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PSTCHE. 



[November 1S92, 



or less confused with the more or less fulig- 

 inous maculate apex, and when not so con- 

 fused generally leaving three or four 

 marginal lobes free; it is separated distinctly 

 by a pale yellow line from the humeral vitta 

 which extends from its outer margin almost 

 or quite to the base, leaving on the basal 

 half of the costal margin a yellowish line. 

 Hind femora more or less pallid, lighter or 

 darker cinereous externally, traversed by 

 three strongly oblique blackish bands, within 

 coral red blotched heavily with black, 

 beneath like the tibiae coral red, the outer 

 side of the latter more or less pallid, the 

 spines black tipped; but the brighter colors 

 may vary all the way from coral red to 

 luteous. 



Length of body, J, 18-24.5 mm.. $, 

 26.5-35 mm.; of tegmina $ , 17-23 mm., $,, 

 20-26 mm. 



Described from 51 g , 5 9 • 

 This is mainly a Coloradan species 

 taken at the height of 8-9000' (Morri- 

 son in S. Henshaw's, L. Brunei's col- 

 lections and my own), at Florissant, 

 (June, S. H. Scudder; June 13-15, R. 

 Thaxter), and South Park, 8-9000' 

 (June 16-23, R- Thaxter). Brunei', 

 however, sends me also specimens from 

 Taos Valley, N. Mex., and says it also 

 occurs at Ft. Grant, Arizona. 



Only one specimen, a $ from South 

 Park, has red wings. 



HlPPISCUS (X.) ALBULUS sp. HOV. 



Fusco-cinereous, of moderately robust form 

 and small size. Head pretty large and tumid, 

 especially in the 2, cinereous, infuscated 

 above and marked interruptedly with small 

 blackish brown spots on all prominences 

 below the eyes including a narrow oblique 

 stripe across the cheeks; summit of head 

 faintly rugulose with faint divergent shallow 



sulcations extending backward from the pos- 

 terior limit of the fastigium of the vertex; 

 this deeply hollowed, with high and thin 

 bounding walls, open behind, and in front 

 scarcely separated from the deep, faintly 

 biareolate, not very broad, median foveola ; 

 median carina slight, reaching the middle of 

 the fastigium; lateral foveolae triangular, 

 rather pronounced ; frontal costa of moderate 

 breadth, strongly contracted at summit and 

 less so below the ocellus, sulcate throughout. 

 Pronotum compact, considerably expanded 

 on the metazona, rather sparsely and mod- 

 erately verruculose and also rather faintly 

 arenaceous, the metazona plane, the process 

 rather less than rectangulate, the median 

 carina rather slight, nearly straight, obsolete 

 between the sulci and here accompanied by 

 a distinct discal scutellum, the lateral carinae 

 stout, heavy, distinct, and extended ; sides of 

 dorsum with diverging pallid bands in the 

 $ ; lateral lobes of pronotum pallid or cine- 

 reous, heavily blotched with black. Tegmina 

 with distinctly pantherine markings made up 

 about equally of dark brown and pallid cine- 

 reous colors, the former prevailing and 

 blending on the posterior, the latter on the 

 anterior half of the tegmina; they are mostly 

 transverse, but a single oblique small brown 

 bar in the middle of the tegmina in an other- 

 wise broad pallid patch lies at the base of the 

 outer discoidal field; the sutural stripe is 

 pallid cinereous. Wings pallid, perhaps in 

 life pale citron at base with corresponding 

 reticulation, pellucid apically with black reti- 

 culation, the J 1 with a slight trace of extreme 

 apical infuscation, the space between, wholly 

 in the apical half of the wing, with a narrow, 

 strongly arcuate, more or less distinct, 

 fuliginous band, tapering along the outer 

 margin and not nearly reaching the anal 

 angle, narrowing also to some extent above, 

 in the $ obsolescent, and leaving only about 

 three marginal lobes free; it is separated by 

 a clear line from the humeral vitta which, 

 though it reaches nearly to the base, extends 

 outward hardly beyond the inner limit of the 



