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half; expanding below, with strong, somewhat distinct and slightly in- 

 curved spines nearly to the knee; hairy, especially between the rows of 

 spines. Anterior and middle legs pilose, meso- and meta-sternum very 

 broad and flat; the posterior margin of the latter squarely truncate with 

 no entering lobe or sinus. Presternum about half the width of the 

 metasternum; a somewhat prominent curved ridge extending across 

 from one leg to the other. Antennae of medium length, filiform. 



Color, (alcoholic). — Dull ochreous or yellowish-brown; a few black 

 points on the anterior portion of the pronotum; elytra brown with paler 

 reticulations; interior face of the posterior femora dark-brown or black; 

 tips of the valves of the ovipositor and of the tibial spines black; ster- 

 num and venter yellow. 



Dimensions. — 9 Length; 1.90 inches; pronotum, .75 inches; width 

 of pronotum at the broadest part, .50 inches; elytra, .25 inches; pos- 

 terior femora, .70 inches; posterior tibiae, .65 inches; width of meso- 

 sternum, .56 inches. 



Lower Arizona. From the collection of Lt. Wheeler's Expedition 

 of 1874. Collected by Mr. Henshaw. 



Stal has restored the generic name Eremobia of Serv. in place of 

 Thrincus of Fischer, and I think properly. I have therefore followed 

 him. The specific name magna is given because it is supposed to-be 

 the largest species of the genus known. 



Cyrus Thomas. 



Botanical Notes. 



Androstephium vtOLACEUM, Torr. — A number of bulbs sent recently 

 from Fort Harker, Kansas, as bulbs of Scilla Fraseri, were potted in 

 the greenhouse, and having flowered, prove to be Androstephium vio- 

 laceum, which has not before been recorded as far north as Kansas. It 

 has been known chiefly from Texas specimens. It is a liliaceous plant 

 having somewhat the habit of Allium, but much smaller. The 

 flowers are constructed somewhat like those of Narcissus. A second 

 species, {A. breviflorum, S. W. ), from Utah, was last year described by 

 Mr. Watson. 



Dentaria heterophylla, Nutt. — 'This species occurs in this vicini- 

 ty in great abundance, and although growing side by side with D. la- 



