KO.im. BEFISION OF THIu MELa.^OPLI—SCVDDER. 83 



to yellowish fuHcous, feebly clouded, especially above, with fuscous in 

 tlie middle and in tlic middle (jf the distal half, the under and inner 

 surfaces more or less deei)ly tinj^ed with coral red; hind tibiae and 

 tarsi fusco-luteous, only the apical half or less of the spines blackish or 

 brown. 



Leiigfth of body, male, 18.5 mm., female, 21 mm.; antennae, male, 9.5 

 mm., female, 10.5 mm.; pronotum, male, .'^.(» mm., female, 4.5 mm.* hind 

 femora, male, 10.75 mm., female, 12.5 mm. 



One male, 3 females. Colville Valley, eastern Washinjjton, rluly 24 

 (L. limner; Museum Compaiative Zoolo«j:y). 



In the exceptioiial len.uth of the hind femora^ the feeble metathoracic 

 enlarjjement of the body, and the development of the furcula, as well as 

 in some minor features, this is the most aberrant species of the «ienus. 



2. BRADYNOTES CAURUS, new species. 



(Plate VI, Hjr. H.) 

 Ilradiftwles ophnun Hiuxeh!, Can. Knt., XVII (1SS5). p. 15, 



liody similar in shape and clothing to H. hispula. Head full, the 

 vertex j»ently tumid, the intersi)ace between the eyes twice as <ireat as 

 the least width of the frontal costa, the fastijiium stronjily declivent, 

 iiiM rowing rather than expanding;' anteriorly, broadly but shallowly 

 silicate, the lateral margins rather prominent but rounded: frontal 

 costa rrtlier broad, nuich broader than, sometimes twice as broad as, 

 The basal joint of the antennae, generally a little sulcate throngiiout, 

 especially in rhe male, punctate at the margins; eyes not very large, 

 scaicely more prominent in the male than in the female, about as long 

 as the infraocular jjortion of the genae, anteriorly truncate particularly 

 ill the female; antennae a little longer (male) or a little shorter (female) 

 tbaii the head and ])ronotum together. Pronotum subecpnil, expand- 

 ing posteriorly a very little, esi>ecially in the female; metaz<ma half 

 (female) or slightly less than half (male) as long as the pro/.ona. the sulci 

 of the latter eipially indistinct, and neither of them cutting the median 

 carina, which is nearly obliterated on the prozona, especially in the 

 female; posterior margin as in B. hispida ; mesonotum more than half 

 (male) or less, sometimes much less, than half (female) as long as the 

 iiietanotum. Interspace between the mesosternal lobes as wide (female) 

 or liardly more than half as wide (male) as the lobes themselves, the 

 iiietiisternal lobes subcontiguous (male) or half as distant as the meso 

 sternal (female). Fore and middle femora of male somewlutt inflated; 

 liiiid femora short but not very stout, hardly half as long again as head 

 and ])ronotum together. Abdomen relatively rather slender with a slight 

 and blunt median carina, the extremity scarcely enlarged in the male, as 

 viewed from above, and but gently upturned. 8upraanal plate of male 

 siibtriangular with rounded ai)ex, about e(}uallylong and broad, tumid 

 by reason of a pair of very coarvse, elevated, rounded ridges, with a. 



