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loS. MELANOPLUS INOPS, new specica. 

 il'latn WII, a^. I.) 



Of iiuMliuin Hi/*', hiownisli fuscous. Ilt'iul not proiniiieiit, forru^inoo- 

 t«'Hta<'»'ous, vi'iy heavily puiictiite witli fuscous above the ('lypeuH. the 

 HUinniit dark brownish fnseous; v«Mtex very feebly tumid, elevated a 

 little above the level of the pronotuin, bnt iu>t above the up|>er level of 

 the eyes, the interspai-e betwei'ii the latter of the same \vi«ltli uh the 

 lirst antennal joint; fasti^inm Htron^ly declivent, teebly and broadly 

 hulcate; frontal r(>sta peretirient, eipnil, fully aH broad as tin' inti'rspaee 

 between the eyes, scarei'ly snleafe at and below the oeellns, sparsely 

 ami feebly punctate; eyes larj^e, very prominent, nearly twice as lonjj as 

 the intraocular portion of the j^enae; anteninie ( ?). Pronotuin feebly 

 enlarging trom in front backward, a broad, piceous, percurrent, i>ostoc- 

 ular baml occupying? more than the upper half of the lateral lobes, 

 below which these are ferrny:ineo testaceous, the disk broadly <M»nvex 

 and passing by a well rounded shoulder nowhere forming lateral carinae 

 into the vertical lateral lobes; median carina slight, e(|ual, jjercurrent; 

 front margin faintly convex, feebly imirgined, hind margin subtruncate, 

 very feebly convex, niesially faintly emargiiuite; pro/ona sparsely, 

 coarsely, and shallowly punctate, distiiu'tly longitudinal, fully half as 

 long again as the linely, densely, ami rather shallowly punctate meta- 

 7ona. I'rosternal spine of moderate length, strongly appressed cylin- 

 drical, sul)truncate; intersi)ace between niesostermil lobes more than 

 twice as long as broa<l. Tegmina abbreviate, nearly as long as the 

 pronotum,attingent or subattingent, rotuiidato-ovate, broadly rounded 

 apically, about half as long again as broad, brownish fuscous. Fore 

 and middle femora a little tunud; hind femora moderately slender, 

 ferrugineo fuscous above, graduating into dull tlav<ms below, without 

 fasciation,theupi)er half of the genicular arc fuscous; hind tibiae pale 

 <lull green, growing gradually dingy luteous basall}*, the whoh^ basal 

 half feebly infuscated, the spines black beyond their base, eleven in 

 number in the outer series. Abdomen ferruginous, the extremity in the 

 niale strongly clavate, much recurved, the supraanal jdate broa<l tri- 

 angular, nearly plane, with a short and narrowing shallow median 

 sulcus; furcula obsolete; cerci moderately large, compressed, moder- 

 ately broad at base, inirrowing on basal third, the middle third sub- 

 e(|ual and about two thirds as broad as the base, the apical third again 

 expaiuling slightly, well r<mnded and slightly tumid at tip, the whole 

 feebly curved upward and m(n'e distinctly inward; subgenital plate 

 small, subconical, the apical margin gradually and feebly elevated 

 above the lateral, the apex tuluid, forming a sort of blunt, coarse, 

 rounded tubercle, hardly represented in the figure. 



Length of body, male, 15 mm.; tegmina, 3.5 mm.; hind femora, 

 10.25 mm. 



One male. Florida, Priddey (L. Bruuer). 



