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280 PROCEEDiyaS of the yAIIOXAL museum. vol. XX. 



Caloptenna sannHinoltntm ProvancherI, Xat. Cau., VIII (1«76), p. 109. 



CaloptetniH afhniis rHoVAXCHERl, Faune Ent. Can., II (1877j, p. 35. 



Pezoti'ttij- femin-nihntin Stal, Bih. K. 8v. Vet.-Aka<l. Haiull., V (1878), No. 9, 



p. i:^.— FoKiiKS, Rep. Ins. 111., XIII (1884). pp. i\2, h", pi. X,tig. 1; ibid., XIV 



(1885), p. 23.— Weed, Misc. Ess. Econ. Ent. 111. (1886), p. 4?<.— Hrxx, iUi«l. 



(1880), pp. Hit, 120.— Weed, Rep. Eut. 111., XV (1889), p. 40.— Garman, Orth. 



Ky. (1894), pp. 3, 8. 

 Melatiophix interior Scidder!, Pror, Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist., XX (1879). p]». 71-72: 



Cent. Orth. (1879), pp. 00-61.— Bruner, Rep. U S. Eut. Comm., Ill (1883), 



p. 01. 

 MeUiHopluii (lerorator Scudder, Cent. Orth. (1879), p. 84. 

 Calopiinnx ( Mdanophix) femur-rubrum Cattlfield, Can. Rec. Sc, II (1887), p. 401 ; 



Can. Orth. (1887), p. 17. 



Of medium size, brownish fuscous, often witb a more or less feeble 

 ferru<?inous tinge, particularly in the female. Head a little prominent, 

 olivaceo i)lumbeous, above much infuscated, especially in a pair of wid- 

 ening stripes behind the lateral margins of the fastiginm, and with a 

 pieeous postocular stripe; interspace between the eyes distinctly wider 

 than (male) or fully twice as wide as (female) the first antennal joint; 

 fastiginm strongly declivent, considerably (male) or shallowly (female) 

 sulcate, but variable; frontal costa just failing to reach the clyi>eu8. 

 sube(|ual, as broad as the interspace between the eyes, sulcate at and 

 below the ocellus, biseriately punctate above; eyes moderately prom- 

 inent in the male, not at all so in the female, much longer, especially 

 in the male, than the infraocular portion of the genae; antennae fer- 

 ruginous or luteo-ferruginous, often a little infuscated apicallj , about 

 four-fifths (male) or three-fifths (female) as long as the hind femora. 

 Pronotum feebly and rather regularly expanding posteriorly, the disk 

 faintly convex and passing by a well-rounded shoulder (somewhat 

 abruptly on the metazona) into the anteriorly tumid vertical lateral 

 lobes, the disk generally darker than the lower portion of the lat- 

 eral lobes (occasioDally by a darker punctation) sometimes irregularly 

 marked with luteous, the upper part of the lateral lobes crossed by a 

 broad pieeous band on the prozona, the lower portion more or less 

 closely copying the coloring of the face but usually a little darker; 

 median carina slight, percurreut, a little (rarely much) less distinct on 

 the prozona than on the metazona; front margin snbtruncate, very 

 faintly and very narrowly flaring, at least in the male; hind margin 

 obtusangulate, more obtusely in the female than in the male; prozona 

 quadrate or feebly longitudinal (male) or feebly transverse, rarely quad 

 rate (female), slightly or not longer than the closely but shallowly 

 punctate metazona. Prosternal spine rather large, appres.sed cylindrical, 

 very blunt, often mesially constricted a little, feebly retrorse; interspace 

 between mesosternal lobes nearly twice as long as broad (male) or a 

 little longer than broad (female). Tegmina (Plate I, fig. h ) almost invari- 

 ably surpassing, sometimes but slightly, more often considerably, the 

 hind femora, of moderate breadth, distinctly though very gradually 

 tapering, brownish fuscous, sometimes immiNulate, sometimes sprinklevl 



