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| 213. Scolops pallidus Uhler. Abundant everywhere. In this spe- 
cies the disk of the metanotum is conspicuously pale, a char- 
acter not mentioned by Dr. Uhler. There is a pale form of 
this species with immaculate nervures. 
214. Scolops piceus n. sp. 
Allied to Belanocharis fumida Uhler but certainly distinct. 
Black marked with whitish on the cephalic protuberance and be- 
neath. Elytra subhyaline picous. Length to tip of cephalic horn 
| 6-714 mm. 
Female: Cephalic horn long and slender, linear, white with a 
_ black line above and on either side; disk of the vertex convex, deep 
| black and highly polished, its lateral carine marked with two white 
| dots against each eye. Front slenderly tricarinate, regularly wid- 
‘ ened to the apex which is concavely arcuated; black dotted with 
' pale, broadly white across the apex. Clypeus convex, polished, 
' slenderly tricarinate, its base black with a few pale irrorations, 
‘apical portion pale. Pro- and meso-notum black, irrorate with 
' pale. Pleurzee and abdomen black obscurely irrorate with pale. 
' Legs pale the femora more or less varied with fuscous; anterior 
_ and intermediate tibie triannulated with white, spines of posterior 
- tibie black. Elytra piceo-hyaline with a blackish cloud along the 
basal half of the costa and there may be a cloud at the tip of the 
| first and second apical areoles. The male is smaller and darker 
with fewer pale irrorations. 
Described from one male and three female examples. Mis- 
| sion Valley, San Diego, April; Foster on the rocky hillsides, May; 
Alpine, July. I cannot make this insect agree with Uhler’s de- 
' seription of fwmida and I believe it distinct. I see no reason for 
separating these species from Scolops. 
215. Catonia irrorata n. sp. 
Closely related to fusca but with the short vertex found in 
the typical section of the genus; front with two broad white bands; 
elytra fuscous with pale irrorations and nervures. Length 5-6 mm. 
Vertex as in impunctata but proportionately wider and short- 
er, larger in the male but scarcely as long as half the width be- 
tween the eyes. Front broader than in impunctata and fusca, the 
sides very feebly arcuated apex no wider than the base, scarcely 
excavated for the reception of the clypeus. Pronotum as in fusca, 
narrower and more acutely angled than in impunctata. : 
‘ Color black, carine of the vertex, and pronotum and a spot 
in each basal fova of the vertex pale. Front with a median trans- 
verse white band, base broadly and the apex more narrowly deep 
black, the basal band with two pale points on either side. Clypeus 
white, blackish at apex. Mesonotum piceous black with ten ob- 
scure fulvous spots, two in each lateral and three in each discal 
compartment. Elytra fuscous-brown with a blackish vitta before 
the middle and a more obscure and broken one behind and a third 
indicated by a large spot on the stigma; nervures pale lined with 
darker, the areoles with about two rows of pale points. Legs very 
