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steep side of mountain in pine woods, Beaver Brook Gulch; also on Clematis, 

 August 6th (Uhler, 5). 



Fort Collins, March 24th to April 26th; foot-hills five 

 miles west of Fort Collins, April 20tlito August 1st; Cameron 

 Pass at 12,000 feet, July 5th on Salix (Baker). Estes Park, 

 July 12th; Manitou, September 29th, on willow; Dolores, 

 June 1st; Montrose June 24th; Leadville, August 23d 

 (Gillette). 



Acanthia hiriindinis L. 



Dolores, June 18th, common in swallow's nests (Gillette), 



Acanthia leeiularia L. 



West Cliff, Custer County, too frequent (Cockerell, 10). 



Fort Collins and Denver (Gillette). Colorado Springs 

 (Tucker). 



Piestna cinerea Say. 



AVest Clilf, Custer County, July 27th (Cockerell, 10). Colorado ((Jillette— 

 see Osborn, 1). 



Fort Collins, March 23d to October 15th, May 7th to June 

 9th on alfalfa, and August 18th on black walnut (Baker). 

 Manitou, June 25th; Montrose, June 24th; Dolores, June 

 18th (Gillette). Colorado Springs (Tucker). 



Agrainniodes Uhler n. gen. 



"Form conico-ovoid, similar to a broid Agrarama, but widely different in venation, 

 and liaving the liead formed nearly as in Piesma. Head much narrower than tlie pro- 

 notumand curving down in continuity therewith, the base wide, with the clypeus abruptly 

 narrower, protracted forwards in two slender tapering lobes in advance of the stouter 

 tylus; eyes large, round, seated close against the pronotum. Antennae short, clavate at 

 tip, the basal joint stout, contracted at tip the second very sliort, moniliform, the 

 tliird longest and most slender, the fourth shorter, contracted on the basal portion. 

 Nostrum tapering, rea<!hing behind the anterior coxae. Pronotum gently curved, some- 

 what flatten(^d near the anterior angles and depressed behind them, the anterior subniar- 

 gin inflated into a crescentiform low hood which does not extend to the lateral angles; 

 lateral margin sharp cut, a little diagonal; surface coirsely granulated. Scutellum 

 minute, tumid. Legs short and thick. Hemelytra broad suboval, granulated, coriaceous 

 througliout, with tlie veins very coarse and prominent; clavus formed of one short tri- 

 angular areole, bounded exteriorly by a long and moderately narrow areole wliicli is 

 oblique at tip, and from tliis tlie inner vein runs back to near the tip and forms an arrest 

 for the two discoidal veins wliich bound wide triangular areas, and curve inward as they 

 approach this inner vein ; the costal area wide, depressed, continued to end of wing-cover, 

 crossed by a few irregular veins, tlie inner veins are continued across the area which 

 forms a substitute for tlie membrane." 



Agrainniodes costatus Uhler n. sp. 



"Dull pale greyisli-brown, witli tlie pronotal submargin and a large spot on ilie base 

 of each winz-cover wliite. Head blackisli-brown, unevenly scabrous and granulated, 

 the clypeus prolonged, acute and cleft; antennae honey-yellow, the apical joint piceous 



