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eral lobes castaneous, passing below into luteous. Legs castaneous, the 

 femora flecked above with fuscous, the hind pair only half as long again 

 as the pronotum. Abdomen castaneous, faintly clouded and obscurely 

 flecked irregularly with fuscous ; supraanal plate of male quadrangular, 

 apically squarely truncate, the lateral angles slightly prominent ; cerci 

 rather short, but very much longer than basal breadth, subcorneal ; supra- 

 genital plates attingeut, together triangular, apically acutangulate, lying 

 well within the margins of the subgenital plate ; the latter slightly com- 

 pressed, so as to be V-shaped as seen apically, the styles minute, scarcely 

 noticeable. 



Length of body, 24 mm.; pronotum, 12 mm.; breadth of same, 

 7.5 mm. ; length of hind femora, 18 mm. 



1 <J. Los Angeles Co., California, Coquillett. Received from the 

 U. S. National Museum, where are other specimens. 



Tropizaspis picturata sp. nov. 



Head not very large, testaceous mottled with brown, the fastigium 

 narrower than the basal joint of the antennae ; antennae testaceous, broadly 

 interrupted with fuscous. Pronotum with clepsydral disk, which is more 

 than a third as long again as broad and broadest posteriorly, the bent- 

 arcuate lateral carina; sharp but little elevated, the posterior border deli- 

 cately margined, broadly rounded, the median carina sharp, not very 

 elevated, equal and percurrent, the whole disk testaceous, irregularly but 

 somewhat symmetrically pictured with brownish fuscous, the lateral lobes 

 fusco-infumate except the luteo-testaceous lower margin. Legs testa- 

 ceous, the fore and middle femora flecked and banded more or less con- 

 spicuously with fuscous, the hind femora slender, more than twice as 

 lung as the pronotum, testaceous dotted and clouded with fuscous, 

 assuming more or less the form of brief oblique fasciae externally, just 

 above the outer inferior carina. Abdomen testaceous, the sides especially 

 on basal half heavily banded with fuscous, leaving only a dorsal testaceous 

 band about as wide as the narrowest part of the pronotal disk, rapidly 

 broadening on the fourth segment; genitalia of the male much as in 

 T. steindachneri, but in the single male at hand distorted by contraction, 

 so as not to be described accurately ; ovipositor castaneous, basally lutes- 

 cent, rather gently curved, about three quarters the length of the hind 

 femora, slightly narrowed in the middle (where it is narrower than the 

 frontal fastigium) and faintly enlarged beyond, the denticulations acute, 

 erect, separated by their own height. 



Length of body, $, 14.5 mm., 9, 18.5 mm.; pronotum, J, 7 mm., 



