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General color reddish yellow brown. Head with a narrow obscure 

 l)rownish stripe extending along each side of the vertex to the back of 

 the head; eyes blackish. Pronotum with the lateral lobes slightly 

 darker than the disk, narrowly bordered along the humeral sinus with 

 light yellowish. Abdomen slightly inf uscated above and on the sides, 

 marked longitudinally with moderately broad yellowish subdorsal 

 stripes. Ovipositor black at the tip, the sides narrowly yellowish as 

 is also the base. Tibite slightly inf uscated; posterior femora longitu- 

 dinall}^ marked on the outer face with a black streak. 



Measurements. — Length, pronotum, 7 mm."; posterior femora, 18; 

 ovipositor, 6; width, pronotum across metazona, 3.5; posterior femora, 

 across widest part, 4. across narrowest point, 1; ovipositor, across 

 middle, 1.75. 



Ty2M. — In the collection the iVmerican Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. 



Specimens examined. — The type, one female, Napa County, Califor- 

 nia (H. Edwards). 



This is a very interesting little species and is placed in this genus 



Fig. 39.— Eremopedes bkevicaud.\. Adult female. 



with some doubt. The persistent, but obscure, lateral carina of the 

 pronotum, the broad vertex and the very short ovipositor are indica- 

 tive of generic distinctness, but until the other sex is known, it is 

 thought best to place it here. The pronotal carinte are very obscure, 

 but are made more apparent b^^ reason of the pronotal disk being 

 slightly lighter in color than that of the lateral lobes. The very short 

 ovipositor is unique in the whole group as represented in the fauna 

 covered by the present paper. 



For the loan of this specimen for study and description I am 

 indebted to Mr. William Beutenmuller. 



EREMOPEDES ALBOFASCIATA Scudder and Cockerell. 



Plagiostira albofasciata Scuddek and Cockerell, Proc. Davenp. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., IX, 1902, p. 55, pi. ni, fig. 2.— Kirby, Syn. Cat. Orth., II, 1906, p. 195. 

 Plagiostira gradla Rehn, Piibl. Kans. Acad. Sci., 1905, p. 227. ■ 



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