NO. 1124. REVISIoy OF THE MKLASoVI.I—SCriHtKU. 337 



113. MELANOPLUS MINOR. 



(Tlate XXII, tig. 9.) 



CaloptetiHS minor Sci'DUEkI, I'ror. Host. Soc Nat. IliHt., XVII tlHTH), p. 478; Knt. 



Notes, IV (1875), p. 77; Ann. Hep. Chi«l" Kn;t;., 187H(1^7«i), p. 501 ; .Vnn. Rep. 



Geogr. Surv. lOOtli Met. (1876), p. 281.— Hiunei:. Can. Eut.. IX (1877). 



p. 145.— Tiio.MA.s, Hep. V. S. Ent. t'onini., I (187H), p. 42.— S( i i>i»ki::. Cent. 



Orth. (1879), p. 22.— DoiKiK. Rep. V. S. Ent. Conun., II (18M1), App., p. 17.— 



HuiNKH, ibid., Ill (1883), p. 60; IJnll. Div. Ent. U. S. Dep. Agri. ., IV(18M), 



pp. 57, 58. 

 Caloptenus ocridentaliH Thomas!, Ann. H«']>. Chief Eng., 1878 (1878). 1845. 

 Melanoplua minor S(U1»dkk, Cent. Orth. (1879), p. H4.— Huunkr, Can. Ent.. XVII 



(1885), p. 17.— BLATfiiLKY, ibid., XXIII (1891),p.81.— M« Nkii.l, Psyche, VI 



(1891), p. 74.— Morse, ibid., VI (1892), p.250.— liRiNEK, rnbl. Nebr. Acad. 



Sc, III (1893), p. 28.— M0H8K, Psyche, VII (1894), p. 53.— HeutexmIllku, 



Bull.Amer. Mas. Nat. Hist., VI (1894), pp. 307-308. 



Of medium size, dark browuish fuscous, often with a ferruginous 

 tinge, especially on the disk of the pronotuiu, luteous beneath. Uead 

 very feebly prominent, testaceous, obscurely mottled with fuscous at 

 least above, where there is generally a broad, median blackish stripe 

 and a iwstocular piceous band; vertex gently tumid, scarcely elevated 

 above the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes nearly twice 

 (male) or nearly thrice (female) as broad as the tirst antennal Joint; 

 fastigium steeply declivent, narrow, e<iual, deeply (male) or shallowly 

 (female) sulcate, the lateral margins sharp; frontal costa i)ercurrent, 

 faintly narrowed next the antennae, elsewhere subequa],about as broad 

 as the space between the eyes, shallowly sulcate at and below the 

 ocellus; eyes moderately large, a little i)rominent, almost as long as the 

 infraocular portion of the geuae; antennae rufous, apically infuscated, 

 about two-thirds as long as the hind femora, the proportions scarcely 

 differing in the two sexes. Pronotum short, distinctly but not greatly 

 expanding on the metazona, the postocular stripe of the lateral lobes 

 extending over the prozona, broader and more distinct than on the 

 liead,the disk very broadly convex, passing into the subvertical lateral 

 lobes by a distinct but always rounded shoulder nowhere forming 

 lateral carinae; median carina slight, scarcely less distinct on the pro 

 zona than on the metazona, cut only by the principal sulcus; front 

 margin truncate, hind margin obtusangulate; prozona longitudinally 

 subquadrate, feebly more longitudinal in the male than in the female, 

 distinctly longer than the finely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine 

 not very long, conico-cylindrical, more or less appressed, suberect; 

 interspace between mesosternal lobes half as long again as broad (male) 

 or a little transverse (female). Tegmina reaching about to the tips of the 

 bind femora, sometimes a little short of, sometimes surpassing them, 

 rather slender and subequal, brownish fuscous, more or less distinctly 

 but never heavily maculate with fuscous along the discoidal area; wings 

 moderately broad, hyaline with the faintest possible bluish tinge, the 

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