December 1S92.J 



PSYCHE. 



363 



little more prominent than usual, the face 

 and cheeks more or less finely sprinkled with 

 dark cinereous, the summit subrugulose ; fas- 

 tigium of vertex shallow, open behind and 

 also in front, where the subcircular faintly 

 biareolate median foveola is completely 

 blended with it; median carina slight, pass- 

 ing a variable distance into the fastigium; 

 lateral foveolae rather pronounced but small 

 and triangular oval ; frontal costa moderately 

 slender, considerably narrowed at the sum- 

 mit, almost as much so and with unusual 

 abruptness below the ocellus, expanding con- 

 siderably at base, sulcate throughout, some- 

 times with a median carina above. Pro- 

 notum moderately stout, expanding almost 

 regularly from base to apex, but not greatly; 

 the process of metazona rectangulate, its 

 margins subcrenulate ; the dorsal surface 

 plane, subverruculose; median carina nearly 

 obliterated between the principal sulci with a 

 slight discal scutellum, otherwise equal, 

 straight, and slight; lateral carinae sharp but 

 not elevated throughout the metazona, the 

 lateral lobes of metazona almost as rough as 

 the dorsum. Tegmina dark brownish fuscous 

 with faint brown or brownish cinereous mark- 

 ings, the apex subvitreous, mottled obscurely 

 with brownish fuscous ; the principal lighter 

 markings are a broad but inferiority narrow- 

 ing transverse patch at the end of the basal 

 third of the tegmina, a narrow but variable 

 transveise stripe just beyond the extreme base 

 of the outer discoidal field and a very irregular 

 and obscure inferior blotch at the very base 

 of the tegmina ; sutural line flavous and very 

 distinct. Wings bright citron yellow at base 

 with corresponding reticulation, obscure hya- 

 line at apex with black reticulation and a 

 rather narrow, arcuate, extramesial, fuliginous 

 band, narrowing as it passes along the outer 

 margin toward the anal angle, which it nearly 

 or quite reaches and leaves about three of the 

 marginal lobes free at the apex ; the apex is 

 also obscured almost or quite as deeply next 

 the margin, but the outer limits of the band 

 are determinable ; it is separated by a pallid 



line from the humeral vitta, the outer limits 

 of which aie subcontinuous with its own and 

 which extends almost to the base, leaving a 

 fulvous edge of the costal margin hardly ob- 

 scured by a stigma. Hind femora dark cine- 

 reous crossed more or less distinctly by three 

 oblique blackish stripes, beneath and within 

 mostly blue black, the tibiae coral red with 

 black tipped spines. 



Length of body, 21.5-23 mm.; of tegmina, 

 2 3- 2 5-5 mm. 



Described from 3 $ taken in Cali- 

 fornia by H. Edwards (his Xo. 79) and 

 in Sonoma Co., April 27-May 9, by 

 Baron R. von Osten Sacken. 



Hippiscus (X.) stigmosus sp. nov. 



This species differs from the preceding only 

 in the markings of the tegmina and wings 

 and may prove to be only a varietal form. 

 The tegmina differ in having the markings 

 still more obscure with the single exception 

 of the spot at the base of the outer discoidal 

 area which is more pronounced and whitish ; 

 and of the sutural stripe which is just as 

 bright as in the other species; the mottling 

 oftheapexis almost entirely or quite lost. 

 In the wings the extramesial band, besides 

 being generally fainter, and sometimes broken 

 into maculae by the penetrating citron colored 

 veins, also extends to a much less distance 

 toward the anal angle, sometimes hardly 

 more than halfway toward it. 



Length of body, $ , 25 mm., $ , 34 mm. ; of 

 tegmina, $ , 25 mm., 9, 29 mm. 



Described from 3 $, 1 9' received 

 from California (J. Behrens), Napa 

 Co., California, (H. Edwards), ami 

 southern Nevada (G. R. Crotch). Mr. 

 Brunei' also sends me specimens from 

 Ukiah, California, collected in April 

 by J. H. Burke, and from Placer Co., 

 California, taken in June. 



