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to yellowish fuscous, feebly clouded, especially above, with fuscous in 

 the middle and in the middle of the distal half, the under and inner 

 surfaces more or less deeply tinged with coral red; hind tibiae and 

 tarsi fusco-luteous, only the apical half or less* of the spines blackish or 

 brown. 



Length of body, male, 18.5 mm., female, 21 mm.; antennae, male, 9.5 

 mm., female, 10.5 mm. ; pronotum, male, 3.6 mm., female, 4.5 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 10.75 mm., female, 12.5 mm. 



One male, 3 females. Colville Valley, eastern Washington, July 24 

 (L. Bruner; Museum Comparative Zoology). 



In the exceptional length of the hind femora, the feeble metathoracic 

 enlargement of the body, and the development of the furcula, as well as 

 in some minor features, this is the most aberrant species of the genus. 



2. BRADYNOTES CAURUS, new species. 



(Plate VI, fig. 6.) 

 Bradynotes opimus BRUNER!, Can. Ent., XVII (1885), p. 15. 



Body similar in shape and clothing to B. hispida. Head full, the 

 vertex gently tumid, the interspace between the eyes twice as great as 

 the least width of the frontal costa, the fastigium strongly declivent, 

 narrowing rather than expanding anteriorly, broadly but shallowly 

 snlcate, the lateral margins rather prominent but rounded; frontal 

 costa rather broad, much broader than, sometimes twice as broad as, 

 the basal joint of the antennae, generally a little sulcate throughout, 

 especially in the male, punctate at the margins; eyes not very large, 

 scarcely more prominent in the male than in the female, about as long 

 as the infraocular portion of the genae, anteriorly truncate particularly 

 in the female; antennae a little longer (male) or a little shorter (female) 

 than the head and pronotum together. Pronotum subequal, expand- 

 ing posteriorly a very little, especially in the female; metazona half 

 (female) or slightly less than half (male) as long as the prozoua, the sulci 

 of the latter equally indistinct, and neither of them cutting the median 

 carina, which is nearly obliterated on the prozona, especially in the 

 female; posterior margin as in B. hispida; mesonotum more than half 

 (male) or less, sometimes much less, than half (female) as long as the 

 metanotum. Interspace between the mesosternal lobes as wide (female) 

 or hardly more than half as wide (male) as the lobes themselves, the 

 metasternal lobes subcontiguous (male) or half as distant as the meso 

 sternal (female). Fore and middle femora of male somewhat inflated; 

 hind femora short but not very stout, hardly half as long again as head 

 and pronotiyn together. Abdomen relatively rather slender with a slight 

 and blunt median carina, the extremity scarcely enlarged in the male, as 

 viewed from above, and but gently upturned. Supraanal plate of male 

 subtriangular with rounded apex, about equally long and broad, tumid 

 by reason of a pair of very coarse, elevated, rounded ridges, with a 



