532 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1895. 



30. Gorytes insolitus n. sp. 



$ . — Head rather large; eyes converging toward the clypeus; the 

 latter large, most prominent anteriorly, anterior margin truncate, 

 not barbate, front finely and closely punctured, without a median 

 impressed line; antenna? tolerably stout, flagellum with joints 2-9 

 tuberculate beneath, particularly the sixth joint, from which joint 

 the flagellum is suddenly thickened ; scape short triangular ; thorax 

 finely and closely punctured, moat strongly on mesopleurae; meta- 

 pleune striated; suture between dorsuluin and scutellum foveolate; 

 mesosternum ridged anteriorly; enclosure of middle segment large, 

 well defined, the stria 1 coarse, not well marked ; hind tarsi thick, 

 scarcely spined, fore tarsi somewhat flattened; wings clear through- 

 out, uervures and stigma black, submediau cell of hind wings 

 terminating a little before the origin of cubital vein; abdomen short 

 and broad, not constricted at the segments, finely punctured; veutrals 

 3-5 with a prominent transverse fringe of appressed yellow hair, 

 last ventral bifid. Black ; clypeus, labrum, mandibles except apex, 

 spot between antennae, sometimes wanting however, inner orbits, 

 scape, flagellum beneath, line on pronotum, tubercles, a spot behind 

 them, scutellum, dot on postscu tell urn, apex of femora more or less, 

 tibia? except within, fore and medial tarsi except last joint, a fascia 

 at apex of segments 1-6, twice emarginate anteriorly and enlarged 

 laterally, and apical margin of second ventral in part, sometimes, 

 all yellowish; middle segment with silvery pubescence ; hind tarsi 

 dark. Length 6 mm. 



Southern California; Nevada. The small size, stout form, and 

 shape of antennae easily distinguish this species. 



31. Gorytes gracilis Patt. 



Hop lisns gracilis Patton, Can. Ent., XI, p. 210, £> • 

 Gorytes gracilis Handlirsch, 1. c, p. 456, O <? • 



Connecticut (Patton) ; Georgia (Handlirsch). Unknown to me. 



32. Gorytes mirandus Fox. 



Gorytes mirandus Fox, Can. Ent., XXIV, p. 152, $ . 

 Nevada. 



33. Gorytes laminiferus n. sp. 



$ . — Eyes but little converging toward clypeus the latter con- 

 vex, rather small, transverse; front with large, shallow punctures; 

 antennae long, scape broad, a little shorter than the following two 

 joints united, flagellum thickest between middle and apex, first joint 



