214 EXTO^^OLOGICAT. NEW?. [ June. 'i8 



Paratypcs: $, topotypic; $, Dickinson, Xorth Dakota (H. 

 Osborn). 



This species stood in the Cornell Collection as Lop idea 

 nigridca, being received in an exchange lot from C. F. Baker 

 in i8q6. It differs from niqridea in its small size, coloration. 

 and genital claspers. 



Lopidea picta new species. (PI. XIII. fig. 1^. 



Dark fuscous with black and white, differing from most 

 species of Lopidea in the absence of any reddish coloration. 



$. Length 5.5 mm., width 1.78 mm. Dark fuscous, calli, base of the 

 head, tylus and each side of the median Hne of the front, rostrum 

 and antennae, black; anterior part of the pronotum and the head 

 ivory white, excluding the parts given as black; scutellum except the 

 margins, embolium and cuneus, pale. Side of the pronotum, pleurae 

 and venter, white; sternum, sutures of the pleurae and marks on the 

 sides of the venter and genital segment, fuscous. Legs fuscous to 

 black, coxae except base, lower edge of the femora and apices, pale. 

 Second antennal segment nearly linear. Genital claspers distinctive 

 of the species. 



9 . Very similar to the male in coloration, certain forms shorter 

 and more robust with membrane abbreviated. 



Holotype: S. June 15. 19a). Pueblo. Colorado (E. D. 

 Ball) ; Cornell University Collection. 



Allotype : topotypic. 



Paratypes: 4^,2 $ , topotypic; (J , 3 9 , July 24. 1900. Sal- 

 ida, Colorado. 



Lopidea incurva new species. (PI. XIII, fig. 8). 



Slightly larger than minor and smaller than dazisi. reddish 

 with the fuscous on the dorsum much as in minor; male genital 

 claspers distinctive of the species. 



$. Length 5 mm., width 1.6 mm. Second antennal segment slightly 

 thicker at the middle and tapering toward base and apex. Dorsum 

 fuscous with only the exterior margins of the corium, pronotum and 

 cuneus, reddish ; membrane, antennae, eyes, rostnmi and most of the 

 face, fuscous. Legs pale fuscous, coxae and basal half of the femora 

 pale to yellowish and pink, tarsi fuscous to black. 



Holotype: $, July 17, Langdon, Missouri; Cornell Uni- 

 versity Collection. 



