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  PKOCEEDIXOS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIOXAL 
  M^SE^^^. 
  VOL. 
  XX. 
  

  

  2S. 
  ASEMOPLUS, 
  new 
  genus. 
  

   {\l6ytio?, 
  without 
  device; 
  i)7rAi>, 
  armor.) 
  

  

  Body 
  resembling 
  Coualcaea 
  in 
  general 
  appearance, 
  rather 
  slender, 
  

   compressed 
  cylindrical, 
  feebly 
  and 
  sparsely 
  pilose. 
  Head 
  moderately 
  

   largo, 
  not 
  prominent, 
  witli 
  feebly 
  tnmescent 
  genae, 
  the 
  vertex 
  well 
  

   arched, 
  raised 
  bnt 
  little 
  above 
  the 
  general 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  pronotnni, 
  the 
  

   fastiginm 
  rapidly 
  descending, 
  the 
  face 
  ronnded 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  retreating; 
  

   eyes 
  separated 
  widely, 
  the 
  fastiginm 
  depressed 
  only 
  between 
  them 
  and 
  

   very 
  feebly, 
  i^assing 
  insensibly 
  into 
  the 
  broad 
  and 
  eqnal 
  frontal 
  costa, 
  

   which 
  is 
  yet 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  ronnded, 
  

   fading 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  moderately 
  prominent, 
  very 
  broad 
  

   oval, 
  the 
  front 
  border 
  subtrnncate, 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae 
  ; 
  antennae 
  very 
  slender, 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   head 
  and 
  pronotum 
  together. 
  Pronotnm 
  short, 
  subequal, 
  the 
  metazona 
  

   tlaring 
  somewhat, 
  transversely 
  convex, 
  the 
  disk 
  passing 
  insensibly 
  into 
  

   the 
  subvertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  with 
  no 
  sign 
  of 
  lateral 
  carinae, 
  the 
  median 
  

   carina 
  slight 
  and 
  occurring 
  only 
  on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  fore 
  and 
  hind 
  mar- 
  

   gins 
  both 
  truncate, 
  the 
  latter 
  feebly 
  and 
  broadly 
  emarginate; 
  prozoua 
  

   coarsely 
  and 
  sparsely 
  punctate, 
  transverse, 
  almost 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   finely 
  and 
  densely 
  punctate 
  metazona, 
  the 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  of 
  the 
  former 
  

   distinct, 
  the 
  postmediau 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  sinuate. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  erect, 
  

   stout, 
  subcorneal; 
  meso- 
  and 
  metastethia 
  together 
  distinctly 
  (male) 
  

   or 
  slightly 
  (female) 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  tlie 
  interval 
  between 
  the 
  meso- 
  

   sternal 
  lobes 
  quadrate 
  (male) 
  or 
  transverse 
  and 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  lobes 
  

   (female): 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  rather 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  (female) 
  distant, 
  

   but 
  in 
  neither 
  case 
  more 
  distant 
  than 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa, 
  the 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  thorax 
  behind 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  only 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  

   than 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  metasteruum, 
  but 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  

   as 
  long. 
  Tegmina 
  linear, 
  lateral, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum. 
  Hind 
  

   femora 
  not 
  very 
  long, 
  but 
  slender, 
  the 
  inferior 
  genicular 
  lobe 
  |)allid 
  and 
  

   immaculate, 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  with 
  ten 
  to 
  twelve 
  spines 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  

   series. 
  Abdomen 
  of 
  male 
  feebly 
  clavate 
  apically 
  and 
  somewhat 
  up- 
  

   turned, 
  the 
  lateral 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  strongly 
  ampliate 
  

   at 
  base, 
  apically 
  produced 
  and 
  acutangulate, 
  but 
  with 
  no 
  tubercle: 
  

   cerci 
  substyliform 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  of 
  fenmie 
  tapering 
  regularly 
  to 
  a 
  pointed 
  

   tip, 
  the 
  ovipositor 
  normally 
  exserted. 
  

  

  This 
  genus 
  is 
  represented 
  by 
  a 
  single 
  species, 
  found 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  

   extreme 
  northwestern 
  United 
  States. 
  

  

  ASEMOPLUS 
  MONTANUS. 
  

   ablate 
  XXVI. 
  fig. 
  7.) 
  

   Braihiiiotes 
  montanus 
  Brixer!. 
  Cau. 
  Ent., 
  XVII 
  (^1885), 
  pp. 
  16-17. 
  

  

  Body 
  very 
  dark 
  i 
  eddish 
  brown, 
  marked 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  testaceous, 
  

   beneath 
  luteous. 
  Head 
  olivaceo-luteous, 
  infumated, 
  above 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  