1899] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



short, yellow, with four browu Hues, the lateral ones only reach 



the sulcus; anterior part of rnesothorax mostly dark brown, with a 



pale narrow stripe each side, each lateral lobe shows a small pale 



spot above the base of fore wing; scutellum of mesothorax pale 



with a medium dark stripe (not one each side as in most species) ; 



metathorax pale with a median brown spot forked and divergent 



in Iront, sides dark brown ; pleura of thorax almost wholly dark; 



legs pale yellow, without marks except base and apex of the tarsi 



dark; abdomen pale at base, lineate with dark, dark at tip ; wings 



hyaline, costal's iorked only near tip, three transversals before the 



radial sector, pterostigma pale, dark on base; veins dark, interrupted 



with pale, except the vein behind radial sector which is wholly 



pale, at oneei-d of most of the transversals (including those ending 



on radial sector ar.d fork of same) there is a large daik spot, also 



ore <it cr.d of each costal ar.d a lather larger mark terminating the 



pale vein near the tip of wiLg; hir.d wirgs much less marked. 



Length to tip of wings, 20 mm. 



Tehama, California, August [A. P. Morse]. 



This species belongs in the group of B. abdcmi'nah's wl\ich may 



be distirguished by having a median stripe on the mesoscutelhim, 



and a wholly pale vein behind the radial sector. The four species 



may be separated as follows: 



1 Radial sector wholly dark, four stripes upon the pronotum. . . .2 



Radial sector more or kss pale, a stripe on each side of pro- 

 notum, ........................................................ 3 



2 Spots along radial sector, small species ................ MACULOSUS. 



Xo spots along ladial sector ........................... BLANIMS. 



2 Spots scattered, basal part of radial sector interrupted with 

 dark ............................................... ABDOMINALIS 



Spots mostly arranged along the radial and median veins, basal 

 part of radial sector wholly pale ........................ TEM i<. 



JBi-(K-lif//triiu/t'in< l>l<nithis Hag. 



B. coi/m/letti ( 'urrie. 



There is, I think, no doubt that dime's species is identical with 



Hagen's. The peculiar markirgs of the proLotum in B. coym'tUHi 



agree with those ascriled by Hagen to B bltnnln,*, ai:d to r.o other 



Jorm. There is considerable variation in size in this as in other 



-pfcies of the genus. 



Brachynemurus pallidus n. sp. 



Pale yellowish, dark around bases of antenna 1 , two dark >pots on 



vertex, tips of palpi dark, antem a i pale brownish: prothorax 



shows only the lateral stripes and these are very indistinct, but each 



tip shows a prominent dark dot at the sulcus; thorax with a few 



dark spots, no signs ol marls on mesoscutelhim ; al dcmen pale yel- 



low, with a median and lateral dark line, apex obscure; leg.- pale 



yellow, ur.markcd, except the joints of tarsi are tipped with dark ; 



wings clear, without marks, veins dark, interrupted with pale, but 



without any adjoining clouds, pterostigma darker at base; hii'd 



