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deep chestnut brown ; vertex yellow, with transverse fuscous 

 lines. Length, ? 4mm, d* 3.5mm; width, ? 1.6mm, c?1.2mm. 



Vertex obtusely angulate, twice wider than long, not quite two- 

 thirds as long against eye as on middle, anterior margin thick, 

 rounding to the face; front a little longrer than wide, but little 

 wider at the apex than theclypeus; pronolum strongly arcuated 

 anteriorly, the side margins very short ; elytra short and stout, 

 reaching the end of the abdomen, appendix minute, apical cells 

 short, sometimes a second cross nervure between the sectors. 



Color: Vertex tawny yellow, a line between the fulvous ocelli, 

 broken forwards in the middle, a transverse band back of this, and 

 a crescent near each basal angle connected by a curved line, dark 

 brown; pronotum yellowish, irrorate with fuscous except on the 

 anterior margin; elytral nervures pale, testaceous, heavily margined 

 with fuscous; face yellow, sutures, arcs of the front and a spot on 

 the clypeus fuscous; below brownish fuscous, legs annulate with 

 fuscous. 



Genitalia: Female, ultimate venti-al segment little longer than 

 penultimate, posterior margin shallowly excavated either side of the 

 middle; pygofei-s over twice longer than wide, equalling the ovi- 

 positer. Male, valve broad, obtusely rounding: plates broad at 

 base, triangular, three times lonarer than valve, outer margin thickly 

 set with coarse hairs. 



Described from numerous specimens taken in the mountains 

 west of Fort (Collins, Colo., between 7,000 and 9,000 feet alti- 

 tude, and one sjiecimen from Lead vile, Col. (C. P. Gillette). 

 The Fort Collins specimens were all taken, together with their 

 larvae, from bearberry (Aretostaphylos uva ursi). 



Athysanus alpinus, n. sp. 



General form and color of obsoletus, with the longer vertex 

 of extrusus. Pale clouded yellow, with two transverse fuscous 

 bands on the vertex. Length, 9 5.5-6mm, c? 4.5mm ; width, 

 $ 2mm, c? 1.5mm. 



Vertex nearly as long as the pronotum, twice as long on the 

 middle as against eye. three-fifths as l<»ug as the basal width, ob- 

 tusely angulate before, the margin bluut aud rounding; front, no 

 longer than its basal width, twice longer than clypeus: pronotum 

 two and one-half times wider than long: elytra shorter than the 

 abdomen in the female, sligthly exceeding it in the male 



Color: Dirty straw yellow, a fuscous, transverse band between 

 the ocelli, angled forwai"ds nearly to the apex of the vertex, a 

 brownish fuscous band just behind and parallel with the first, fork- 

 ing at each end, the anterior forks running forward to the ocelli, 

 the posterior ones back to the basal angles; pronotum with four 



