K0.1124. iii:risro\ or iiii: MELASni'ii^scnutEn. 275 



very lonp, a]»]»rosso<l conical, blnnt, erect: iiitiTspace between me.sostor- 

 nal lobes a little lonj;er than broad iniale' (M- distinctly transvcise but 

 narrower than the lobes (female). Te^rinina ablueviatc. about as Ion;- as 

 the pronotum, attingent, elliptical, but attenuate basally, well nuinded 

 apically, a little Ichs than twice as lonj;- as broad, dark brownish I'usi'ous. 

 Fore and nd<ld]c teniora somewhat tumid in the male: iiind femora not 

 very slender, blackish fuscous on the ui>i>er two-thirds of the outer 

 face inclosing a small median testat^eous spot, fuscous on the upper face 

 externally, with the outer carinsi dull tlavous, the inner face and inner 

 half of upper face tlavous more or less broadly bimacidatc or bifas«'iate 

 with fuscous, the lower third of outer face tlavous, becondng pale orange 

 below like the lower face, the genicular arc black and the lower genicu 

 lar lobe more or less infuscated; hind tibiae pale red or glaucous, jjallid 

 at extreme base, the spines black on the apical half, nine to eleven in 

 number in the outer series. Kxtremity of male abdomen strongly 

 ( lavate, strongly recurved, the supraanal i>late concealed in the single 

 specimen seen; furcula consisting of a i)airof very distant, vj'ry slight, 

 ]tarallel spines, shorter than the last dorsal segment; cerci large and 

 broad, wholly inbent, sube<|ual laminae, somewhat and m)t ver^' broadly 

 constricted in the middle, the apical p<; .:ion as broad as and longer than 

 the basal, and broadly and angularly sulcate, apically angulate, the 

 whole somewhat nuire than twice as long as broad: subgenital plate 

 8omewhat longer than the basal breadth, subecpial except for the ele- 

 vation of the apical margin, which, as seen from above, is transverse, 

 entire, and makes the apical breadth etjual to the length. 



Length of body, nuile, 17.."* mm., female, L'2.5 mm.; tegmina, male and 

 female, -l..") mm.; hind femora, male and female, 11 mm. 



One male, 1 female. Magdalena, Socorro County, New Mexico. July, 

 F. H. Snow (University of Kansas). 



The antennae (d" both specimens are imperfect. The species is named 

 for Chancellor F. II. Snow, of the University of Kansas, and Mr. W. A. 

 Snow, of the same institution, father and son, entomologists ot note. 



10. FEMUIMJUBRUM SElilES. 



This is a dominant and homogeneous group of medium or ratl'er small - 

 sized species, in which the male prozona varies from slightly transverse 

 to slightly longitudinal, and the interspace between the mesosternal 

 lobes in the same sex is as in the spretus series. The tegmina are 

 always fully developed or a little abbreviated (so as to fall a little 

 short of the tip of the hind femora), immaculate or slightly maculate 

 along the middle line. The hind tibiae are normally red and have ten 

 ti> fourteen spines in the outer series. 



The supraanal plate is clyj^eate, longer than broad and mesially con- 

 st licted. The furcula consists of a pair of parallel or nearly parallel, 

 long or moderately long, generally separated, slender, tapering, sub- 

 cylindrical fingers or spines. The cerci are comi)ressed subtalcate 



