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Black ; a])ical margin of vertex and basal margin of f rons, 

 testaceous. Sterna and legs minutely speckled with white, the 

 latter with a few larger white spots, also the bases of the lateral 

 spines on the tibiae. Subcostal cell and apical third of tegmina 

 with numerous (mostly transverse) minute hyaline spots. Wings 

 apically hyaline, veins blackish, apical margin narrowly smoky, 

 basal third opaque black, base pale blue. Abdomen laterally, and 

 above (except basally), red, the pleurites spotted with black. 



Length 14 mill, to apex of tegmina, closed. 



HAB. Arizona, Nogales ; (Koebele's no. 25x9). 



Scolops Schaum 



Scolofs Schaum 1850 Ersch. & Grub., Cycl., Art. Fulg. 

 Ornithissus Fowler 1904 B. C. A., Hom. II, 114. 



Fowler has redescribed Scolops and wrongly placed it in the 

 Issidae. 



I cockercUi (Fowler). 



Ornithissus cockcrelli Fowler op. c, 122, PI. 12, f. 14. 



Previously recorded from Juarez on the northern frontier of 

 iMexico. Fowler has omitted mention of the fuscous marks on 

 the tegmina, but figures some. 



HAB. Arizona, Nogales; (Koebele's no. 2487 Sept.). 



Olianis Stal. 

 I piiiia sp. nov. 



Blackish, keels of head and pronotum more or less ferruginous. 

 Pronotum (except laterallv), tegulae, antennae, the lateral ex- 

 tension apicalwards of the frons, etc., ferruginotestaceous. Teg- 

 mina hyaline, veins dark-brown, closely and minutely studded 

 with blackish granules, some of which bear black hairs ; subcostal 

 vein ferruginotestaceous, narrowly bordered within w'ith black ; 

 stigma black, whitish basally ; there is a black spot, or rather 

 suffusion, at the first forking of the brachial vein, and there is 

 some brownish sufifusion on parts of the apical third, both of cells 

 and veins. Penultimate segment of rostrum, tibiae and tarsi, 

 posterior margin of sternites, etc., dark ferruginous. 



Vertex longer than wide, feebly carinate medianly. scarcely 

 extending in front of the eyes ; lateral margins forking at about 

 three-fourths of the length of the eves, the inner forks connected 



