382 NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



Three male and four female paratypes, bearing the same data 

 as the type, are before us. The extremes measure : length of body 

 d" 14.2 to 17.8, 9 22.2 to 23.3; length of pronotum d" 3.2 to 3.9, 

 9 5. to 5.2; caudal width of pronotal disk c? 2.2 to 2.4, 9 3.5 to 

 3.6; length of tegmen & 2.8 to 3.7, 9 4.7 to 5.1; width of tegmen 

 <? 1.8 to 2.2, 9 2.8 to 2.8; length of caudal femur d 71 7.7 to 9.7, 

 9 10.8 to 11. mm. 



General coloration grayish brown. Head and pronotum 

 mottled brown, postocular bar only slightly darker and often 

 including a buffy dot. Tegmina appearing more grayish. Ab- 

 domen buffy, in dorsal portions very thickly mottled with 

 brown. Caudal femora light brown with two broad but only 

 moderately darker bars, apices darker brown, ventral surface 

 buff faintly tinged with yellow. Caudal tibiae buff faintly tinged 

 with yellow proximad, becoming pale pink in other portions. 



The small series was taken only after considerable effort, on an 

 open hillside surrounded by forest with low cover largely of alpine 

 plants and some sage brush. The species was there local and 

 usually near the latter bushes. 



Melanoplus washingtonius (Bruner) (PI. XXVI, fig. 9) 



1885. Pezotettix washingtonius Bruner, Canadian Ent., xvn, p. 14. [cf, 9 ; 



Loon Lake, Colville Valley, Washington.] 

 1897. Melanoplus washingtonianus Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, p. 



233, pi. 15, fig. 9. 



This species was recorded in 1906 16 as M . validus from Nelson, 

 British Columbia, which error was corrected by Walker in 

 Buckell in 1922. 17 



We had been long doubtful as to the validity of washingtonius, 

 but examination of the penis of the species of this group shows 

 that of the type of this species to be very different from that of its 

 nearest allies, repetinus here described and oreophilus Hebard. 

 The penis in these species is distinctive in each, shows very slight 

 individual variation and none toward any of the others. Except 

 that the male cerci are not subspatulate distad and are more 

 definitely truncate at their apices, however, we can find no ex- 



16 Material from Lake Agnes and Fairview, Alberta, recorded as washing- 

 tonianus by Caudell in 1906, has since been correctly assigned to montanus. 



17 Proc. Ent. Soc. British Columbia, No. 20, p. 33. 



