522 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Green-legged Locust. 
Melanoplus viridipes Scudder. 
Fig. 94; Plate 23, figs. 11, 12. 
Melanoplus viridipes Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 255, pi. 17, 
fig. 4 (1897). — Blatchley, 27th Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. Nat. Resources 
Indiana, p. 305 (1903). 
Of small size and graceful form. Head not large, face decid- 
edly retreating; eyes of male large and prominent, of female 
medimn. Pronotum rather narrow in male, full in female, the 
disk rounded transversely, on the prozone convex longitudinally 
in both sexes. Prosternal spine short, conical, usually acutely 
pointed. Mesosternal interspace strongly transverse. Tegmina 
a little longer than pronotum, oblanceolate, about twice as long 
as wide, broadly rounded at apex, attingent dorsally. Hind 
femora slender. Legs and end of male abdomen covered with 
pale pubescence. 
End of male abdomen strongly upturned. Subgenital plate 
short, the ventral margin scarcely more than half as long as the 
dorsal, ending in a delicate upturned tubercle. Furcula reduced 
to minute, widely separated tubercles. Cerci triangular, about 
one and two-thirds times as long as width of base, 
erect, straight, tapering rather regularly to a dull, 
round tip which rarely is inflected; the ventral mar- 
gin straight or a little convex, the dorsal margin 
straight, sinuous, or a little concave near the base. 
General coloration: male, grayish oUvaceous above, 
sides largely black, legs green; of female brownish 
olivaceous, beneath greenish white, with bases of abdo- 
minal segments black. Lateral stripe black, very 
broad in male, covering two-thirds of the depth of 
the lateral lobes, one-half of same in female; contin- 
uous, but less distinct on metazone of female. Sides 
of abdomen of male, subgenital plate, and marginal 
Fig. 94.— markings of segments black; in female, sides of abdo- 
Green-iegged j^gj^ black, irregularly marked with gray. Front and 
Locust, Mel- .,,,,»,;., pri -1 
anopius viri- middle legs of male bright green, of female greenish 
dipes. Male, fuscous; hind femora green beneath, above gray heav- 
Biatchiey.) Hy banded with black, the three basal bands con- 
