>o.ii24. liErrsrox OF rni: MEiAyopLi—scrDHKU. 179 



B«l. AbHc. iNel.r., 1«91 (1M91), pp. '2\'.\, 30«>.— M( Nkili., iSy.ht'. VI (IHIH), pp. 



73-71.— \Vkki>, Can. Knt.. XXIV ( 1)SJ»2), p. 27H.— Mimxek. Mull. I>iv. Kiit. l. S. 



Dep. A^M-ic. XXVII (IxjL'). i»p. ll'-l'!»; ibiil., XXVIII ClH!»3), pp. '£^-M\ figs. 



Ua-c; iWid., XXX (18!»3/, p.35; TiiM. Nel.r. Acad. .*^c.. Ill ( ls93). p.2S; K'.p. 



Nebr.St. \U\. A«ric.,lS!t:{ (lSJ>3),p. I.'.!*; Ins. Life. VI (iM!>3), p. 34.— Set llek. 



Psyclie, VI , lH;»;i),p. 4«il'.— ()8iK)i!X, Ins. Lif.-, \ (1S!»3), pp.3L'3-3l'.5; ibid., VI 



(181>3), i»p.S()-81.— Mouse. Psyclif, VII (lS5»n,p. 10<5.— IJeitexmI lleh. I?nll. 



Ainer. Mns. Nat. Hist., VI (1S«»1 ), p. 3()6.— Uri xer, Kep. St. Hort. Soc. Nehr., 



1894 (1894), p. 1«>3; I'.nll. I>iv. Eiit. U. S. Dep. Agrir., XXXII (1X94). !>. 12; 



Nel.r. ."^t. llort. Rep.. 1895 (1895), p.69.— LiXTXEH, IJtp. St. Mus. N. Y.. XLMII 



(1^9.".), JJ(i-U3. 

 Caloptinim hilitunitiia Bki'XER. Hep. T. S. Ent. ("onini., Hi (1X83). p. r»0. 

 re:otettix atiaiiis HrxT, Misc. Kss. Econ. Kut. 111. (1886). pp. 120, 126.— (iAH.MAX, 



<»rth. Ky. (1894), pp. 3,8. 

 MeJau'>phi8 titlauis cturiileipes (ocKEKEr.i,. Entojn,. XXII (1880), ]>. 127. 

 [Many of thest- refereuces may belong to Hjiecies not heretofore distinguished 



from AI. atlaiti'i.'] 



A'aryiiig from metliiim to a little above medium size, dark griseo fus- 

 cous, often tiujicd more or less heavily with ferrii<;inous. Head a little 

 l>romineiit, olivaeeo testaceous freckled with fuscous, above more or less 

 iiifuscated, sometimes difjusiii^* the whole, sometimes confined to two 

 divergent longitudinal strijies, with a broad, i»iceous, i)ostO(ular band; 

 vertex rather tumid, somewhat elevated above the pronotum, the inter- 

 space between the eyes nearly twice as broad as the tirst antennal joint 

 in both sexes; fastigium steeply declivent, shallowly snlcate, more shal- 

 lowjy in the female than in the male: irontal cosra rather prominent, 

 failing to reach the clypeus, feebly narrowed al)ove es})ecially in the 

 male, full> s broad as the intersjjace between the eyes, slightly snlcate 

 at and below the ocellus, irregularly punctate throughout, above more 

 densely and with a tendency to a biseriate arrangement ; eyes moderate, 

 rather prominent ])articularly in the male, nnu-h longer than the infra- 

 ocular portion of the genae; antennae rufo- or luteo-testacecms, about 

 five-sixths (male) or three fifths (femalv) as long as the hind femora. 

 Pronotum rather short, feebly and angularly constricted in the middle, 

 tlie broad augulati(Ui at the prinripal sulcus and produced mostly by 

 the posterior exi^ansion of the metazona, more or less infuscated and 

 otten also ferruginous above, the lateral lobes with a generally distinct 

 and entire but sometimes broken or maculate, broad, piceous, postocular 

 baud, confined to the prozoua ; <lisk broadly convex and passing into 

 the vertical lateral lobes somewhat abruptly but with a well-rounded 

 shoulder, simulating but nowhere really forming distinct lateral carinae; 

 median carina distinct and well marked on Ihe metazona, ol).scure and 

 .generally subobsolete on the prozoua if not indeed ov/solete, particularly 

 between the sulci and in thefen^nle; front margin truncate but very 

 narrowly and minutely fiaring, hind margin obtusangulate. the angle 

 very slightly rounded ; prozoua subquadrate — a littie variable on either 

 side (male) or distinctly transverse (fcnmle). rarely and then feebly 

 longer than the densely punctate metazona. Prosternal si>ine variable, 

 usually short, conical, a little blunt, slightly appres.sed, erect (male) or 



