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other at base, long, flat, narrow at base, gradually widening to the bluntly 

 rounding apices, the apical spines just touching each other. 



Described from eight specimens in the author's collection taken in 

 Hayti by R. J. Crew. 



Peltojiotellus rugosus, n. sp. — Form and general appearance of 

 histrionicus nearly, the vertex shorter and the venation reticulate. 

 Length : <j? , 3.5 mm.; $ , 2.5 mm. Width : ? , 1.3 mm.) $ , .9 mm. 



Vertex shorter than in histrionicus ; clypeus continued in same plane 

 as front at the base, then sloping sharply backwards, the basal portion 

 overhanging the rest in the form of a bluntly-pointed tubercle ; elytra 

 short, truncate ; venation distinct, the veins raised and densely reticulate. 



Colour : gray or fuscous maculate, a broad, pale yellow median 

 stripe on vertex ; pronotum and scutellum margined by four pairs of 

 black dashes ; vertex with a pair of ocellate spots at base, and the 

 margins mostly dark lined ; front pale yellow, sometimes irregularly 

 washed or marked with dusky, lateral compartments black, with the 

 pustules white ; clypeus black, the base and a line down to the apex of 

 the tubercle light; lateral areas of pronotum and scutellum dark, with 

 pustules light ; elytra brownish fuscous, nervures light ; abdomen above 

 with a narrow median and three pairs of lateral stripes, the two outer 

 pairs broad and pustulate ; below, pale straw in the female, the femora 

 spotted and the tibiae lined with fuscous, the anterior pair much the 

 heaviest. In the male the legs are always ied, with more or less 

 of fuscous marking. In some specimens the whole under surface, 

 including clypeus, is bright red. 



Described from twenty-four specimens collected in various parts of 

 Colorado. 



Peltonotcllus bivittatus, n. sp. — Resembling quadrivittatus in general 

 form and colour, the front much narrower and black lined. Size of 

 rugosus. 



Vertex three times as wide as its median length, two-thirds the 

 length of the pronotum, front long and narrow, space between the lateral 

 carinse nearly twice as long as its middle width, only one-fourth wider in 

 the middle than at the ends ; clypeus abruptly rounding back, nearly 

 right angled with front ; elytra either coriaceous and only about half the 

 length of the abdomen, venation indistinct, or else subhyaline, and much 

 longer than the abdomen, the nervures distinct. 



