266 NEW NOETH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



secured, at elevations from 4500 to 5200 feet in the foothills of 

 the Singatse Range. The most successful method of capturing 

 these specimens was to tramp down .the brittle thorn bushes, in 

 which case individuals of Ligurotettix coquillettei McNeill would 

 fly swiftly to other adjacent bushes, but those of the present 

 species would appear confused and could be taken by exercising 

 reasonable caution. When this method was not followed, these 

 little insects were found to slip about in the dense twigs and 

 thorns with great agility and would occasionally disappear, leav- 

 ing the pursuer baffled, with hands usually well scratched. 



OEDALEONOTUS Scudder 

 1897. Oedaleonotus Scudder, Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sciences, xxxii, p. 203. 

 1897. Oedaleonotus Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, p. 390. 



After careful consideration we find that the present genus, in 

 addition to the species referred to it by Scudder, properly includes 

 all the species which that author assigned to the Borckii Series of 

 the genus Melanoplus, with the exception of Melanoplus scitulus 

 Scudder. 



The genus Oedaleonotus will be fully discussed at a later date. 

 This rearrangement is noted here only in order to explain the 

 generic assignment of the following new species. 



Oedaleonotus phryneicus 12 new species (Plate XXIX, figs. 5 and 6.) 

 1908. Melanoplus tenuipennis Caudell (not of Scudder, 1897), Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xxxiv, p. 78. [Guadalupe, California.] 



Closely related to 0. tenuipennis (Scudder), (see plate XXIX, 

 fig. 7), which species differs from phryneicus in the average lighter 

 build, particularly in the females, decidedly weaker and less irreg- 

 ular median and lateral carinae of the pronotum, less decidedly 

 inflated prozona, less decided pronotal sulci and in particular the 

 less decided channel of the first sulcus dorsad on the lateral lobes, 

 where its termination occurs, less decided expansion of the pro- 

 notal disk caudad, this more decided in females, and less heavily 

 pitted metazona and corresponding portion of the lateral lobes. 



Type. — c? ; Del Monte, Monterey County, California. August 

 20, 1909. (M. Hebard.) [Hebard Collection, Type no. 486.] 



Size medium for the genus, form moderately robust. Head much as in 

 tenuipennis. Pronotum with median and lateral carinae and sulci decided; 

 lateral carinae feebly concave and feebly expanding on the prozona, more 



12 From <t>pvi>os = a, toad, and eiKoj = like. In allusion to the squat, rough 

 appearance, particularly of females of the present species. 



