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Show 266 1 $, American Fork Caiion, Utah. I have also received specimens from Mr. Henry Edwards from California and Vancouver's Island ( No. 2), which are a little larger; the above description is in fact based upon them, as Dr. Packard's specimen was collected in alcohol. This species is closely allied to T. verruculata ( Kirb.) Scudd., which Mr. Edwards has also sent me from Vancouver's Island ( No. 4), but differs from it in the more uniform distribution of the spots on the teg-mina ( T. verruculata always showing a couple of distinct, median, transverse, grayish bars), and in the extent of the fuliginous area of the wings, which in T. verruculata is confined to the extreme apex and to a narrow median band, sometimes so narrow as to be nearly broken in the middle. AULOCARA ( aOAtiJv, xapa) nov, gen. jtfot very distant from Acrotylus Fieb. Head large, tumid, the fas* tigium of the vertex pretty strongly declivant, scarcely depressed, its rounded lateral carinae convergent to a blunt apex, by which it is separated from the frontal costa; lateral foveolae distinct, pretty large, triangular, longer than broad, the lower edge horizontal; frontal costa narrow above, regularly broadening, fading out midway between the ocellus and the clypeus, sulcate throughout; eyes rather small, scaroelj longer than broad, slightly shorter than the anterior part of the cheek, rather prominent, above nearly as distant as their breadth; antenna very long and slender, scarcely depressed, fully as long as the hind femora. Pronotum very short, no longer than the head, constricted in the middle, the lobes equal in length; median carina very slight, equal, the front lobe twice distinctly severed in its posterior half, all the sulca-tions running distinctly a little way into the lateral lobes; lateral carina slight but distinct, excepting between the sulcations; lateral lobes scarcely narrowing below. Tegmina and wings reaching or surpassing the tip of the abdomen, the former with free, short, axillary vein, BO intercalary vein and very few spurious veins. Hind femora rather stout and broad, with rather prominent carinae; first hind tarsal joint longer than the third; arolium minute. The insects of this group have much the aspect of StenobothrL The type of the genus is the species cceruleipes, now to be described. 25. Aulocara cceruleipes nov. sp. Head brown, heavily obscured above with broad longitudinal dark- brown or blackish stripes, made up of transverse bars; the face and cheeks more or less blotched with livid, becoming pale dull blue in front; clypeus and labrum pale brown, the edge of the latter pallid, like the palpi; antennse brownish- yellow at base, beyond black or blackish. Pronotum brown, darkest above, the median carina darker; lateral lobes, with the upper border, blackish, and a pair of attingent, transverse, quadrate, black patches, the hinder a little the higher, in the middle. Tegmina surpassing the abdomen, brownish- fuscous, the posterior margin narrowly and the outer two-thirds of tho anterior margin more broadly pallid, the middle area sparsely sprinkled with small, quadrate, fuscous spots, more abundant apically; wings pellucid, with a scarcely perceptible bluish tinge, the veins bluish, excepting the outer half of the upper portiou, where they are black, or, at the extreme apex above, brownish. Outside of hind femora yellowish- brown, their upper half with a median and preapical* oblique, black patch, the latter tinging also the inferior surface; inside of femora blue, with a transverse, pre- apical, black patch; the whole apex bluish- black; hind tibiae deep blue, the base yellowish- brown on the sides, spines black- tipped; hind tarsi pale yellowish- brown. Abdo- |
