NO. 1124. liEVISlOX OF THE MELASOPLI—SCiUUKli. 29S 



cinereous in the discoidal area, and often very feebly dotted with 

 obscure fuscous outsiile of it; wings hyaline, the apical and anterior 

 veins testaceous. Iliiid femora luteo-feiruj^inous, obli<|ueIy bifasciate 

 on the upper half with brownish or blackish fus<M)Us, and with a small 

 basal spot of the same, the fjenicular arc black, but the inferior genicu- 

 lar lobe light colored with only a basal Heck of fuscous; under half 

 luteous or rosaceous, externally more pallid than the rest: hind tibiae 

 dull green becr.ning lutescent at the extremities. \^ith a more or less 

 obscure fuscous postbasal annulus, the spines black beyond their 

 l)al]i<l base, eleven to twelve in raimber in the outer series. Kxtremity 

 of male abdomen clavate, somewhat upturned, the supraanal piate 

 strongly compressed apically so as io give the sides a very tortuous 

 course aiul so as to be composed of two parts: the larger basal part 

 nearly plane, broader than long, longer laterally than mesially, the 

 immediate margins elevated slightly and a little overhanging by expan- 

 sion, the median sulcus moderately dee]) and not broad, uniform; and 

 an apical narrow triangular tip with strongly elevated margins forming 

 the sides of the very deep median sulcus, fully two-thirds as long as 

 the basal portion, the tip strongly acutangulate but blunt: furcula con- 

 sisting of a pair of parallel, flattened, regularly tapering, rather bluntly 

 acuminate tingers, excei)t at extreme base lying wholly outside the 

 median sulcus, nearly half as long as the entire plate; cerci slender, 

 regularly and considerably incurved throughout, narrowing gently and 

 then as gently enlarging to a regular and rounded spatulate tip not 

 quite so wide as the extreme base, the whole fully tive times as long as 

 the narrowest breadth and reaching to about halfway between the 

 lateral angle and the tip of the supraanal plate; infracercal plates 

 slightly shorter than the supraanal; subgenital ]date haustrate, moder- 

 ately broad but considerably longer than broad, of subequal breadth, 

 but the lateral margins slightly and roundly elevated at base, and the 

 a])ical margin feebly elevated, well rounded, entire. 



Length of body male, 24.5 mm., female, 31.5 mm.; antennae, male 

 (estimated), 12 mm.; tegmina, male, 21.5 mm., female, 23 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 14.5 mm., female, 16 mm. 



Three males, two females. Texas, Schaui)p (S. Henshaw); Tiger 

 Mill, Burnet County, Texas (L. Bruner); San Antonio, Bexar County, 

 Texas, M. Newell (L. Bruner). 



The name is given from the prominence of the furcula. 



87. MELANOPLUS TERMINALIS. new species. 



(Plate XIX, fig. 7.) ' 



Brownish fuscous, more or less ferruginous. Head hardly prominent, 

 lighter or darker castaneous, often much tl jcked with fuscous, the mouth- 

 ])arts paler, above darker being much infuscated, and esi)ecially the 

 lateral margins of the fjistigium are marked in black, and there is a 

 piceous postocular baud often streaked with testaceous ; vertex gently 



