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gula black and the tylus shining black, antennae black, moderately stout, the basal 

 joint much longer than the head, the second joint as long as from base of 

 pronotum to front of eye, the third gradually decreasing in thickness, about 

 two-thirds the length of the second, the fourth more slender, acutely tapering, 

 about one-third as long as the third joint; rostrum all black ©r black at base, 

 rufo-piceous posteriorly, reaching to posterior coxae. Pronotum wide, moderately 

 short, the anterior lobe almost flat, with the front border reflexed, tliick, 

 whitish, and sinuated in the middle, callosities large, diagonal, prominent, black, 

 with the deep space between also black, the posterior lobe convexley elevated transversly, 

 faintly rufous on a smoky ground color, wrinkled, the posterior margin a little sinuated, 

 with the edge depressed and thin and tlie middle of the submargin distinctly indented; 

 the lateral margin reflexed throughout, including the border of the humeri; pleura 

 rufous, a little fuscous anteriorly and on the sternum. Middle and posterior pectus blacK. 

 Legs shining black. Scutellum dull black, tumid, indented at base. Hemelytra brownish 

 black, irregularly granulated, and liairy, especially upon the clavus, outer border of the 

 corium red, the color becoming wider posteriorly and covering nearly tlie whole cuneus. 

 Abdomen black, shining, minutely pubescent. 



Length to end of abdomen .5 mm. Width of pronotum 1,T5 mm. Numerous specimens of 

 this Insect are present in the collection of tlie Colorado Agricultural College. It inliabits 

 also New Mexico and Arizona." 



Estes Park, July r2th (Gillette). Steamboat Springs, 

 July 16th on willow and Delphinium occiclentale (Baker). 



I^opidea ohscura Uhl, 



Steamboat Springs, July 26th; North Park, July 20th 

 (Gillette). Steamtoat Springs, July 12th to 16th, on willow 

 Delphinium occidentale, and Artemisia tridentata (Baker). 



Itomatopleura caesar Ruet. 



Colorado (Gillette— see Osborn, 1). 



Fort Collins, July 24th to August Uth on Glycyrrhiza 

 lepidota, and September 27th on Rhus trilobata (Baker and 

 Gillette). Foot-hills five miles west of Fort Collins, June 5th 

 to 14th; Colorado Springs, August 3d (Gillette). 



Hadronema militaris Uhl. 



Colorado (Uhler, 1). Roaring Fork (Rothrock— see Uhler,2). Hills, July 

 to September (Carpenter— see Uhler, 6.) Clear Creek Canon, well up on the 

 mountain side, August 6th (Uhler, 5). Blackhawk, July 2d (Packard— see 

 (Uhler, 5). Smith's Park, Custer County, August 6th; also high alpine 

 (Cockerell, 10). Colorado (Gillette— see Osborn, 1). Colorado (VanDuzee, 5). 



Fort Collins, June 4th; Rist Canon, June 12th to July 30th; 

 Estes Park, July 9th; North Park, July 20th; Steam])oat 

 Springs, July 26th; Georgetown, July 19th; Colorado Springs, 

 August 3d; Montrose, June 24th (Gillette). Estes Park 

 (Snow). Colorado Springs (Tucker). 



Hadronema picta Uhler n. sp. 



"Form nearly the same as in H. militaris. Having the antennae a little shorter, witl 



