Vol. VnU VAN DUZEE—NEIV SPECIES HEMIPTERA 273 



Described from four male and 15 female examples repre- 

 senting the following localities: Mt. Tallac, Calif., 8,500 feet, 

 July 17, 1915, numbers taken running on the ground on a 

 sloping alpine meadow, by Dr. E. C. Van Dyke and myself; 

 Paradise Park, Mt. Rainier, Wash., 6,000 feet, July 14, 1906, 

 Dr. E. C. Van Dyke; Prairie Hills, B. C, July, 1908, Selkirk 

 Mountains, B. C, July, 1908, and Sisson, Calif., August 19, 

 1908, Dr. J. C. Bradley; Moscow, Idaho; Sierra Madre Moun- 

 tains, Mexico, September. 



This species may be recognized by the short, blunt head, the 

 short rostrum, the obscured coloration, and the black vitta on 

 either side of the venter. 



Holotype (No. 385), male, and allotype (No. 386), female, 

 from Mt. Tallac, in collection of the California Academy of 

 Sciences. Paratypes in the collections of the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and in that of the author. 



3. Trichopepla aurora, new species 



Aspect of a large semivittata but with a somewhat shorter 

 head and rounded, calloused pronotal margins. Length 83^ to 

 9 mm. 



Head as long as its width across the eyes ; narrowed from the ante- 

 ocular sinus, with rounded apex. Second antennal segment distinctly 

 longer than third. Rostrum just passing the intermediate coxae. Surface 

 ahtove coarsely, irregularly punctured with fuscous and black; connexivum 

 alternated. Membrane infuscated. Genital segment of male broad, its 

 apical margin shallowly, trisinuately excavated ; claspers very broad, 

 truncate, their apical margins rectilinear, not showing beyond the acutely 

 produced ventral angle. 



Color as in semivittata, well obscured by black punctures ; ray-like mark- 

 ings of head and anterior lobe of pronotum distinct, those on base of 

 scutellum mostly represented by three pale calloused spots. Calloused sides 

 of the pronotum pale, not at all elevated but rounding over in conformity 

 with the adjoining surface. Black alternations on the connexivum weak- 

 ened by pale interpunctural spaces. Venter showing faint indications of six 

 longitudinal darker vittse. Antennae mostly black. Legs pale, more or less 

 obscured by minute blackish punctures. 



Described from three males taken in El Dorado County, 

 Calif., June 20, 1915, by F. W. Nunenmacher, one female 

 taken by me at Ross Valley, Marin County, Calif., April 28, 

 1918, and one female from Gallatin County, Mont., taken June 

 22, 1900, at an elevation of 7,000 feet, by E. Koch. The 



