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Length of tegmen 27.5 mm. 



Greatest width of tegmen 6. " 



Greatest width of wing 14. " 



Length of caudal femur 14.2 " 



The type is the only specimen of the species seen by the 

 author. 



Bradynotes excelsa n. sp. 



Types:— $ and $; Mt. Tyndall, Tulare Co., California, 

 elevation 12,000 feet. (C.F.Baker.) [A. N. S., Phila.] 



Allied to B. referta Scudder from Logan Co., Idaho, and 

 mountains near Lake Tahoe, California, but differing in the 

 narrower interspace between the eyes, in the frontal costa 

 being hardly wider dorsad than the basal antennal joint ; in 

 the metazona being twice as long as the prozona, in the length 

 of the pronotum being contained three times in the length of 

 the caudal femora and in the absence of an abdominal carina. 



Size small ; surface sub glabrous. Head with the occiput rounded ; 

 interspace between the eyes no wider than the inter-antennal width of 

 the frontal costa (tf) or about half again the width of the same ($); 

 fastigium very strongly declivent, very broadly and shallowly sulcate in 

 both sexes, the sulcatiori extending caudad between the eyes ; frontal 

 costa subequal, no wider (f) or slightly wider ( $ ) than the proxi- 

 mal antennal joint, undefined ventrad of the ocellus, biseriate-punctate 

 dorsad, not sulcate ; eyes moderately prominent in the male, less so in 

 the female, short ovate in outline in both sexes, cephalic margin more 

 flattened in the female than in the male, in length equal to ( 9) or slightly 

 longer than (<f) the infra-ocular sulcus ; antennae about equal to the 

 length of the head and pronotum in the male. Pronotum rounded ; ceph- 

 alic margin truncate with a very slight median emargination, caudal mar- 

 gin very broadly and shallowly emarginate, lateral angles rounded and 

 no carina present ; median carina indicated by the faintest possible trace 

 on the cephalic section of the prozona and on the metazona ; transverse 

 sulci impressed, particularly the principal (caudal) sulcus ; prozona in 

 both sexes over twice the length of the metazona ; lateral lobes slightly 

 longer than deep ; ventral margin rounded with a very slight cephalic 

 sinuation. Mesonotum with the caudal margin slightly arcuate in the 

 male, very slightly emarginate mesad in the female ; metanotum truncate 

 in the male, distinctly emarginate mesad in the female. Prosternal spine 

 very short, thick and blunt ; interspace between the mesosternal lobes 

 over half again as broad as long ( % ) or twice as broad as long (9). 

 Tegmina and wings absent in both sexes. Abdomen somewhat com- 

 pressed, not carinate, apex moderately elevated and slightly recurved in 

 the male ; furcula of the male extremely small, divergent ; supra-anal 



