84 PROCEEDINGS OP Till: AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



l>i-k of pronotara generally unicolorons, Bometimea longitudinally -tripe.]. 

 rarely irregularly and rather obscurely mottled; ovipositor not narrower in 

 the middle than beyond, and broader than the frontal fastigium. 



st> indachm n 

 /<-. Prozona broadest scarcely behind the middle of the metazona, at [east in the 

 female; ovipositor rather Btrongly curved, not narrowed in the middle; hind 

 femora basally stouter than in the other Bpeciea diabol 



Tropizaspis ovata *i> nov. 



Bead rather large, testaceous, the fastigium narrower than the de- 

 pressed basal joint of the antennae, anteriorly truncate, sulcate. Pro- 

 uotum nearly half as long again as broad, broadest posteriorly, ovate, 



anteriorly truncate, the prozona plane, the metazona gently tumid, the 

 whole disk glistening testaceous longitudinally Btreaked with black, espe- 

 cially down the middle and at the sides; lateral carinas rather sharp and 

 somewhat prominent laterally but scarcely elevated, diverging continu- 

 ously from the very base, the hind holder strongly rounded and margined ; 

 median carina >harp but feeble, equal, percurrent ; lat< ral lobes uniform 

 testaceous. Legs testaceous, feebly clouded with fuscousj the hind femora 

 less than half as long again as the prouotum. Abdomen uniform testa- 

 ceous ; supraanal plate of male triangular, apically rectangulate but 

 rounded, the sides with a slight basal tooth ; anal cerci stout, brief, coni- 

 cal, scarcely longer than basal breadth; supragenital plates large, tumid, 

 superiorly carinate, overlapping each other and surpassing laterally the 

 subgenital plate, together apically rounded ; Bubgenital plate with dia- 

 tinct styles. 



Length of body, 21.5 mm.; pronotum 11.5 nun.; breadth of same, 

 8 min. ; length of hind femora, 1G.5 mm. 



1 g. California, D. A. Saunders. 



Tropizaspis castanea ?p nov 



Head rather large, testaceous, irregularly marked with fuscous in 

 slender stripes, the fastigium dotted with hiteous, a little narrower than 

 the lirst antenna] joint, apically truncate, plane; antenna' long enough 

 to reach a little beyond the hind femora, testaceous broadly banded with 

 fuscous. Pronotum with asymmetrically clepsydra] disk, about half as 



long again a> broad, broadest posteriorly, very gently tumid, faintly pec- 

 tinate transversely and posteriorly faintly rugulose, CastanOOUS, the lateral 

 carinas distinct but rather blunt, feeble and converging on the prozona, 

 on the metazona diverging and with the bluntly margined hind border 

 forming a rather short ovoid ; median carina faint, equal, percurrent ; lat- 



