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Psyche 6:347-350, 1891.

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November 1892.1 f's TcU. 347
(Continued from page 336).
This species so far as known is con-
fined to the northern half of the United States in the general vicinity of the
Rocky Mountains. Specimens before
me come from the upper Missouri and
Yellowstone (F. V. Hayden), explora-
tions in Dakota under Gen. Sully (S.
M. Rothhammer), Nevada (H. Ed-
wards), Utah (P. R. Uhler), about
Rangeley on the lower White =ver,
western Colorado (S. H. Scudder),
Colorado, 55001, probably at the eastern edge of the foot-hills (H. K. Morrison,
in S. Henshaw's coll. and my own),
and Yuma, Arizona, collected by Wick-
ham (Brunei").
I have seen but two specimens with
red hind wings, both females from
Rangeley, Colorado.
HIPPISCUS (X.) TOLTECUS.
Xanthippus toltecus Sauss., Prodr. Oedip., 91-92.
If I have correctly identified Saus-
sure's species it has a wide range.
He
records it from Mexico alta. I have
seen specimens from Spring Lake Villa,
Utah Co., Utah, Aug. 1-4 (E. Palmer),
Helena, Montana. June 21 (A. S.
Packard) , and Laramie River, Wyom-
ing, (L. Bruner.)
HIPPISCUS (X.) ALTIVOLUS sp. nov.
Dark obscure brownish fuscous, not very
robust and of small size. Head dull dirty cinereous with numerous more or less clus- tered blackish points, most abundant above; summit relatively broad, scarcely at all tumid, subrugulose, the vertical fasitigium indistinct from the low and dull bounding walls,
closed behind by the arcuate incurving of the lateral walls,
separated distinctly from
the tolerably deep. biareolate median foveola ; lateral foveolae rather small, triangular, subequiangular ;
frontal costa of moderate
breadth, fading and not expanding below, but little contracted
at summit, broadly and
shallowly sulcate throughout. Prothorax
but slightly expanding on the metazona,
the dorsal area plane, scarcely indentate at the front margin of the metazona,
sparsely verrucose and in addition abun- dantly but bluntly and obscurely arenaceous; process rectangulate ; median carina low, subequal, not arched ; lateral carinae tolera- bly pronounced; lateral lobes bluntly subru- gulose on the metazona, marked with a large subquadrate blackish spot on the prozona. Tegmina very short, extending when at rest but little beyond the hind femora, dirty cin- ereous with obscure dark brownish fuscous transverse more or less blended bands,
broader than the intermediate ashen ground, and therefore occupying much the larger
space even on the apical half which is
scarcely at all vitreous ; sutural stripe obscure testaceous.
Wings pale dull citron at base
with similar reticulation, subvitreous apically with black reticulation and between a strongly arcuate, moderately narrow, blackish fulig- inous band which narrows in passing toward the anal angle, which it fails to reach, and does not narrow above; it lies entirely in the apical half of the wing, leaves four marginal lobes free, and appears not to be at all sepa- rated from the humeral vitta whose outer limit is in oblique continuation of its outer curve and which reaches almost to the base; the basal half of the costal margin is testa- ceous. Hind femora brownish cinereous
externally, with rather obacure oblique
brownish stripes, the inferior surface dull coral red like the tibiae which are more or Parks 6 347-150 tprc-1901). htlp:/lpsyclir cnlclub orgW6-347.htd



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348 PS2'c'HE. [November 1892.
less pallid on the sides and basally above; spines black tipped.
Length of body, 32.5 mm. ; of tegmina, 20 mm.
Described from I 9.
After describing the above female I
received a male through the kindness
of Mr. Bruner which differs from the
female in general appearance much as
do the males from the females in H.
(X.) PumiZus. I may add that the
lighter markings of the tegmina are
slightly more distinct and better defined and the fuscous band of the wings
(which are pale red at the base) is de-
cidedly broader than in the Q and is
re-enforced by quadrate cellular fuscous spots in the otherwise hyaline apex.
Length of body, 20 mm. ; of tegmina,
19 mm.
Taken by me on the side of Mt. Lin-
coln, Colorado, above timber, between
I 1000-13000' above sea-level, Aug. 13,
and by Mr. Bruner at Como, Colorado,
(about 9500') July 16. It appears
therefore to be an alpine form.
HIPPISCUS (X.) CUPIDUS sp. nov.
Similar to the last but a much larger
species and of a robust form.
Dark cinereo-
fuscous. Head cinereous on the cheeks,
blackish fuscous above and to a considerable extent in front, especially on the sides of the frontal costa ; summit broad, slightly tumid, longitudinally rugulose, the vertical fas- tigium hexagonal with distinct and some- what prominent lateral walls, partially closed with lower walls behind, with a median ca- rina in its posterior half (which extends over the summit), more deeply impressed on its anterior than on its posterior half, but partially open to the subquadrate biareolate median foveola; lateral foveolae small, dis- tinct, triangular; frontal costa broad, rather deeply sulcate throughout, but little con- tracted above and hardly more than below the ocellus, widely expanding at the base and not there evanescent; antennae blackish, paling at the base. Prothorax stout and
massive, the prozona distinctly tectiform but tumid, the metazona plane but longitudinally a little arcuate and centrally tumid, rather deeply impressed at the principal sulcus, the whole dorsal surface verrucose and briefly and longitudinally rugulose, but nowhere crowded with elevations ; median carina
moderately high and more or less arched in each of its divihions, greatly subdued between the sulci; lateral carinae distinct and rather sharp, particularly at the principal sulcus; lateral lobes bluntly verruculose,especially on the metazona, with a large, median, glabrous, subquadrate black patch having a quadrate cinereous patch in the lower posterior quad- rant; process of metazona rectangulate.
Tegmina only reaching as far as the hind femora. stout, blackish fuscous, paling a little distally, with distinct, small, bright cinereous, triangular markings, besides cine- reous stripes along the lines of the principal nearly attingent veins, all having the same effect as the pantherine markings common in this group. Wings pale citron at base with similar reticulation and along the basal half of the front margin, vitreous apically with black reticulation and more or less fuliginous at tip, with a strongly arcuate, median, fulig- inous band moderately far from the margin and separated only by a citron vein from the humeral vitta, which is in oblique continua- tion of its outer limit, and extends to the base of the wing, a blackish marginal stigma at its outer limit. Hind femora very
broad with high carinae, cinereous with three strongly oblique blackish bars narrowest and darkest below, very broad above, the inner and inferior surface coral red; tibiae dull coral red, more or less infuscated on the



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November 1So2.1
PSYCHE.
sides with cinereous carinae; spines black tipped.
Length of body, 37 mm.; of tegmina, 25
mm.
Described from I 9 in the collection
of Mr. Lawrence Brunei, taken on the
Final Mountains of Arizona. It is ap-
parently an alpine form.
HIPPISCUS (X.) PUMILUS sp. nov.
Very dark Brown with generally slight cin- ereous shades, oforather a slender form (the 9 more robust) and of a small size. Head
tolerably tumid and moderately broad above, very variable in abundance and prominence of rugosities, but which are never very pro- nounced : darkest above, the face and cheeks often pallid cinereous flecked with fuscous, sometimes collected into short oblique
stripes on the posterior part of the head; vertex of fastigiutn distinct and plane with sharp but low bounding walls, broader in $ than in $ where it is usually longer than broad, rarely closed behind, the lateral walls usually regularly arcuate with a slight ten- dency to a median angle; median carina
generally terminating in the middle of the fastigium ; lateral foveolae subtriangular, con- siderably longer than broad, rather shallow; median foveola variable, sometimes ob~olete, sometimes biaseolate and distinct fi om verti- cal fastigium only by being at a lower level ; frontal costa moderately narrow, narrowed at summit, sulcate, sometimes through its whole extent and then continuous with and suppressing the median foveota, sometimes not affecting the summit, the lower portion expanding more or less and finally obsolete. Antennae shorter than (?), or more than half as long again as (8) the head and prothorax together, luteo-fuscous at base, blackish fuscous beyond, distinctly tapering only in the last three or four joints in the 2, in at least the latter fifth and cochleate in the $. Prothorax compressed and expanding very
slightly in the 8, robust and expanding con- siderably in the ?, the prozona subtectiform, the metazona plane and in the $ a little tumid centrally, with scattered slight, short, linear verrucosities inclined in various direc- tions and besides but few granulations; a broad bent pallid or cinereous band on either side, often obsolete; median carina slight and equal ; lateral carinae distinct and rather sharp but not prominent; upper portion of ' lateral lobes of prozona black or blackish with a superior oblique pallid dash and a median posterior quadrate pallid spot. Teg- mina blackish brown with pale cinereous
markings often almost wholly obliterated except some slight spots and streaks along the costal margin and a narrow transverse stripe crossing the base of the outer discoidal area; generally also with a triangular patch depending from the costal margin and ex- tending, sometimes interrupted, across the middle of the inner discoidal area, with an- other slender stripe midway between this and the outer stripe and connected with the latter by a stripe following the base of the anterior ulnar nervule; but sometimes increased in extent and in number by multiplication of other, sometimes sinuous, transverse stripes, especially in the apical half and in the upper portion of the extreme base so that the
ground is about equally divided between the two colors and the markings assume some- what the distribution which prevails in H. (X.) afflictus; there is a broad conspicuous bright flavous sutural stripe and the brown axillary field is usually immaculate. Wings very pale citron or salmon red at base with corresponding reticulation, vitreous apically, the extreme apex sometimes maculate, with black reticulation and a fuliginous median arcuate band, which is generally fainter and narrower in the 9 than in the 8, where it is sometimes blackish fuliginous, and varies from a width hardly equal to more than one of the interspaces (when it may escape the border altogether) to a broad band more




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350 p5' rcf?.t%. [November 1892.
or less confused with the more or less fulig- inous maculate apex, and when not so con- fused generally leaving three or four
marginal lobes free ; it is separated distinctly by a pale yellow line from the humeral vitta which extends from its outer margin almost or quite to the base, leaving on the basal half of the costal margin a yellowish line. Hind femora more or less pallid, lighter or darker cinereous externally, traversed by three strongly oblique blackish bands, within coral red blotched heavily with black,
beneath like the tibiae coral red, the outei- side of the latter more or less pallid, the spines black tipped; but the brighter colors may vary all the way from coral red to
luteous.
Length of body, 3, 18-24.5 mm., $' ,
26.5-35 rnm.; of tegmina 8, 17-23 mm., 9, 20-26 mm.
Described from 5 I 8 , 5 9 .
This is mainly a Coloradan species
taken at the height of 8-9000' (Morri-
son in S. Henshaw's, L. Bruner's col-
lections and
my own), at Florissant,
(June, S. H. Scudder ; June 13-15, R.
Thaxter), and South Park, 8-9000'
(June 16-23, R. Thaxter) . Bruner,
however, sends me also specimens from
Taos Valley, N. Mex., and says it also
occurs at Ft. Grant, Arizona.
Only one specimen, a $ from South
Park, has red wings.
~~IPPISCUS (x.) ALBULUS Sp. 11OV.
Fusco-cinereous, of moderately robust form and small size. Head pretty large and tumid, especially in the 2, cinereous, infuscated above and marked interruptedly with small blackish brown spots on all prominences
below the eyes including a narrow oblique stripe across the cheeks; summit of head faintly rugulose with faint divergent shallow sulcations extending backward from the pos- terior limit of the
fastigium of the vertex;
this deeply hollowed, with high and thin bounding walls, open behind, and in front scarcely separated from the deep, faintly biareolate, not very broad, median foveola; median carina slight, reaching the middle of the fastigium ; lateral foveolae triangular, rather pronounced ; frontal costa of moderate breadth, strongly contracted at summit and less so below the ocellus, sulcate throughout. Pronotuin compact, considerably expanded on the metazona, rather sparsely and mod- erately verruculose and also rather faintly arenaceous, the metazona plane, the process rather less than rectangulate, the median carina rather slight, nearly straight, obsolete between the sulci and here accompanied by a distinct discal scutellum, the lateral carinae stout, heavy, distinct, and extended ; sides of dorsum with diverging -pallid bands in the <y ; lateral lobes of pronoturn pallid or cine- reous, heavily blotched with black. Tegmina with distinctly pantherine markings made up about equally of dark brown and pallid cine- reous colors, the former prevailing and
blending on the posterior, the lattei on the anterior half of the tegmina ; they are mostly transverse, but a single oblique small brown bar in the middle of the tegmina in an other- wise broad pallid patch lies at the base of the outer discoidal field; the sutural stripe is pallid cinereous.
Wings pallid, perhaps in
life pale citron at base with corresponding reticulation, pellucid apically with black reti- culation, the $ with a slight trace of extreme apical infuscation, the space between, wholly ill the apical half of the wing, with a narrow, strongly arcuate, more or less distinct, fuliginous band, tapering along the outer margin and not nearly reaching the anal
angle, narrowing also to some extent above, in the $! obsolescent, and leaving only about three marginal lobes free; it is separated by a clear line from the humeral vitta which, though it reaches nearly to the base, extends outward hardly beyond the inner limit of the



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