376 NEW NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



Measurements (in millimeters) 



Caudal Length "Width 



ja Length Length width Length of of 



u of of pro- of pro- of caudal caudal 



body notum notum tegmen femur femur 



Evergreen, Alabama, type.... 25.5 5.9 3.3 10.8 14.4 3.7 



Evergreen, Alabama, para- 

 type 23 5.7 3.2 9.8 14 3.6 



Evergreen, Alabama, para- 

 type.. 25.3 6 3.4 10.3 15 3.8 



Greenville, Alabama, para- 

 type 25 6 3.3 12 14 3.6 



Head shining except dorsal portion, saccardo's umber becoming darker 

 on genae, dorsal surface rich warm sepia, postocular bars blackish mummy 

 brown, bordered dorsad by a very narrow buffy line. Antennae ochraceous- 

 tawny, deepening to russet distad. Pronotum with disk rich warm sepia, 

 lateral lobes shining except on metazonal portion, snuff brown deepening 

 dorsad to blackish mummy brown, the postocular bars weakly defined ex- 

 cept as a marginal line which in the prozonal portion, as on the head, is bor- 

 dered dorsad by a very narrow buffy line. Tegmina with dorsal field light 

 pinkish cinnamon, lightly suffused proximad and with a few flecks along 

 sutural margin of mummy brown, lateral field mummy brown flecked with 

 blackish, fading to buffy in the apical portion. Abdomen dorsad warm sepia, 

 ventrad yellow ocher. Cephalic and median limbs mottled saccardo's um- 

 ber. Caudal femoral marking strikingly characteristic of the species of this 

 group, the dark bands spreading over the external surface so that three pale 

 areas are blocked off, the proximo-dorsal of these elongate oval and broken 

 by the characteristic small dark suffusion of the dorsal surface, the proximo- 

 ventral area broader and elongate oval, the third of these situated beyond 

 the median point and forming a broad transverse band, these areas well 

 defined, clay color paling ventrad, except the dorso-proximal which is sayal 

 brown, the remaining portions of the dorsal and external surfaces mummy 

 brown; internal surface ochraceous-buff with two brown suffusions dorsad; 

 ventral surface apricot orange, shading to ochraceous-buff distad and nar- 

 rowly in external section. Caudal tibiae carnelian red, deepening meso- 

 proximad to a suffusion of liver brown before the proximal section, which is light 

 ochraceous-salmon internally, suffused very weakly with liver brown extern- 

 ally; spines black, spurs buffy with tips black. 



23 In addition to this material, a female belonging to the present group, from 

 Brookhaven, Mississippi, is before us. This specimen was taken by Rehn 

 on September 15, 1915, in grass in a forest of second-growth oak and short- 

 leaf pine. As we have no males of this group from west of the above localities, 

 we are unable to determine this specimen at the present time, although it is 

 unquestionably a representative of the present or a very closely related 

 species. 



