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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



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with the lateral and cephalic margins strongly arcuate and slightly 

 produced cephalad. The margin proper cingulate and strongly ele- 

 vated and sub-lamellate cephalad ; caudal margin arcuato-truncate, 

 rather narrowly rounding laterad in the lateral margins, surface with 

 an elevated swollen horseshoe-shaped design, the "heels" directed 



cephalad and thicker and more elevated 

 than the other portions of the pattern, 

 having at their internal angle a blunt 

 tubercle; area within the "horseshoe" 

 biundulate and with seven low more 

 or less parallel ridges, cephalad of 

 which are several low diverging sub- 

 arcuate folds, of which the distal is sub- 

 tuberculate, while immediately cephalad 



Fig. i.-Hormetica atlas n. sp. Dor- of the elevated "heel" of the pattern is 

 sal outline of pronotum of type a i ow |j ut acute tubercle; lateral por- 



showing general form of the ele- \ 



vated " horse-shoe " pattern. tions of the pronotum distinctly deflect- 

 ed. Tegmina slightly exceeding the 



length of the pronotum, subovate, width nearly three-fourths of the 

 length, coriaceous ; costal margin hardly arcuate proximad, strongly 

 arcuate distad, apex well rounded, sutural margin straight; anal sul- 

 cus reaching slightly distad of the middle of the sutural margin. 

 Wings falling but little short of the tegmina. Abdomen with the 

 greatest width slightly exceeding the tegminal length, dorsum dis- 

 tinctly but finely tuberculate mesad ; supra-anal plate damaged ; cerci 

 short, depressed, sub- fusiform; sub-genital plate distinctly emarginato- 

 sinuate on the right side, styles lateral and extremely short. 



General color tawny, darker and more rufescent on the head, pro- 

 notum, tegmina and limbs ; pronotal pattern seal brown, the enclosed 

 area dark chocolate; antennae with the proximal joint of the color of 

 the head, followed by seal brown fading into fawn color distad ; eyes 

 of the general color ; base of the tegminal vein trunk blackish ; dorsal 

 abdominal segments with the median section of their distal halves 

 darker than the other portion of the segments ; tibial spines blackish. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



$ Type. $ Paratype. 



Length of body 45.5 mm. 35.5 mm. 



Length of pronotum 15.5 mm. n. mm. 



Greatest width of pronotum 19.5 mm. 14.5 mm. 



Length of tegmen 18.5 mm. 12.8 mm. 



Greatest width of tegmen 14.2 mm. 10. mm. 



Greatest width of abdomen 20.5 mm. 16.2 mm. 



