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Utah, and was collected on a bare volcanic mountain side. The 

 specimen is slightly smaller than the original measurements of the 

 male sex given by Bruner. This is the first record of the species from 

 Nevada, and in fact from any locality but the Salt Lake Valley. 



Leprus glaucipennis Scudder. 10 



A series of eleven males and eight females of this species are in- 

 cluded in the collection, taken at the following localities : Tia Juana, 

 August 16, two d\ one nymph; El Toro, August 20, one d\ one 9 ; 

 Santa Catalina Island, August 3 and 7, six d\ one 9 ; Pasadena, 

 August 1, two d\ three 9 , one additional 9 taken June 10, 1898, by 

 F. Grinnell, Jr., and Echo Mountain, San Gabriel Range, elevation 

 3,100 feet, August 8, two 9 . 



At Tia Juana it was found on rocky hillsides, while at El Toro it 

 occurred in rolling grain fields. On Santa Catalina Island it was 

 uncommon in dry places, among rocks and scant grasses in a canyon 

 bed, the sides of the mesa of the San Rafael Hills being frequented at 

 Pasadena where it was very scarce. On Echo Mountain the species 

 was numerous at 3,100 feet elevation. 



There is some variation in general size and in the length of the wing 

 in this species, the general coloration also exhibiting a tendency to 

 red-brown suffusions, particularly on the head and pronotum, while 

 the disk of the wing shows less greenish and more bluish in some 

 specimens than in others. The latter is particularly true of one 

 Pasadena female specimen. 



This species has been recorded from Point Loma, La Jolla, Los 

 Angeles, Rubio Wash, Altadena, Santa Catalina and Santa Rosa 

 Islands, California, and Hermosillo, Sonora and Durango and San Luis 

 Potosi, Mexico. Two females from San Diego have been examined 

 by the authors. 



Dissosteira spurcata Saussure. 



A series of fifteen males and nine females was taken in a field of 

 stubble at Raymond, September 3, and a single female was secured in 

 a field of very dry, yellow, oat-like grass at Merced, August 30. 



This species exhibits a great amount of variation in size and color, 

 the measurements of the extremes of each sex being as follows : 



10 The specimens from the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, recorded by the 

 senior author (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, p. 37) as L. glaucipennis, 

 when examined with the present series are seen to be L. cyaneus. 



