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plate of the male, with the margins regularly but not greatly converging 

 in the proximal two-thirds, distad of which they approach one another 

 much more decidedly, apex rounded, median paired carinae regularly 

 converging from the base ; cerci simple, tapering in the proximal three- 

 fourths, subequal in the distal fourth and slightly curved ventrad in that 

 section, apex blunt ; subgenital plate very broad, the margin not passing 

 through the apex which is produced, trigonal, blunt and somewhat flat- 

 tened dorsad, when viewed laterad slightly curved dorsad. Cephalic and 

 median femora much more robust in the male than in the female ; caudal 

 femora moderately slender ; caudal tibae with eight spines on lateral 

 margin. 



General color vandyke brown dorsad, cinnamon (rf ) or wood brown 

 (9) ventrad, the male being wholly suffused with' a rufescent coloring. 

 Head with distinct blackish post-ocular bars as well as a pair of blackish 

 occipital maculations ; eyes burnt umber (^) or drab ( 9 ); antennae burnt 

 sienna (^) or wood brown ($). Pronotum with the post-ocular bars 

 continued across its whole length and reaching to the caudo-lateral angle 

 of the pleura, in the female two spots of ecru drab on each side being 

 enclosed in the blackish bar ; disk of the metazona lighter in color than 

 the prozona in both sexes. Mesonotum and metanotum dark mesad, 

 pale laterad ; pleura almost uniform, very dark brown, this being a con- 

 tinuation of the pronotal bars. Caudal femora with two rather broad 

 dark brown transverse bars which follow the lines of the paginae in cross- 

 ing the lateral face, being thus < shaped, genicular region very dark, 

 internal face and ventral sulcus scarlet vermilion except for a narrow pale 

 pregenicular annulus ; caudal tibiae ochraceous, infuscate proximad, 

 spines and spurs tipped with black. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



3 ? 



Length of body 16.5 mm. iS.S mm. 



Length of pronotum 2.8 " 3. " 



Greatest width of disk of pronotum 2.8 " 3.6 " 



Length of caudal femur 9-2 " 10.5 " 



A paratypic male has been examined in addition to the 

 types. 



Oedaleonotus truncatus n. sp. 



Types: $ and 9; Mountains near Claremont, Los Ange- 

 les Co., California. (C. F. Baker.) [A. N. S., Phila.] 



A member of this genus but not at all closely related to Oc. 

 enigma, the only previously known species of the genus. 

 The character which immediately strikes one in both sexes of 

 the species is the truncate caudal margin of the pronotum and 



