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PSYCHE. 



[September i 



Plates long, slender, parallel sided below, 

 becoming acute apically and curving upward. 



Described from two females and five 

 males taken at Pullman, Wash., by 

 Prof. C. V. Piper. 



Errhomenus monianiis n. sp. Length of 

 ? 6.5-7 inm., of (J 5.25-6 mm. Very close 

 to lineatus. The last ventral segment of 

 female is distinctly produced medially within 

 the protruding lateral angles; the apex with 

 a small median notch. The plates of the 

 male are not as acute or strongly bent up- 

 wards as in lineatus. The elytra of the 

 male exceed the abdomen but little, and lack 

 any noticeable contrast of colors. 



Described from three females and 

 four males collected by myself in north- 

 ern Colorado. They occurred in the 

 foot-hills west of Fort Collins in May, 

 and at Cameron Pass from 10000 feet 

 to above timber, during July. I was at 

 first inclined to place this with lineatus 

 as a variety, but would at present be 

 scarcely justified in so doing. Series 

 from points between Washington and 

 the mountains of Colorado are needed 

 to decide the question. 



Errhomenus oreffonensis n. sp. Length 



of $ 7 mm. Closely resembling a fully 

 colored example of montatttis. The vertex 

 is proportionally shorter and more blunt. 

 The front is more tumid and as viewed from 

 the side not evenly curved upon the clypeus. 

 The anterior legs are unusually pale. The 

 head is about as broad as pronotum. The 

 elytra are broadly rounded behind instead 

 of being obliquely truncate, and they slightly 

 exceed the second segment. 



Length $, 5-5-5 mm. The male has ab- 

 breviated elytra which reach only the penul- 

 timate dorsal segment. The colors, sordid 

 white to black, are more sharply contrasted 

 than in the other species, though similarly 

 disposed. The transverse row of black spots 

 on the pronotum is very sharply defined, 

 though the darker longitudinal band is 

 wanting. The abbreviated elytra tlare 

 slightly, giving the male a shortened, robust 

 appearance which is very suggestive of 

 Tinobregmus. 



Described from one female taken at 

 Corvallis, Oregon, by Prof. A. B. Cord- 

 ley, and several specimens in the Nation- 

 al Museum collected in Oregon by Mr. 

 Koebele. The shortened elytra of the 

 male brings a new element into the 

 genus, but the relationships of the fe- 

 male with lineatus and montanus are 

 unquestionable. 



THE COCCID GENUS SOLENOPHOR.A. IN THE UNITED STATES. 



BY T. D. \. COCKERELL, N. M. AGR. EXP. STA. 



The genus Solenophora Maskell, is repre- 

 sented by two species confined to New Zea- 

 land, so far as published information goes. 

 Mr. Maskell has been kind enough to send 

 me specimens of both these species; to them 

 I have just added a third, collected by Mr. 

 Koebele in Mexico, and transmitted to me 



by Dr. Howard. To thus receive a supposed 

 endemic New Zealand genus from Mexico 

 was indeed surprising; but to-day, before the 

 report on the Mexican material has appeared 

 in print, there conies to hand yet another 

 species, from Colorado .' 



Solenophora coloradcnsis, n. sp. J. Scale 



