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plate nejtrly <iajulrate, taiwriii^j very sli^jhtly, tlu* outer an^Hes slijjlitly 

 ))nHlii(-e<l, and the posterior ed^e with a iiu'<liaii, triaii;;niar. pointtMl 

 extension, a third as wide as the t'Xtreujity of the phite and hmj^er 

 than bro.id; fureuhi consiatinj,^ of a pair of attinji^ent, <lepressed, ratiier 

 stout, scarcely tapering, blunt tipped tin;;ers, fully half as lonj,^ as the 

 supraanal plate and slightly upturned at tiie tip; anal eerri very sin)ple, 

 beinj; slijjhl eoni«*al projections, taperinj; mostly in their basal half, the 

 tip blunt, the whole not so loug as the disk of the supraanal plate, 

 oniittinjir its apical extension. 



Lcnj^th of body, nuile, lO.o mm., female, 23 mm.; antennae, male, 

 female, S mm.; hin<l femora, male, 10 mm., female, iLM*.'* nun. 



Thirteen males, L*l females. Dallas, Texas, J. Boll; Texas, June 13, 

 js, lM), July ."), Aujfust 3, Belfraj^e (U.S.N.M.,— Kiley collection); Car- 

 ri/o 8prin<;s, Dimmit County, Texas, A. Wadgynmr, An^iust 28 (the 

 same); (Joliad, Texas, December 3, K. Palmer; Corpus Ch.risti Bay, 

 Nueces County, Texas, December 11-20, E. Palmer. Stales specimens 

 came fimn Texas. 



2. PARAIDEMONA MIMICA, new species. 



(Phite III, ti«. 10.) 



Yellowish testaceous, heavily banded with black, especially on the 

 sides, and more markedly in the male than the female. Head with 

 the intersi)ace between the eyes very narrow, especially in the male, 

 the fastigium between them sulcate, narrowly in the m'lle, the sulcation 

 continuing so as to be subcoutinuous with that of the frontal costa, 

 wliich is sulcate in its whole extent, equal, and broader than the inter- 

 space between the eyes, rronotum punctate as in P. punvtata, and as 

 there a glabrous spot free of punctuation occurs on the prozona at the 

 summit of the lateral lobes. A black stripe, sometimes wanting or 

 feebly fuscous in the female, begins at some point on the fastigium and 

 continues backward, broadening on the head so as to include nearly 

 the entire vertex, and crosses the pronotum as a broad mediodoisal 

 band, as broad as the length of the metazona, or in the female even 

 broader; it is sometimes obscure or wholly obsolete in the female, while 

 in the male it is always distinct, at least on the prozona, and generally 

 continues, though narrowed, over the meso- and metanota. The lat- 

 eral band, generally rufo-piceous, is still broader and is sharply defined 

 above and below, often uninterrupted on the metazona in the female, 

 where it widens so as to include behind the whole of the thoracic pleura 

 (excepting the episterna) and the sides of the first four abdominal seg- 

 ments; above it is more or less distinctly accompanied in the female by 

 a testaceous stripe. The dorsum of the abdomen of the female lacks 

 the double series of oblique lateral dashes found in P. punctata^ or has 

 tliem very feebly marked. Hind femora yellowish testaceous, the outer 

 face growing darker below, giving there a broken irregular blackish 

 stripe; hind tibiae glaucous, the pallid spines black tipped. Supraanal 



