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men, separating the dorsal yellow stripes from the yellowish under surface, 

 enclosing on the meso- and metapleura a bright yellow patch and oblique 

 line. Posterior femora with the disk and upper edge brownish yellow or 

 yellowish fuscous, inner side with lower sulcus bright red ; upper surface 

 with very faint indications of the usual dark bands. Posterior tibiee yel- 

 lowish brown, becoming paler apically, a broad yellowish annulation near 

 the base, spines black tipped. 



Length of body, $ 18.5 m.m., ^ 21 m.m. ; of antennae, ^ 9.25 

 m.m., $ 10 m.m. ; of pronotum, ^ 3 35 m.m., $ 4 m.m.: of hind 

 femoia, ^ 11 m.m., $ 11.5 m.m. 



ColviUe, W. T., July 24. 



This insect lias been placed here provisionally, but will have to be 

 removed to its proper place when the section of the family to which it 

 belongs has been properly worked up in this country. 



Pezotcttix 7tiashmgto?ihis, n. sj). 



Yellowish white beneath, ferruginous abo\e. Tegmina pointed, nearly 

 two-fifths as long as the abdomen. 



Head rather small, short ; seen from the front somewhat quadrate. 

 Vertex between the eyes a little wider (male), or once again as wide 

 (female) as the first antennal joint, much depressed ; deeply sulcate in the 

 male, scarcely so in the female ; sides nearly parallel, broadening slightly 

 anteriorly ; front margin not closed. Frontal costa rather prominent, 

 nearly equal, contracted a trifle at the fastigium, edges rounded, not sul- 

 cate, rather coarsely punctured above the ocellus. Eyes large, rather 

 prominent, rounded posteriorly, straight in front ; equaling in length the 

 portion of the cheeks below them. Face slightly arcuate, somewhat 

 oblique. Pronotum with the sides nearly equal (male), or broadening 

 slightly posteriorly (female) ; median carina distinct on the posterior lobe 

 and the front margin of the anterior lobe in the male, and on the posterior 

 lobe only in the female ; lateral carinse, or rather the lateral angles, mid- 

 dling sharp, nearly equal throughout, cut by the middle and last transverse 

 incisions ; disk punctulate ; the three transverse sulci or incisions deep, 

 the middle and last passing the lateral angles to the sides, posterior one 

 about the middle. Sides of the pronotum somewhat gibbous, appearing 

 as if composed of three well-defined lobes or segments when observed 

 from above, most apparent in the male. Front margin nearly straight, very 

 slightly truncate ,; posterior margin obtusely rounded. Meso- and meta,- 



