Vol. XXlii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 35 



Lytta hoppingi n. sp. 



Color black, prothorax bright reddish testaceous with a black longi- 

 tudinal dorsal median broad stripe which is the full width of the 

 neck in front, ending behind at the base of the pronotum in a point, 

 very sparsely clothed throughout with short, black very sparse pubes- 

 ence; form slender, graceful, somewhat depressed, strongly widened 

 behind ; head small, subglobose, slightly depressed, with a very faint 

 median impressed line at the occiput, a faint smooth pustule on vertex, 

 thickly and moderately coarsely punctured, the punctures being thicker 

 around the pustule on vertex, becoming sparser toward sides and back 

 of head ; labrum short, broad, feebly emarginate in front, strongly 

 rounded corners narrowed behind, thickly and finely punctured, labro- 

 clypeal suture distinct ; dypeus short, transverse, slightly rounded in 

 front, straight behind, punctured a little more sparsely than labrum ; 

 maxillary palpi short and slender, arts. 2 and 3 subequal, cylindrical, 

 last a little longer, slightly flattened and truncate; antennae long 

 and stout, art. i short and strongly swollen, 2 is ^2 as long as first, 

 bead-shaped, 3 a little longer than i and subequal from 3 to 10, last a 

 little longer than 10 and strongly pencil-sharpened ; eyes large, wide 

 apart, slightly convex, entire. 



Pronotum long, slender, subcylindrical, gently and slowly narrowed 

 in front, feebly narrowed behind, posterior margin very feebly everted, 

 a very slight median fovea near the posterior margin, punctured a 

 little more finely than head, the dark areas punctured a little more 

 thickly than the light; scutellum small, triangular, point rounded, finely 

 and thickly punctured ; elytra 2 l / 2 times as long as joint width, ora dis- 

 tinct, very finely and vermiculately rugose, jointly rounded at apices; 

 ventral surface very finely and evenly punctured; legs medium, femora 

 and tibiae punctured like ventrals ; .tarsi long and mediurrrly strong. 



$. Articles of antennae much longer than those of 9, the last two 

 ventral segments much more strongly notched than 9 , posterior tibial 

 spurs long and slender, smooth pustule on vertex well marked. 



9 . Articles of antennae stouter, last ventral segments slightly notch- 

 ed, posterior tibial spurs shorter and stouter, pustule on vertex feebly 

 marked. 



Length 15 mm., width 4 mm. 



Type in my collection. Type locality Fresno County, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Distribution. Coalinga, Fresno County, California. V. 8. (R. 

 Hopping). 



This graceful species is not very closely allied to any other 

 now known. At a glance it somewhat resembles in form and 

 color Pyrotrichus vitticollis Lee. 



