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  UNITED 
  STATES 
  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  COMMISSION. 
  

  

  tinct 
  dorsal 
  yellow 
  stripe, 
  probably 
  effaced 
  in 
  Mr. 
  Thomas's 
  specimens 
  from 
  too 
  long 
  

   immersion 
  in 
  alcohol. 
  

  

  Hesperotettix 
  viridis 
  (Thorn.) 
  Scudd. 
  

  

  Salt 
  Lake 
  Valley, 
  August 
  13. 
  

   Melanoplus 
  bivittatus 
  (Say) 
  Scudd. 
  

  

  Salt 
  Lake 
  Valley, 
  August 
  13. 
  

   Melanoplus 
  femoratus 
  (Barm.) 
  Scudd. 
  

  

  Wallula, 
  Wash. 
  

   Melanoplus 
  Packardii 
  Scudd. 
  PI. 
  xvii, 
  figs. 
  7, 
  8. 
  

  

  Wallula, 
  Wash. 
  

   Melanoplus 
  cinereus 
  Scudd. 
  PL 
  xvii, 
  figs. 
  4, 
  5. 
  

  

  American 
  Fork 
  Canon, 
  Utah, 
  August 
  5 
  ; 
  Reno, 
  Nev.; 
  Wallula, 
  Wash. 
  

   Melanoplus 
  devastator 
  Scudd. 
  PI. 
  xvii, 
  figs. 
  2, 
  3, 
  19, 
  20. 
  

  

  Salt 
  Lake 
  Valley, 
  Aug. 
  14; 
  Reno, 
  Glen 
  Brook, 
  and 
  Lake 
  Tahoe, 
  Nev.; 
  Sissons 
  and 
  

   the 
  Shasta 
  district, 
  Cal. 
  

   Melanoplus 
  femur-rubrum 
  (De 
  Geer) 
  Stal. 
  

  

  Salt 
  Lake 
  Valley; 
  Glen 
  Brook, 
  Nev. 
  ; 
  Sissons, 
  Cal.; 
  Portland, 
  Oreg. 
  

  

  Malanoplus 
  atlanis 
  (Ril.) 
  Scudd. 
  PL 
  xvii, 
  fig. 
  6. 
  

  

  • 
  Glen 
  Brook, 
  Nev. 
  ; 
  Wallula, 
  Wash. 
  ; 
  Portland, 
  Oreg. 
  ; 
  Victoria, 
  Vancouver's 
  Island. 
  

   Melanoplus 
  spretus 
  (Uhl.) 
  Scudd. 
  

   Numerous 
  localities. 
  

  

  Bradynotes 
  opimus 
  no 
  v. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Closely 
  allied 
  to 
  B. 
  obesus 
  (Pezotettix 
  obesus 
  Thorn.) 
  General 
  color 
  blackish 
  griseous, 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  flecked 
  with 
  brown 
  ; 
  face 
  and 
  genae 
  below 
  the 
  eyes 
  varying 
  from 
  pale 
  to 
  

   pinkish 
  livid, 
  punctate, 
  especially 
  below, 
  with 
  black, 
  and 
  divided 
  by 
  black 
  stripes 
  

   following 
  the 
  edges 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa 
  and 
  the 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  of 
  the 
  face, 
  and 
  also, 
  

   generally, 
  the 
  arcuate 
  posterior 
  carinae 
  of 
  the 
  genae, 
  and 
  an 
  oblique 
  line 
  of 
  punctures 
  

   subparallel 
  to 
  it 
  below 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  genae 
  ; 
  summit 
  of 
  head 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  and 
  

   a 
  pair 
  of 
  arcuate, 
  lateral, 
  narrow 
  black 
  stripes, 
  the 
  former 
  the 
  darker 
  ; 
  antennae 
  testa- 
  

   ceous 
  near 
  the 
  base, 
  blackish 
  beyond. 
  Anterior 
  lobe 
  of 
  pronotum 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  central 
  

   blackish 
  spot, 
  inclosing 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  testaceous 
  dots, 
  laterally 
  disposed; 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  

   lighter 
  below 
  than 
  above, 
  speckled, 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  somewhat 
  broken, 
  black 
  median 
  

   band 
  crossing 
  the 
  anterior 
  lobe 
  ; 
  tegmina 
  wholly 
  wanting. 
  Abdomen 
  varying 
  from 
  

   grizzly 
  to 
  blackish, 
  the 
  posterior 
  edges 
  of 
  the 
  segments 
  dotted 
  with 
  minute 
  longitudinal 
  

   spots, 
  and 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  segments 
  marked 
  with 
  a 
  central, 
  triangular, 
  testaceous 
  

   spot, 
  seated 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  border. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  generally 
  

   altogether 
  black, 
  occasionally 
  lighter 
  and 
  marked 
  with 
  a 
  central, 
  oblique, 
  pale 
  dash 
  

   above 
  ; 
  upper 
  and 
  lower 
  faces 
  pale 
  testaceous, 
  the 
  inner 
  side 
  of 
  upper 
  face 
  with 
  a 
  

   pair 
  of 
  black 
  bars; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  deep 
  purplish 
  at 
  base 
  (with 
  the 
  basal 
  outer 
  tubercle 
  

   deep 
  red), 
  passing 
  into 
  deep 
  red 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  under 
  surface 
  clay-yellow 
  ; 
  

   the 
  spines 
  on 
  basal 
  half 
  pale, 
  on 
  apical 
  half 
  reddish, 
  all 
  black 
  tipped. 
  Anal 
  cerci 
  

   nearly 
  straight, 
  subcompressed, 
  but 
  convex 
  exteriorly, 
  broad 
  at 
  base, 
  tapering 
  through- 
  

   out 
  more 
  rapidly 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half 
  to 
  a 
  bluntly-pointed 
  tip. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  $ 
  23 
  mm 
  , 
  $ 
  24 
  mm 
  ; 
  of 
  antennae, 
  $ 
  9.5 
  mm 
  , 
  $ 
  10.5 
  ram 
  ; 
  of 
  pronotum, 
  

   $ 
  5.5 
  mm 
  , 
  $ 
  5 
  m 
  ™ 
  ; 
  of 
  hind 
  tibiae, 
  $ 
  $ 
  10.5 
  mm 
  . 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  differs 
  from 
  B. 
  obesus 
  in 
  some 
  of 
  its 
  markings, 
  in 
  the 
  lighter 
  punc- 
  

   tuation 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  lobe 
  of 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  and 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  anal 
  cerci 
  of 
  the 
  

   male, 
  which 
  are 
  much 
  stouter 
  and 
  coarser, 
  not 
  so 
  strikingly 
  divided 
  into 
  a 
  rounded 
  

   basal 
  and 
  slender, 
  almost 
  linear, 
  apical 
  half, 
  as 
  in 
  B. 
  obesus. 
  Like 
  it, 
  it 
  comes 
  from 
  

   high 
  elevations. 
  Baron 
  Osten 
  Sacken 
  brought 
  home 
  specimens 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  Sierra 
  Ne- 
  

   vada 
  between 
  July 
  17-22, 
  some 
  of 
  them 
  immature 
  ; 
  and 
  Dr. 
  Packard 
  took 
  1 
  ^ 
  2 
  9 
  at 
  

   the 
  forest 
  line 
  on 
  Mount 
  Shasta, 
  Cal. 
  A 
  single 
  specimen, 
  damaged 
  by 
  too 
  long 
  pres- 
  

   ervation 
  in 
  alcohol, 
  and 
  brought 
  by 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  G. 
  W. 
  Harford 
  from 
  Oregon 
  City, 
  appears 
  

   to 
  belong 
  here. 
  

  

  Pezotettix 
  Borckii 
  Stal. 
  PI. 
  xvii, 
  fig. 
  17. 
  

  

  Portland, 
  Oreg. 
  

   Pezotettix 
  pacificus 
  no 
  v. 
  sp. 
  PL 
  xvii, 
  fig. 
  16. 
  

  

  Form 
  and 
  appearance 
  of 
  P. 
  Borckii, 
  Stal, 
  but 
  slenderer. 
  Fastigium 
  of 
  vertex 
  and 
  

   frontal 
  costa 
  continuously 
  and 
  shallowly 
  silicate, 
  approaching 
  flatness 
  at 
  the 
  upper 
  

  

  