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changing from subhyaline to hyaline with about a half dozen sub- 

 quadrate blotches of the darker color. Wings with the band clove 

 brown in color, crossing the wing immediately distad of the middle,, 

 extending in a complete arc from the costal to very near to the internal 

 margin, regularly narrowing in width from the axillary field caudad, 



the width on the axillary field 

 being about two-sevenths 

 the length of the tegmen, 

 spurs hardly indicated ; disk 

 pale sulphur yellow; apical 

 area hyaline except for 

 several blotches of dark 

 color, no suffusion however 

 being present. Abdomen 

 dull naples yellow. Caudal 

 femora of the lighter general 

 color inclined to vinaceous- 

 pink on the ventral portion of the lateral face, dorsal and bounding 

 carinae of the paginae sparsely beaded, face of the paginae suffused with 

 the dark color, broad pregenicular annulus of the pale color laterad ;: 

 genicular regions mingled drab and bistre, internal and ventral face of 

 the femora blackish except for the pregenicular annulus and a proximal 

 portion, both of which are Chinese orange ; caudal tibiae orange vermilion 

 the genicular section and tips of the spines black; caudal tarsi buffy 

 ventrad washed with orange vermilion dorsad. 



Fig. 5. — Trimerotropis magnifica n. sp. 

 Wing of type. (X U.) 



Measurements. 



Length of body, 38.5 mm. 



Length of antenna, 19 " 



Length of pronotum, 9 " 



Length of tegmen, 39.5 " 



Length of caudal femur, 2L5" 



The type is the only specimen of this handsome species seen by the 

 author. 



Trimerotropis melanoptera McNeill. 



Carr Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, August (Skinner), 1 ? . 



This specimen is quite peculiar in that the proximal light area of 

 the wings is not yellow but creamy white. The width of the fuscous 

 wing band is about half the total length of the wing, and the internal 

 faces of the caudal femora have a single pregenicular orange red band. 



