NO. 1530. THE DECTICIN.E OF NORTH AMERICA— CAUDELL. 401 



Type. — In the Scudder collection. 



Specimens examined. — 1 have examined nearl}' half a hundred speci- 

 inen.« of this species. Professor Morse has a line series of six males 

 aud eighteen females taken b}^ himself at Tehachapi, California, in 

 1897. They were found traveling- about in a grassy field some dis- 

 tance from any woodlands. Besides this series in the Morse collec- 

 tion and the material in the Scudder collection, which includes the 

 type. I have seen specimens from Los Angeles Count}^, California, and 

 from San Bernardino and Atwater in the same State. A female taken 

 at Valley Springs, California, July 28, 1885, by H. A. Mepinge, is 

 colored, except the lateral lobes of the pronotum, which are margined 

 as usual, uniformly dark ])rown, instead of light yellowish brown, and 

 the measurements are somewhat less, being as follows: 



Length, pronotum, (> mm.; posterior femora, 21; elytra, 2.25; ovi- 

 positor, 16; width of pronotum at the posterior border of the disk, 2.25. 



This specimen seems to form a variety worthy of a name, and 1 call 

 it Cf hiopleitrn melanopleura var. infuscata. 



Type.—Cvii. No. 10190, U. S. National Museum. 



A female in the Scudder collection is somewhat more infuscated 

 than usual, tending towards this dark variety and proving the differ- 

 ence separating the variety from the typical form to be varietal and 

 not specific. This dark variety is somewhat related to the following- 

 species, jlav(rmar</uutf(i, but is nuidi smaller, and the lateral lobes of 

 the pronotum are more distinctly margined posteriorly witii 3'ellow. 



CLINOPLEURA FLAVOMARGINATA Scudder. 



Clinopleura Jiaroiiiarginalit Scuddek, Can. Ent., XXXIl, 11»00, p. 332 (part). — 

 KiRBY, "Syn. Cat. Orth., II, 1906, p. 194. 



DesGription. — Ver}^ similar to C. tiielanoplexmi., in structure, except 

 that of the cerci, practicall v the same. The color is testaceous with the 

 infuscation of the lateral lobes of the pronotum less distinctly con- 

 trasted with the posterior margins than in melanopleura. The struc- 

 ture of the cerci of the male is quite different from than of melano- 

 plexra. the black shiny apical portion being only about one-fourth as 

 long as the main body instead of nearly one-half as long, in this respect 

 agreeing with the cerci of the following species, minxita. The 

 measurements are as follows: 



Measurements. — Length, pronotum, male and female, 6.75 mm.; 

 posterior femora, male, 25.5, female, 26.5; elytra, male and female, 

 2.75; ovipositor, 19. 



Types. — In the Scudder (collection and the collection of A. P. Morse. 



Specimens examined. — Several specimens of botlf sexes, all from 

 California. 



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