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pieces bordered and marked with yellow. Coxae piceous, the posterior 

 pair aud metasteinum yellowish testaceous; anterior and middle femora 

 testaceous, twice banded with black, the posterior femora piceous, with 

 the tibisB piceous aud banded with yellow, apex of tarsi piceous. 

 Wing-covers with a fuscous cloud at base, omitting the clavus, on the 

 middle a large subtri angular band, the two dark areas separated by 

 an oblique, white band, apex almost hyaline, marked next the inner 

 extremity by a long, dusky si)ot, the two extreme apical areoles much 

 longer than the others, the series of small ones next beyond the costal 

 area separated by oblique veins; wings dark brown. Abdomen dull 

 black, the sutures very slenderly pale, and the counexivum bordered 

 with pale yellow. 



Length to tip of wing covers, 11-12 mm.; width of pronotum, 

 3^-1 mm. 



Type.— No. 3136, TJ.S.:N'.M. 



Ten specimens are in the collection. They vary somewhat in depth 

 of color, but otherwise seem to be unusually uniform in appearance. 



APHROPHORA FLAVIPES, new species. 



Narrower than either of the foregoing- species, pale fulvo-testaceous, 

 roughly i)unctate on most of the upper surface. Vertex yellow, with 

 a broad, brown stripe on the middle, longer than in either of the pre- 

 ceding species, the anterior margin acute, with the tip a little pro- 

 duced, rouudedly triangular, slightly reflexed, obsoletely carinated on 

 the middle, the surface sunken at the position of the ocelli; eyes 

 oblique, very moderately prominent; front much longer than wide, 

 nearly ovate, high, very convex, middle callous line yellow, very slen- 

 der, with the sutures each side closely punctate with brown, transverse 

 ribs tine, tawny, with the sutures dark, slender, punctate; rostrum 

 reaching behind the posterior coxa?, broadly piceous at tip. Pronotum 

 longer than wide, latero-posterior margins obliquely narrowing- pos- 

 teriorly, sinuated at base to fit the wing-cover, a broad, black stripe on 

 the middle anteriorly, covering the acuminate point of the margin, 

 each side of this is orange- colored spot, posterior half of surface dusky, 

 and thickly punctate, middle line interruptedly carinate, the posterior 

 margin triangularly and deeply emarginate, the lateral margins 

 broadly reflexed. Scutellum pale orange, finely punctate, fuscous on 

 the middle, slenderly tapering behind the middle, making a narrow 

 tip. Wing-covers pale brownish testaceous, with an irregular brown 

 spot next costal margin crossing near the base, another, larger, across 

 the disk, and a third, smaller one, next the middle of the anteapical 

 series of areoles, a series of four or five diagonal cross-veins on the 

 postcostal apex, one of the second series of brown spots is placed upon 

 the middle of clavus. Breast and legs mostly yellow, apex of the 

 tarsi piceous. Venter fulvous, tinged with yellow. 

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