ml 124. UKI'ISIOX OF THE MELAM)VLI—SCl'l)DEli. 87 



tlie male show a black stripe, and the ceni, iiiesially yellovr, are 

 ol)HCiir<Ml with fiiscoiirt botli above and below. 



Length of luxly, male, 23 mm., female, L'o.r* mm.: antennae, male, 

 s mm., female, \} mm.; pronotum, male, 4.75 mm., female, r>S} mm.; 

 hiiid femora, male, rj.r> mm., female, ILL'") mm. 



riv<* males, L* females. \Vasliiny:ton, Morrison (T.S.N.M. [No. 71*0]); 

 Ueiio, VVa8li(K' County, Nevada, Hillman (L. lininer). Dtlier specimens 

 of Morrison's collectiiij; in the collection of Mr. S. Henshaw were 

 iabrled by Morrison as coming from North Carolina, but of coarse by 

 mistake; in all i>robability they came from Washington; he collected 

 in both these States. 



5. BRADYNOTES OBESA. 

 (I'late VI, \\\r, «♦.) 



I'ezoUtdx ohtHiiH Thomas!. Ann. Kep. U.S. iivxA. Surv. Terr., V (1H72), pp. 454- 

 455, pi. II. ti^'s. V,\, 14.— (;l<.vkh. III. N. A. Ent., Ortli. (lH7l'), pi. ii, tigs. 13, 

 11.— Tii(»MAs!, K«'p. r. S. (;.(.l. Siirv. Terr.. V (1873). p. llfi; Pror. Dav. 

 Acatl. Nut. Sr., I (1S76>, p.25y.— Stal, Hili. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Haudl., V, 

 No. 9 {1S78), p. 15. 



llradjiuotes uhfsa Sccddkr!, Can. Ent., XII (1880), pp. 75-7«). 



Ilrmhinotrs ophnnn StTDDKuI, Hep. V. 8. Ent. t'onim., II ( \HHl ), apjt.. p. L'l. 



r>()<ly wholly similar in form and cloth in^^ to that of />'. pinffHin, or it 

 is even stouter in the metathoracic i'egi(m in the female. Head nut 

 tlilVering essentially from />'. pinf/tds, ami eyes ami antennae with the 

 same structure. Pronotum with similar but rather less distinct and 

 coiitiinums lateral carinae; metazona half (^male) or distinctly lesstliau 

 half (female) the length of the prozona, the two sulci of the latter 

 ai>proximate<l, the hinder of them less distinct than the anterior, which 

 is as well marked as that separating;" the prozona from the metazona, 

 but neither traverse the median carina, which is equal and distinct 

 though slight throughout; expose<l portion of mesonotum half (male) 

 or much less than half (female) as long as the metanotum.- St«anal 

 interspaces as in B. pinfiids, as also the femora. Abdomen stout, 

 with a more or less distinct median carina, in the male tapering and 

 then apically enlarging and upturned; sui)raanal jdate of male tri- 

 angular, as long as its basal breadth, otherwise as in i>. piuffuis: fnr- 

 ciila absent; cerci as long as the supraanal plate, straight, ta])ering 

 regularly in the basal three-tifths, beyond eipial or subeciual. blunt 

 tipped ; infracercal plates blunt tipped, reaching tlie ti^) of the supraanal 

 l>late. 



(ieneral color blackish griseous. more or less tiecked with brown. 

 Face and genae below the eyes varying from ])ale to pinkish livid. ])unc- 

 tate with black, especially below, and divided by black stripes following 

 tlie edges of the trontal costa and the lateral carinae of the face and 

 also, generally, the arcuate posterior carinae of the genae, and an oblique 

 liue of punctures subparallel to it below the middle of the genae ; summit 

 ol head with a median auv. a pair of arcuate lateral narrow black stripes, 



