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prozone only slightly elevated and the median carina barely bilobate, 

 on the metazone linear; metazone from one and a half to scarcely twice 

 as long as the prozone; lateral lobes without a tooth. Tegmina with 

 the area of the cubital forks occupied by several rows of polygonal 

 cells; intercalarv vein apically not more distant from the median vein 

 than' by its own width. Wings with the disk green or greenish yel- 

 low, the fuscous band narrow and interrupted, or if broader weak or 

 interrupted along the radiate veins or wanting, in this case the apical 

 half is wholly fuliginous and fuscous. When present continued never 

 more than half wav to the anal angle. Spur when present elongate, 

 extending more than halfway to the base. Posterior femora with the 

 inner face black with two lighter bands on the apical half. Posterior 

 tibite blue with the extreme base black preceded by a pale annulus. 



TRIMEROTROPIS CAERULEIPES Scudder. 

 mmerotropi^caendeipes ScvBjyER, 2d Kept. l^. S. Ent. Com. App. II, p. 27, 1880. 



Size small or medium; dark brownish cinereous, much, though not 

 conspicuouslv, varied with fuscous maculations; scutellum considerably 

 longer than "broad (male), with the median carina exceedingly faint; 

 lateral and median foveoke deeply impressed; eye of the male slightly 

 longer than the genal groove. Pronotum with the metazone about 

 twice as long as the prozone; shoulders well dehned with a trace of 

 the lateral carinas on the front as well as at the front margin of the 

 prozone; disk of the metazone with a few scattered larger granula- 

 tions; process of the metazone rectangular or slightly obtuseangular 

 with the sides straight and the apex barely rounded. Tegmina with 

 the bands composed of fuscous spots and aruuili arranged into a dis- 

 tinct basal and median band, on the apical third, scarcely forming a 

 band, but extending along either margin; radial sector with the last 

 branch distant from the fork about one-half (male) the length of the 

 sector; median and cubital forks not fused. Wings long and narrow 

 with the disk pale green, the fuscous l)and narrow^, interrupted and 

 scarcelv continued toward the anal angle; spur distinct, extends more 

 than half wav to the base; apex pale with the extreme tip more or less 

 infuscated. ' Posterior femora with the lower sulcus black, except for 

 a single preapical light band; outer face with the indistinct preapical 

 pale band preceded by two and followed by one not very conspicuous 

 fuscous bands. 



Length of body, male, 18 to 21 mm. ; female, 25 mm. ; length of teg- 

 mina, male, 19 to 22 mm., female, 26 mm; length of posterior femora, 

 male, 10 to Hi mm., female, 12 mm. 



One male, without locality; one male, Marble Valley, Eldorado 

 County, California, Bruner collection; one male and two females, 

 Portland, Oregon; Sissons, California, Scudder. 



