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median carina. Pronotum deeply angularly emarginate, becoming broad 

 either side, the lateral carina? placed near the margin of the eyes. Mesono- 

 tum with three strong parallel carina?, the fourth and fifth barely indi- 

 cated by pale lines. Elytra moderately broad, parallel, the costa straight 

 from near its base. 



Color: opake black; carina; of the head and mesonotum fulvous, the 

 median carina of the front indicated only by a pale dash between the 

 antenna?. Pronotal margins and carina? pale; narrow center of the prono- 

 tum marked with four whitish points: two approximate behind the vertex 

 and a larger calloused one either side. These pale dots are distinguishable 

 in many of our species, but are more distinct in this. Basal margins and 

 apex of the mesonotum pale. Antenna? black, touched with pale at apex. 

 Base of the rostrum pale. Begs mostly black, the joints and middle of 

 the tibia? pale. Metapleura and sides of the abdomen whitish. Elytra nearly 

 hyaline; nervures strong, heavily fusco-punctate; at apex and on the base 

 of the apical areoles with a small fuscous cloud. Stigma large, black, cov- 

 ering most of the cell, marked with white before; costal nervure anterior 

 to the stigma slender, pale brown; commissure whitish with two heavy 

 fuscous marks beyond the middle of the clavus. 



Described from one female taken at Pasadena, California, 

 June 11th 1910, by Mr. Fordyce Grinnell, Jr. This species is 

 so strongly marked and distinct I do not hesitate to describe it 

 from a single example. 



Oecleus pellucens Fowler. 



A large fulvous species with small head and linear vertex 

 which is strongly produced before the eyes. Length to tip of 

 closed elytra 7 mm. 



Female: Head narrow, subcorneal, truncate behind. Vertex linear, 

 projecting for two-fifths of its length before the eyes. Front narrow, less 

 widened apieally than in our other species; basal one-third almost linear 

 and about twice as wide as the vertex which it meets at somewhat less than 

 a right angle. Pronotum short, at the middle scarcely wider than the 

 vertex; but little expanded laterally. Mesonotum 5-carinate. 



Color fulvo-testaeeous becoming almost reddish on the mesonotum, cly- 

 peus and edges of the pleural pieces. Front and vertex deep black with 

 strong pale carina?. Clypeus scarcely touched with fuscous either side of 

 the median carina. Antenna? pale. Pronotum testaceous, faintly clouded 

 in the depressions either side. Mesonotum fulvous, marked with black 

 between the carina? and on the anterior margin. Elytra uniformly whitish- 

 hyaline and faintly smoky; nervures distinct, whitish and regularly punctate 

 to their apex. Stigma long and narrow, brown. Wings with fuscous ner- 

 vures. Bisk of the pleural pieces and abdominal segments mostly black. 

 Begs lineate with black. 



I have examined three females of this species taken at 

 Phoenix, Arizona, on May 17th and Sept. 13th, 1902, by Mr. H. 



