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Show 280 the exterior valves turned abruptly upward and very finely pointed at thAtip. the inner valves furnished with five curved aciculate teeth, growing larger fitm^ yfaftftj'^ bhere equaling the breadth of the ovipositor. Length of body, l. Vnui; h\ mif\\ ft&? q*$ 5n> m; of ovipositor, 4.75mm. • n£' W& to&^ Barbara, Cal., June 10, Dr. O. Loew. - ^ jS^ jfcftftfts closely allied to C. califomianm Scndd., but differs decidedly from it in flft# IttrgWd7* t « e ovipositor, which is nevertheless shorter than in most of the other species, anerftottf'all species known to me in the extreme length of the teeth of the ovipositor. Thomas's C. oastaneus is probably to be referred, as he suggests, to my C. call-fornianus, as the measurement given of the hind femora of the latter should read .3* 2 in insfl& a^ CT'S& Prn, a typographical error to which my attention was first called by his description. I may add that while the hind femora of C. caltfornianus are not spined beneath, they are minutely serrulate throughout, as in the present species. 8. Anabrus coloradus Thorn.- This species differs from A. simplex Hald., in its smaller size, shorter pronotnm, in the character of the posterior lobe of the same, which is slightly broader, distinctly though bnt slightly carinate, with lateral carina), distinct though obtuse and slightly more docked posterior border; the lower border of the deflected lobes from front to back is broadly margined with pale yellow, made more con- 9WftBW'./ P{ 9*? T' ® r* J' ^ boiug broadly edged above with reddish brown. As in that ijffiiieSj. jrae rasjmina and wings are completely covered by the pronotnm in both strafes^ ' Tt5A'AV ™ > 8itor is gently and regularly curved, while in A. simplex it is straight, a ^ krVlatK, excepting next the base of the lower valves and next the extreme base of \ m npp^ rSW^ a; whilu in A. simplex it is black only next the apex; the malecerci are TOyip& raelft anfi briefly pilose, rather stout, subcylindrical, dividing at about the miMk ifltn i wo tingi'ijs, an inner, short, cylindrical, thumb- like process, directed a little" fcii^ rtf, l^ i&' than twice as long as broad, and a gently incurved, tapering, pointed lln^ i'; Tin1 nMle cerci of A. simplex, on the other hand, are laterally compressed, and JutVfl pfttil fc^ iipbeuda # es abbreviated. Length of body, <£, 22mra; $, 20mni; of auten- S^^ iW^ WJn ^ J' 2: v' » ; of prouotum, <?, 8' » ™ ; $, 8.75mm; of hind tibi ® , ^ , l » a ; , $ tfSitj*'"; wj o v i p ns i t < i r, 18.5mm. $ Qti •? i.^ F?^] PrFern Colorado, Jnne 11- 20, Lieut. W. L. Carpenter; Taos Peak, Sangrc \ gnaw & Wot » : iiia, New Mexico, at a height of 13,000 feet, ( above timber,) Lieut. ", L. Carpfcjiln. Thus HprcU'ii'toiMnsii'ly allied to .4. simplex Hald. The species described and figured \ Hi id niimfi 3l). v Herman ( Verb, zool.- bot. Gesellschaft, Wien, xxiv, 209, tab. vi, figs, btedly a true Anabrus, can certainly not be the A. simplex of HaJde-ecies, unknown to me in nature, in which the ovipositor and , and in which the tegmina ( at least of the male) project be- [ Hnnoroiu. Apparently it is Herman's species which is figured under the i^ tilte ; l, imp^ z'^ Glover ( 111. Ent. N. Amer. Orth., pi. ix, fig. 1). ^ JjPiaay lifted he ? cujarked in this place that Thomas ( Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1870,74 <_ t M'ql) brti^ trangL'ly separated A. puipurascens Uhl., from this genus, because the pro- BteVnam U not fqrrn^ rl, whereas the genus was founded upon A* simplex, which has an amiu. art> ii; it<' pmsr^ Nimii! and although he subsequently explains it ( Geol. Surv. Montana, 438 et se^.) from his never haviug seen A. simplex when his first paper was written, he still further confuses his readers by stating that A. Ealdemami Gir., has the pro-sternum distinctly spined, whereas it is as . clearly amucronate as is the presternum of A, simplex, ikBttirexysmeh& ppleura, nov. sp.- The top of the head is tumid, well rounded; prono-faad shield- short bittjj arrow, Compressed, the deflected lobes falling off so that the lower pwrtjofltlie prb{ Amr* xis three timesas broad as the upper; three equal but slight longi- UMlukal . darintb rejx, tK* id its entire length, the median broken near the middle by a ^ sfyapfedjimprefesion. and crossed anteriorly at the end of the anterior sixth by a slight transverse sulcus, which cuts the lateral carinae and passes on to the deflected lobes; from thfc flulcfta forward the lateral carinas diverge slightly; the deflected lobes are divided by a straight transverse impression into two unequal halves, and the deepest point! of vUie: lobefc . is" just behind this impression ; behind this the hinder edge of the lDbe^ fesei^ pwiai^ iri a nearly straight, oblique direction, and the posterior margin of the lobe is very broadly rounded. Tegmina very short, broadly rounded, somewhat shortedtfaaTLithfrprirootuni, with very prominent veins. Fore tibi » with four spines otr Abe! anterior face ;•. outer face of middle tibiae with five or six alternate spines in a doobteifoflT ;- bind Jagfc very long, the terminal interior tibial spine much longer than theifiisfctarsaft joitifc : Male cerci short, stout, cylindrical, suddenly recurved, and taper-ibg, vfor* jing< a $ hatotr horny, black hook; subgenital plate excised, with a slightly obtueeiangle* pioai^,: tbe styles as long as the width of the extreme apex of the plate. liefajfthiHoB b a d ^ ^ 1^; of prouotum, 7.7o ™ « ; of tegmina, 5.5nim; of hind tibia?, 27mn: / iik^ rlateiADgeleis of Santa Barbara, July, C. J. Shoemaker, No. 224. i » Iip5laee4hisi6peoies( iu Herman's genus Steiroxysr although it differs from it in some structural features* y Another species of the same group from California is in my collection. i i ins N| H- I- ICS i*. rnw.- i y ain bUd^ V. ttiti namf % Hurma Tc^^' W^ sU p( ipli* » > bredly UkWifytifc l* M Mljfd specie ' ji\ i\ J* f. cett\ fire d Jtfere11T, an |
