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at the sides; eyes large, not very prominent, distinctly longer than the 

 infraocular portion of the genae; antennae fulvo-testaceous, about two- 

 thirds as long as the hind femora (male). Pronotum subequal, feebly 

 enlarging posteriorly, the median carina distinct throughout, though 

 the feebler on the prozona, the lateral carinae forming a tolerably dis- 

 tinct angle, especially on the metazona, the disk darker than the lateral 

 lobes, but the latter having a clouded piceous band on the prozoua, 

 much broken by luteous or ferruginous, and distinct only in the 

 impressed portions; front margin faintly convex, hind margin obtus- 

 angulate, nearly rectangulate; prozona quadrate, no longer than the 

 closely punctate metazona. Prosternal spine short, appressed, conico- 

 cylindrical, blunt, erect, stout; interspace between rnesosternal lobes 

 a little more than twice as long as broad (male). Tegmina greyish 

 fuscous, very feebly and very sparsely sprinkled with fuscous dots in the 

 discoidal field, considerably surpassing the hind femora, moderately 

 slender, subequal, well rounded at tip; wings pellucid, with greenish 

 fuscous veins. Hind femora dull testaceous, broadly, obliquely, and 

 more or less distinctly bifasciate with dark olivaceo-fuscous, the under 

 surface more or less ruddy; hind tibiae pale obscure glaucous, the 

 spines black and pallid, ten to thirteen, generally eleven, in number in 

 the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen a little clavate, a little 

 upturned, the supraanal plate long triangular, with acutangulate apex 

 and slightly convex sides, the surface nearly flat, a moderately narrow, 

 percurrent, median sulcus marked by the elevation of its not very 

 sharp nor high walls; furcula consisting of a pair of parallel, flattened, 

 not very broad, rather rapidly tapering, subacuminate fingers, hardly 

 surpassing the basal third of the supraaual plate; cerci small, slender, 

 feebly upcurved, gently incurved, equal except for the slight basal 

 enlargement, well rounded at apex, distinctly less than four times as 

 long as broad, and much shorter than the supraanal plate; infracercal 

 plates as in the preceding species; subgenital plate broad and short, 

 apically elevated abruptly and considerably but not prolonged, the 

 apical margin transverse, thickened, and notched. 



Length of body, male, 23.5 mm. ; antennae, 9 mm. ; teginina, 20.5 mm. ; 

 hind femora, 14 mm. 



Two males. Los Angeles, California, Coquillett (U.S.N.M. Kiley 

 collection). 



8. IMPUDICUS SERIES. 



This group is composed of a single species of medium size, and is more 

 nearly related to the next group than to any other. The prozona is 

 slightly longitudinal in the male. The interspace between the ineso- 

 sternal lobes in the same sex is nearly half as long again as broad and 

 the metasternal lobes are only approximate. The tegmina are fully 

 developed and surpass the hind femora. The hind tibiae are red and 

 have eleven to thirteen spines in the outer series. 



