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NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



moderately (weakly to moderately decidedly in series) enlarged, 

 the dorsal margin there convex and rounding to the subrectan- 

 gulate and sharply rounded disto-ventral angle, the ventral 

 margin very broadly and very feebly concave, almost straight. 

 Apical enlarged portion of cercus conspicuously longer and 

 narrower than in hubbelli. From the stout base of the penis 

 spring two pairs of erect ear-like lobes, each of which is longer 

 than broad with caudal surface concave, the dorso-external 

 portion of the caudal pair with a small projection curling caudad; 

 at the inner bases of these are two small adjacent erect aciculate 

 projections which are considerably shorter than the lobes (see 

 plate B, figure 5). Subgenital plate small, rounded, with a stout, 

 moderately blunt, apical tubercle. 



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



Indistinguishable from females of cherokee and deceptus. 

 Tegmina slightly longer than pronotum, but their exposed por- 

 tions appear no longer. Ovipositor valves as here described for 

 hubbelli. 



Caudal 

 width of 

 Length of Length of pronotal Length of 



body pronotum disk tegmen 



Length 



of 

 caudal 

 femur 



Black Mountain, 



North Carolina. 

 Mount Mitchell, 



North Carolina. 

 Mount Graybeard, 



North Carolina. 

 Grandfather Mountain, 



North Carolina. 



18.-19. 



4.3-4.7 2.7-2.7 5.-5.8 10.1-10.3 



15.7-16.7 3.7-3.9 2.1-2.3 4.8-4.7 8.7-8.7 



16.7 



18.1 



4.6 



4.4 



2.7 



2.7 



5. 



5.2 



9.4 



10. 



Black Mountain, 

 North Carolina. 



Mount Graybeard, 

 North Carolina. 



Grandfather Mountain, 

 North Carolina. 



21.7-24. 5.-5.4 3.3-3.6 5.4-6.7 10.8-11.8 

 19.6-21.2 5.-5.2 3.2-3.3 5.6-5.3 10.3-10.5 

 22.-22.7 5.2-5.3 3.4-3.7 5.2-5.8 10.8-11.1 



General coloration as characteristic for the group but rich and 

 very intensive. Post-ocular band shining black, very broad, not 

 paling caudad on pronotum. Pronotum with ventral portions of 

 lateral lobes buffy, the post-ocular dark band sometimes margined 

 narrowly dorsad with dull buffy. Cephalic and median limbs 

 light brown, often with the femora weakly, the tibiae strongly 



