so. 1 124. !{/■: Vjsioy OF THE MELA XOI'LI—SC 1'1H>ER. 213 



VeznlvHix rithrU'ritn WAT.sn!, MS. (\W^^). 



I'odiHina HVHiUln'i Wai.kei:. Cat. Derm. Salt. Urit. Mns., IV (1870), p. 71J<. 

 I'tzotrltix iiiiirolor Thomas:, K»p. U. 8. c;«m»1. Snrv. Terr., V (1873;, ]>. l,")l; 

 • Pioc. I)a\. Acad. Nat. Sc, I (1876), p. 2(»0.— (Ji.oveh, 111. N. A. Ent., Urtb. 



(1S76;, 1)1. XIII, fig. 9.— Thomas, r.ull. 111. Mus. Nat. Hist., I (1H7H), p. VS; 



Kep. (Jeol. Exi)l. W. 100th M«r.. V (1^7.".). p. f<XS. pi. xi.v, fi<;. 4.— HitrxKii, 



(an. Ent., IX (1877), p. 114.— Rilky, Rep. V. S. Ent. ('on.iii.,I (187S), pp. 



220, L'L'6.— Thomas. liep. Ent. 111., IX (1H80), pi>. H."., 118-119.— MiaxER, Hep. 



n. S. Ent. Couim., Ill (1X83), p. 59: Bnll. Wasbb. Coll., I (1885), p. 13tJ; 



rnbl. N«br. A«a<l. Sc, III (1X93), p. 27. 



Of ineiliuiii or ratlier small size, feiTujj^ineo fuscous, a little li*;liter 

 beneatii. Head not ])roininent, tlark testaceous, murh mottled with 

 fuscous or generally infuscated, above almost wholly inluscated, with 

 an obscure fusciuis jmstocular banil; vertex somewhat tumid, scarcely 

 elevated above the ])r<uiotum, tiie interspace between the eyes half as 

 broad a^ain (male) or twice as I oad (feniale) as the lirst antenna! Joint; 

 lastijiium steeply declivent, plane, with feebly raised lateral marjjins; 

 fiontal costa fadinj^ before the clypeus, subequal, of the same breadth 

 as the inters]>ace between the ej'es, the lateral marjjins faintly elevated 

 throughout and besides that feebly sulcate at and below the ocellus, 

 juinctate biseriately above; eyes moderately large, rather prominent, 

 very much longer than the infraocular portion of the genae; antennae 

 ferruginous, more or less infuscated apically. about four-tifths (male) or 

 less than two-thirds (female) as long as the hind femora. T'ronotum 

 often heavily ferruginous on the disk, the lateral lobes with a postocular 

 l»iceous belt, occasionally subobsolete, either cr(>ssing the whole ])ro- 

 notum but generally enfeebled on the metazona, or confined to the 

 ])rozona; disk broadly convex, passing by a distinct but everywhere 

 distinctly rounded shoulder into the at first very steeply declivent 

 ami afterwards vertical lateral lobes: median carina distinct, delh'ate 

 and equal throughout; front margin very feebly convex and often 

 faintly enmrginate in the middle, hind margin obtusangulate, occasion- 

 ally rotundato-obtusangulate; ])rozona distinctly longitudinal (male) or 

 varying from ([uadrateto distinctly longitudinal — the latter especially in 

 southern examples (female), fully half (male) or generally about a fourth 

 (female) longer than the heavily and densely jmnctate metazona. Pro- 

 sternal spine not very long, appressed cylindrical, tapering apically, 

 hluntly ])ointed, erect; interspace bet^' mesosternal lobes fully 



twice as long as broad (male) or quadra <^ i^^:). Tegniina about as 



long as the pronotum, broad ovate, overij )ping, i : 'udly suba(;uminate at 

 tij* (excepting in extreme southern examples, where it is well rounded); 

 wings not half the length of the tegmina. Fore and middle femora 

 slightly tumid in the male; hind femora ferruj^ineo testaceous, occa- 

 sionally with an olivaceous tinge, feebly bimaculate with fuscous 

 above, the spots often extending halfway across the inner face, the 

 l"wer face castane(ms, occasionally ruddy, the whole geniculation fus- 

 cous and the genicular arc black; hind tibiae bright red, sometimes 

 feebly infuscated or dulled toward the base, and with a fuscous patellar 



