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Vertex, sloping or transversely depressed, about one-fourth longer on 
middle than at eye, anterior margin moderately thick, nearly straight to 
the tylus; tylus moderately produced and rounded, fully twice wider than 
long; front moderately inflated, the inflation equaling the long diameter of 
the eye, produced anteriorly, forming a right angle with the vertex; pro- 
notum somewhat depressed before the middle, disc elevated, the lateral 
margins about equaling in length the distance between the ocelli; elytra 
long and narrow, exceeding the abdomen; costal area less than one-half 
wider at the angle of sector than opposite the discoid cells. 
Color: Vertex tawny, punctured with darker, carina light; pronotum 
grayish, coarsely punctate with tawny or rusty-brown; elytra tawny or 
grayish* brown, coarsely punctate with darker; an oblique, light band from 
the scutellum to the center of the corium, another from before the apex of 
clavus, running transversely on to the corium, then obliquely back to the 
costa, both bands broadly dark margined, the anterior one emphasized on 
the costa. 
Genitalia: Female pygofers and ovipositor short and compact, thickly 
set with coarse hairs; ultimate ventral segment of male abdomen longer 
than its basal width, narrowing apically; plates in the form of long, taper 
ing, flnger-like processes, attingent until just before the black tip, where 
they narrow slightly and diverge. 
Habitat: Specimens are at hand from Vancouver’s island, 
Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, and Colo- 
rado, and Uhler reports it from Utah. 
APHROPHORA SARATOGENSIS Fitch. 
Lepyronia saratoqensis Fitch. Cat. Horn. N. Y., p. 53, 1851. 
Ptyelus detritus Walk. List Horn. B. M., p. 713, 1851. 
Ptyelus gelidus Walk. Horn. B. M., p. 714, 1851. 
Fulvous or grayish-brown, a broad, median light stripe 
across head and pronotum, and oblique, light bands on the 
elytra; smaller than either parallela or permutata, and with a 
less inflated front; length 3.5-lOmm., width 3-3. 5mm. 
Vertex, nearly flat, anterior margin thin, confluent with that of the tylus, 
which is also carinate anteriorly, making the entire anterior margin of the 
head thin and rounding, parallel with the posterior margin; front small, 
outline a regular curve, inflation less than the long diameter of the eje; 
pronotum only slightly convex, transverse depression before the middle 
very slight, carina weak, except across the depression; elytra moderately 
long and narrow, slightly exceeding the ovipositor in the female, costal 
margin scarcely reflexed. 
Color: Vertex, fulvous with a broad, median light stripe; pronotum 
fulvous in front, grayish behind the middle, a broad, median light stripe, 
creamy yellow in front, broader, paler and including a few dark 
punctures behind the middle; elytra fulvous or grayish-brown, with the 
oblique, light bands broad and indistinct, rarely margined with darker. 
Genitalia: Female pygofers half longer than their basal width, 
exceeded about one millimeter by the ovipositor, which is scarcely 
