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pronotum unicolorous except that the lower portions of the lateral 

 lobes become gradually flavesceut and the lateral carinae are conspicu- 

 ously flavous; median carina percurrent, equal, blunt, longitudinally 

 arcuate on the prozona; front margin subtruncate, hind margin very 

 obtusangulate, both delicately margined; prozona very longitudinal, 

 being more than (male) or almost (female) half as long again as broad, 

 very coarsely and sparsely punctate, half as long again as the finely 

 ruguloso-punctate metazona. Prosternal spine rather long, conico cyl- 

 indrical, erect, blunt; interspace between mesosternal lobes twice as 

 long as broad (male) or fully half as long again as broad (female), the 

 met asternal lobes approximate (male) or moderately distant (female). 

 Tegmina subovate, very broad, very rapidly tapering especially by the 

 oblique excision of the costal margin and the strong apical arcuation of 

 the inner margin, subacuminate, a little longer than the pronotum, 

 overlapping, brownish castaneous, the ulnar vein broadly marked with 

 pale flavous edged anteriorly with blackish fuscous. Fore and middle 

 femora somewhat enlarged in the male, rufo-flavous; hind femora fl a vo- 

 testaceous, the outer face and the geuiculation more or less deeply 

 infuscated especially above, without fasciatiou or maculation of any 

 kind ; hind tibiae rather deep red or fusco- violaceous, the spines pallid 

 with black tips, eight to eleven in number in the outer series. Extremity 

 of male abdomen clavate but very feebly^nlarged, very strongly recurved, 

 the supraanal plate pretty regularly triangular, as long as broad, the 

 apex acutangulate, the margins feebly and broadly elevated, the median 

 sulcus not very deep, terminating with its bordering ridges in the center 

 of the plate; furcula ?; cerci very broad and somewhat tumid at base, 

 forming a compressed and slightly tortuous cone, tapering rapidly and 

 somewhat regularly, but with the slender tip a little produced, curved 

 slightly inward and downward, bluntly pointed, reaching the tip of the 

 snpraanal plate; infracercal plates very broad, suddenly narrowing just 

 beyond the base but easily visible outside the cerci nearly the whole 

 length of the latter, slightly produced apically to attain the tip of the 

 supraanal plate; subgenital plate tumid, very broad at apex, partly by 

 the retrocession of the preceding ventral segment, distinctly broader 

 than long, the lateral and apical margins together feebly arcuate so 

 that the apex is slightly elevated, the apical margin as seen from above 

 acutangulate, entire. 



Length of body, male, 29.5 mm., female, 39.5 mm.; antennae, female, 

 1-..") mm.; pronotum, male, 7.5 mm., female, 9.75 mm.; tegmina, male, 

 9 mm., female, 11.15 mm.; hind femora, male, 16 mm., female, 18.5 mm. 



One male, 1 female. Dakota (L. Bruner); Dallas, Texas, Boll 

 (U.S.N.M. [Bo. 730.] Riley collection). 



The single male (from Dakota) is slightly mutilated, preventing a 

 description of certain parts. I was at first inclined to regard this as 

 distinct from Brunner's species, of which he favored me with a descrip- 

 tion and figure (hitherto unpublished), on account of the representation 



