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terior margin of the ventral segments more or less broadly pale ; stigmata, 

 disk of the genital pieces of the female, and the latero-apical margin of 

 the pygofers of the male black. Claspers of the male whitish. Legs 

 dotted and more or less clouded on the femora with fuscous, clothed with 

 stiff black hairs ; femoral spines black. 



Described from four examples taken by Prof. F. H. Snow on 

 the Baboquivari Mountains, Arizona, one male taken in Gal- 

 latin Co., Montana, at an elevation of 7500 feet, by M. R. 

 Benton and kindly sent to me by Prof. R. A. Cooley, and one 

 female taken in Big Canon, Davis Co., Utah, in August by 

 Mr. G. W. Browning. The two latter specimens are darker 

 in their general color with the elytra quite uniformly punctured 

 with fuscous and the pale rays on the base of the vertex and 

 anterior margin of the pronotum tinged with pink. All these 

 specimens show a row of black or piceous polished spots on 

 either side of the venter beneath the stigmata. This strongly 

 marked species exhibits a certain transition toward genus 

 Stachyocnemis. It has the color markings of the latter genus 

 and the form and proportions of the former, but the form of 

 the apical joint of the antennae and the spacing of the posterior 

 coxae approach that found in Stachyocnemis. The thick ap- 

 proximate claspers of the male will distinguish this form from 

 any previously-described North American species. 



Jalysus wickhami n. sp. 



Closely allied to spinosus Say, but smaller and more slender with the 

 second joint of the antennae and the basal joint of the rostrum propor- 

 tionately shorter. Color fulvo-testaceous, paler on the elytra, base of the 

 legs and pronotal carinse. Eyes, fourth antennal joint, extreme tip of the 

 corium, apex of the tibice, the tarsi except at base and the rostrum toward 

 its apex, black ; venter rufo-testaceous, sternum obscured or brownish. 

 Metapleural and scutellar spines distinctly shorter than in spitiustis ; pos- 

 terior lobe of the pronotum strongly punctured, the sides and middle line 

 distinctly carinate, the lateral carinte continued almost to the humeral 

 angles, not strongly abbreviated as is usually the case in sphiosus ; apex 

 ot the fourth antennal joint white. Length 6-6)4 mm. 



Described from two males taken by Prof. H. F. Wickham at 

 an altitude of over 7000 feet on the Inyo Mountains, California, 

 in July, and one female taken at Tucson, Arizona, by Prof. F. 

 H. Snow. 



This species might readily be mistaken for our common 



