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Paso, Texas, collected by Dr. J. Chester Bradley, who re- 

 marks: "Females were plump and very sluggish; collected 

 from a shrub on the open mesa, possibly an Ocatilla which 

 was in leaf at that time, on the side of Alt. Franklin not far 

 outside the city limits of El Paso." 



Type : $ , July 28, El Paso, Texas, J. Chester Bradley ; Cor- 

 nell University collection. 



Largidea davisi new species. 



Resembles grossa in size and color but differs widely in the form of 

 the antennae and the length of the rostrum; dark fusco-rufus brown, 

 head and body covered with heavy pale yellowish pubescence, more or 

 less matted and depressed. Length 6 mm. 



9. Head: width across eyes 1.28 mm., width of vertex .77 mm., 

 length .51 mm., height at base .80 mm.; impunctate, darker than color 

 of the body, the vertex and sutures about the tylus, blackish; base of 

 tylus clearly denned, a short narrow longitudinal pit at the base simi- 

 lar to that in rubida; a prominent fovea just above the base of each 

 antenna, vertex ecarinate, head shorter and more compressed as com- 

 pared with rubida. Rostrum extending only slightly beyond the pos- 

 terior margin of the fore coxae, or to the middle of the sternum ; the 

 same in both sexes. 



Antennae: segment I, length .31 mm., greatest thickness .14 mm., dark 

 rufus-brown, the apex and base blackish; II, length 1.28 mm., being 

 exactly the width of the head, or less than the length of the prono- 

 tum, greatest thickness .14 mm., fusiform, not flattened as in grossa 

 or with depressions of any kind, thickly clothed with dark brown 

 hairs, a few bristles intermixed, rich rufus-brown to wine color, 

 darker toward the apex ; III, length .37 mm., with dark fuscous ; IV, 

 .37 mm., same color as III. 



Pronotum : length 1.59 mm., width at base 2.19 mm., apex 1.14 mm., 

 dark fusco-rufus, the polished hook-shaped line about the calli, black; 

 calli as in rubida, typical of the generic characters; disk behind the 

 calli coarsely, deeply and closely punctate, more finely punctured be- 

 fore the calli; lateral margins sharply denned as in rubida. Scutellum 

 roughly transversely, rugose along a slightly silicate median line. 

 Sternum with longitudinal median impressed line, opaque beneath with 

 a few scattered pubescent hairs, shining at the sides and with matted 

 pubescence. 



Hcmclytra: greatest width, 9, 2.5 mm., $, 2.1 mm.; clavus, corium. 

 and cuneus uniformly colored dark reddish brown, inclined to wine 

 color in the more translucent parts; membrane evenly shaded with 

 fuscous, veins darker tinged with reddish; closely covered with tine 



