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third and fourth antennal joints are equal, and the dorsuluni 

 is without longitudinal impressed lines. The darker wings 

 and the shape of the pygidium separate it from A*, argentata 

 (T>ve.) which is found in the same locality. Of all the species 

 described by Cameron (Biol. Centr. Am.) it is closest to 

 nwntcziiina (Northern Sonora, Mex.). 



Astata asperiformis n. sp. 



Male. Length / nun. Middle lobe of the clypeus produced into a nar- 

 row sharp tooth. Front below the white mark punctato-reticulatc ; the 

 white band nnd the inteocellar area sinning, with a few scattered punc- 

 tures; the area above the ocelli more closely sculptured; cheeks shin- 

 ing with a few irregular sculptured patches. The third and fourth an- 

 tenal joints a little enlarged at the apex; the third joint somewhat 

 longer than the fourth. Anteriorly the dorsulum is closely punctured, 

 posteriorly more sparsely so and it is shining; scutellum punctured at 

 the sides, the middle shining and almost impunctate, slightly impressed ; 

 mesopleurae granular. Metanotum finely reticulate, at some angles 

 appearing obliquely striated at the base ; at the apical middle there is 

 a rather large, distinct triangular depression ; metapleurae finely stria- 

 to-granular. Legs normal, spines and spurs black. Radial cell shorter 

 than the first cubital ; the first cubital cell without a spurious nervure 

 Abdomen shining. Color black ; the abdomen bright red ; a band be- 

 neath the eyes, tegulae, and two spots the wings cream-colored; wings 

 hyaline the apical third dusky, venation brown. The head and thorax 

 with pale pubescence. 



Type Locality : Boulder, Colo. Three males collected Anc; 

 5, 1908 and July 20, 1908 (S. A. Rohwer) ; one male Ft. Col- 

 lins, Colo., No. 1203 of the Agriculture College. The eyes in 

 life are pea green. 



This species seems to be closest to aspcra Fox, but it is 

 larger than that species, and there are two white spots below 

 the teguhe. In some respects it is like clcgans Cresson. btit the 

 apical third of the wings are dark, and there is no white on 

 the legs and the abdomen. It cannot well be the male of ntn- 

 tana Cresson. because the pubescence is white, not black, and 

 the scutellum is impressed. 



Gorytes cocker elli n. sp. 



Mule. Length 8 mm. Head rounded above; inner eye margins par- 

 allel ; ocelli in a low triangle, the distance from one of the lateral 

 to the nearest eve margin about the same as the distance from 



