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rounded on the basal one third where they are widest, then narrow- 
ing and more feebly arcuated to near the apex which is regularly 
arcuated to the apex of the clavus. Costal area basally nearly 
twice the width of the first discal areole; reticulating nervures few- 
er than in clypeata. 
Color dull green, or brownish in immature examples, with the 
costal margin broadly paler at base becoming nearly brown about 
the apex and still darker on the commissure of the clavus. Legs 
and clypeus pale brown; eyes dark brown. 
Described from six examples, representing both sexes, taken 
in the country back of San Digo, California, mostly on the hills 
along Mussey’s Grade beyond Foster, August 4th and 5th, 1913; 
one from Alpine at an altitude of 2,000 feet on October 4th, and 
one from the Cuyamaca mountains on October 5th at an altitude 
of 5000 feet. 
This is nearest clypeata but the larger size and rounded base of 
the clypeus will distinguish that species. These both have the 
apex of the head a little produced but less so than in conica Say. 
240. Ormenis infuscata Stal. San Diego and Alpine, May to July. 
Rhynchopteryx n. gen. 
Allied to Cyarda but much shorter ; elytra scarcely longer than 
broad, produced in an abrupt tail at apex of the clavus. 
Head bluntly conical, the vertex flat, a little depressed along 
the disk, passage to the front rounded. Front transverse, ecarin- 
ate, but little wider than long; sides narrowly foliaceous-carinate, 
feebly arcuated, apical margin a little concave; clypeus ecarinate. 
Pronotum shorter than the vertex rounded before, feebly subang- 
ularly excavated behind. Mesonotum about one and one half times 
the length of the pronotum, obsoletely bicarnate. Elytra scarcely 
longer than broad, much inflated, valvate, meeting below from the 
cauda nearly to the middle; the curve of the costa almost a para- 
bola in the male, more oblong in the female; commissural angle 
produced in an abrupt lanceolate process; base of the clavus strong- 
ly granulate and there are a few scattering granules in the apical 
areoles; commissural margin of the clavus smooth and depressed 
and connected with an oval depressed area at about the middle of 
its length. Neuration reticulate over most of the surface, the lon- 
gitudinal nervures scarcely traceable; transverse nervures of the 
costal area more regular; ulnar tubercle and base of the clavus 
prominent. Hind tibiz with one tooth. 
Type Rhynchopteryx caudata n. sp. 
Differs from Cyarda by the broader front, longer vertex, 
shorter pro- and mesonotum and the short gibbous caudate elytra. 
241. Rhynchopteryx caudata n. sp. 
Dull testaceous brown varied with fuscous. Length to the 
tip of the cauda 414-5mm. 
Front impressed at apex; vertex with an impressed point on 
either side near the eye; pronotum scarcely reaching the middle of 
the eye; apex of the clavus prominent, rounded, surpassing the 
