86 PKODROMIS OEDIPODIORUM. 



haud longiores, apice nec altenualse nec cochlealae, nigrae, basi oehraceae. — Caput 

 infere obsolete granulalum. Cosla facialis tf sulcata, ad frontem convergens, conslricta, 

 marginibus angulum intus oblusangulatum efficienlibus. Verticis scutellum polygonale 

 planiusculum, sparse granosum; ejus apex (scilicet pars frontalis) triangularis vel alle- 

 nuatus, obsolete trifoveolatus vel trigranosus. — Pronotum verrucoso-granosum, superne 

 pallide decussatum, crista prominula, in prozona pone medium sinuala; prozona 

 postice in medio tuberculato-sculellata, haud bicarinulata; metazona utrinque carinu- 

 lis obliquis obsoletis 2 margine postico parallelo ; processu valde acutangulo. — Elytra 

 ut in H. rugoso nigro-pardalino-maculala, maculis tamen minoribus et magis nume- 

 rosis (magis divisis); macula media per fasciam obliquam flavam furcae ulnaris in 

 partibus duabus divisa. Vena intercalata venae medise contigua. Alarum fascia arcuala 

 fusca tanlum in campo poslico explicata, ad venam analem arcualim desinens; campo 

 antico tanlum tceniam humeralem obferente, apiceque haud infuscato. — Femora post. 

 valde dilalala; libiae flav33 (corallinse?) — Var. Crisla prozonae pronoti per sulcum 

 anticum intersecta. — (j 1 Long. 35; El. 30 mill. — Amer. bor. ; Texas (Kansas, 

 Thom.). 



Xanthippo corallipcde simillima ; paulo minor; q* antennis brevioribus, pronoto 

 magis carinato; Q verisimiliter illi hujus speciei valde proxima. — Comp. //. rugosum. 



4. H. naiiiis. 



Oehraceu^^fco-varius, P. iur/oso dimidio minor, crassus, eapile grandi, convexo. 

 FacieT cosqHHfta, ad ocellumsubdilatata, ad frontem paulo angustior, rugosa.Verlicis 

 sculellum polygonale, per carinulam transversam divisum; ejus pars poslica granulala, 

 pars antica plana haud divisa; pars apicalis, quando explicata bifoveolala (in hoc casu 

 sculellum antice produetum, irregnlariter piriforme). — Pronotum supra marginibus 

 albidis, metazona grosse granulata vel verrucosa, angusle pallide limbata, (f acutan- 

 gula. — Elytra dimidio apicali quadrato-reliculata, Q abdomine breviora vel subae- 

 quilonga, tf longiora, pardalino nigro-maculata, vel maculis confluentibus fuscis 

 pallide marmoralis; area intercalata postica irregulariter transverse venosa. — Alae 

 basi sulfureaa, fascia arcuata fuscescenle, antice eompleta, taeniam humeralem latam 

 emittente; apice Q fusco-venoso, (f punctato et infuscalo. — Femora post. intus 

 tibiaeque flavida (sanguinea?) — Long. Q 31, (j* 22; El. Q (f 20. — Amer. 

 boreal. ; Colorado (Coll. Brunner). 



(f Variat. — Pronoti canthi laterales trans sulcum typicum aculissimi; prozona 

 superne utrinque acute decussato-carinulata, carinulis poslice scutellum trapezinum 



