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Siskiyou Co., Calif., Hollemann." This species has the 

 banded front of pallida and the short vertex of variegata, but 

 the form and general aspect are quite distinctive. 



Elidiptera Hcushawi n. sp. 



Allied to pallida, but proportionately longer ; front strongly banded, 

 clypeus brown. Length to tip of the elytra: male, 9 mm. ; female, 

 11 mm. 



Head shaped as in pallida. Vertex elliptical, scarcely longer than 

 broad, a little elevated at the apex, margins sharply carinate, median 

 impressed line distinct. Front elliptical above, broader and rounder 

 toward the apex; median carina distinct, apex obtusely angularly 

 emarginate ; clypeus elongate-triangular ; its sides nearly rectilinear. 

 Pronotum as in pallida, about as long as the vertex, rather broadly 

 rounded before, broadly and obtusely emarginate behind. Patagise 

 transverse, larger than in pallida. Mesonotal carina? prominent. 

 Elytra oblong, parallel, but little narrowed to the base. Last ventral 

 segment of the female narrower than in pallida, and more angularly 

 emarginate at apex. Ventral tooth of the male pygofer broad, sub- 

 angularly emarginate at apex, as long as the base of the segment. 



Color fuscous-brown above, minutely irrorate with pale, vertex and 

 pronotum sometimes a shade paler; elytra obscurely varied with darker 

 and marked with about two blotches on the discal areola, and three 

 round blackish points on the middle of the costal. Beneath and legs 

 pale brown ; base of the front and sides of the pleural pieces piceous, 

 sharply distinguished from the pale yellowish apex of the front and 

 chest. 



Described from one male and four females taken at 

 " Pressy's " in Wenas Valley, Washington, July 6, 1882, by 

 Mr. Samuel Henshaw, to whom I dedicate the species in 

 acknowledgement of the willing assistance he has so fre- 

 quently extended to me in my insect studies. This species 

 has about the form of septentrionalis, but it is larger, and has 

 a strongly banded front. 



Helicoptera pinorum, described by Mr. A. B. Manee in the 

 Entomological News for March, 1910, is the female of Eli- 

 diptera opaca Say, as I know from a specimen which he kindly 

 sent me for my collection. 



Elidiptera floridae Walker. 



Smaller than any of the allied species, about the size of Catonia 

 grisea. Vertex strongly produced, considerably longer than its basal 

 width, exceeded in length only in colorata, elliptically narrowed to the 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVI. APRIL, 1910. 



