402 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxii. 



The specimens recorded in the original description as from Ahwanee, 

 Raymond, and Cahiveras, California, all belong to a different species 

 herein described as new. The true types as here eliminated are all 

 from Ceres, California, August 17, one pair in the Scudder collection 

 and one male in the collection of Morse. An immature female in the 

 collection of the National Museum is referred here with some doubt. 

 It comes from Anaheim, Orange County, California (Coquillett). 



Were it not for the different cerci of the male I would rather 

 incline to the belief that this .species is but a variety of rnelanopleura. 



CLINOPLEURA MINUTA, new species. 



Clinopleura Jiavomarginata Scuddek, Can. Ent., XXXII, 1900, p. 332 (part). 



Description. — In most particulars this species is like melanopleiM'a 

 except in size, which is much less than in either inelanopleura or 

 Havoniarginata. The cerci of the male are like those of flavoinar- 

 gi'iiata., the black apical portion l)eing about one fourth as long as the 

 main body (fig. 86). The color is testaceous or fusco-testaceous with 

 the lateral lobes of the pronotum infuscated and margined below and 

 behind with j^ellow. The elytra are comparatively 

 about the same length and show about the same range 

 of variation as those of the typical species. The 

 size, however, is the most conspicuous differentiating 



Fig. 86.— Clinopleura feature, being as follows: 



MINUTA. CERCUS OF 1/ j 7 il J. 1 ^ f k 



ADULT MALE Me(UureinenU. — Jjength, pronotum, male, 4.5-5 



mm., female, 4.5-5.5; posterior femora, male, 19-22, 



female, 19-22.5: elytra, male, 2-3, female, 1.5-2; ovipositor, 13-16; 



width, pronotal disk at the posterior margin, male and female, 1.75-2.5. 



Type.— C'At. No. 10191, U. S. National Museum. 



Specimens examined. — Several specimens of both sexes from Cali- 

 fornia. 



Described from two pairs from Calaveras, California. In the col- 

 lections of Scudder and Morse are examples from Ahwanee, Calaveras, 

 and Raymond, California, some of them marked as types of C. iJavo- 

 nidrginata. These specimens bear fiavomarglnata tj^pe labels and are 

 mentioned in the original description but do not appear to enter 

 materially into the description itself as the measurements are much 

 below those given iov favomarginata. I have seen a male of iiiinuta 

 from Berkeley, California. 



This is the smallest species of the genus and seems very distinct. 



