22G PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [June. 



Measurements (in millimeters). 



Allotype. Type. 

 San Jose Cape 

 del Cabo, St. Lucas, 

 . L.Cal. L. Cal. 



c? 9 



Length of body 14.3 13.2 



Length of pronotum 49 4.5 4. 



Caudal width of pronotum 4.2 4. 



Length of caudal femur 7.5 , 



( Greatest width of caudal femur 2.9 



Length of ovipositor 7.8 



Average of series. 



<?<? 9 9 



Length of body 12.7 (12. -14.5) 12.8 (11.5-14. ) 



Length of pronotum 49 4.1 ( 4. - 4.5) 3.8 ( 3.5- 4. ) 



Caudal width of pronotum 4.1 ( 4. - 4.5) 3.9 ( 3.5- 4.2) 



Length of caudal femur 7.3 ( 7.2- 7.5) 7.6 ( 6.7- 8.2) 



Greatest width of caudal femur. 2.9 ( 2.9- 3. ) 3.1 ( 2.9- 3.3) 



Length of ovipositor 7.6 ( 7. - 8. ) 



Color Notes. — General shade of females varying from tawny ochra- 

 ceous to vandyke-brown, the abdominal segments frequently darker 

 proximad than is the general coloration. General color of head and 



Fig. 25. — Hoplosphyrum ocddentale. Internal face of caudal metatarsus and 

 internal tibial spurs. (Greatly magnified.) 



pronotum of male varying from cinnamon-rufous to hazel, the pyriform 

 pronotal impressions umber, some incomplete concentric markings on 

 the occiput of the same color. Abdomen of male deep chocolate, 

 the margins of the segments very narrowly lined with whitish; the 

 overlying scales of the abdomen bistre with points of ecru-drab, the 

 latter color predominating in the marginal scales. Eyes very pale 

 drab; palpi seal-brown; antenna? raw umber. Pronotum with the 

 lateral lobes seal-brown. Tegmina of male broccoli-brown clouded 

 with seal-brown, particularly toward the distal margin, veins more or 

 less prominently lined with grayish-white; lateral field of tegmina 



19 Along lateral angle, as in the female the median length is less than the 

 ateral. 



