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2 62 PSYCHE. [September 18~8.
Plates long, slender, parallel sided below, becoming acute apically and curving upward; Described from two females and five
males taken at Pullman, Wash., by
Prof. C. V. Piper.
Srrhomenus inoÌötmu n. so. Length of
52 6,s-7 mm., of 8 5.2.5-6 mm. Very close to lineatus. The last ventral segment of female is distinctly produced medially within the protruding lateral angles ; the apex with a small median notch. The plates of the
male are not as acute or strongly bent, up- wards as in Itfieatus. The elytra of the male exceed the abdomen but little, and lack any noticeable contrast of colors.
Described from three females and
four males collected by myself in north- ern Colorado. They occurred in the
foot-hills west of Fort Collins in May,
and at Cameron Pass from I 0000 feet
to above timber, during July. I was at
first inclined to place this with Zineaftu as a variety, but would at present be
scarcely justified in so doing. Series
from points between Washington and
the mountains of Colorado are needed
to decide the question.
Errhomenus oregonensis 11. sp. Length
of 2 7 tntn. Closely resembling a fully
colored example of montanus. The vertex
Is proportionally shorter and more blunt. The front is more tumid and as viewed from the side not evenly curved upon the clypeus. The anterior legs are unusually pale.
The
head is about as broad as pronoturn. The elytra are broadly rounded behind instead ot being obliquely truncate,and they slightly exceed the second segment.
Length 3, 5-5.5 mm. The male has ab-
breviated elytra which reach only the penul- timate dorsal segment. The colors, sordid white to black, are more sharply contrasted than in the other species, though similarly disposed. The transverse row of black spots on the pronotinn is very sharply defined, though the darker longitudinal band is
wanting. The abbreviated elytra flare
slightly, giving the male a shortened, I obust appearance which is very suggestive of
Tinobregmus.
Described from one female taken at '
Corvallis, Oregon, by Prof. A. B. Cord-
ley, and several specimens in the Nation- al Museum collected in Oregon by Mr.
Koebele. The shortened elytra of the
male brings a new element into the
genus, but the relationships of the fe-
male with lineatus and montanus are
unquestionable.
THE COCCID GENUS SOLKNOPHORA IN THE UNITED STATES. BY T. 13. A. COCKERELL, N. M. AGR. EXP. STA. The genus Solenophora Maskell, is repre- by Dr. Howard. To thus receive a supposed sented by two species confined to New Zea- endemic New Zealand genus from Mexico land, so far as published information goes. was indeed surprising; hut to-day, before the Mr. Maskell has been kind enough to send report on the Mexican material has appeared me specimens of both these species; to them in print, there comes to hand yet another I have just added a third, collected by Mr. species, from Colorado! Koebele in Mexico, and transmitted to me Solewphora coloradensis, n. sp. 9. Scale



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September ~898.1 PSYCHE. 263
oval, 2& mm. long, 14 broad, about I high; ochre yellow, more or less bright lemon yel- low at the sides, very rongh and irregularly nodulose; dorsal area with a more or less distinct longitudinal carina or ridge, and two transverse ones; extreme margin with little tubercles; hind end little produced, with the usual round orifice.
9.
Pyriform ; skin after boiling colorless, the contained embryonic larvae pink. Many small and slender rods, and double (figure- of-8) glands; skin sometimes suffused with brown; no legs; antennae represented by
minute tubercles emitting two or three bris- tles; mouth-parts brownish, rather small, but well-developed; caudal tubercles rather long, with a short but rather stout bristle; anal ring with 6 hairs.
Eggs slate-grey, jl mm. long.
Embryonic larva with rows of figure-of-8 glands, instead of the spines of Eriococcus, etc. Antennae six-segmented, 3 longest, the others subequal; 6 oval, bristly; claw very long.
8.
Scale small, cylindrical, creamy white'
Hub.-Cation City, Colorado, on twigs
and stems of Atri'plax canescens.
Collected
by Mr. E. Bethel; sent by Prof. Gillette. On one of the twigs is also a parasitised example of Mytilaspis concolor (Ckll.), which is new tocolorado.
This was described as
a variety of M. alba, but is doubtless distinct. The real M alba (type locality Jamaica)
must be added to the U. S. fauna, having just been found by Mr. quaintance in Florida. PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS' WORK ON
THE INSECTS OF AFRICA AND
AMERICA.
THE " Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en AmSrique" has according to Hagen 90
plates. A collation of the two imperfect copies in the libraries of Harvard College and the Museum of Comparative Zoology
give just this number but they are very
irregularly numbered, and the following list may serve to show whether copies in other libraries are more complete or not.
Aptfcres, 1, 3, 4,5, 6=5.
Col6opteres, I, ib, IC, id, ie, 2, ab, 3, 3b, 3c, 34 4, 4b, 5, 6, 6b, 7, 8, 9, n, 15, 30, 30b, 31, 32% 34, 35, 3'3, 373 38~30-
Hbmiptferes, I, 2, 5, sb, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, n, 12, 19, 20, W=- 14.
Orthoptfcres, I, ib, 2, zc, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, 14 = 11.
N6vroptkes, I, 2, 3, 7, = 4.
Lepidoptkres, I, ib, 2, 2b, ac, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 30, 21, 22, 23, 24, = 16.
Hym6noptferes, I, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, = 7. Diptferes, I, 2, 3, = 3.
There are two plates marked H6m. 20, one of Homoptera, the other of Heteroptera; and two marked L&p. 6, both species of "Pap- CORRECTIOK.-L~~~ 10 on p. 237 should
read: bl. Tegmina with no well formed
intercalary vein.
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