K0.1124. UEVlSKtS OF TIIK MELAynl'Ll—Si IhimiL 3'j5 



beiieatli, hroinleniii;; tlie band; disk of j)n)/ona niort' or b'ss fliM-Urd 

 with dark hiowii. soinrtiines rollrctnl into a V sliaju'd |>at«li oim'Iijiij;^ 

 forward, the apex, at tiie iiiiddU' of the iiicta/oiia: hind iiiai-;>in dotted 

 witli bhickisli; ineta/ona profusely, pro/oiia si>aiseiy b«»tli shalit wiy, 

 piiiiL'tate; sides of nietatiiorax with a pale oblnpir stripe iiarrowin;; 

 upward to a i)oint. Prostenial spine inoderattdy lonj:, stout, sulx'vlin- 

 drical, feebly appreased,ejeet, blunt tipped. Te^tniiria reachin;- i leniah') 

 or slightly surpassing (male) the tips of the hind femora, daiker or 

 ligliter brownish fuscous, llecked rather distantly willi brownish spots, 

 relieved by similar pale sjjots along the middle, oj-easioiially nn)re or 

 less confluent. Legs of the color of the under surface, the fore and 

 middle fennua a little deeper or duskier; hind femora broa<Ily hifax'iate 

 with blackish, broken by the pale incisures, the genicular arc hlack on 

 both sides; hind tibiae yellow, oci-asionally tinged with red, paler ni'xt 

 the bjise with a black annulus, the spines black to their very base, ten 

 to twelve, usually eleven, in number in the outer series. I«L\tremity of 

 male abd<unen subclavate, upturned slightly, well rounded; suinaanal 

 plate broad, clypeate, wilh slightly pro«luced rectangulate apex, slightly 

 sinuatesides, the lateral margins gently elevated, the michMe longifnli- 

 ual half very broa<lly tectate with a moderately broad and <leep median 

 sulcus extending over a little more than the basal half: furcula 'anting 

 or sometimes iinlicated by the merest angle; cerci very stout, subspatu- 

 late, compressed, largest at tip, the basal two-fifths eipial and straight, 

 the renniinder expanding into an obli(juely transverse, obovate, roumled 

 lobe, its outer border c<uivex, directed upwanl an<l more proibu-ed 

 above than below, nuiking the til* fully half as broad again as the base; 

 infra<*ercal ])lates visible only by their feeble, narrow, blnnt-tijjped 

 l)rojection beyond the supraanal [date; subgeuital plate not very broad, 

 the apex both produced and elevated a little. 



Length of body, male, I'lK.j mm., fennile, 34.5 mm.; antennae, male, 

 l.'i.5 nun., female, 15 mm.; tegmina, male, 21 mm., fenu\le, 1*4 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 17.5 mra., female, 21 mm. 



Twenty-two nndes, 18 females. Texas, Belfrage; Dallas, Texas, Bcdl 

 {U.S.N.M. — Riley collection; S. II. Scudder); Gulf coast of Texas, 

 Aaron. 



Although the single male type of CnJ. ponderosus has been lost, I 

 have no doubt from the study of the larger material now at hand that 

 it is the same as Cal. n)bH.stKS, described at the same time and jdace. 



122. MELANOPLUS VIOLA. 

 (Plate XXIV. fig. 1.) 



Pezotetiix riola Thomas!, I^nll. 1)1. Mus. Nat. HiBt.. I (1876), p. 68.— Riley, IJep. 



U. 8. Eiit. Comm., I ( IS78). pp. 2L'0. 226.— Scui>i>er !. Can. Ent., XII 1 18S(i ». p. 



7.').— TnoMAs:. h'ep. Ent. 111.. IX ( ISSOk pp. IK), ft5. 121.— McNeii.i.. Psyolip. VJ 



(1891), p. 76.— Hrineh, Publ. Nebr. Aoad. Sc. Ill a8i»3), p. 27.— (.i arm ax, 



nrtli.Ky. (1894), p. K 

 Calopleinix ottiHafiis Vui.kr], yi'f^. 

 rezolettir affiliutut ficUDDEit I, (.'au. Ent., XII (1880), ]). 7.'>. 



