VI MOXTHLY PROCEEDINGS 



Astata elegaiis. — J ■ — Black, shining, sparsely clothed with short jiale 

 glittering pubescence; sides of face, about base of antennse much dejDressed, 

 making the middle of the clypeus prominent, apical middle the latter as well 

 as the mandibles except tips reddish-brown ; mesothorax and scutellum smooth 

 and polished: metathorax coriaceous, opaque, the upper surface unevenly de- 

 pressed, the sides finely longitudinally striated; tegulse and two spots beneath, 

 white; wings hyaline, slightly stained with yellowish towards apex, nervures 

 brown, stigma honey-yellow ; ' marginal cell short and broad, the tip broadly 

 truncate, the aj^pendiculate nervure very short at apex of the cell but continued 

 indistinctly to margin of the wing; first submarginal cell much longer than the 

 second and third together, second submarginal triangular, receiving the first re- 

 current nerviire at the base and the second between the middle and apex, third 

 submarginal cell narrow, oblique, slightly narrowed towards the marginal ; the 

 tarsi, and occasionally the tibite, more or less brown : abdomen smooth and shining, 

 entirely ferruginous. Length .35 inch. 



% . — Colored like the 9 > '^"t on the front immediately beneath the ocelli a 

 transverse flattened, oblique, roof-like protuberance, divided in the middle and 

 smooth, polished and white above ; apical middle of clypeus with a stout, acute, 

 poi-rect tooth ; scape short, subglobose ; anterior tibise brown, with a white spot or 

 line at base anteriorly, tarsi brownish-testaceous; first segment of abdomen above 

 sometimes with a narrow subapical yellowish-white band, sometimes subinter- 

 rupted : tlie two or thi-ee aiiical segments are occasionally lilack or fuscous. 

 Length .30 — .35 inch. 



ITab. — Wasliington Terr. ; Vancouver'.s Island ; Nevada ; Colorado ; 

 (Morri.son). The specimens from the last three localities ai'e smaller 

 and have no pale band on first abdominal segment, and the white 

 spots beneath the tegula) are smaller. 



Astata l>ella. — %. — Black, thinly clothed with fine pale jjubescence: face 

 finely jiuuctui'cd. with an impressed longitudinal line beneath the ocelli; clypeus 

 with a stout obtuse tubercle on apical middle : mandibles fuh*o-testaceous, with a 

 whitish spot on upper middle; two nearly confluent spots immediately below 

 anterior ocellus, tegulre and spot beneath, white; antennse brownish beneath, 

 especially at base ; mesothorax and scutellum shining, verj^ feebly punctured ; 

 metathorax finely coriaceous, subopaque, a rather deep subtriangular depression 

 on apex above, a large deep fovea beneath on the truncation from which proceed 

 on each side a deep longitudinal groove, extending nearly to the base of the meta- 

 thorax ; pleura piceous, smooth and shining; wings hyaline, with a faint dusky 

 cloud covering the marginal and second and third submarginal cells, nervures 

 and stigma pale brown, base of stigma and the nervures at base of the wings pale 

 yellow ; marginal cell short and broad, the apex broadl}' truncate, the appendiculate 

 nervure short, faintly traced to the anterior margin of the wing, first submarginal 

 cell much longerthau the second and third together ; second submarginal triangular, 

 receiving the first recurrent nervure at base, and the second recurrent at about the 

 middle; third .submarginal narrowed one-half towards the marginal; legs pale 

 castaueous, tips of femora, the tibise and the tarsi yellowish-testaceous or honey- 

 yellow, the anterior tibire in front and the intermediate pair at base, yellow; 

 abdomen pale honey-yellow, shining, impunctixred. Length .26 inch. 



Hab. — San Diego, California ; (Crotch). A pretty little species, re- 

 sembling eJegans %, . but has not the frontal protuberance. 



