On undescribed (yicadidx frojH Caiijornia. 1G5 



XXIV. — On a few undescrihed Q,\ciif\\i\di from California. 

 By W. L. Distant. 



IMy friend Mr. E. P. van Diizee lias sent me some specimens 

 c£ the genus Okanagana for examination with some other 

 ah-eady described but rare species of Nearctic genera. Tlnee 

 R|)ecies require description and a new genus to be proposed 

 for a species described by the bite Prof. Uiiler. 



Okanagayia vanduzeei, sp. n. 



Body black ; ocelli, narrow posterior margin to the pro- 

 notunij centre and angles to the cruciform elevation and two 

 small si)ots in tront of same on the mesonotum, base of 

 rostrum, lateral and posterior margins to face, margins of 

 clypeus, coxse (excluding central spots), apices and longitu- 

 dinal streaks to femora, tibia3 (excluding longitudinal black 

 streaks), opercula (excluding central black spots), and poste- 

 rior abdominal segmental margins, beneath, ochraceous or 

 pale sanguineous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation 

 mostly black ; tegmina with the costal membrane ochraceous, 

 its margins black, basal cell ochraceous more or less suffused 

 with black, base of clavus black, inner basal area pile san- 

 guineous ; wings with the extreme base ochraceous, followed 

 by a narrow blackish suffusion, base of abdominal area pale 

 sanguineous, narrowly margined with black ; exposed tym- 

 panal cavities creamy white ; body more or less, especially 

 beneath, palely pilose; head with the front moderately 

 conical, centrally longitudinally, linearly, ochraceously im- 

 pressed, vertex sulcate between ocelli ; pronotum with a deep 

 black central fascia, widened anteriorly and more so poste- 

 riorly, and anteriorly longitudinally sulcate ; face centrally 

 sulcate ; rostrum slightly passing the anterior coxas ; legs 

 longly hirsute, subspinulose ; opercula in (^ reaching the 

 basal abdominal margin, longer than broad, apically inwardly 

 directed ; tegmina broad, about two and a half times as long- 

 as broad. 



Long., excl. tegm., S , 20-22 mm. ; exp. tegm. 52-58 mm. 



JIab. California; San Diego County {E. F. van Duzee, 

 type Brit. Mus.) . 



Var. consohrina. 



Differing from typical 0. vanduzeei in the following 



