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1 9 , Americau Fork Cauon, Utah. I have also received vspecimens from 

 Mr. Henry Edwards from California aud YaDcouvei'S Island (No. 2), 

 whicli are a little larger ; the above description is in fact based upon 

 them, as Dr. Packard's specimen was collected in alcohol. 



This species is closely allied to T. verrucidata (Kirb.) Scudd., -svhich 

 Mr. Edwards has also sent me from Vancouver's Island (No. 4), l3ut dif- 

 fers from it in the more uniform distribution of the spots on the teg- 

 mina (T. verrucidata always showing a couple of distinct, median, trans- 

 verse, grayish bars), and in the extent of the fuliginous area of the 

 wings, which in T. verrucidata is confined to the extreme apex and to a 

 narrow median band, sometimes so narrow as to be nearly broken in the 

 middle. 



AULOCARA (aO/.oj^, y.dpa) IIOV. gen. 



jS'ot very distant from Acrotylus Fieb. Head large, tumid, the fas" 

 tigium of the vertex prettj* strongly declivant, scarcely depressed, its 

 rounded lateral carina convergent to a blunt apex, by wliich it is sepa- 

 rated from the frontal costa ; lateral foveolre distinct, pretty large, tri- 

 angular, longer than broad, the lower edge horizontal ; frontal costa 

 narrow above, regularly broadening, fading out midway between the 

 ocellus and the clypeus, sulcate throughout; eyes rather small, scarcely 

 longer than broad, slightly shorter than the anterior part of the cheek, 

 rather prominent, above nearly as distant as their breadth; antennas 

 very long and slender, scarcely depressed, fnlly as long as the hind 

 femora. Pronotum very short, no longer than the head, constricted in 

 the middle, the lobes equal in length; median carina very slight, equal, 

 the front lobe twice distinctly severed in its posterior half, all the sulca- 

 tions running distinctly a little way into the lateral lobes ; lateral carinse 

 slight but distinct, excepting between the sulcations ; lateral lobes 

 scarcely narrowing below. Tegmina and wings reaching or surpassing 

 the tip of the abdomen, the former with free, short, axillary vein, no 

 intercalary vein aud very few spurious veins. Hind femora rather stout 

 and broad, with rather p>rominent carinas; first hind tarsal joint longer 

 than the third; arolium minute. The insects of this group have much 

 the aspect of Stenohothri. The type of the genus is the species c(crulei])es, 

 now to be described. 



25. Aidocara cairideipes nov. sp. Head brown, heavily obscured 

 above with broad longitudinal dark-brown or blackish stripes, made up 

 of transverse bars ; the face and cheeks more or less blotched with 

 livid, becoming pale dull blue iu front; clypeus and labrum pale brown, 

 the edge of the latter pallid, like the palpi ; antennpe brownish-yellow at 

 base, beyond black or blackish. Pronotum brown, darkest above, the 

 median carina darker; lateral lobes, with the upper border, blackish, 

 and a pair of attingent, transverse, quadrate, black patches, the hinder a 

 little the higher, in the middle. Tegmina surpassing the abdomen, 

 brownish-fuscous, the i^osterior margin narrowly and the outer two- 

 thirds of the anterior margin more broadly pallid, the middle area 

 sparsely sprinkled with small, quadrate, fuscous spots, more abundant 

 apically; wings pellucid, with a scarcely perceptible bluish tinge, the 

 veins bluish, excepting the outer half of the upper portion,' where they 

 are black, or, at the extreme apex above, brownish. Outside of hind 

 femora yellowish-brown, their upper half with a median and pre-apical, 

 oblique, black patch, the latter tinging also the inferior surface ; inside 

 of femora blue, with a transverse, pre-apical, black patch ; the whole 

 apex bluish-black ; hind tibise deep blue, the base yellowish-brown on 

 the sides, spines black-tipped; hind tarsi pale yellowish-brown. Abdo- 



