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GENUS CROPHIUS 



Described from fifteen examples representing both sexes. 

 Four of these were taken at Los Angeles, Calif, by Mr. C. W. 

 Coquilette, the others were captured at Utah Lake, Utah, in 

 June. 



This species is very distinct by its narrower form becoming 

 much widened behind, the almost truncated apex of the corium, 

 unarmed anterior femora and the paler ferruginous colors. 



6. Crophius impressus n. sp. 



Pronotum rather convex, impressed 

 on either side before the humeri and less 

 distinctly on the disk of the posterior 

 lobe. Callousities conspicuous, scarcely 

 coalescent, almost impunctate. Anten- 

 nae normal except that the first joint is 

 unusually long and thick, considerably 

 exceeding the tylus. Scutellum small. 

 Elytra sparsely punctured, the second 

 row on the clavus broken or wanting 

 altogether. Metasternal sulcus appar- 

 ently absent. Length 3 1/2 mm. 



Color: Head, callousities and scutellum black or nearly so; 

 the former a little ferruginous on the tylus; antennae ferrugi- 

 nous, the apical two joints fuscous. Pronotum ferruginous, 

 punctured with fuscous, with the anterior border and five rays 

 on the posterior lobe pale ; the region of the callousities black. 

 Beneath dark ferruginous or blackish; the coxal insertions and 

 metapleural flaps conspicuously pale. Elytra soiled white, fusco- 

 punctate, nervures usually pale; tip of the corium blackish; 

 costal area with a few fuscous punctures. Membrane with a 

 fuscous discal cloud which is faintly produced to the apex; its 

 base whitish and the lateral margins pellucid ; nervures mostly 

 infuscated. Femora piceous; their base and apex and the tibiae 

 and tarsi ferruginous; the tibiae with the usual broad pale an- 

 nulus. Venter piceous. polished. 



Described from one pair received from the Cornell Univer- 

 sity Collection and taken in Humboldt Co., Calif., by Mr. J. C. 

 Bradley; the male at Blue Lake, June 20th, and the female at 

 Pepperwood, Eel River, on June 28th. This species may be 



