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Journal New York Entomological Society. [^'°'- xxix. 



ig. Platypedia minor Uhler. 



Figured in the Journal, N. Y. Entomological Society, June, 1920, 

 PI. 5, fig. 10. 



The only specimens I have seen from Colorado have already been 

 recorded, and consist of the fifty-seven individuals collected at Glen- 

 wood Springs, June, 1919, by Mr. Oslar. The type locality for this 

 species is San Mateo, California, but the Colorado specimens ap- 

 pear to be the same, though their distribution is unusual. 



20. Platypedia latipennis new species. Plate V, fig. 5. 



Type male, Douglas Spring, Routt Co., Colorado, June 26 (J. W. Frey). 

 Collection American Museum of Natural History, received from University of 

 Colorado. 



The uncus resembles in shape that of Platypedia luoharensis, but the fore 

 wings are broader and the front of the head not as prominent as in that spe- 

 cies. The fore wings in form resemble those of barbata and minor, and have 

 also a rather broad basal cell, but it is not nearly as hairy as either of those 

 species, and the uncus is differently shaped. 



Front of the head not prominent, median sulcus well defined and broad- 

 ening on the lower part of the face. The whitish hairs on the body are about 



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LATIPENNIS 



as in putnami ; the upper surface is nearly smooth except on the head and 

 about the mesonotal X, while beneath the hairs are long and numerous. The 

 fore wings have eight apical cells, are very broad, and have the costal nerve 

 rather suddenly bent near the end of the radial cell. When viewed from in 

 front the costal nerve is seen to be wavy, suggesting an approach to Neo- 

 platypedia. The uncus is slightly arched at the top, with the extremity rather 

 flat and rounded ; beneath it is somewhat deepened near the basal third ; not 

 as much so as in putnami, but more so than in mohavensis. 



General color blue black with the lighter marks brilliant orange-red as in 

 putnami, which indeed it strongly resembles in coloring, and for which it might 

 be taken if it were not for structural characters. Fore femora entirely black 



