g4 VROCEEDjycs OF THE NATION.ir MrfiKUhr. VOL. XX. 



vtM V (locp l>aHal sulcus between tliein; furculii absent; cerei slightly 

 louder than the supraanal plate, subconical, faintly coni pressed, a 

 little tlowncurveil apically, tapering with regularity; iut'racercal plates 

 in<M)nspicuous. 



r>o(ly griseo fu.seous, mottled, the faee and inferior surfaee of body 

 sordid brownish yellow, feebly punctate with fuscous. Vertex anJ 

 lastigium brownish fuscous, the lateral margins of the latter feebly 

 enlivened with orange, and the former mottled or streaked witii livid 

 brown. l»oth thorax and abdomen are heavily mottled with blackish 

 fuscous, much more heavily in some individuals than in others, whi<d» 

 is apt to be conspicuous iu a jiair of subdorsal b'lnds, sometimes con 

 lined to the posterior edges of the segments, and to leave a narrow 

 lighter <lorsal stripe between them; the lower portion of the lateral 

 lobes of the ]>ronotum is always lighter than the upi>er half, which is 

 often nuirked by a more or less distinct, sometimes abbreviated, broad 

 black <u- blackish band, generally deeper in tint on its inferior half. 

 Hind fenu)ra blackish fuscous feebly clouded with dull yellowish, the 

 whole under surface and uiuler portion of its outer face clay yellow; 

 hind tibiae light coral red (male) or dark coral red on ai)ical half and 

 extreme base, passing into luirplish red on the basal half (female), the 

 spines blackish on ».heir a\)ical half at most. 



Length of body, male, 10 75 mm., female, 21mm.; antennae, male, 

 female, 'j.-j mm.; pronotum, nuile, 3.05 mm., female, 4.5 mm.; hin<l 

 femora, male, 10 mm., female, 11.75 nnn. 



Two males, tLmales. Yakinui Iliver oi)posite Ellensburg, Kittitas 

 County, Washington, July 8-J) (Museum Comparative Zoology; 

 r.S.X.M. [No. 71S|); Cam[) Umatilla, Washington, June L*7 (Museum 

 Comparative Zoology); Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, July, 

 W. G. W. Harford. 



3. BRADYNOTES EXPLETA, new species. 

 (Plate VI, fig. 7.) 



Body similar in shape and clothing to B. hisp^da, excei)t that it is 

 relatively a tritle stouter at the metathorax, especially in the female. 

 Head broad and full, the vertex gently tumid, the interspace between 

 the eyes nearly or ciuite twice as great as the least width of the frontal 

 cosla, the fastigium strongly declivent, shallowly sulcate, the iatend 

 margins rather prominent, especially in the male, but rounded; frontal 

 costa rather broad, considerably broader than the basal joint of the 

 antenmie, feebly sulcate if at all, and sparsely punctate, especially at 

 the margins; eyes as in />. caunis (antennae more or less broken in all 

 specimens seen). Pronotum regularly expanding posteriorly, very 

 slightly in the male, distinctly but not greatly in the fenuile: metazona 

 about half as long as the juozona, the sulci of the former equally but 

 feeldy impressed, all cutting the feeble median carina, which is obso 

 lesceutou the prozona in the female; mesonotum nearly half (female) or 



