NO. 1124. REVISION OF THE M Kl. .won I— fir I'DDEU. 319 



lar, entire, the pallinin projj'ctinj;!: over it as a backward directed, stont, 

 subdepressed, bhint i)rocess. 



The general ccdor is dark umber above, yellowisli testaceous below; 

 face dull olivaceous, in the feniale ai)i)arcutly darker by infuscatiou; 

 antennae testaceous, more or less int'uscate<l at the ai>ical half: on the 

 summit of the head a clay-colored band, which partly enciicles the 

 eyes and extends backward over the pronotum, on whicli it is very 

 slitjhtly arched; a similar but much broader and rather i)aler belt 

 borders the lower margin of the lateral lobes, while a median line of 

 the same color occurs on the abdomen, a mere line in front, broadening 

 as it passes backward, extending over the whole dorsum and apically 

 cont! cut with the lighter color of the under surface, leaving on either 

 side ^jtween the upper and lower surfaces a broad but narrowing black 

 belt. Hind femora with the outer face dark green, more or less infus- 

 cated, sometimes nearly black, especially on the upper Inilf, the upper 

 face ferruginous and the lower greenish yellow; hiiul tibiae rather dull 

 green, occasionally obscured at either extremity, the spines with their 

 apical half black, nine, rarely ten, in number in the outer series. 



Length of body, male, 14 mm., female, 18.5 mm.: antennae, male, 7.25 

 mm., female, 7 mm.; tegmina, male, U.8 mm., female, '^ mm.; hind 

 femora, male, mm., female, j().5 mm. 



Two males, 3 females. Bosque County, Texas, Belfrage. 



Found in woods on ]>lants and bushes in the latt«'r half of Se])tember 

 and the first half of October. Pairs were taken October 11. It is an 

 aberrant member of the present group. 



I02. MELANOPLUS VARIABILIS, new species. 



(I'latu XXl,(ig. 8.) 

 Pezotettix variabilis Brtxek!, MS. 

 Of medium size, green, more or less infuscated, the male the darker. 

 Head a little longer than common but not otherwise prominent, oli- 

 vaceous green, sometimes feebly sutlused with ferruginous, above in 

 darker examples more or less infuscated and always darker than below, 

 with a brownish fuscous postocular band, sometimes broad, smnetimes 

 contined to its upper limits, margined above by lighter tints, the 

 beginning of a subtlavous stripe behind the upper part of the eyes; 

 vertex gently tumid, faintly elevated above the j)ronotum, the inter- 

 spa 5e between the eyes twice (male) or more than thrice (female) as 

 broad as the first antennal joint; fastigium very gently declivent, 

 broadly and shallowly (male) or very shallowly (female) sulcate; frontal 

 costa faintly narrowed above, as broad as (male) or much narrower 

 than (female) the interspace between the eyes, exi)anding and evanes- 

 cent next the dypeus, sulcate at and below the ocellus, sparsely lumc- 

 tate throughout, above biseriately; eyes moderate in size, rather i>rora- 

 iuent in the male, a little longer than the infraocular x><>ition of the 



