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width of the male pronotum contained only slightly more than once 



in the greatest length of the same, 

 and in consequence the pronotal disk 

 is more quadrate; the lateral lobes 

 / \^S-^%^y \ "' ''"' ma ' ( ' pronotum are obliquely 



subtruncate, but not at all emarginate, 

 and the ovipositor is more robust and 

 is shorter than the caudal femora. 



Types : 1 tf , 1 9 ; La Cueva, N. M. : 

 1 d" ; Julian, Cal. [All Scudder Col- 

 lection.]' 



Lectotype here selected: d" ; 

 La Cueva, Organ Mountains, New 

 Mexico, September 4. (C. H. T. 

 Townsend.) [Scudder Collection.] 50 



Descri p t i o n of Lectotype. — This 

 specimen differs from the allotypic 

 male of occidentale in the characters 

 here given. Size smaller, head sub- 

 compressed, the depth considerably 

 greater than the greatest width (across 

 eyes); eyes less protuberant, hardly 

 projecting beyond the general line of the head. Pronotum with the 

 cephalic width contained slightly more than once in the length of 

 the dorsum, lateral margins moderately expanding caudad, caudal 

 margin of the disk less rounded laterad than in occidentale and in conse- 

 quence the caudal margin is straighter ; lateral lobes of the pronotum 

 deeper than in occidentale, ventro-caudal margin without any arcuate- 

 emargination, more decidedly oblique truncate. Tegmina, on ac- 

 count of the reduced pronotum, appearing to be longer and more 

 ample than in occidentale, in general form and proportions, however, 

 being very similar; the greatest width of a single tegmen is slightly 

 less than the caudal width of the pronotum; speculum of tegmina 

 distinctly wider than the cephalic width of the pronotum and sub- 

 equal to the median length of the same. Caudal femora less inflated 

 than in occidentale; caudal metatarsus armed dorsad with eight 

 internal and ten external spines. 



Fig. 28. — Hoplosphyrum borcale. 

 Dorsal view of lectotype. 



(XI) 



The originally figured specimen is the female from Dripping Springs {vide 

 infra), the condition of the individual fully agreeing with the figure. As this 

 specimen was subsequently received by Scudder and is not one of the listed 

 type scries, it cannot be regarded as the lectotvpe. 



