. Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains. . nced in front, haustellum very long, and curved nearly in aquadrant; antennae hairy, the three terminal articulations parallel,curved, and of equal length, the apical one thickest, but scarcelydiffering in shape. Pronotum punctate, the anterior two-thirdsfinely, and the posterior third more coarsely and confluently; afovea without punctures upon each side, about a line from theanterior or lateral margins; scutel punctate, with the disk lon-gitudinally
. Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains. . nced in front, haustellum very long, and curved nearly in aquadrant; antennae hairy, the three terminal articulations parallel,curved, and of equal length, the apical one thickest, but scarcelydiffering in shape. Pronotum punctate, the anterior two-thirdsfinely, and the posterior third more coarsely and confluently; afovea without punctures upon each side, about a line from theanterior or lateral margins; scutel punctate, with the disk lon-gitudinally rugose. Feet maculate with brown; margin of theventer maculate with flavous. Length sixteen, breadth seven,head nearly three, haustellum three and a-half lines. Fort Gates,Texas. This is the largest species of the genus, but it has thecharacters of the antennae and rostrum, the long anterior coxae,slender feet, and terminal nervures of the elytra without anasto-moses, which distinguish this genus from Belostoma. In Belostoma, the wing when folded has four nervures (omittingthat of the fold) which reach the margin; in Zaitha there are but.
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