TO. 1337. REVISION OF THE GENUS LEPIDOPA— BENEDICT. 893 



which is vslightly produced beyond the inner. The eye speck is on tl^e 

 distal maroin near the outer angle and the sinus occupied b}' it could 

 hardly be distinguished with a lens, wc-p it not for the slight colora- 

 tion remaining. 



The front is tridentate. The lateral teeth are acute, while the median 

 tooth is blunt and evenly rounded, situated posterior to the line of the 

 lateral points just 1 mm., in the specimen de- 

 scribed. Between the deepest part of the ocular ^^^^X^l/^L^v,^ 

 sinus is a broad lobe. Between the lateral point < ^<^.J^\J^ ^ 

 and the antero-lateral angle the margin is deeply ^^'«- 4.-lepii.o,.a mvops. x 



concave. 



The carapace of this species, like that of scutellata, has abroad, rather 

 depressed ridge running along the median line. The post-branchial 

 area has a group of from 8 to 10 large punctures. 



The specimen from which the foregoing description Avas drawn Avas 

 obtained by Dr. E. A. Mearns,U. S. A., off San Diego, California. 



%>.^— No. 28661, U.S.N.M. 



LEPIDOPA DEAMiE, new species. 



The eye-stalks of this species are broadest near the anterior end. 

 The inner and distal margins are about equally arcuate and form a 

 slightly obtuse angle where they meet. The anterior exterior angle 

 of the" stalk is well rounded; behind this angle the eye spot is well 



indented. From this place the stalk narrows 

 rapidly to its base. 



The median tooth of the front is advanced 

 to a point nearly in line with the lateral teeth. 

 From the rostral tooth the margin runs back- 

 ward, making an ocular sinus evenly concave 

 at its inner half; from this point it is straight 

 and almost transverse to the notch where it 

 meets the sigmoid margin and the lateral 

 tooth of the front. From the lateral tooth 

 to the spine at the antero lateral angle the 

 margin is sigmoid, an exact copy of the sig- 

 FiG. .-j.-LEPiDOP.v DEAM.E, NATu- ^^q[^ outllnc of thc marglu ])etween the point 



and the eye sinus, but very nuich larger. 

 The carapace is convex transversely, straight longitudinally. 

 As in scutellata, the median line is raised into a broad carina, tnan- 

 gular in cioss section; this is by far the largest Lep^dojM in the collec- 

 tion. It is 35 mm. broad in front, is 32 mm. long measured on the 

 middle line from the apex of the rostrum to the posterior margin o 

 the carapace. Named for the collector, Mrs. Clareiice ^ • ,^^*";: 

 Bluffton, Indiana, who obtained the specimen from babna C ruz. CuUt 

 of Tehuantepec, Mexico. 

 Type.—^o. 26170 U.S.N.M. 



