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HlPPISCUS (H.) VARIEGATUS Sp. HOV. 



Similar in form and color to H. compacttis 

 but with the disk of the prothorax generally 

 rather lighter and more often marked by a 

 pallid decussate stripe, which is here found 

 even in the $ ; sculpture of the head not 

 differing from that species, excepting that 

 the ridges about the foveolae are if anything 

 duller and that the frontal costa is slightly 

 sulcate below the ocellus. Antennae luteous 

 at base, beyond reddish fuscous. Prono- 

 tum as in H. compact us but with the hind 

 margin more obtusely angled, and the carina 

 of the prozona independently though feebly 

 arcuate. Tegmina cinereous or hoary, becom- 

 ing semipellucid apically, with markings 

 much as in H. compactus, but less regular, 

 more maculate, more oblique, the central spot 

 usually very broad, the marginal field much 

 more numerously spotted, and the spots of 

 the axillary area generally more distinct, be- 

 ing deeper and more sharply defined ; the 

 tegmina are relatively longer. Wings also 

 relatively longer and narrower, but with mark- 

 ings precisely as in the preceding species, ex- 

 cepting that the basal color is variable (as 

 indeed it may be there), varying from a pallid 

 tint through pale lemon yellow to saffron 

 and coral red, the last in a single example. 

 Hind femora bright yellow within, thrice 

 heavily banded transversely with black, dull 

 clay yellow without, very obliquely banded 

 with blackish or fuscous; hind tibiae yellow 

 with an orange tinge sometimes infuscated a 

 little just beyond a broad clear basal belt; 

 spines black tipped. 



Length of body, $, 28 mm., 9 ,37 mm. ; of 

 tegmina, $, 28 mm., $, 35.5 mm. 



I have seen specimens from Penn- 

 sylvania (Schanm coll.), Maryland 



(Uhler, Bruner), Washington, D. C. 

 (Bruner), and Georgia (Morrison) , in 

 the east, and Indiana (H. Edwards), 

 southern Illinois (Kennicott), and To- 

 peka, Kansas, collected by Cragin 

 (Bruner), in the west. Mr. Bruner also 

 tells me that he has specimens from 

 Virginia, Decatur, Ala., Chattanooga, 

 Tenn., and Mississippi, in the south, 

 and from Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, 

 Kansas, and eastern Nebraska, in the 

 north. 



Described from 13^, S 9, part of 

 them from Mr. Henshaw's collection. 



HlPPISCUS (H.) SUTURALIS Sp. HOV. 



Hippiscus rugosus McNeill !, Psyche, 6, 63. 



One of the smallest species of the genus, 

 with somewhat compressed body, expanding 

 but slightly on the metazona, of the same 

 tone of color and general appearance as the 

 three preceding species. Head dusky above, 

 obscure olivaceous below, the summit nearly 

 smooth with a nearly circular, very shallow 

 and smooth, feebly quadripartite scutellum ; 

 lateral foveolae small, shallow, triangular, a 

 little elongated; frontal costa feebly convex 

 but depressed at and immediately below the 

 ocellus, at its upper extremity very feebly 

 bifoveolate. Antennae dull testaceous at 

 base, blackish fuscous apically. Pronotum 

 much as in H. compactus, but the angle of 

 the posterior margin distinctly obtuse. 

 Tegmina with the darker blackish fuscous 

 markings predominating on the basal half, 

 so that before the great central quadrate dark 

 spot which includes the triangular base of 

 the outer discoidal area, there are but two 

 pairs of small quadrate cinereous spots be- 

 neath each other in the marginal and inner 

 discoidal fields ; the apical portion of the 

 marginal field is blackish fuscous and in the 



