350 NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



Melanoplus hubbelli new species (PL XXII, fig. 11 ; pi. XXVII, fig. 3) 



1897. Melanoplus viridipes Scudder (in part), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, 

 p. 255. [cf , 9 ; Vigo County, Indiana.] 



1903. Melanoplus viridipes Blatchley (in part not of Scudder, 1897), Orth. 

 of Indiana, p. 305. [cf , 9 ; Vigo County, Indiana.] 



1904. Melanoplus deceptus Morse (in part), Psyche, xi, p. 9. [cT; Indiana 

 and Vigo County, Indiana; Jasper, Georgia at 2600 feet.] 



1916. (probably) Melanoplus similis Rehn and Hebard (not of Morse, 

 1904), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1916, p. 211. [9 only: 

 Bluemont, Virginia; Clayton and Tuckoluge Creek, Georgia.] 



1916. Melanoplus deceptus Rehn and Hebard (in part not of Morse, 1904), 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1916, p. 212. [cT; Clayton, Georgia.] 



1920. Melanoplus viridipes Blatchley (in part not of Scudder, 1897), Orth. 

 of North-Eastern America, p. 365. [cT; Vigo County, Indiana; Jasper, 

 Georgia.] 



Morse recognized that Scudder and Blatchley had confused 

 two species in their material from Vigo County, Indiana, but 

 insufficiency of material prevented his realizing that his male 

 specimen from Jasper, Georgia, represented one of those species 

 and not deceptus which he was describing from Jones' Peak, 

 Balsam Mountains, North Carolina. 



Blatchley's attempt to place all of these species as synonyms 

 of viridipes in 1920 indicates wholly unjustified undervaluation 

 of male cereal characters, such possibly due to the fact that his 

 series of viridipes showed decided variation in the male cerci as all 

 of it came from Indiana in the area of intergradation between 

 viridipes viridipes and viridipes eurycercus. 6 



This species is nearer deceptus than any of those already 

 treated. The tegmina are proportionately larger and more 

 ample (excepting in longicornis) and the male cerci are distinctive, 

 with disto-dorsal portion roundly elevated and the disto-ventral 

 angle produced as a small tooth. The male subgenital plate 

 either entirely lacks an apical tubercle or has a very low bluntly 

 rounded apex. 



Type.—tf ; Red Hills, Franklin County, Ohio. July 14, 1931. 

 (E. S. Thomas). [Hebard Collection, Type no. 1258]. 



Size medium, form graceful for the brachypterous Melanopli. 

 Fastigium of vertex and frontal costa shallowly but definitely 



6 See Hebard, Trans. Amer. Ent. Sec, xlvi, p. 392, (1920). 



