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9, 8 nun. ; breadth of pronotum, £, 5 nun., 9. 5.5 mm.; length of hind 

 femora, /. 17 nun.. 9, 20.5 mm.; ovipositor, 15.5 mm. 

 1 J, 19. Northwestern boundary Burvey, Kennedy. 



Tropizaspis steindachneri. 



ArytropterU steindachneri Herm., Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, X X I V. 204-205, 

 P1.6, I l"-' (1874). 



Tropizaspis steindachneri Scudd., Can. Ent, XXVI. 180, is; (1- 



'J'liis is altogether the commonest form of Tropizaspis, in judge from 

 the specimens I have seen, and is somewhat variable in coloration and 

 markings, though usually rather uniformly testaceous or fusco testaceous, 

 with the upper part of the lateral lobes (if the pronotum infuscated. 

 Herman states that the median carina of the pronotum slop- before the 

 hind border, but it is percurrent in all the specimens I have seen, 1G in 

 number. 



It was originally described from Puget Sound. I have seen specimens 

 made on the northwestern boundary survey by Dr. Kennerly; from Ore- 

 gon (Oregon City, Harford; Mary's Peak, Benton Co., Sept. Hi, Divide, 

 Sept. 1 "2. Drain, Sept. 11. (ilendale, Sept. 9, and Siskiyou, Sept. G, 

 Morse); California (Mendocino ; Napa Co.. Edwards ; Napa or Sonoma 

 Co., Osten Sacken) ; ami El Paso, Texas, Dhler. I have also specimens 

 from Uhler's collection marked as taken by Suckley in Nebraska, but I 

 am inclined to think this an error, as Suckle}' collected also in the north- 

 west, and Brunei' has not given it in his Nebraska lists. 



Tropizaspis diabolica sp. nov. 



Bead moderately large, castaneo-testaceous, the fastigium slightly 

 broader than the basal joints of the antenna'. Pronotum with rather 

 feebly clepsydra! disk, which is considerably more than half as long again 

 as broad, broadest but little behind the middle of the metazona, and of 

 nearly equal breadth throughout the posterior half of the pronotum. 

 the lateral carime not elevated on the prozona, on the metazona a little 

 elevated but blunt; hind border margined, broadly rounded; median 

 carina feeble, subequal, percurrent ; the whole disk uniform castaneous, 

 transversely pectinate, feeblj rugose posteriorly, the lateral lobes fusco- 

 fuliginous on upper half, castaneo-testaceous below. Legs luteo-testaceou8, 

 the fore and middle femora twice banded with blackish fuscous, the hind 

 femora coarsely and a little transversely spotted above with blackish 

 fuscous, much more than twice a- long as the pronotum, the basal portion 



