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much less than half (male) as long as the metanotum. Interspace 

 between the mesosternal lobes almost as broad as the lobes themselves 

 (male, female), the metasternal lobes slightly distant (male) or fully 

 three-fourths as distant as the mesosternal lobes (female). Femora as 

 in 7?. caurus. Abdomen relatively slender, compressed, with a distinct 

 but not prominent median carina, the extremity in the male slightly 

 enlarged, as seen from above, and somewhat upturned; terminal 

 appendages of male differing from those of B. caurus only in that the 

 supraamil plate is a little more pointed, and the cerci coarser, a trifle 

 shorter, more bluntly tipped, and not curved downward so much 

 apically. 



Body brownish fuscous above, sordid yellow below. Face livid brown, 

 flecked with fuscous points ; the ridged margins of the fastigium coral 

 red, at least in. the male; behind the eyes, in front of the position for 

 the lateral carinae of the pronotum, is the beginning of a slender and 

 feeble yellowish stripe, which crosses interruptedly to the pronotum 

 and is there lost; below it, the upper half of the lateral lobes are dark 

 brown, almost blackish, at least on the prozona, while below the lobes 

 are much lighter colored. The abdomen is more or less flecked, espe- 

 cially laterally, at the posterior margins of the segments with testaceous, 

 and there is a more or less conspicuous or broken piceous lateral band 

 on the basal half of the abdomen. The hind femora are colored as in 

 B. caurus, but the hind tibiae are coral red in the male, sordid yellow 

 apically tinged with red in the female, feebly incurved, the spines black 

 tipped. Lower external half of anal cerci of male distinctly darker 

 than the upper. 



Length of body, male, 16.25 mm., female, 28 mm.; pronotum, male, 

 4 mm., female, 4.5 mm.; hind femora, male, 8.25 mm., female, 14 mm. 



Two males, 1 female. Easton, Kittitas County, Washington (U.S.X.M. 

 [No. 719]). 



This species is very closely allied indeed to B. caurus. 



4. BRADYNOTES PINGUIS, new species. 

 (Plate VI, fig. 8.) 



Body stout and clumsy, considerably enlarged in the metathoracic 

 region, especially in the female, weakly and briefly pilose. Head full, 

 the vertex gently tumid, the interspace between the eyes broad, about 

 twice the breadth of the narrowest part of the frontal costa, the fastig- 

 ium strongly declivent, considerably but broadly sulcate, its lateral 

 margins ridged, continuous with the sometimes elevated, always dark- 

 colored bortlers of the frontal costa; the latter broad, much broader than 

 the basal joint of the antennae, variably sulcate, punctate but sparsely 

 except on the margins; eyes rather large, more prominent in the male 

 than in the female, equally truncate anteriorly in the two sexes, as long 

 as the infraocular portion of the genae; antennae somewhat louger 

 (male) or a trifle shorter (female) than head and pronotum together. 



