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dark brown. Head shagreened and punctate, the face clothed 

 with a white pubescence ; mandibles ferruginous, the teeth 

 black. Thorax sparsely pubescent, transversely shagreen^ 

 and punctured, the punctures more distinct and coarser along 

 the hind margin of the pronotum, on the parapsides along 

 the furrow of samCj and on the scutellum. Mesopleura except 

 the hind margin sculptured, the hind margin smooth, impunc- 

 tate. Hind coxsb large, reticulately sculptured. Abdomen 

 finely or microscopicallj^ reticulated, the dorsal flap bluish. 



c^. — Length 3.2 mm. Agrees well with the ? in color and in 

 the structure of the head and thorax, but the tegulse and the 

 femora are bluish-green, the tibia? dark browu, the tarsi, except 

 the terminal joint, whitish, while the abdomen is bluish-green 

 scarcely as longas the thorax, with the dorsal flap bright green. 



Type, No. 4306 U. S. N. M. 



Described from 3 ? bred from the small gall. 

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RECOLLLCTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS. 



By H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa. 



IX. The Alpine Districts about Leadville. 

 Leaving Buena Vista, the railroad follows the Arkansas 

 Valley very closely in the long climb to Leadville. As the 

 mountain summits draw nearer and nearer the waters of the 

 turbulent stream become ever less muddy and by the time the 

 great mining camp is reached the dwindled Arkansas is trans- 

 formed into a clear brook, flowing over a pebbly bed or glid- 

 ing more slowly on a torturous course through broad marshy 

 meadows. The altitude has now exceeded ten thousand feet 

 and the fauna and flora are essentially modified in conse- 

 quence. 



We arrived at the station late in the afternoon of July 7th, 

 during a heavy rain. Every afternoon of our eight day so- 

 journ was marred by a like precipitation of moisture and this 

 detracted materially from the pleasure of the trip as well as 

 interfering with collecting. These showers are very cold and 

 quickly result in benumbed hands which are slow to grasp the 

 ground-inhabiting insects, and the saturated dripping foliage 

 precludes successful use of the sweep-net or umbrella. The 

 little butterflies (apparently some species of Lycwna) fold 



