Scudder.] 68 [November 6, 
convex, whose lower is strongly convex only at the expanded base, 
and there thickened, the tip rounded, angular, and the whole half as 
long again as the extreme width; basal tooth of the lower valve of 
the ovipositor of the ? sharp, triangular, nearly as long as broad. 
The general color is a ferruginous brown above, mottled strongly 
with blackish fuscous, livid brown below; a blackish brown median 
stripe broadening posteriorly passes from between the eyes to the 
back of the head, but seldom continues, and then less deeply, upon 
the prothorax; the face and sides of the head vary from yellow to 
testaceous, and are seldom blotched by dusky colors, excepting on 
the cheeks; the antenne, which are unusuaily long, are of a lighter 
or darker testaceous, and are scarcely infuscated at tip; a more or 
less broken black patch occupies the upper part of the anterior half 
of the deflected lobes of the prothorax. The tegmina are dark 
brownish cinereous, with a narrow median yellow stripe, frequently 
broken by quadrate fuscous or blackish spots, and similar blackish 
spots are scattered rather distantly all over the tegmina, giving them 
an unusually speckled appearance. Hind femora variable, either 
with oblique pale patches on a dark ground, or, and generally, the 
reverse; hind tibiz glaucous, with black tipped spines; tarsi testa- 
ceous. 
Length of body, 7,18 mm., 2, 25 mm.; of antenne, J,9.5 mm., @, 
10.25 mm.; of tegmina, J, 16 mm., 2, 21 mm.; of hind femora, ¢, 
11.5 mm., ?,14mm. 3¢,4¢. Lakin, Kansas (3000 ft.), Sept 1; 
Pueblo, Col. (4700 ft.), July, 8-9, Aug. 30-31. It was also taken by 
Mr. Morrison in Colorado at an elevation of about 5500 ft. 
A peculiar species, somewhat related to M. glaucipes (Scudd.). 
75. Melanoplus flabellifer. Of rather small size. Head 
scarcely elevated, well arched; eyes neither large nor very promi- 
nent; vertex between the eyes rather broader than the first joint of 
antenne, the foveola pretty deep, faintly subspatulate, with abrupt 
but blunt bounding walls; frontal ridge slightly contracted above, 
and very slightly just below the ocellus; otherwise scarcely enlarging 
from above downward, scarcely depressed above the ocellus, strongly 
sulcate at and below the same. Pronotum rather simple, the poste- 
rior lobe expanding somewhat; the unequal halves of the anterior 
lobes each slightly tumid laterally, and as a whole, slightly expand- 
ing anteriorly; median carina nearly obsolete on the posterior por- 
tion of the anterior lobe, but otherwise nearly equal; transverse sulci 
of the anterior lobe pretty distinct, the posterior severing the median 
