i»o.im. itKrrsrny OF tiif. MF.i.ASovii—srrnnKu. Sf)? 



sidcratil}' to an oblitiiicly triiiisviMsc, l»roa<l, oval lohc with ic«:ularly 

 rouiidcd roiitoiir, ahovt* (*\painliii;r twice an iniicli as below, the u iioh^ 

 U'cbly iiicui'vcd ainl siirpassin<; tlu* snpraaiial plate; iiifrareiral platfs 

 hanlly viHible, briefer than tiie siipiaaiial plate; siibi^eiiital plate lathiT 

 narrow, siilH'ipial. abi iiptly. romnlly. and tronsitb-rably elevated apieally, 

 but not produi-ett, entire. 



I.enf^th of b<Kly. nude and female, -.'i inui.; antennae, male. !•*) mni., 

 female, VI mm.: te^mina, male, \\\'* mm., female, i> mm.; hind tVmora, 

 male and female, 1(» mm. The feimi measured has exceptionally short 

 te«^Mnina. 



Nine males, IL* females. St. Louis. Missouri i l.S.N.M. — IJihy eollec- 

 tion); central Missouri isanie>: Illinois, Ihlei; southern Illinois. KtMi- 

 id<*ott, Thomas. 



It has also been rei)orted from central Illinois (Tliomasi: IJunnin;? 

 Lake, Illin«>is, .Fuly l."*. September iMcNeilli; Anderson, Fulton, Ilo]>- 

 kins and Christian counties and iHU Lick Falls, Kentucky ((larman); 

 southeast Nebraska ( iJrnner). It would therefore ai»i>ear to have a 

 rathernaiTow ran;;e. in thec«Mitral Mississippi Valley, between latitude 

 370-40^, and h>n^ritude .s(]^-1Mr . 



123. IV.ELANOPLUS CLYPEATUS. 



(Platr XXIV, ti;;. 2.) 



f'alopteuiis chipeat»$ SciDDKii I. Pror. liost. Site. Nat. Hist., XIX (1^77), p. 10; Kut. 



Notes. VI ( 1.'<7H), p. IS.— HnuxKU. K«'p. I'. S. Eut. Coiniii.. Ill i ls8;i ). p. «)0. 

 Mrhinophia (Imuutnn 8cri>l)Ki{ I, C'iin. Eiit., XII (1H80), p. 75. 



Brownish testaceous. Front of liead varyin*;: from dull luteons to 

 dull reddish brown, faiiitly dotted with tuscous; tips of mandil>les and 

 lower edf;e of labrum marked with black; inters|)ace between the eyes 

 a little (male) or much (female) broader than the basal antennal Joint, 

 very slijjfhtly depresse<l centrally, at least in the male; frontal <*osta 

 broad, subeciual, slightly <lcpressed at the oc«dIus; anteni.<ie luteous, 

 inluscated on the apical half, nearly (male) or about two-thirds (fennde) 

 as loiijj as the hind femora, rronotum scarcely enlarjiinj; posteriorly, 

 with but slight transverse sulci and a sli«j:ht median carina, eipial and 

 jM'rcurrent in the female, inteirui)teil slijjhtly between the sulci in the 

 male; lateral carinae indistinct, rounded; top of head and pronotuni 

 dotted faintly with fuscous, the lateral l<d)es of the latter paler, marked 

 next the lateral carinae with a black streak, which narrows and dis- 

 appears jjosteriorly, broadens anteriorly an<l extends sli;;htly uimii 

 tlie head. I'rosteriml spine rather lonj;-, cylindrical or coiiico <'yliu- 

 dri<-al, blunt tipped, feebly retiorse. Te^fmina uot reac hing- the tip of 

 the abd(mien, alx^ut as lonu as the femora, the costal field dark testa- 

 ceous, the discoidal field blackish, and the anal field, which is sepa- 

 r;ited aufiularly from the rest, li<>ht testaceous or wood brown. Fore 

 and nuddle lejis of the color of the body: hind femoia lon«rand moder- 

 ately stout, blackish on their outer face, but the inferior outer carina 



