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soiiietiines marked with black and the abdomen with a lateral black 

 biind, sometimes continuous and eciual, sometimes coiitined to small 

 triangular spots on the anterior segments; hind femora sometimes a 

 little infuscated externally, the genieular lobes sometimes blackish, the 

 hind tibiae rather dark olivaceous, the apical halt of the spines black. 

 The summit of the head is sometimes marked with black in broad 

 me<lian and diverging supraorbital stripes. 



Length of body (J/, m. ampins), male, 17.5 mm., female, 22 mm.; 

 antennae, male. <S mm., female, 7 mm.; tegmina, male, 15 mm., female, 

 18 mm. (est.); hind femora, male, 10 mm., female, 12.5 mm. Length of 

 body {M. m. pan per), male, 14.5 mm., female, 20 mm.; antennae, male, 

 (> mm., female, 0.25 mm.; tegmina, male, 4.5 mm., female, 5.5 mm.; 

 hind femora, male, 8 mm., female, 11 mm. 



Nine males, 8 fern Jes. California (U.S.N.M. — Ifiley collection); 

 Natoma vineyard, Folsom, Sacramento County, Calitornia, April, C. 11. 

 Dwinell (same); Atwater, Merced County, California, July 27, 1). W. 

 Cocpiillett (same); southern California, II. W. Henshaw; Fort Tejou, 

 California, July 20, 11. W. llenshaw. 



The National Museum contains a male and female of the ditlereut 

 forms taken in coitn. 



no. MELANOPLUS PAROXYOIDES, new spe-ies. 

 (Plates I, i\}r. A ; XXII. fi^'. 6.) 



Of rather small or medium size, ferrugineo testaceous, with a marked 

 black postocular band. Head not prominent, more or less olivaceo- 

 luteous, cloua'd with fuscous on face and genae, with fuscou ; stripes 

 above, and a I lack postocular band; vertex very gently tumid, not ele- 

 vated above the level of the pronotuju, he interspace between the eyes 

 narrow, not (male) or scarcely (fem.di) wider than the first antennal 

 Joint; fastigium rather rapidly declivent, shallowly (male) or very shal- 

 lowly (female) sulcate throughout ; face retreating more than usual, the 

 frontal costa rather prominent above, percurrent, equal, fully as broad 

 as the interspace between the eyes, sulcate excepting above, strongly 

 l)unctate; eyes rather large, prominent in rhe male, very much longer 

 than the infraocular i)ortion of the genae; antennae luteous or rufo- 

 luteous, about tive-sixths (male) or two-thirds (female) as long as the 

 hind femora. I'ronotum long, subeijual, hardly enlarging posteriorly 

 even on the metazona, the upper portion of the lateral lobes with a 

 broad solid black band crossing the prozona, and sometimes in a dif- 

 fused form the metazona, below which the lateral lobes are more or less 

 obscurely luteous; disk pilose, transversely broadly convex, separated 

 from the interiorly vertical lateral lobes by a rounded shoulder, nowhere 

 forming lateral carinae; median carina uniform, percurrent; front mar- 

 gin subtruncate, hind margin obtusangulate; prozona distin<;tly longi- 

 tudinal especially in the male, fully a fourth h)uger than the finely and 



