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the pronotum; basal joint of the antennae brown with a pale tip; 

 clypeus tinged with ferruginous, darker toward the apex; anterior 

 and intermediate legs, middle pleural pieces and disk of the ventral 

 segments clouded with darker brown. Wings smoky with strong 

 fuscous nervures. 



Described from one male and two female examples labelled "Colo- 

 rado Desert" and received from Prof. J. B. Smith. In this species the 

 elytra are moderately convex and are held at an angle of about 45 

 degrees. This species is very close "to scabrosus Mel., but the vertex is 

 shorter, the colors very different and the elytral nervures stronger 

 and more irregular. These species are not characteristic of this genus 

 and are intermediate between it and Dascalia. 



