NO. 1124. RE VISION OF THE MELA NOPLISC UDDEE. 213 



Pezotctlix rubricrua WALSH!, MS. (1865). 



Podisma seudderi WALKER, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mns., IV (1870), p. 718. 



Pezotdtix ntncolor THOMAS!, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., V (1873), p. 151; 



Proc. Day. Acad. Nat. Sc., I (1876), p. 260. GLOVKR, 111. N. A. Ent., Orth. 



(1876;, pi. xin, fig. 9. THOMAS, Bull. 111. Mns. Nat. Hist., I (1876), p. 66; 



Rep. Geol. Expl. W. 100th Mer., V (1875), p. 888, pi. XLV, fig. 4. BRUNER, 



Can. Ent., IX (1877), p. 144. RILEY, Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm., I (1878), pp. 



220, 226. THOMAS, Rep. Ent. 111., IX (1880), pp. 95, 118-119. BRUNER, Rep. 



U. S. Ent. Comm., Ill (1883), p. 59; Bull. Washb. Coll., I (1885), p. 136; 



Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc., Ill (1893), p. 27. 



Of medium or rather small size, ferrugineo-fuscous, a little lighter 

 beneath. Head not prominent, dark testaceous, much mottled with 

 fuscous or generally infuscated, above almost wholly infuscated, with 

 an obscure fuscous postocular band; vertex somewhat tumid, scarcely 

 elevated above the pronotura, the interspace between the eyes half as 

 broad again (male) or twice as broad (female) as the first antenna! joint; 

 fasti giurn steeply declivent, plane, with feebly raised lateral margins; 

 frontal costa fading before the clypeus, subequal, of the same breadth 

 as the interspace between the eyes, the lateral margins faintly elevated 

 throughout and besides that feebly sulcate at and below the ocellus, 

 punctate biseriately above; eyes moderately large, rather prominent, 

 very much longer than the infraocular portion of the genae; antennae 

 ferruginous, more or less infuscated apically, about four-fifths (male) or 

 less than two-thirds (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum 

 often heavily ferruginous on the disk, the lateral lobes with a postocular 

 piceous belt, occasionally subobsolete, either crossing the whole pro- 

 notum but generally enfeebled on the metazona, or confined to the 

 prozona; disk broadly convex, passing by a distinct but everywhere 

 distinctly rounded shoulder into the at first very steeply declivent 

 and afterwards vertical lateral lobes; median carina distinct, delicate 

 and equal throughout; front margin very feebly convex and often 

 faintly em arginate in the middle, hind margin obtusangulate, occasion- 

 ally rotundato-obtusangulate; prozona distinctly longitudinal (male) or 

 varying from quadrate to distinctly longitudinal the latter especially in 

 southern examples (female), fully half (male) or generally about a fourth 

 (female) longer than the heavily and densely punctate metazona. Pro- 

 sternal spine not very long, appressed cylindrical, tapering apically, 

 bluntly pointed, erect; interspace between mesosternal lobes fully 

 twice as long as broad (male) or quadrate (female). Tegmina about as 

 long as the pronotum, broad ovate, overlapping, roundly subacuminate at 

 tip (excepting in extreme southern examples, where it is well rounded) ; 

 wings not half the length of the tegmina. Fore and middle femora 

 slightly tumid in the male; hind femora ferrugineo-testaceous, occa- 

 sionally with an olivaceous tinge, feebly bimaculate with fuscous 

 above, the spots often extending halfway across the inner face, the 

 lower face castaneous, occasionally ruddy, the whole geniculation fus- 

 cous and the genicular arc black; hind tibiae bright red, sometimes 

 feebly infuscated or dulled toward the base, and with a fuscous patellar 



