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Specimen No. I? 1 '*. li 14-11 red on I'lale '_' 1 , has been mi-laid ami wa> lini 



examined al tliu time \\ ln-n 1 1 i iption was dra \\ n up. 



_J. I'Ai.Ai'm.'oiu - OB8< i KA 



PI. L'l. I-V. is. 

 This species differs t'roni the |ii'. -ceding. to \\ hieh it is nn.>t n.-;irlv alli--d. 



mainly in the obscurity of its markings, \\ Inch in general follow the position 

 nl' those in I', cincta rnfortunatel v the most .le.-ply marked specimen 

 was figured. :m<l 'Is color has be. what deepened on tin- plat.-, so that 



tlic differences do not there clearly appear ; onlinariK . ln>we\ er, besides tin- 

 obscurity of the markings, the middle transverse Mrjjie is al-o hroadeiie,!. 

 and so, as it were, difl'used (not at all the case in ih" individual I'I--IP 

 and the stihapiral idiliqiie stripe lieconio a tai' liroadi-r, short, quadrate liai 

 on the costal nuir^in. It appears to he ordinarilv a smaller specie-, than tin- 

 preceding, but one individual is nearly as large as the lar^e-r of that sp. 



Length of body, '.M'.". 1 " : Invadth ..I thorax-, o.'J" 11 " : length of te-'inina. 

 7.5 mm ; breadth of closed te-mina to--.-ther. f)" 1 "'. 



Florissant. Six specimens, Xos. 4.")^', PJsT. 1404, L1239, L 3321, and 

 of tbe Princeton Collection 1 .S 1 <;. 



3. I'AI.AI'ltliODKS lltKKlil I. ' 



PI. I'd, Fi-s. -j. [8; |'|. J1, Fi K s. ti. 7. 



This species, \vith I", cincta the comm inesl of tli,' e-eims. app'-ar~ t" 

 ditV.-r from it \vr\ deeiih-illy in the form, extent, and position ,,f tin- darker 

 markings Ix-yond the basal: they occupv, indec'il, BO much more r ..... n 

 where they are \\-ell developed as to cover more space than the lighter j.art-. 

 so that the te^mina mi-'ht quite as well, or lietler, le re_ ii'ded as ilark with 

 liu'lit markings ; (hi- me li^iu l>eh occupies on th costal unrein pn-ciselv the 

 same position as in I', cincta, but in passing across ,],,. \ v in-- it immediately 

 and Considerably expands, ran-h-, however, \vithont l>eiu^- more or 1.-- 

 broken and blotched with pale; at tin- center of the win^ its expansion 

 tends to break it up into two forks, and the commissural portion is highly 

 varialile; in general, however, tin- proximal fork is far more intense and 

 di-tiuet than the di>tal, leaving bet\\e,-n ii and tin- b.i-al patch of tin 

 inina an often \\.-ll defined. ,-on-taiitI \- narrowing, tr.in white band. 



broad on (he COfll d margin, reduced nearh |f> nothing on the inner, and 



