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female narrowly tra versos tlie lateral lolies of the pnnKitmn nearly (»r 

 (|iiite to the lateral eariiia^; the tefj^iniiia are of the color of the disk of 

 the proiiotiiin and immaculate. Elind femora <'Iay yellow mor<> or less 

 infuscated and with a pair of often obscure blackish bars; hind tibiae 

 ^dancous, pallid at base, with a blackish :innitlus. the spines pallid in 

 basal black in apical half, twelve to thirteen, generally twtdvc, iu 

 number !u the outer series. 



Ler^rth of body, male, *-'!."> mm., fenuile, L'.'i mm.; antennae, male, H.5 

 mi'.., female, 7.5 mm.; te^mina, male, i\ mm., female, ().5 mm.; hind 

 lemora, male, 12.5 mm., female, 11 mm. 



Nine males, l.'J females. Texas, lielfrajje, Lincecum (U.S.X.M. — 

 liiley collection; S. H. Scudder); Dallas, Texas, l>oll (same; L, 

 Ilruner). 



This species resembles M.JlabellatuH in general appearance. 



107. MELANOPLUS GRACILIS. 

 (Plate XXII. lig. 3.) 



Vezotettix firaciUH Hrunku!, Can. Ent., VIII (.fnly. 1870), \>. 124; ihid, IX (1H77), 

 p. 144.— Sci i>i)KK, Can. lint., XII (1880), p. 75.— Brinkk, \W\k V. .*<. Kut. 

 Comm., Ill (1883), p. 5J».— Hlar uley!, Cau. Knt., XXIII (18!»1), p. si.— 

 McNeill, P.syche, VI (1891), p. 7().— <).s»orx, Froc. I«»wa Acad. Sc, I, Pt. 11 

 (18J>2), p. 117.— Hkinkk, Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc, III (1893), p. 27.— (Jahman, 

 Orth. Ky. (1894), p. 7.— HLATCnF.rv, Can. Ent., XXVI (1H94). p. 2.33. 



Pvzotettix minut\penmH'YlU)yiA.^\, Hnll. III. Muh. Nat. llist., I ( DecemlMT, 1S7»!), 

 p. «M}.— S( I DDKR, Can. Knt., XII (1880), p. 75.— Tho.mas, Kep. Kut. 111., IX 

 (1880), pp. 90,95, 111M20. 



A little below the medium size, brownish testaceous above, liiteo- 

 tlavous beneath, the w hole tinged with green, with bright green hind 

 legs. Head hardly prominent, luteo Havous, generally tinged with 

 green and somewhat embrowned, above browMiish testaceous with a 

 greenish tinge, sometimes separated by a distinct .slender Havous stripe 

 from the broad piceous i)08tocular band; vertex scarcely at all tumid, 

 not at all elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the 

 ej'es scarcely broader than (male) or nearly twice as broad as (female) 

 the first auteniial Joint; fastigium strongly declivent, distinctly (male) 

 or very feebly and broadly (female) sulcate; frontal costa prominent, 

 percurrent, ecpial, as broad as the interspace between the eyes, feebly 

 sulcate at and below the ocellus, biseriately punctate above; eyes 

 moderate in size, moderately (female) or very (male) prominent, con- 

 siderably longer than the intraocular portion of the genae: antennne 

 luteous, feebly infuscated apically, more than four-fifths (male) or a little 

 n»ore than two-thirds (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum 

 subefjual, faintly enlarging posteriorly, above brownish testaceous, the 

 lateral lobes with a very broad and conspicuous piceous percurrent 

 I)ostocular belt above, sometimes enfeebled on the metazona, below- 

 varying from bright Havous to tiavo-testaceous, the disk very broa<lly 

 subtectate, passing by an abrupt but rounded shoulder, forming feeble 



