December 1S92.] 



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arcuate band, the more or less pallid costal 

 margin faintly infuscated next the outer limit 

 of the vitta. Hind femora with the inferior 

 carina strongly arcuate, the outer face pallid, 

 more or less strongly marked with three 

 broad, oblique, blackish bands, beneath like 

 the tibiae and tarsi, very pale luteous, the 

 spines black tipped. 



Length of body, $ , 22 mm., $? , 2S mm.; 

 of tegmina, $, 24 mm., $ , 26 mm. 



Described from i $ , i ? , taken in 

 the Prescott Mountain District, central 

 Arizona, by Dr. Edward Palmer. 



HlPPISCUS(X.) LATEFASCIATUS Sp. IIOV. 



Very dark brownish fuscous, marked with 

 cinereous, of a moderately robust form (the 

 $ rather slender) and rather below the me- 

 dium size. Head sparsely and slightly rug- 

 ulose above, not very broad, the fastigium of 

 the vertex plane with rather low bounding 

 walls, open behind, and in front completely 

 engulfing the faintly biareolate median 

 foveola, the lateral foveolae distinct, trian- 

 gular, rather small, the frontal costa of mod- 

 erate breadth, sulcate throughout except at 

 the contracted summit. Pronotum very dark, 

 the dorsum sometimes with subdecussate, 

 broad, cinereous markings, the lateral lobes 

 more tinged with gray, but with a large 

 central quadrangular black patch on prozona ; 

 dorsum of $ nearly plane, of °- somewhat 

 tumid, of both rather strongly and coarsely 

 verruculose, the more prominent elevations 

 longitudinal but short; median carina obso- 

 lete between the sulci (but here accompanied 

 by only an obsolete discal scutellum) no- 

 where prominent except where it passes, in 

 the $ , over the stabbed front of the meta- 

 zona ; process rectangulate ; lateral carinae 

 prominent, rather sharp, and extended. 

 Tegmina pantherine, cinereous, and dark 

 brown, the darker markings prevailing, ex- 



tending to the apex, crossing almost or quite 

 the whole wing, and everywhere very much 

 broken, hardly more blended at the base than 

 elsewhere; sutural stripe cinereous. Wings 

 pale citron at base with corresponding reticu- 

 lation, pellucid with black reticulation and a 

 few cellular maculations at apex, and between 

 an unusually broad, arcuate, blackish fuligi- 

 nous band which narrows only when follow- 

 ing the outer margin to the anal angle, which 

 it reaches and leaves in the $ only a little 

 more than two, in the $ three or four mar- 

 ginal lobes free at the apex; it is separated 

 by a fine fulvous line from the humeral vitta, 

 the outer limit of which corresponds to that 

 of the arcuate band and extends nearly or 

 quite to the base, leaving only the basal half 

 of the costal edge light colored. Hind femora 

 externally pale cinereous with three broad, 

 very oblique, blackish bands, internally coral 

 red blotched with blackish at the base, 

 beneath, like the tibiae, coral red, the latter 

 more or less hoary externally on the basal 

 half, the spines black tipped. 



Length of body, $, 23-25 mm., ?, 33.5-37 

 mm.; tegmina, J, 25-27 mm., ?, 31.5-36 

 mm. 



Described from 4 $ , 2 <j> . 



This is a northern species, living' next 

 our northern boundary, occurring from 

 the Red River in Manitoba (Donald 

 Gunn) and Calgary, Alberta, British 

 Columbia, June 1 1 (Bean in S. Hen- 

 shaw's collection) to the upper Mis- 

 souri and Yellowstone (F. V. Hayden) . 



Hippiscus (X.) obscurus sp. nov. 



Blackish fuscous, of slender form and 

 small size. Head dark only on summit, being 

 elsewhere cinereous or livid, flecked with 

 fuscous dots, not very large nor very tumid, 

 faintly subrugulose in the vicinity of the 



