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or light, sprinkled very sparsely and very inconspicuously with iuteous 

 dots. Sternal parts of thorax Iuteous, more or less infuscated. Tegmina 

 reduced to minute membranous testaceous pads, concealed beneath the 

 pronotum. Coxae and trochanters blackish fuscous ; femora luteo- 

 testaceous, the whole apex and a broad longitudinal median band on the 

 outer side subpiceous ; tibiae pallid Iuteous, with a piceous stripe following 

 the upper lateral spinigerous margins, heavier in basal than in apical half; 

 the fore pair with one spine above on inner margin, besides an apical one, 

 none on the outer margin, below with two or three spines on each side, 

 besides the apical one; the middle pair with no spines below, two or three 

 on either side above, besides the apical one ; and the hind pair with no 

 spines below and six or seven on either side above, besides the apical 

 one ; the spines pallid or Iuteous tipped with black, excepting the apical 

 spines, which are almost wholly fuscous ; tarsi very pale red beneath, 

 pallid above, edged apically with fuscous. 



Abdomen very plump, deeper than broad, having above the same 

 colours as the pronotum, the Iuteous nacre forming the base, and the 

 bronze green, somewhat embrowned, confined to the apical margins of 

 the segments in an irregular edging ; sides of abdomen between the dorsal 

 and ventral scutes pale brown, sparsely sprinkled with pallid dots, the 

 spiracles glistening bronze. 



Length of body, 21 mm.; pronotum, 8 mm.; breadth of same, 7 mm.; 

 length of antennae, 25 mm.; hind femora, ri mm.; hind tibiae, 10.5 mm.; 

 hind tarsi, 7 mm. 



[Mr. Sanson states that these insects are by no means common at 

 Banff. The first specimen he acquired was found in the basement of the 

 Canadian Pacific Hotel, by Miss Adams, of Winnipeg ; Mr. W. C. 

 McCalla, of St. Catharines, Ont, took two immature specimens among the 

 fir boughs used as a bed in his camp. One specimen was given to Dr. 

 White, of Banff, by Mr. George Paris, of the same place. Mr. Sanson 

 caught two mature females, one by placing some biscuits and brown sugar 

 under a sheet of botanical drying felt near one of the summer residences 

 off Tunnel Mountain Rd., near the place where the perfect male referred 

 to above was taken ; the second was found under a log where a bone had 

 been placed as a bait ; and .the last specimen found was brought to him by 

 a member of a camping party, who had it for a few days and brought it in 

 alive. In all, seven specimens have been secured. — Ed.] 



