September JS92. 



PSYCHE. 



310 



in this striking and well known species 

 is broad, — more than twice as broad as 

 the interspaces between the rays in the 

 anal area, but occasionally individuals 

 occur in which it is considerably nar- 

 rower than that, resembling rather the 

 prevalent condition in IT. (A'.) pardal- 

 inus from which its shorter metazona 

 separates it. 



I have seen specimens from Dakota 

 (collected by S. M. Rothhammer dur- 

 ing explorations " under Gen. Sully), 

 Salt Lake, Utah, June 9 (A. S. Pack- 

 ard), Platte River (F. V. Hayden), 

 Barbour Co., Kans., collected by Cra- 

 gin (Brunei), the South Platte coun- 

 try of Nebraska in the eastern half of 

 the state (Brunei' in litt.), Boulder, 

 Colo., June 9, Colorado at an eleva- 

 tion of 5500' (Packard), between Lakin, 

 Kansas, and Pueblo, Colo., from 3000' 

 to 4500'. July 8-9 (S. H. Scudder), 

 southern Colorado, June 11-20 ( Lt. 

 Carpenter), Silver City and Albu- 

 querque, New Mexico (Brunei* in litt.), 

 Fort Whipple, Arizona (E. Palmer), 

 Arizona (Burrison in Henshaw's coll.), 

 Arizona, collected by Dunn (Brunei - ), 

 San Antonio, collected by Newell, and 

 El Paso, Texas (Brunei - ), Dallas, Texas 

 (Boll), and Texas (Schaupp in Hen- 

 shaw's coll.) ; and it has been also re- 

 ported by Thomas from Nevada, 

 Cheyenne, Wyoming, and south of 

 Raton Mts., N. Mexico. It would 

 appear therefore to be found mainly 

 along the plains at the eastern base of 

 the Rocky Mountains from Dakota 

 southward, and along the eastern mar- 

 gin of the Interior Basin. 



HlPPlSCUS (X.) ZAPOTECUS. 



Xanthippus zapotecus Sauss., Prodr. 

 Oedip., 91. 



Saussure reports this species from 

 the ager mexicanus simply, by which 

 it is presumed that he found it wide- 

 spread. The specimens which I have 

 examined come mostly from Colorado 

 collected by Morrison (Henshaw's coll.) 

 or R. Thaxter (at Manitou, June 5- 

 11); but Mr. Brunei" has also sent me 

 specimens from Cheyenne, Wyo., col- 

 lected by Wickham, and from Silver 

 City, Albuquerque, and Taos Valley in 

 New Mexico; and a single specimen 

 collected July 15 at Denison, Crawford 

 Co., Iowa, by J. A. Allen certainly 

 belongs here. Mr. Brunei - also states 

 that he has specimens from Akron, 

 Colo., and Los Angeles, Calif. 



Hippiscus (X.) conspicuus sp. nov. 



Similar in general appearance to H. {X.J 

 corailipes with which it agrees well in size. 

 Gravish fuscous, darkest above. Fastigium 

 of vertex subpentagonal, broadly open be- 

 hind, the anterior wall retroarcuate, all the 

 walls slight, a taint median carina invading 

 the fastigium ; between the apices of the 

 moderately shallow triangular lateral foveo- 

 lae, a slight more or less blended biareolate 

 foveola; frontal costa deeply sulcate, consid- 

 erably narrowed above. Pronotum rather 

 heavily verruculose, the metazona more or 

 less deeply impressed anteriorly, slightly 

 tumid with arched lateral carinae which are 

 sharp and distinct anteriorly, dulled behind; 

 process of metazona rectangulate ; the med- 

 ian carina either depressed or obsolete be- 

 tween the principal sulci, gently arched on 

 metazona. Elytra strongly pardaline (apic 



