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X31. MELANOPLUS PUNCTULATUS. 

 (Plate XXV, fig.4.) 



CaloptenuH xmnctulatas UhleuI, MS. (1862).— Scudder!, Boat. Jonrn. Nat. Hist., 

 VII (1862), p. 465.— Smith, Proc Portl. Soc. Nat. Hist., I (1S(J8), p. l.'xi.— 

 Walker, Cat. Derm. .Salt. Brit. Mas., IV (1S70), p. 67x.— Thomas, Rep. T. S. 

 Geol. Siirv. Terr., V (1873), p. 163.— Biuxer, Can. Ent., IX (1X77), p. 145.- 

 Thomas, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., I (1878), p. 43.— Bruner, ibid., Ill 

 (1883), p. 60. 



Calopteuus griseits Thomas, Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr., V (1872), p. 4.54.— 

 Gi.ovEK, 111. N. A. Ent., Ortb. (1872), pi. xii, tig. 11.— Thomas, Rep. U. s. 

 Geol. Snrv. Terr., V (1873), p. 1&5.— BKUXEK.Can. Ent., IX (1877), p. 141.- 

 Thomas, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., I ( 1878), p. 42.— Bruner, ibid., Ill (1883),p. (JO. 



Melanoplus pnnciulatus Scudder!, Hitchc. Rep, Geol. N. H., I (1874), p. 37*!; 

 Proc. Bof^t. 80C. Nat. Hist., XIX (1878), p, 285; Ent. Notes, VI (1878», 

 p. 44.— Ferxald, Ortb. N. E. (1888), pp. 31, 32; Ann. Rep. Mass. A<i;ric. C«.1I., 

 XXV (1888), pp. 115, 116.— Davis, Ent.Amer.,V (1889), p. 81.— Smith, (at. 

 Ins. N. J. (1800),!.. 41.3.— McNeill, Psycbe, VI (1891), p. 74.— Smith, Bull. 

 N. J. Exp. St., XC (1892), p. 34.— Scudder, Psychr, VII (1894), p. 55.- 

 Morse, ibid., VII (1894), ]»p. .55, 106. — BeutenmI'ller, Bnll. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., VI (1894), pp. 2.52, .307. 



Caloptenu8 hclliio ScudderI, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII (1875), p. 47i); 

 Ent. Note.s, IV (1875), p. 75.— Thomas, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., I (187^^ 

 p. 43.— Scudder:, Cent. Ortb. (1879), p. 20.— Bruner, Rep. U. S. Eut. 

 Comm., Ill (1883), p. 60. 



PezoUttix heUtto StAl, Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., V, No. 9 (1878), p. 14. 



Mehinoplas helhio ScudderI, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX 1878), p. 2s."i; 

 Ent. Notes, VI (1878), p. 44; Psyche, VII (1894), p. 55.— Morse, ibid., VII 

 (1894), p. 55. 



Melatiophis j/mcM* Blatchley I, Can. Ent., XXIV (1892), pp. 30-31.— Brunei;, 

 Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc, III (1893), p. 28.— Scudder, Psyche, VII (l^!il>, 

 p. O.3.— Morse, ibid., VII (1894), p. 55. — Blatciiley!, Can. Eut., XWI 

 (1894), p. 245. 



Dark brownish fuscous much mottled with blackish and often tinned 

 with dull olivaceous, beneath feriugiueo- testaceous. Head varyiiiij 

 from pale dull olivaceous to ferrugiiieo- testaceous, irregularly mottlod 

 with blackish fuscous and with a blackish band behind the eyes and ;i 

 widening median stripe of the same upon the summit; vertex tumid: 

 fastigium rapidly declivent, sulcate throughout, the margins miicli 

 raised between the eyes, which are separated by a space less than the 

 width of the frontal costa; the latter prominent above, moderate in 

 breadth, subequal, sulcate below the ocellus, sparsely punctate througli 

 out, each jioint marked by a dark olivaceous dot; eyes large and in tlie 

 male very prominent, in both sexes much longer than the infraocniar 

 portion of the genae; antennae varying from fusco luteoas to fusco 

 ferruginous, much longer (male) or a little or no shorter (female) tKaii 

 the hind femora. Pronotum subequal, widening a little at the metazoiia 

 iu the female, slightly flaring in front tc receive the head, especiall,\ iu 

 the male, varying from luteo-testaceous to brownish fuscous, often 

 much flecked and punctate with black or blackish fuscous, the lateral 

 lobeb more heavily marked above with black on the prozona, formin '> 

 generally a broken or maculate band; front and hind margin as i 



