Vol. XXvii] ENTOMOI.OGICAL NEWS. 1/5 



Athysanus escalantus n. sp. 



$ . Resembling simplarius, but much shorter and stouter, straw col- 

 ored. The vertex margin with a black line above and below. Length 

 4 mm. 



Vertex twice wider than long, margins almost parallel, disc flat, an- 

 terior margin between the dark lines broadly rounding to the flat, re- 

 treating front. Front rather narrow, wedge-shaped, margin continu- 

 ous with the clypeus margin. Pronotum scarcely longer than vertex, 

 distinctly narrower than the head with eyes. Elytra broad and short, 

 just equalling the pygofers, narrowing apically. Venation deltocepha- 

 loid, the central apical cell elongate, slightly constricted, apical cells 

 short. Female segment short, apparently truncate. 



Color: vertex straw yellow, a spot on each side against the eye and 

 just back of the margin, a pair of elongate, partly coalescing spots in- 

 side these on each side, forming a slightly interrupted sub-marginal 

 black band. Pronotum and scutellum soiled straw color. Elytra pale 

 greenish subhyaline showing the rusty straw of the dorsum set oflf by 

 two round black spots on the pygofers. Face straw yellow, slightly 

 tawny, a narrow dark line under the vertex margin with a black spot 

 just below and against each eye. 



Described from a single female taken at Richfield, Utah, by 



the writer. In its broad head this species resembles parallclus 

 and its allies, but in other characters it is distinctly allied to 



oshorni. 



Athysanus lassus n. sp. 



Resembling sexznttatus in size and form. Brown and white with 

 a pair of large, round, black spots on each of vertex, pronotum and 

 scutellum. Length 4 mm. 



Vertex obtusely angled, the apex rounding, shorter than sexvittatus, 

 only a little longer on middle than against eyes, two-thirds the length 

 of the pronotum, slightly acutely angulate with the front, the margin 

 blunt. Front broader than in sexvittatus, margins slightly rounding 

 but continuous with those of clypeus. Elytra equalling or slightly 

 exceeding pygofers, nearly parallel-margined, flaring. Venation delto- 

 cephaloid, the central anteapical slightly constricted, sometimes divided, 

 but not extending much beyond the adjacent cells. Female segment 

 short, lateral angles rounding, posterior margin excavated with a 

 broad, short, median tooth. 'Male plates broad at base obtusely tri- 

 angular, the apices acutely produced. 



Color: vertex creamy, a pair of round black dots just back of the 

 apex, a pair of large round black spots on the margin between the 

 dots and the ocelli, sometimes another pair of black dots behind the 

 first and often traces of brown stripes towards the base. Pronotum 



