4661 Conanthalictus Bakeri n. sp- 



Green, the ir.etathorax blue-black; whole insect covered with sparse 

 long white pubescence; head about as broad as long, with the facial 

 quadrangle broader than long and the inner orbits nearly straight and 

 parallel; face with narrow wedge shaped foveae, the broad end down; 

 clypeus black, smooth, shiny; head finely lineolate, dull, with very 

 sparse fine punctures, just behind the eyes a narrow smooth impunctate 

 strip; antennae short, hardly reaching the mesothorax, the scape 

 reaching only about half way to the anterior ocellus; mesothorax. 

 scutellum and postscutellum finely lineolate but somewhat shiny, with a 

 few scattered fine punctures except on the postscutellum; median grov>ve 

 deeply impressed, parapsidal grooves faint; truncation of metathorax 

 not surrounded by a salient rim; base of metathorax with a semicircular 

 area which is finely tubereulate and with a few fine longitudinal 

 wrinkles basally; this area yet off only by the edge being somewhat 

 angulate and by the rest of the metathorax including the pleurae being 

 lineolate; metapleurae separated from notum by a slight angle; tegulae 

 largely testaceous, wings slightly dusky, iridescent, nervures and stig- 

 ma testaceous; second submarginal narrow, narrowed above; thind 

 snbmarginal narrowed about one-half to marginal; legs brown, tarsi 

 more reddish; femora greenish above, pubescence of legs brownish; 

 abdomen with the depressed apical margins of segments testaceous; 

 abdomen finely transversely lineolate, more closely so on bases of seg- 

 ments; anal fimbria sooty brownish. Length about 4% mm. 



Claremont, Calif. (Baker.) 



