35S PROCKKDiyGSOITrrEXATIO AL MrSLTM. VOL. XX. 



yell«)W, l)la<*k iiiteiriipted witli luteo-testaceous on tlu inner face, 

 beneath vinous red; liind tibiae varying from vinous to bri**!!; red. 

 more or less infnscate<l on basal half, ' ith a blackish fuscous subbasal 

 annuhis, the spines black to the base, eleven to twelve in number in 

 the outer series, Kxtremity t>f male abdomen considerably ihickened, 

 formiiijif a snbjjlobose mass: supraanal plate shield shaped, triangularly 

 l)roduced at the apex, narrowly and deeply sulcate down the middle; 

 no furcula; cerci stout, compressed, constricted in the middle as seen 

 from the side, beyond incurved, expanded ('specially above, the apical 

 border much comi»ressed, convex in the middle half, straight above 

 and below, or feebly cnmr.uinate at the union of the convex ami straight 

 portions; intracercal plates comidetely concealed; subgenital i)late 

 nuxlerately broad, sliglitly, broadly, and uniformly elevated apically, 

 hardly prolonged. 



Length of body, male, 28..") mm., female, 3<» mm.; antennae, male, V> 

 mm., female, 14.") mm.; tegmina. male, 17 mm., female, ls.5 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 17 mm., female, 21 mm. 



Two males, 1 female. Cleorgia, Morrison. 



124. MELANOPLUS FURCATUS, new species. 

 (1 lat<- XXIV, tijj. 3.) 



Brownish-ferruginous, the top of head and i>rozona very taintly dotted 

 with fusc(ms. Head gently tumid above, the interspace between the 

 eyes broad, but distinctly narrower than the frontal costa, the fastigiuni 

 most leebly dejUTssed, running without break into the frontal costa. 

 which is broad, ecpial, shall(>wly sulcate at and below the ocellus, punc- 

 tate on either side; eyes pretty large, rather elongate, not very promi- 

 nent; antennae fulvcms. becoming a little infuscated apically, almost a.s 

 long as the hind femora in both sexes, being lelar- ely ^Imost as h>ng 

 in the female as in the male. Pronotum enlargin sligbtiy posteiiorly. 

 at least in the female, the disk very tlatly tectate, the median carina 

 very slight and sul)e(iual throughout, the lateral carinae merely forming 

 blunt angles sejtarating the disk from the lateral lobes, the front margin 

 scarcely convex, the hind margin broadly and roundly angulate ; disk of 

 prozona feebly longitudinal, spar.sely feebly and s.iallowly punctate lat- 

 erally, about a fourth longer than the tinely and closely punctate meta 

 zona, minutely emarginate in the middle jmsteriorly ; lateral lob«'s 

 marked i>recisel3' as in M. cli/ptatn.s. Prosternal spine rather long, 

 slightly retrorse, cylindrical, but a little enlarged on the apical lialf. 

 Tegmina not much shorter than the abdomen, but not nearly reaching 

 the tip of the hind fennira, testaceo cinereus in the anal tield, the rest 

 fuscous, with dark fuscons tlectvs (male) or blotches (female) in the dis 

 coiclal area; wings impure hyaline, with very pale brown veins and cross 

 veins, becoming more and more fuscous in the upper half, especially 

 toward the apex. Fore and middle femora only a little tumid in the 

 male, uniform in color; hind femora long and rather stout and tumid. 



