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gula black and the tylus shining black, antennae black, moderately stout, the basal 
joint much longer than the head, the second joint as long as from base of 
pronotum to front of eye, tiie third gradually decreasing in thickness, about 
two-thirds the length of the second, the fourth more slender, acutely tapering, 
about one*third as long as the third joint; rostrum all black or black at base, 
rufo-piceous posteriorly, reaching to posterior coxae. Pronotum wide, moderately 
short, the anterior lobe almost flat, with the front border reflexed, thick, 
whitish, and sinuated in the middle, callosities large, diagonal, prominent, black, 
with the deep space between also black, the posterior lobe con vexley elevated transversly, 
faintly rufous on a smoky ground color, wrinkled, the posterior margin a little sinuated, 
with the edge depressed and thin and the middle of the submargin distinctly indented; 
the lateral margin reflexed throughout, including the border of the humeri; pleura 
rufous, a little fuscous anteriorly and on the sternum. Middle and posterior pectus blacK. 
Legs shining black. Scutellum dull black, tumid, indented at base. Bemelytra brownish 
black, irregularly granulated, and hairy, especially upon the clavus, outer border of the 
corium red, the color becoming wider posteriorly and covering nearly the whole cuneus. 
Abdomen black, shining, minutely pubescent. 
Length to end of abdomen 5 mm. Width of pronotum 1,75 mm. Numerous specimens of 
this insect are present in the collection of the Colorado Agricultural College. It inhabits 
also New Mexico and Arizona.” 
Estes Park, July 12th (Gillette). Steamboat Springs, 
July 16th on willow and Delphinium occidentale (Baker). 
ZtOpidea obscura Uhl. 
Steamboat Springs, July 26th; North Park, July 20th 
(Gillette). Steamlxiat Springs, July 12th to 16th, on willow 
Delphinium occidentale, and Artemisia tridentata (Baker). 
1/omatopleura caesar Ruet. 
Colorado (Gillette—see Osborn, 1). 
Fort Collins, July 24th to x4ugust 11th on Glycyrrhiza 
lepidota, and September 27th on Khus trilobata (Baker and 
Gillette). Foot-hills five miles west of Fort Collins, June 5th 
to 14th; Colorado Springs, August 3d (Gillette). 
Hadronema militaris Uhl. 
Colorado (L^hler, 1). Roaring Fork (Rothrock—see Uhler, 2). Hills, July 
to September (Carpenter—see Uhler, 6.) Clear Creek Canon, well up on the 
mountain side, August 6th (Uhler, 5). Blackhawk, July 2d (Packard—see 
(Uhler, 5). Smith’s Park, Custer County, August 6th; also high alpine 
(Cockerell, 10). Colorado (Gillette—see Osborn, 1). Colorado (VanDuzee, 5). 
Fort Collins, June 4th; Rist Canon, June 12th to July 30th; 
Estes Park, July 9th; North Park, July 20th; Steamboat 
Springs, July 26th; Georgetown, July 19th; Colorado Springs, 
August 3d; Montrose, June 24th (Gillette). Estes Park 
(Snow). Colorado Springs (Tucker). 
Hadronema picta Uhler n. sp. 
‘‘Form nearly the same as in H. militaris. Having the antennae a little shorter, with 
