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yellow, toward the tip infuscated. A slender blackish stripe passes 

 from behind the eyes to the hind lobe of pronotum, sometimes in- 

 terrupted, sometimes accompanied by an infuscation beneath, broad- 

 ening the band; upper surface move or less flecked with dark brown, 

 sometimes collected into a V " shaped patch opening forward, the 

 apex at the middle of the posterior lobe ; hind border dotted with 

 blackish; posterior lobe profusely, rest of upper surface sparsely, all 

 shallowly, punctate; sides of metathorax with an pale oblique stripe 

 narrowing upward to a point ; tegmina blackish or brownish fus- 

 cous, flecked rather distantly with brownish spots, relieved by 

 similar pale ones along the middle ; legs of the color of the under- 

 surface, the fore and middle femora a little deeper or duskier; hind 

 femora broadly bifasciate with blackish, the apex black at the sides; 

 hind tibije and tarsi yellow, occasionally tinged with red, paler next 

 the base with a black annulus ; spines black. Vertex broader (c?) or 

 much broader (?) than the first antennal joint, the fastigium with a 

 scarcely perceptible depression (?) or slightly sulcate (c?), broaden- 

 ing in front ; frontal ridge broad, nearly equal, a little sulcate below 

 the ocellus. Median carina of pronotum slight, distinct only on the 

 posterior and anterior lobe, cut by all the transverse furrows; lateral 

 carinse rather distinct, rounded. Last abdominal segment of the male 

 • a little produced, rounded ; cerci vei'y large and stout, compressed, 

 broadening apically, well rounded, very similar to those of C. ponde- 

 rosus, but not so broad at the tip. 



Length of body, d, 29.5 mm.; ?, 34.5 mm.; of tegmina, d, 21 mm.; 

 ?, 24 mm.; of antenna?, cf, 13.5 mm.; ?, 15 mm.; of hind femora, d, 

 17.5 mm.; ?, 21 mm. 3 d", 4 ?, Dallas, Te.^as, J. Boll. 



25. Caloptenus devorator. Yellow, tinged more or less 

 with brown. Head and prothorax yellowish-brown above, bright yel- 

 low on the sides and front, with a distinct, well defined, black band, 

 passing from the hinder edge of the eyes to the division between the 

 middle and hind lobes of the pronotum, narrowly interrupted at the 

 front edge of the pronotum and sending a shoot downward around 

 the lower edge of the eye ; sides of the thorax with a broad oblique 

 blackish stripe enclosing the spiracle; abdomen yellow obscured with 

 fuscous ; antenna; yellow at base, dusky beyond ; legs yellow, the 

 two front pair of femora tinged with dirty orange above, the upper 

 half of the hind femora blotched with reddish fuscous, the hind tibiae 

 and tarsi and the inferior carinia of hind femora bright orange-red; 

 spines black tipped ; tegmina ycllowish-browu with a few minute 



