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Psyche 6:317-320, 1891.

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STICTHIPPUS (~LKTOS, twwos) subgen. nov. Head closely resembling that of Hippiscus, with small but deep and conspicuous trian- gular lateral foveolae, and between their an- terior extremities a distinct, depressed, transversely biareolate field; frontal costa sulcate above, especially about the ocellus. Antennae rather slender, uniform through- out, about as long as head and pronotum
together in the 9, less than twice as long as the pronotum in the 3, apically tapering only on last joint or two. Pronotum with the dorsal field nearly flat with a slight median carina which is occasionally subob- solete on the posterior part of the metazona and normally cut only by the typical sulcus, but sometimes slightly cut by the anterior sulcus of the prozona and more or less inter- rupted behind it, in which case there is a distinct discal scutellum, the posterior sulcus of the prozona terminating in two forks, one at the lateral borders of the discal scutellum, the other by deeply cutting the lateral walls of that scutellum close to the median Sine; metazona distinctly longer than the prozona, rectangulate or obtusangulate behind ; sur- face scabrous, the lateral carinae obscure. Tegmina as in Hippiscus, with scattered
maculations hardly panthei-ine. Wings with the whole outer border broadly infumate, subvitreous apically so as to give the inner part the semblance of an arcuate band, and connecting with a broad humeral taenia
which extends nearly to the base.
Legs as
in Hippiscus. Mesosternal lobes separated by a deeply truncate cuneiform median piece, the inner margins, of the lobes being rapidly and widely divergent.
This subgenus is closely allied to the
other subgenera of Hippiscus,-Hippis-
cus and Xanthippus, and to Leprus. It
differs from all most strikingly in the
form of the mesostenial lobes which lie
at about the same distance apart as in
the two first, to which it is certainly
most nearly allied. From Leprus it
also differs in the presence of a humeral taenia on the wings. It agrees better
with Hippiscus than with Xanthippus
in the structure of the antennae and of
the median carina of the pronotum,
although itself very variable, and from
Hippiscus it may be separated also by
the biareolate sunken fastigium between
the lateral foveolae of the face.
HIPPISCUS (S.) CALIFORNICUS .spa nova
A compact form of rather small size. Very dull brownish fuscous, with a slight yellow- ish tinge, faintly flecked or blotched with dusky spots and obscurely dotted with black, *
the head plump and full, dark on the upper third, the rest dull clay yellow and nearly free from dots; summit of head nearly
smooth, with a few dull low minute verru- cosities, a faint median carina and the walls of the vertical fastigiun~ dull but distinct; lateral foveolae small, triangular, rather deep ; frontal costa moderately narrow, sub- equal, contracted very slightly at summit and again a little more distinctly beneath the ocellus, rather deeply sulcate especially below the ocellus. Antennae testaceous, infuscated in apical half, a little longer if) or a little shorter (2) than head and prothorax to-
gether. Pronotum stout, especially in the $, the metazona very faintly tumid, its
lateral carinae sharp anteriorly especially in the ,J' ; dorsal field of whole pronotum some- what minutely verrucose, many of the verru-



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cosities longitudinal, rarely closely crowded ; lateral lobes minutely, closely, and uniformly verruculose on the metazona, nearly smooth on the prozona with a faint quadrate dusky spot. Tegmina ashen, becoming subvitreous apically, heavily blotched with larger and smaller rounded brownish fuscous spots,
mostly congregated into basal, median, and postmedian blotches, the apical third with a few smaller indistinct cloudy spots; sutural stripe clear and generally with a rufous tinge; anal vein free. Wings very pale at base with a slight citron tinge, beyond which the nervules are all black, with a broad arcu- ate brownish fuscous or nebulous band, nar- rowing toward the anal margin, connecting with the humeral stripe which is broad and reaches almost to the base, the apex more or less infumate, and below the humeral region often wholly, generally in part, coalescing with the arcuate band. Hind femora dull
clay yellow with a transverse basal band and strongly oblique, rather broad, blackish fus- cous median and posttnedian bands; hind
tibiae and tarsi pale coral red, sometimes with a yellowish tinge, the spines black tipped.
Length of body, 8, 26 mm. ; 9, 34-36
mm. ; of tegmina, f , 26 mm.; 9, 27-30 mm. Gilroy, Santa Clara Co., California ;
collected by G. R. Crotch.
Described from one 8, twelve
HIPPISCUS (S.) MARMORATUS sp. nov.
I have separated from the other central
Californian species of Sticthippus two females which are certainly very closely allied to it but differ in several particulars which seem to warrant it. In particular the maculations of the tegmina are much more broken up
into small spots which though more or less distinctly grouped into three large bands are not so to the same extent and the minor dots are by no means so confused therein, and are also continued with almost equal or equal sharpness to the tip of the tegmina; besides, the anal vein in passing to the margin is more or less entangled and interlocked with the axillary vein; the apical area of the wings, except for the infuscated veins, is hardly clouded but carries at the extreme tip some blackish fuscous maculations. The
hind tibiae are clay yellow. The wings
appear to be relatively longer and narrower than in H. (S.) califo~nicus.
Length of body, 30 mm. ; tegmina, 29 mm. Monterey, Monterey Co., California.
Described from 2 9 received from Mi-.
Henry Edwards.
Subgenus XANTHIPPUS.
Oedifoda corallipes Hald., Stansb. expl. Utah, 371, pi. 10, fig. 2; Tayl., Rep. Smiths. inst.', 1858,206; Thom., Proc. acad. nat. sc. Philad., 1870,79; Rep. U. S. geol. surv. Wyo., 274 ; Rep. U. S. geol. surv. terr., 5,456-457 ; 6, 720-721 ; Syn. Acrid. N. A. 1.30; Rep. U. S. surv. 100th mer., 5,879.
Hippiscus corallipes Scudd!, Bull. U. S. geol. surv. terr., 2,264; Rep. U. S. eng., 1876, 509; Rep. U. S. ent. comm., 2, app. 2, 26; Thom., Bull. 111. mus., 1,65; Rep. ent. Ill., 9,957 115-116.
Xanfhz'f$us corall$es Sauss., Prodr.
Oedip., 90.
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in this striking and well known species
is broad,-more than twice as broad as
the interspaces between the rays in the
anal area, but occasionally individuals
occur in which it is considerably nar-
rower than that, resembling' rather the
prevalent condition in I/. (AV7. > Pardal- inus from which its shorter inetazona
separates it.
I have seen specimens from Dakota
(collected by S. M. Rothham1ne1- dur-
ing explorations under Gen. Sully),
Salt Lake, Utah, June 9 (A. S. Pack-
ard) , Platte River (F. V. Hayden),
Barbour Co., Kans., collected by Cra-
gin (Brunei-), the South Platte coun-
try of Nebraska in the eastern half of
the state (Bruner in litt.), Boulder,
Colo., June 9, Colorado at an eleva-
tion of 5500' (Packard), between Lakin,
Kansas, and Pueblo, Colo., from woo'
to 4-ioo', July 8-9 (S. H. Scudcler),
southern Colorado, June I 1-20 (Lt.
Carpenter), Silver City and Albu-
querque, New Mexico (Brunei- in litt.),
Fort Whipple, Arizona (E. Palmer),
Arizona (Burrison in Henshaw's coll. ) , Arizona, collected by Dunn (Br~~ner),
San Antonio, collected by Newell, and
El Paso, Texas (Bruner), Dallas, Texas
(Boll), and Texas (Schaupp in Hen-
sliaw's coll.) ; and it has been also re- ported by Thomas from Nevada,
Cheyenne, Wyoming, and south of
Raton Mts., N. Mexico. It would
appear therefore to be found mainly
along the plains at the eastern base of
the Rocky Mountains from Dakota
southward, and along the eastern mar-
gin of the Interior Basin.
HIPPISCUS (X.) ZAPOTECUS.
Xanr'hz$fus zafotecus Sauss., Prodr.
Oedip., 91.
Saussure reports this species from
the ager mexicanus simply, by which
it is presumed that he found it wide-
spread. The specimens which I have
examined come mostly from Colorado
collected by Morrison (Henshaw's coll. ) or R. Thaxter (at Manitou, June 5-
I I) ; but Mr. Brunei' has a130 sent me
specimens from Cheyenne, Wyo., col-
lected by Wickham, and from Silver
City, Albuquerque, and Taos Valley in
New Mexico; and a single specimen
collected July 15 at Denison, Crawfond
Co., Iowa, by J. A. Allen certainly
belongs here.
Mr. Bruner also states
that he has specimens from Akron,
Colo., and Los Angeles, Calif.
HIPPISCUS (X.) c ~ ~ s ~ ~ c u ~ s sp. nov. Similar in general appearance to $3. (X.) corallipes with which it agrees well in size. Grayish fuscous, darkest above. Fastigintn of vertex subpen tagonal, broadly open be- hind, the anterior wall retroarcuate, all the walls slight, a faint median
carina invading
the fastigium ; between the apices of the moderately shallow triangular lateral foveo- lae, a slight more 01- less blended biareolate foveola; frontal costa deeply sulcate, consid- erably narrowed above. Pronoturn rather
heavily verruculose, the metazona more or less deeply impressed anteriorly, .slightly tumid with arched lateral carinae which are sharp and distinct anteriorly, dulled behind; process of metazona rectangulate; the med- ian carina either depressed or obsolete be- tween the principal sulci, gently arched on metazona. Elytra strongly pardaline (api c



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ally vitreous) with strongly contrasting pale cinerous and blackish fuscous markings,
with sharply defined margins, deepest in color in the marginal field, distributed much as in 13. (X.) coralli-pes. Wings very pale clear citron yellow at base, apically vitreous with black longitudinal veins, the cross veins brown often inclining to yellow ; and between the two a very narrow, arcuate, fuliginous or brownish fuscous band scarcely broader than the width of the interspaces, deepest in color at and beside the cross nervules,
and sepa-
rated by a citron line fi om the humeral vitta which reached outwai d only to the hner
margin of the arcuate band and inward half or three quarters w:>y to the base; costal margin narrowly b ownish yellow; outer
margin free from the arcuate stripe for fully half its length.
Hind femora pale cinereous
obcurely marked with exceedingly oblique dusky stripes, beneath blood red, immaculate; hind tibiae coral red, hoary or pallid without, the spines black tipped.
Length of body, 43 mm.; of tegmina 38
mm.
The species comes from Kansas (P.
R. Uhler) and New Mexico (Silver
City, L. Brunei').
Described from 2 9.
HIPPISCUS (X.) EREMITUS sp. nov.
Similar to the preceding, but with much
more broken markings on the tegmina.
The
single specimen having been preserved in al- cohol, the colors of the head and thorax are uncertain (and the inequalities of the sur- face of the head intensified), but it appears to be of a rather dark grayish fuscous strongly marked with cinerous, especially in a stripe which follows the lateral carinae of the pro- thorax and extends to the eye. Summit of head transversely rugulose, with a median carina extending to the middle of the fastig- ium of the vertex which is of about equal breadth and length with rather high angulate bounding walls, indistinct posteriorly and open in front to the small, partially biareo- late, rather deep and small frontal foveola which lies between the tips of the moderate- ly large and distinct triangular lateral foveo- lae, whose upper walls are arcuate ; frontal costa deeply sulcate, much narrowed above. fading below. Pronoturn arenaceous and
rather sparsely and feebly venuculose, the metazona not deeply impressed anteriorly, a little tumid, with distinct but not high and equal lateral carinae ; metazona twice as long as prozona; process of metazona slightly less than rectang~~late ; median carina moderately high, almost obliterated between the princi- pal sulci, arched on the metazona. Elytra maculato-pardaline, apically subviti-eous with highly contrasted cinerous and blackish fus- cous markings having sharply defined mar- gins, the latter distributed very much as in H. (A"'.) coralli'pesbut very much diminished in size, all the dark markings together not covering one half the area of the tegmina, very much reduced in the marginal field, and in the distal portion of the discoidal field very irregular in direction, often strongly arcuate and generally also partially or completely broken by the nervules into independent but intimately connected maculations. Wings
very pale citron yellow at base with concol- orous reticulation, apically vitreous with black or partially fuscous reticulation, and between the two a very narrow arcuate pale fuliginous band scarcely broader than the width of the interspaces, leaving at least six marginal lobes free and separated by a brief space from the humeral vitta, which extends only as far as its inner border and inward the larger part of the way to the base, followed apically on the margin by a blackish f'uscous stigma. Hind femora cinerous with three
moderately broad, not very oblique, blackish brown stripes externally, beneath and the tibiae testaceous (presumably red in life), the latter with black tipped spines.
Length of body, 39 mm. ; of tegmina, 40
mm.




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