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long; its length a little more than half its basal width; the sides straight, 

 with the anterior angles scarcely rounded. Rostrum attaining the pos- 

 terior coxae, first joint reaching base of the head. Oviduct of the female 

 long. 



Color deep black, polished above, clothed with conspicuous white hairs; 

 base of vertex with a fulvous sinuate line which (as in politus) simulates 

 a carina; third and fourth antennal joints obscure castaneous, their bases 

 narrowly blackish. Tibiae above obscure whitish, bristles and dots at 

 their base black. Membrane almost as deeply colored as the corium, 

 marked with a small pale spot next the tip of the cuneus, invading more 

 or less the apex of the nervures. Osteolar orifice soiled white. 



Described from twelve examples representing both sexes. 

 Eight of these were taken by Mr. Fordyce Grinnell at Pasadena, 

 California, June 5, 1909, and four I took about the upper end 

 of Fallen Leaf Lake in July. 



Bolteria picta hirta new subspecies 



Smaller and darker-colored than picta, clothed with stiff black hairs; 

 dull yellowish-green, most of the head, two transverse bands on the 

 pronotum, seutellum in part, inner margins of the clavus, a broad distal 

 vitta on the corium, an oval spot on the cuneus and most of the lower 

 surface black; femora dull fulvous, marked with large fuscous dots in 

 longitudinal series. Length 4 mm. 



Head shorter and less prominent than in incta. Vertex a little de- 

 pressed before the base, which is thickened but hardly carinate. Front 

 convex, polished. Antennae shorter than in picta; first segment but 

 little surpassing the clypeus; third and fourth together subequal to 

 second. Pronotum, seutellum and elytra as in picta, impunctate, polished, 

 clothed with stiff black hairs which are somewhat longer and more dense 

 on the head. Rostrum attaining the intermediate coxae. 



Color a soiled greenish-yellow. Head polished black; a point next the 

 inner angle of the eye and base of the vertex fulvous, median line of the 

 front sometimes pale. Antennae and rostrum black, extreme apex of first 

 antennal joint pale. Pronotum marked with a broad transverse band on 

 the callosities and a narrower one on the hind margin, black. Incised 

 line on seutellum black. Narrow scutellar and commissural margin of 

 clavus, a broad longitudinal vitta on corium, a short mark within the 

 costa placed near the apex and a large oval spot covering the disk of 

 the cuneus, black. Membrane infuscated, a cloud in the apical areole and 

 a curved ray beyond deeper black. Beneath black, polished, osteolar 

 region and the lower margin of propleura whitish. Legs obscure fulvous, 

 femora infuscated at base and apex and dotted with blackish in longi- 

 tudinal series; tibial bristles black springing from small black points. 



Described from eight female examples beaten from sagebrush 

 (Artemesia) on the shore of Fallen Leaf Lake near the Lodge 



