no 1124. REVISIOS OF THE MELASnVLI—SCriHtKlt. 2^7 



84. MELANOPLUS EXTREMUS. 



(IMateH I, n«H./, g; XVIII, tig. 10.) 



f Lucuata lenroHtomn Kiunv. Kaun. Hor. Amer., IV (1K37), p. 25(>.— Bkthixk, Cau. 



Ent., VII (1«75), p. 121>; Idh. Mrit. Amer. (I88lt. pp. 12<>-121. 

 f Acriilitim ( Lofunla) leiicoHtumiim I>K Haan, lUjilr. KiMin. Ortli. (1812). p. 142. 

 Caloptrnttx cxtrfiniiM Wai.kkk, (at. Derm. Salt. Hrit. Muh., IV ( lx7<»), p. «»M1 ; (an. 



Knt., IV (1S72), p. 3n. -Tii<)M\s, Rep. I*. S. (;eol. Siirv. Terr., V (1x73). p. 



225.— Hi{< NKR, K«'p. IT. S. Knt. Coiniii.. Ill (1883). p. 59.— Caulfiei.d, Can. 



Wee. He, II (1887), p. 401; fan. Orth. (18«7), p. 14. 

 I'tzoieltU jiiuitiH iKHMJKl.Caii. Knt.. VIII {\x'(\), p. «».— HiUNKU. ll.M., IX (1877), 



p. 114; He).. V. .S. Knt. Coniin.. Ill 1 1HS3). ]». .-'.«. 

 Calopttnun pariun I'hovaxciier:, Nat. Cauad., VIII (1876), p. 110; Faniie Ent. 



Can., II (1877), p. :«>. 

 Melanopliiajiiuiiin .sciiu»KiiI, Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist,, XIX 1 1878), p. 2S6: Ent. 



Notes, VI (1878), p. 4.").— Mohhe, Tsyche, VI (1892), p. 2»J2.— (>m»okx, Pi or. 



Iowa Annl. He, I, Pt. ll (1892), p. 118,— Hkuxkh, Publ, Nebi. Acad. St., HI 



(1893), J.. 28,— MousK, Psyche, VII (1891), p. KHi. 

 Calopleinis Junius ScrnuKRl, Can. Knt., XII (1H80), p. 75. 

 MiUiunpluH ertremua Caui.kiki.i>, Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., XVIII (1886), p. 71. 

 Melauoplua parrun Caulfikli», Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., XVIII (188«)t. p. 71. 

 t'alopUnua (Mduuoplun) parvua Caulfield, Can. Kec. Sc, II (1887), p. loi;Can. 



Orth. (18^7), p. 14. 



Of rather small or medium size, brownish fu.seons, generally rather 

 dark, often with a ferruginous tinge. Head a little prominent, dark 

 ti'Staceous often somewhat infuscated, above much infuscated, the 

 sidded infuscati(m sometimes confined to the fastigium and two diverg- 

 ent, enlarging streaks behind it; vertex gently tiimid, feebly elevated 

 above the level of the pronotum, the intersjiace between the eyes nearly 

 (male) or more than (female) twice as wide as the lirst autennal joint; 

 fastigium steeply declivent, not very deei)ly (male) or broadly and very 

 sliallowly (female) sulcate throughout; frontal costa failing to reach 

 the clypeus, slightly narrower than the interspace between the eyes, 

 subequal but faintly and very gradually broadening downward, 

 depressed at and sometimes sulcate below the ocellus, biseriately jmnc- 

 tate; eyes moderately i)rominent especially in the male, not very large, 

 but little longer than the infraocular portion of the genae: antennae 

 ferruginous, fully four-fifths (male) or from three-fifths to two-thirds 

 (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum subeciual or enlarging 

 a little on the metazoua (in the female throughout), the lateral lobes 

 lighter, sometimes considerably lighter than the disk, with a broad, 

 e(|ual, piceous, postocular band crossing the prozona, the disk often 

 Inteo-ferruginous punctate with fuscous, very broadly convex, and 

 pa.ssing by an abrupt but smoothed shoulder simulating a lateral carina 

 into the anteriorly tumid vertical lateral lobes; median carina slight, 

 percurrent, distinctly feebler but rarely subobsolete on the prozona; 

 fi<»nt margin subtruncate with feeblest iwssible indications of a median 

 emargiuation, hind margin very obtusaugulate, the angle rounded in 



