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of Stal. Not only that, but Distant's T. trimacidatiis is undoubtedly 

 our common Crypliiila parallclograiiima Stal. Cryphnla (Trapcziis) 

 opicafus described by Distant from Mexico and Guatemala, occurs in 

 the southwestern United States, with the following records : San 

 Diego, Calif., Santa Rita Mts., Ariz., and Ft. Grant, Ariz. (U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.) ; Huachuca INIts., Ariz., July 20, 1905 — 20 specimens taken by 

 sifting dead leaves in the cafions (my coll.). This is very closely 

 related to C. parallelogrmnma but besides the differently marked 

 scutellum, the antennae are shorter, more slender and generally paler. 

 Like the type it occurs in lioth long and short winged forms. 



Cryphula abortiva new species. 



General color pale castaneous, darker beneath ; narrow costal margins, 

 antennae, rostrum, apices of the femora, tibiae and tarsi more ochraceous. 

 Antennae, whole upper surface and venter, finely pilose. Head nearly as long 

 as wide, impunctate. Basal segment of antenna exceeding apex of tylus by 

 one-half its length, second segment longest of all, one-fourth longer than 

 fourth, third a trifle shorter than fourth. Pronotum, parallel sided, the mar- 

 gins rather abruptly rounded in front and at this anterior rounded angle pro- 

 vided with the usual seta common to the other members of the genus, lateral 

 edge very narrowly carinate, concolorous ; posterior lobe concolorous, finely 

 and obscurely punctate ; anterior margin straight. Scutellum almost impunc- 

 tate, concolorous with pronotum, not pale fasciate. Clavus flat, level with the 

 corium from which it is rather poorly differentiated (brachypterous form), 

 provided with four irregular series of fine punctures. Corium rather finely 

 and closely punctate, apex reaching nearly to middle of fifth abdominal seg- 

 ment. Membrane very much abbreviated, reduced to a mere line along inner 

 apical margin of corium. Commissure and inner margin of corium nearly of 

 equal length, forming a straight line with each other, these together nearly 

 equal to the length of the scutellum. Incrassate fore femur unprovided with 

 developed teeth, merely with a few tubercles and long setae. Hing tibia pro- 

 vided with two rows of four long, rigid, oblique bristles each. Posterior tarsus 

 with basal segment nearly twice as long as second and third together. Length 

 c? 3-5 mm- 



Type — Brachypterous ^ in my collection from Huachuca Mts., 

 Ariz., July 20, 1905, where I took it with C. apicafiis sifting among 

 dead leaves. This species is quite distinct from the other known 

 species. The upper surface being distinctly pilose and nearly con- 

 colorous. the scutellum non-fasciate and the membrane almost absent 

 in the brachypterous form. 



