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Show 289 slightly narrower and are flecked almost uniformly throughout with fuscous dots, smaller and a little less frequent on the apical third; entire inner area pale yellowish testaceous; wings with a transverse band, and base exactly as in A. frigida, but with the entire apex uniformly pellucid, obscured only by the blackish veins. Hind tibi ® glaucous, with a very broad pale yellow annulation at the base, and a slight testaceous tinge at extreme tip; the apical half of spines black. Length of body, <?, 19mm; 9, 28.2mm; of antennae, ^. S" 1 ™ ; 9,7.5mm; of pronotum, <£, 4.5m, n; 9,6.25mmj of tegmina, £, 19ram; $, 26.5mm; of hind tibiae, £, 8.8 « « m; 9, 12.5mm. 2 $, 2 9, Southern Colorado, J une 11- 20, and Northern New Mexico, August to September, Lieut. W. L. Carpenter. I have also received the species from- Pecos River, Texas, Captain Pope. 32. Camnulaatrox (( Edipoda atrox Scndd.; Camnula iricarinata Stal). A considerable number of specimens were taken in Southern California; at SantaJBarbara, June, No. 885, C. J. Shoemaker; June 10, Dr. O. Loew; July 1, No. 1005, H. W* Henshaw; in the Mo-jave Desert, July, No. 935, Dr. O. Loew ; and on Santa Cruz Island, in June, No. 967, H. W. Henshaw. I have also received it from other points in California, viz: from Tighes Station, and Julian, in the southern part of the State, Dr. £ . Palmer; and from Santa Rosa Island, Central California, Nevada, aud Vancouver's Island, Henry Edwards, esq. This material shows that the species varies greatly in the markings of the tegmina. The usual distribution of the fuscous spots seems to be the following: the middle area is filled with large, transverse, quadrate spots, separated by rather narrow interspaces; those on the basal half of the wings more or less confluent, particularly below. On the outer half, they become smaller and less conspicuous toward the tip, and are usually confined to a couple of patches, somewhat curtailed beneath in the third quarter of the wing and scattered dots beyond; besides these, there is, usually, a small, oblique, subquadrate, dark fuscous spot on the costal border, just beyond the highest point of the costal arch, and near the middle of the same border two or three short oblique streaks. Not infrequently, however, all these markings are much reduced, the quadrate spots become rounded, and the result may be simply a series of three or four subeqnal, round, fuscous spots in the median area, some scattered dots beyond them, and slight touches along the costal border; or there may be a couple of narrow, transverse streaks at and beyond the middle of the wing, made np of clustered dots, with one or two dots beyond, a small, quadrate, longitudinal spot in the middle of the basal half of the middle area, and a small spot at the costal arch. 33. Hippiscus corallipes ( Hald.) Scudd.- 1 9, Southern Colorado, June 11- 20, Lieut. W. L. Carpenter. CEDOCARA, ( oldiu, n&? a), nov. gen. Allied to ( Eduleus. Head large and tumid, the face vertical; vertex between the eyes twice as broad as the froutal costa; the anterior half of the fastigiura suddenly contracted to about one- third its previous width, the lateral carina? prominent; lateral foveolte very distinct, with prominent walls, pretty large, triangular, pointed interiorly; froutal costa rather strongly contracted above, a little expanded at the ocellus, somewhat sulcata throughout and especially just below the ocellus; eyes rather small, not very prominent; autenna? about as long as the hind tibiae, the joints of the basal half a little depressed. Pronotum small, greatly constricted in the middle, scarcely longer than the head, the anterior and posterior lobes of nearly equal length; the constriction is nearly confined to the anterior lobe, which is furnished posteriorly with two deeply- impressed transverse sulci, extending ( deeply) a short distance into the deflected lobes, and extending up to, but not traversing, the median carina; this is of equal and slight elevation throughout, and the lateral carina are present only as a shoulder to the fiat posterior lobe; the anterior lobe, on the other hand, is nearly tectiform, aud its anterior border is full and rounded, expanding slightly upon the surface of the head; posterior border very obtusely and roundly angulated; pleura of metathorax carinate, especially below. Tegmina extending beyond the abdomen, the costal margin considerably expanded in the middle of its basal half; the intercalary vein rather inconspicuous, minutely tortuous, dividing the postradial field; axillary vein free. Hind femora moderately slender, with sharp, unarmed, superior carina; interior, apical, curved spines of hind tibhe subequal. 34. ( Edocara strangulatum, nov. sp.- Yellowish brown, the face and cheeks paler, and, like the top of the head, profusely mottled with small, darker fuscous spots; antenna) pale, the apical third blackish fuscous. Dorsum of prouotum pallid, the posterior lobe, excepting a broad, lateral, pallid stripe aloug the carinje, reddish brown and punctate, a quadrate patch of the same color on the upper half of the deflected portion of the anterior lobe. Tegmina dead brown, the inner edge paler, the rest rather sparsely and almost uniformly flecked with small brownish spots: wings pellucid; most of the veins of the outer half of the front portion black. Hiud femora with two oblique bars of reddish brown, crossiug the upper half of the outer face and the upper face, the distal one also traversing, uot obliquely, the inner face; a few dots of the same color fleck the lower outer carina; upper half of the outside and whole of the inside |