320 ; ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ’o8 
Metasternum rather densely clothed with long whitish hairs; abdomen — 
very sparsely clothed with shorter pubescence. Length, 11.5-12.5 mm. 
Male—Antennal club longer than the funicle. Second and third 
abdominal segments slightly convex, fourth longitudinally impressed 
at middle. Pygidium convex shining, sparsely punctate and broadly 
rounded at tip. Claws of anterior tarsi feebly serrulate in basal half, 
without median tooth; outer intermediate, and posterior claws feebly 
toothed at middle and feebly serrulate in basal half, median tooth 
of inner claws obsolete: First joint of anterior tarsi acutely produced 
at inner apical angle. First joint of posterior tarsi broadly dilated in- 
side, with inner apical angle acutely produced. First three joints of 
hind tarsi and tibiae clothed with long hairs. Spurs of posterior tibiae 
slender, equal in size. 
Female——Club of antennae shorter than the funicle. Claws on all 
the tarsi alike, with a small tooth at middle with the basal portion 
feebly serrulate. Inner apical angle of first joint of anterior tarsi 
acutely produced. Posterior tibiae feebly fimbriate within with a few 
shorter hairs than in the male. Pygidium feebly convex, shining at 
apex, but pruinose at basal half. 
Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. 
This species is apt to be taken for a small opacicollis Horn, 
but the male of the latter species has the claws similar on all 
the tarsi and the first joint of hind tarsi normal, not broadly, 
dilated, and the female has the first joint of anterior tarsi not 
acutely produced at inner apical angle as in tarsalis. 
Pyrota obliquefascia n. sp. 
Slightly more elongate than akhurstiana Horn, and the black color 
of elytra divided by a narrow oblique pale fascia. Head yellow, a spot 
on the occiput and the space above each eye black; surface shining 
moderately coarsely and rather sparsely punctate. Thorax narrow, 
elongate, sides parallel from base to slightly above middle, thence 
obliquely narrowing to apex; surface shining, sparsely punctate; color 
black, a median vitta, widening at apex and base, and on each side a 
short oblique vitta yellow. Elytra dull, rather densely but not 
coarsely punctate, feebly rugulose and faintly bicostate on each side, 
color black, base, suture, apex and side margins yellow, the suture on 
each elytron connected at middle with the side margin by an oblique, 
yellow fascia. Underside and legs black, except the femora at base, 
yellow. Length, 15-23 mm. 
Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona (Marsden). 
. The male of this species has the third antennal joint simi- 
