^^, ,124. nKfisiits' (tF THE .Mi:iASiH'i.i—scvinth:i:. 339 



lisoii; Wyomiiij;:, Morrison (C.S.N.M. — Itiley collection); Fort McKiii 

 ncy, Johnson Connty, Wyoming, .Inly (same); Donjjjlas, < 'on verse 

 <'onnty, Wyoniitijf, IJrnner (sjune); Harney's Peak, 7,000 to S,000 feet, 

 Sonth Dakota. Hruner (same); Fort Hnt'ord, Williams Connty, North 

 Dakota (same); Dakota (same); Montana, and Yellowstone, Montana 

 (same): Minnesota; Winnipeg, Manitoba. Donahl <lnnn and 1{. Kenni- 

 oott. 



It is also reported by lirnner from Washington i State), and Troin 

 Fort Collins, liarimer < 'ounty, Coh)rado. 



114. MELANOPLUS CONFUSUS, new species. 

 (IMate XXII, fi;j. 10.) 



Of medinm size, tlavo testaceous. Head not prominent, jirobably 

 tlavo luteons in life, marked with In.scons above in a median strijje and a 

 pairof divergent, posteriorly enlarging stri[>es, besides a broad, distinct, 

 piceons, imstocular band; vertex somewhat tumid, slightly elevated 

 above the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes hardly so wide 

 as' (male) or almost twice as wide as (female) the tirst antennal Joint; 

 fastigium gently declivent, <leeply (male) or shallowly (female) sulcate; 

 frontal costa subequal, but slightly broader below, about as broad as 

 the interspace between the eyes, distinctly sulcate at and below the 

 ocellus, biseriately punctate above; eyes of moderate size and i)romi- 

 neuce, only slightly more i)romiiient in the male than in the female, a 

 little longer than the infraocular portion of thegenae: antennae luteons, 

 slightly infuscated next the apex, about two-thirds (male) or but little 

 more than a half (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum with 

 the prozona subecjual except for the tumid sides, the metazona expand- 

 ing considerably, the sides of the prozoua with a broad, piceous, 

 lK)stocular band, which is sometimes a little maculate or strigose with 

 Inteous, the disk broadly convex and passing by a well-rounded shoul- 

 der, forming blunt lateral carinae on the metazona and extreme front of 

 prozona, into the vertical lateral lobes; median carina distinct, sub- 

 e(iual, percurrent; front margin truncate, with feeblest sign of minute 

 einargination, hind margin obtusangulate; prozona distinctly longi- 

 tudinal (male) or longitudinally subquadrate (female), very sparsely 

 jiiinctate, not a great deal longer than the finely and densely punctate 

 metazona. Prosternal sjune moderately long, compressed, blunt coni- 

 cal, feebly retrorse (male), or rather short, appressed conical, very 

 blunt, erect (female): interspace between inesosternal lobes about half 

 as long again as broad (male) or quadrate (female), the metasternal 

 lobes approximate (male) or moderately distant (female). Tegmina 

 long and rather slender, subequal, slightly or considerably surpassing 



'Uiulouhtedly wider in life, the exceptionjilly deep snleation of the fastijjiam of 

 tlic single iiiiile indicating a contraction of the intraocular space from drying afier 

 immersion in alcohol. 



