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the pronotiim into neurly equal parts, the posterior probablj' a little 

 the longer, at least in some females; interspace between the meso- 

 sternal lobes nearly tvviee (male) or more than twice (female) as long as 

 broad, between the metasternal lo])es slig-htly broader (male) or twice 

 as broad (female) as long. Tegmina moderately slender, extending 

 nearly a fourth of their length beyond the tips of the posterior 

 femora; basally densily reticulate, apically more coarsely reticulate 

 and membraneous; color reddish brown, marked at the location of 

 the humeral angle with a solid brownish-black })and reaching com- 

 pletely across the elytra: beyond this ti'ansverse band are a number 

 of more or less distinct blotches of a brownish color. Wings with 

 the basal half red, except an obscnre ta^iial interruption; beyond the 

 colored disk the wing is transparent with infuscated veins, transverse 

 fuscous band l)arely indicated; stigma fuscous, about one-fourth as 

 long as the wing. Posterior femora stout 

 and heavy, outer face brownish, with a mod- 

 erately broad blackish bar across near the 

 l)ase of the outer half, faint in the female: 

 inner face of the hind femora light in color 

 with two l)road, l)lack transverse bars, the 

 basal one sometimes extending to the base; 

 hind til)ia^ yellow ish ))asally, the inside black- 

 ish, ringed just before the middle more or 

 less distinctly with l)lack and ])eyond red; 

 spines black tipped, eight (male), six to seven 

 (female) in outer series;' tarsi yellowish brown, 

 tinged with red, usually decidedly reddish. 

 Alxlomen reddish brown, parallel not apically 

 swollen in the male; valves of the female 

 ovipositor unarmed, considerably scooped out; male subgenital plate 

 apically acutelv elevated a little above the supraanal plate; supraanal 

 plate subtriang-ular, sides somewhat rounded, centrally tumid at the 

 base, and with a short basal sulcus, scarcely more than one-fourth as 

 long as the plate itself. Cerci simple, rapidly tai)ering in the ))asal 

 half, the apical half scarcely half as l)road as the basal portion. 



Length, ))ody, male \\) jum., female 25 to 30 mm.; antenna', male 12 

 mm., female 12 mm.: pronotum, male 4 mm., female 5.5 to H mm.: 

 elytra, male 19 mm., female 23 to 24.5 mm.: posterior femora, male 

 11 mm., female 13 to 14 mm.; width at widest part, elytra, male 3.5 

 mm., female 5 mm.: wing, male 1).5 mm., female 11.5 mm. 



7}//;.3.— Cat. No. 8260, U.S. N.M. 



This species resembles somewhat the variety of //. suuiichm.^ti 

 described from Texas, but is more robust, has stouter posterior femorte 

 and has the elytra more distinctly banded. ]Mr. Rehn says the body 

 is still smoother in //. a-stecns^ with which he kindly compared these 



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-HELI.\STX'S ben.iamini. 



