae, 4.75 iiiiu.; te*;:iuiiia, 4.75 

 mm.; hind femora, .S mm. 



One male. Fort lieed, Orange County, Florida, April S, J. H. Corn- 

 stock. 



I carelessly included this in Pezofefti.rpuer when originally described, 

 but the description shows that it could not then have been examined 

 carefully, for it differs obviously both in the male cerci and in the 

 tegmiua. 



77. MELANOPLUS FASCIATUS. 

 (Plates I, tig. (■; XVIII, tigs. 2-4.) 



rezotettix borealis Scidder!, Cau. Nat.. VII (1S68). p. 286; Bost. Jonrn. Nat. 



Hbt.. VII (IS68). p. 464.— Smith, Proc. Poifl. Soc. Nat. Hist., I (18«)S», p. 



149.— Packard, Uuide Ins. (1S69), p. r>69.— Thomas. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 



Pbilad., 1S70 (1870), p. 78: Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., II (1S71\ p. 



2(r»; Kep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V. (1873). p. 1.53.— ScrrDEuI, Hitchc. 



Rep. Geol. N. II.. I (1874), p. 374; Daws. Geol. Re«-. 49tli Par. (1875), p. 



343. — Hrlneh, Cau. Ent., IX (1877), p. 144.— Thomas, Bull. U. S. Geol. 



Snrv. Terr., IV (1878), p. 484.— Girard, Traite f:irni. d'Eut., II (1879), p. 



246.— ScuDPER, Can. Eut., XII (1880), p. 7r».— Bkcxkr, Rep. U. S. Ent. 



Couini., Ill (1883), p. .")9; Rep. U. S. Ent., 1S85 (1S86), p. 307.— Cauliield, 



Rt'p. Ent. Soi'. Ont., XVIII (1886), p. 71; Cau. Rec. So., II (1887), p. 401; 



Cau. Ortb. (18S7), p. 13.— Ekrnai.d, X. E.Ortb. {18ss), pp. 29, 30; Ann. Rep. 



Mass. Agiic. C XV (1888), pp. 113, 114.— Mouse, Psyel.e, VII (1894), pp. 



53, 106. 

 Jcridiiim fascintnm Barxstox, MS., tide TValker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit, ^lus., 



IV (1870), 1>. 6S0. 

 Cfllonteiius fasciatiis Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mns., IV (1S70), p. 680; 



Cm'. Ent., IV (1872), p. 30.— Thoma.s, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv, Terr., V (1873), 



p. 224.— Caulfield, Can. Rec. Se., II (1887). )). 401 ; Can. Ortb. (18'7), p. 14. 

 Me'iinoplHS rectus Scudder!, Proc. Bost. Soi*. Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), pp. 284, 



2S.-); Eut. Notes., VI (1878), pp. 43,44: Pr^e. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX 



(1879), p. '.1; Ceut. Ortb. (1879), p. 60.— Brcxei! Rep. U. S. Ent. Coinni., 



Ill (1888), p. 60.— Ferxali), Ortb. N. E. (18S8), pp. 31, 32; Ann. Rep. Mass. 



Agric. Coll., XXV (1888), i»p. 11.5. 116.— Morsk, Psycbe, VII (1894), p. 53. 

 MeJ<tnopli<8 cnrtna Scudder I, Pr(.'\ Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX (1879), pp. 70 71; 



Cent. Ortb. (1879), p. .59.— BurxEU, Rej). U. S. Eut. Comm., Ill (1883), p, 



61; Cau. Ent., XVII (18S5), p. 17; Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc, III (1893), p. 



28.— MonsK. Psyebe, VII (IS94), p. 53. 

 MeJ(nwphtxfa'<c\atn8 Caclkield. Rep. Eut. Soc. Out., XVIII (1886), p. 71. 

 Melttuoplnn hormlia BeutexmCllkr, Bull. Auicr. Mas. Nat. Hist,, VI (1894), p. 



308. 



Of rather small size, dark fusco-])lumbeous above, dark clay yellow 

 below. Head not prominent, <lull plumbeous liecked with griseous, 

 above very dark fuscous with a broad postocidar piceous band; vertex 

 moderately tumid, distinctly elevated above the pronetum, the intT- 

 space between the eyes as broad (male) or nearly half as broa<l again 

 (female) as the basal antennal joint; fastigium strongly deciivent, shal- 

 lowly depressed, but with distinct and somewhat abrui>t though rounded 

 liounding walls, which diverge a very little in front )f the eyes and 

 then converge; frontal costa as broad as the interspace between the 

 eyes, scarcely contracted above where its face is plane (male) or feebly 



