292 NEW NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



decidedly convergent in proximal half, thence less strongly convergent to the 

 acute apex, dorsal margin broadly concave, ventral margin nearly straight. 

 Subgenital plate as in carnegiei; short, tapering to the bluntly rounded apex. 

 Limbs as in carnegiei. 



Allotype. — 9 ; same data as type. [Hebard Collection.] 

 Size decidedly larger, form decidedly more robust than in male. Resembling 

 females of Eotettix quercicola except that it is smaller, with head proportion- 

 ately distinctly smaller, antennae shorter, disk of pronotum showing no gloss, 

 caudal margin of pronotum less produced and caudal tibiae less heavy, Fastig- 

 ium of vertex and frontal costa wider than in male, briefly deplanate in area 

 between lateral ocelli and antennal sockets. Eye slightly longer than cheek, 

 about one and one-half times as long as infra-ocular sulcus. Tegmina well 

 overlapping. 63 Ovipositor valves moderately elongate, moderately curved 

 distad to their acute apices, much as in Eotettix quercicola, appreciably more 

 curved than in carnegiei. Interspace between mesosternal lobes scarcely 

 longer than broad. Limbs as in male but heavier, much as in females of 

 Eotettix quercicola, but with caudal tibiae distinctly less strongly pilose. 



Measurements (in millimeters) of extremes only 



Length Length Caudal width Length Width Length of 



of of of of of caudal 



body pronotum pronotal disk tegmen tegmen femur 



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Type 18.7 5 3-3.7 2.9 11.1 



Paratypes^O) 18.5-20 4.8-5.2 2.9-3.1 3.2-4.6 2.8-3.2 10.4-11.6 

 9 



Allotype 25 6.4 4.2 5.5 4 14.1 



Paratypes (36) 22.2-25.7 5.8-6.7 3.8-4.4 4-6 3.9-4.1 12.8-14.4 



Coloration. — Male. Almost identical with material of carnegiei from the 

 lowland pine woods (Yemassee, South Carolina) ; more tawny and less grayish 

 than highland material of that species. Face, underparts, cephalic and median 

 limbs and lower portion of pronotal la^ral lobes clay color. Antennae russet, 

 becoming darker distad. Eyes deep chestnut. Occiput, pronotal disk and 

 tegmina mars brown. A moderately broad, shining, black postocular band 

 expands caudad on the prozonal portion of the pronotal lateral lobes, rilling 

 more than half that surface and continued on the metazonal portion, but there 

 not shining. Metapleura without a pale bar. Abdomen sayal brown weakly 

 suffused with mars brown proximad. Caudal femora sayal brown, the genic- 

 ular areas and two weak transverse suffusions of the dorsal surfaces blackish. 

 Caudal tibiae coral red, well supplied with whitish pile, spines entirely black. 



In recessive males the occiput and disk of pronotum are often as pale as the 

 caudal femora, while the transverse bands of the dorsal surfaces of the caudal 

 femora become obsolete. 



Female. Generally cinnamon; lateral lobes of pronotum and caudal femora 

 slightly darker, mikado brown. Postocular bar subobsolete. Tegmina with 

 veins cinnamon and interspaces verona brown. Caudal femora slightly paler 



63 To (rarely) subattingent in females before us. 



