Vol. xxiii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 35 
Lytta hoppingi n. sp. 
Color black, prothorax bright reddish testaceous with a black longi- 
tudinal dorsal median broad stripe which is the full width of the 
neck in front, ending behind at the base of the pronotum in a point, 
very sparsely clothed throughout with short, black very sparse pubes- 
ence; form slender, graceful, somewhat depressed, strongly widened 
behind; head small, subglobose, slightly depressed, with a very faint 
median impressed line at the occiput, a faint smooth pustule on vertex, 
thickly and moderately coarsely punctured, the punctures being thicker 
around the pustule on vertex, becoming sparser toward sides and back 
of head; labrum short, broad, feebly emarginate in front, strongly 
rounded corners narrowed behind, thickly and finely punctured, labro- 
clypeai suture distinct; clypeus short, transverse, slightly rounded in 
front, straight behind, punctured a little more sparsely than labrum; 
maxillary palpi short and slender, arts. 2 and 3 subequal, cylindrical, 
last a little longer, slightly flattened and truncate; antennae long 
and stout, art. 1 short and strongly swollen, 2 is % as long as first, 
bead-shaped, 3 a little longer than 1 and subequal from 3 to Io, last a 
little longer than ro and strongly pencil-sharpened; eyes large, wide 
apart, slightly convex, entire. 
Pronotum long, slender, subcylindrical, gently and slowly narrowed 
in front, feebly narrowed behind, posterior margin very feebly everted, 
a very slight median fovea near the posterior margin, punctured a 
little more finely than head, the dark areas punctured a little more 
thickly than the light; scutellum small, triangular, point rounded, finely 
and thickly punctured; elytra 2% times as long as joint width, ora dis- 
tinct, very finely and vermiculately rugose. jointly rounded at apices; 
ventral surface very finely and evenly punctured; /egs medium, femora 
and tibie punctured like ventrals; farsi long and mediumly strong. 
2. Articles of antennze much longer than those of 2, the last two 
ventral segments much more strongly notched than 9, posterior tibial 
spurs long and slender, smooth pustule on vertex well marked. 
2. Articles of antenne stouter, last ventral segments slightly notch- 
ed, posterior tibial spurs shorter and stouter, pustule on vertex feebly 
marked. 
Length 15 mm., width 4 mm. 
Type in my collection. Type locality Fresno County, Cali- 
fornia, 
Distribution. Coalinga, Fresno County, California, V. 8. (R. 
Hopping). 
This graceful species is not very closely allied to any other 
now known. At a glance it somewhat resembles in form and 
color Pyrotrichus vitticollis Lec. 
