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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

VOL. IV.

PHILADELPHIA.

PRINTED BY THE SOCIETY.

1872—3.

ZL.IST OIF PAPERS.

Blake, C. A.

Additions to the " Synopsis of North American Mutil-
lida." 71

Cresson, E. T.

Synopsis of the North American species belonging to the

genera Leucospis, Sinicra and Chalcis. 29

Descriptions of a new species of Masaris from California. 87
Hymenoptera Texana. ------ 153

Crotch, G. R.

Synopsis of the Erotylidae of Boreal America. - - 349
Synopsis of the Endomychidse of the United States. - 359
Revision of the Coccinellidae of the United States. - 363
Revision of the Dytisciuae of the United States, r - 383
Edwards, W. H.

Descriptions of new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera fouhd
within the United States. - - - - 61, 343

Grote, A. R.

On the North American species of Catocala. - - 1

Descriptions of North American Noctuidae, No. 1. - 20

a u 2 . - 89

u u u 3. . 293

" of Tortrix Lintneriana - 424

Grote, (A. R.) and Robinson, (C. T.)

A Supplement to the " Descriptions of American;

Lepidoptera" 425

Horn, Geo. H.

Synopsis of the Malacoiidae of the United States. - 109

The Brenthidae of the United States. - - - - 127
Revision of the species of Lebiae of the United States. - 130
Description of some new North American Coleoptera. - 143
Revision of the Bruchidae of the United States. - - 311
Norton, Edward

Notes ou North American Tenthredinidae with descrip-
tions of new species. ... - 77

TiR^isrs^OTionxrs

OF THE

AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

VOLUME IV.

On the North American Species of CATOCAL.A.

BY AUG. R. GROTE.

The present paper is a mere outline of one in which all the North
American species, known to me belonging to the genus Catocala, were
fully and comparatively described, and of which paper I have been so
unfortunate as to lose the manuscript in transportation. The material
on which my MS. was based is now in part inaccessible to me, having
been returned to various collections. I remember to have pointed out
in my lost MSS., that, although well represented in both Europe and
Asia, the genus seemed to have its largest representation in North Amer-
ica and to attain with us its fullest developement. Here we have a
number of species in which tbe hind wings are wholly black above, such
as C. epione, C. viduata, C. tristis; species which have no described
analogues in other countries. Again, we have a little Group (Corisce,
Hiibrier) comprising species without the usual black median band on
the hind wings above; little species with yellow secondaries and pecu-
liar in appearance, but which seem to offer no structural characters on
which to separate them generically. Geographically considered the
genus belongs to the Northern Hemisphere.

I treated at some length the structure of the genus and dwelt on the
ornamentation. It suffices me now to point out that while the prima-
ries above offer the normal lines and enclosed spots common to the
Noctuidae, that the median space shows in addition a ringed spot, the
subreniform, beneath the reniform spot. I have found by the study
of such species as C. piatrix, that this spot is in reality a part of the
transverse posterior line which is here inwardly inflected. And al-
though the subreniform is more frequently a perfectly isolated and
independent annulus, when also the t. p. line is continuous and unin-

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2 AUG. R. GROTE.

fleeted, still it is in C piatrix, C. insolabilis, etc., usually open and
thrown outside of the t. p. line into the subterminal space. I have not
met the subreniform spot of Catocala in other genera of the family, so
that this explanation of its origin seemed interesting to me. I followed
a grouping of the species according to the color and appearance of the
secondaries for convenience of reference, and indeed in the majority
of cases this arrangement seemed natural. The little C. tristis, how-
ever, appeared more properly associated with the slenderer yellow
winged species, than with the heavier insects of its group.

I arranged the North American Catocalse as follows :

Secondaries black and unhanded above Species 1 — S.

Secondaries black above with a white band " — 9.

Secondaries various shades of red above with black median band " 10 — 23.

Secondaries orange above with a black median band " — 24.

Secondaries black above with a narrow median yellow band " — 25.

Secondaries yellow above with a median black band " 26 — 51.

Secondaries yellow above without a median band " 52 — 54.

1. Catocala epione, Westwood.
Noctua epione, Drury.

% 9 • — A species of medium size and readily recognisable by the broad black
transverse lines of the primaries above. The subreniform is moderate, irregu-
larly pyriform, pale. The reniform is large, rather vague, with a brown annu-
lus and stain. The t. p. line has a moderate single acute tooth opposite the cell
and is followed by a distinct brown shade band, and this again by a pale shade
following the serratures of the subterminal line. Hind wings deep black above,
with long pure white fringes and fuscous hair at base and along internal mar-
gin. Beneath, the wings are almost wholly blackish with an iridescent tinge ;
hind wings with a hardly perceptible trace of the usual bands. Primaries with
a narrow whitish subterminal band becoming obsolete before internal margin>
and a broader internal and shorter band discontinued below vein 2.

I have seen many specimens from the Middle and Southern States.
From Abbot's figures Guenee described the larva found on oak. The
imago is quickly distinguished by the broad and comparatively even
lines of the primaries above ; occasionally the t. p. line is connected
with the subreniform.

2. Catocala laclirymosa, Guenee.—

Described comparatively with C. epione, this is a species I have
never been able to identify. We are led to look for a near ally of C
epione with, apparently, the same facies. It should be recognisable
from the unusual character afforded by the subterminal line which is
stated to be distinct and very black.

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 6

3. Catocala insolabilis, Guence.

% f .—The primaries are frosted with glaucous white or ashen scales. The
lines are narrow, indistinct and the t. p. line, with two not very acute subequal
teeth opposite the cell, sweeps inwardly and includes the subreniform. Usually
the internal margin is suffused with black, obscuring the lines inferiorly, but
not always. Ren i form moderate, vaguely ringed, with a white external and
small brown ovate internal annulus. Secondaries wholly black above, with
black fringes. Beneath body and base of both wings white. Narrow and faint
white external bands on both wings.

This is the first of a number of closely allied species of which the
stoutest is Guenee's C. viduata, than which this is much slighter. We
must look for the dusky primaries and powdery squamation with its
bluish tinge, and the ovate narrow internal brown annulus of the reni-
form as ready distinguishing characters. I have a specimen with uui-
colorous griseous smooth primaries, secondaries with whitish fringes,
which I think is a variety ; more material may, however, show that
we have to do with a distinct species.

4. Catocala viduata, Guence.
Catocala vidua, Guenee, p. 94.

% $. — Robust; altogether the stoutest bodied species of the genus. Wings
dentate. Primaries with the ciriereous colors underlaid with pale brown ; on
the nervures powdery glaucous scales. The reniform is large, vague and spheri-
cal. A very prominent black shade sweeps downwardly and outwardly from
costa above the reniform and runs to external margin which it joins below the
apices. This black shade, which is the median shade, is present in the follow-
ing and may be traced in other species, but is nowhere as determinate as in C.
viduata. The t. p. line is followed by the broad pale brown subterminal space,
which is edged again outwardly by the diffuse white border of the obsolete sub-
terminal line. Unusually long thick and pale hairs at the base and along in-
ternal margin of the black white fringed secondaries. Centrally the fringes
are interrupted with black. Beneath the body is dirty whitish ; wings white
at base ; bands tolerably distinct. Exp. 90 to 95 mm. Length of body 38 to 40
mm.

For this species I have taken the name proposed by Guenee in the
appendix to his work. I do not believe this to be Abbot's species,
whose figure rather resembles C. desperata. But, under all the cir-
cumstances, it does not seem worth while to adopt Smith's specific name.

Louisiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania. Rare.

5. Catocala desperata, Guence.
? Phalacna vidua, Abbot & Smith.

% 9- — Well sized, clear grey, white and black. All the lines distinct and
colors bright. A basal longitudinal dash ; another crossing the outwardly
broadly marked geminate transverse anterior line. Reniform with double an-
nulus, whitish, well sized ; subreniform white, included by the t. p. line. Median
shade fainter than in C. viduata; subterminal line tolerably distinct, preceded

4 AUG. R. GROTE.

by a white shade ; subtcrminal space dull brown, not as in C. viduata and the
preceding; species bright brown. Fringes of secondaries pure white. Thorax
bright grey with the black markings distinct. Expanse SO to 85 mm.

Common throughout the Middle and Southern States in various
localities.

6. Catocala retecta, Grote.

% 9 . — This species closely resembles C. desperata, but it is smaller.
The diffuse black median shade is wanting. The black longitudinal
dashes at base, across the t. a. line, and across the t. p. line on sub-me-
dian interspace, are very distinct and the two subequal teeth of the
transverse posterior line are, as usual, shaded with black. Beneath
much as in C. desperata. Expanse 70 mm. Length of body 30 mm-.

A few specimens examined from the Middle States.

7. Catocala flcbilis, Grote.

% 9.— Peculiarly pearly cinereous, quite unlike in tint of primaries to any
of its allies, than which it is smaller. The black longitudinal dashes of C. des-
perata and C. retecta, are less prominent. Transverse lines not geminate, fine,
distinct but fading towards internal margin. Reniform vague, with a narrow
outer whitish ring and nearly filled with a pale brown center; subreniform en-
tirely open, concolorous, slightly touched with blackish from the diffuse shad-
ings crossing the t. a. line. Subterminal line very indistinct. The usual black
shading running upwardly from the teeth of t. p. line to external margin.
Hind wings very black with white fringes. Beneath body and base of wings
white. Differs by the narrowness of the white space between the central
black fascia and the broad border on hind wings. Primaries have a whitish
blotch on cell and external white facia nearly obsolete. Expanse 66 to 69 mm.

Several specimens examined from Pennsylvania.

8. Catocala tristis, Edioards.

% 9 ■ — I have seen but two specimens of this pretty little species
from New York and Pennsylvania. It is readily recognisable from
the secondaries being unhanded beneath. It is the smallest known
species with black secondaries, and resembles rather C. gracilis or even
C. androphila, than the species with which I here associate it from the
color of its secondaries. My detailed description is lost with my ori-
ginal MS. and I have returned my material.

9. Catocala relicta. Walker.

% 9 • — This is the North American representative of the European
Catocala fraxini. In the male the primaries above are nearly entirely
white and the blackish powdery ornamentation is subobsolete. The
female is darker and has the lines of the primaries evident. The nar-
row central fascia of the secondaries is pure white. It cannot be mis-
taken for its European ally, than which it is a little smaller and Guenee,

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA.

who says: "je l'ai recue egalement de l'Amerique Septentrionale, ou
elle ne differe en riea de nos individus europeeens", in speaking of C.
fraxini, must have erred in his locality, for C. fraxini does not occur
in North America. Expanse 74 to 77 mm.

More commonly taken in Canada and the Eastern States, C. relicta
is rare in Pennsylvania and I have seen no specimens from the South.

10. Catocala califoruica, Edwards.

9 . — This species resembles the European C. elocata, and is another
instance of the affinity existing between the Californian and European
faunae. Our species from the eastern slope which resemble C. califor-
nica, C. elocata and C. nupta, with powdery grey ornamentation of pri-
maries and straighter lines, differ by the more oblique external margin
and produced apices. C. californica has the secondaries dark rose
red. The median black fascia is not constricted but terminates rather
abruptly much before the margin. Expanse 58 mm.

11. Catocala briseis, Edwards.

9 . — I have seen a single specimen of this species which is recog-
nisable from the unusually dark primaries relieved by the white
dentate shadings of the subterminal line. It is stouter than C. califor-
nica but a smaller species than 0. unijuga. My detailed description is
lost and I have no longer the specimen in my keeping. New York
State.

12. Catocala unijuga, Walker.

£ 9 • — A fine large species with dark powdery grey primaries. Transverse
anterior line indistinctly geminate with an evident internal white shade. Disc
before the ordinary spots pale and the subreniform is paler than the large con-
colorous bisannulate reniform. T. p. line without very prominent teeth but
broadly marked and inflected on s. m. interspace. Subterminal line distinct
and evenly dentate, preceded by a distinct white coincident shade. Wings
strongly dentate. Secondaries bright red. Median band not constricted medi-
ally, tapering obsoletely towards internal margin which it nearly attains. Be-
neath the band terminates abruptly long before the margin. Expanse 72 to 80
mm.

Not uncommon in Canada and the Eastern and Western States.

13. Catocala junctura, Walker.

I have seen the specimen in the British Museum described by Mr.
Walker. It seemed to me to differ principally from C. unijuga by the
more attenuate median band of the secondaries. I have a specimen
before me, which I doubtfully refer to this species, received some time
ago from R. Stratton as collected in Maryland and which differs from
C. unijuga in the less distinct subterminal line and obsolete white shad-

6 AUG. R. GROTE.

ing of the primaries, while the median band of the hind wings is me-
dially greatly constricted and abruptly discontinued before internal
margin.

14. Catocala Walshii, Edioards.—
This species is unknown to me.

15. C'atocala parta, Guence.

£ J , — Wings dentate, squamation smooth. Primaries dull cinereous, with
a slight yellowish cast. Transverse lines fine, obsoletely geminate. Reniform,
preceded by a distinct whitish shade on the cell, with its external annulus den-
tate outwardly. Subreniform large, pale, subquadrate. The subapical streak,
from the t. p. line to extreme margin, is broad distinct and black. Subterminal
line distinct, regularly dentate, preceded by a narrow coincident white shade ;
subterminal space with a pale brownish tint. Hind wings dull red with an
even black median baud nowhere constricted and terminating much before in-
ternal margin. Beneath, the band is quite irregular and the wing is stained
with red inferiorly. Expanse 72 to 74 mm.

The larva of this species feeds on different species of Willow (espe-
cially S. Babylonica) and the imago is very common in July in the
suburbs of Brooklyn, L. I.

My material has come to me from Massachusetts, New York and
Pennsylvania. The determinations of this species and C. amatrix in
the British Museum Collection and Lists are erroneous.

16. Catocala coecinata, Grote.

% $. — A little smaller than C. parta, which this species resembles in the
appearance of the primaries. Clear cinereous; before the reniform, which is
smaller and paler than in C. parta, the wing is whitish and occasionally allows
the crimson underface to be reflected. Subrenilorm whitish and large. T. p.
line more outwardly projected than in C. parta ; below the two prominent teeth
the line retreats inwardly more evenly and deeply and here the subterminal
space is whitish. The inward inflection above vein 1, is deeper than usual and
nearly reaches the t. a. line, constricting the median space thereby and offer-
ing a quick character on inspection. Secondaries bright crimson. Median
band even and continued. Beneath the fore wings are stained with crimson to
the median black band and on the secondaries below the median vein. Ex-
panse 64 mm.

My specimens are from Pennsylvania. C. coecinata resembles C.
parta, while a slenderer species, in appearance of the primaries, while
the secondaries are as brilliantly colored as those of C. cara.

17. Catocala ultronia, Habner sp.

% 9 . — This species I have taken in May in Alabama and it is com-
monly found throughout the Middle and Eastern States. It is so well
known that I may be spared any description here. An excellent illus-
tration of it is given by Dr. Packard in his Guide to the Study of
Insects.

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 7

18. Catocala amatrix, Hubner sp.

Catocala selecta, Walker. =var. Catocala nums, "Walker.
% 9 . — A fine large species with soft brown primaries, the lines and
spots indistinct. Sometimes the wing is suffused longitudinally with
blackish from the base outwardly ; this is Mr. Walker's C. nurus.
Secondaries bright rose pink ; the median black band broad and even,
terminated before the internal margin. Expanse 74 to 86 mm.

Of common occurrence in various localities throughout the Eastern
and Middle States.

19. Catocala cara, Guenie.

% 9- — Primaries deep blackish-brown above. The lines narrow, velvety
black, better marked superiorly, tending to become obliterate towards internal
margin. Ornamentation much as in C. amatrix; the lines and veins are
shaded and marked with olivaceous scales. Hind wings deep intense rose red
with an unusually broad and even black median band continued to internal
margin. Basal hairs black. Expanse 85 to 90 mm.

A still more beautiful species than C. amatrix, to which it is allied,
but C. cara is stouter and more brilliantly colored than its ally.

In the same localities with foregoing and occuring as frequently.
Also from Southern States.

20. Catocala coucnmbens, Walker.

% 9 • — Also allied to C. amatrix but a much smaller species. Primaries
pale brownish evenly frosted over with whitish scales. Collar soft brown, dis-
colorous with the cinereous thorax. Ordinary lines black, narrow and distinct
Reniform vague, whitish, with a dark internal annulus. Subreniform open.
Secondaries bright pink with a broad abbreviate median black band ; fringes
white. Beneath, the band is narrower and more irregular. Average expanse
68 mm.

More common Northward ; my specimens are from Canada and
the Eastern States. Abundant in some localities. The larva has
been described by Mr. Wm. Saunders.

21. Catocala marmorata, Edwards.

I have seen the type of this large species which I regard as allied
to C. ilia. My detailed description is now lost and I forwarded the
specimen to New York to be figured, so it is now inaccessible to me.
The species is from Yreka, California.

With regard to the specific name this is already used in the Noctu-
idae for a species of Hadena. It has been hitherto the custom to re-
ject such names, but this should not be done where, as in the present
case, there is no danger of confusion.

8 AUG. R. GROTE.

22. Catocala ilia, Cramer sp.

^ J . — Primaries dark cinereous, powdered with glaucous scales and shaded
with black. A basal ray. T. a. line geminate. Reniform whitish with a
small black internal ring. Subreniform pale, subquadrate, connected usually
With the t. p. line. Beyond the spots the median space is shaded with black.
Sometimes the whole wing is shaded with blackish to t. p. line, leaving the re-
niform as a large white blotch without the annulus. Again the wing wants
the glaucous scales and the reniform is concolorous, or merely shows a few
white scales. Secondaries orange red with an irregular black median band
tapering to the margin. Basal hairs fuscous. Average expanse 75 mm.

An exceedingly common and very variable species, found in Mary-
land and Virginia.

23. Catocala uxor, Guenee. —

This species has not been recognised by me. I am disposed to re-
gard some of the varieties of C. ilia as intended. The use of the spe-
cific name is objectionable.

24. Catocala inmibcns, Guenee.

% 9 • — A species of moderate size with rich brown primaries, powdered with
glaucous scales. The lines are distinct, black and not very jagged. The sub-
reniform is small, and pale and a ready character. The wings tend to be dif-
fusely shaded with deep brownish from the base outwardly. Secondaries red-
dish-orange, with a broad tolerably even median band which tapers suddenly
towards internal margin where it becomes lost in the long dull colored hairs
which clothe the base and internal edge of the wing. Expanse 65 mm.

Not uncommon in the Middle and Western States.

This species must not be confounded with C. muliercula, Guenee,
which I refer to the following section from the color of its hind wings,
and which wants the whitish serrulate shading before the subterminal
line characteristic of C. innubens. I now consider as a well marked
variety merely of C. innubens :
a. Catocala scintillans, G. &■ R.

Both sexes of this form have occured rarely. The primaries above
are intensely and entirely blackish brown to the transverse posterior
line, and this portion of the wing is overlaid by bronze or glaucous me-
tallic scales arranged in fine wrinkled lines which in certain lights are
brilliant. I was first led to associate C. scintillans with C. innubens,
by seeing an analogous variation in C. ilia, and on detecting the glau-
cous scales of C. innubens to be brilliant in certain lights, Certainly
the two look very distinct, but there seem no other palpable differences,
while the paler apices and terminal space and whitish subterminal line
of C. innubens are well expressed in C. scintillans. Besides, a speci-
men of C. scintillans, in Mr. Edwards' Collection, shows the t. a. line
and the subreniform spot of C. innubens plainly.

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 9

25. Catocala cerogama, Guenee.

% 9- — A rather large species with the body parts proportionally slender.
Forewings pale wood brown, frosted with white scales and shaded with bright
brown and whitish. T. a. line geminate, strongly marked outwardly to sub-me-
dian interspace, to below the white and prominent sub-reniform. A broad
whitish shade extends downwardlyand outwardly obliquely from costa over the
diffuse palebrownish reniform spot, bringingthe strongly marked t. a. line,which
it margins inwardly, into relief superiorly. T. p. line black and distinct to 2d
nervule, accompanied by bright brownish shades ; the brown bright color ob-
tains between the t. p. line and the whitish bordering of the dentate sub-ter-
minal line. The veins tend to being marked by dark scales. Hind wings
black with an even narrow median yellow band. Base clothed with long
pale fuscous hairs, beneath which the yellow scales that clothe the wing may be
detected. Thus, in reality, the hind wings do not differ from those of the suc-
ceeding group in pattern. Beneath, with primaries, they are pale yellow, crossed
by a broad median and marginal black band, the latter retired from the edge
of the wing. Expanse 75 to 85 mm.

Not common. Eastern, Middle and Western States.

26. Catocala neogama, Guenee.

% 9 • — A stout bodied species of strong habit. Primaries above cinereous,
varying in depth of shade. Basal half line black, distinct, and there is a basal
ray, usually evident, accompanied by a brown shade. T. a. line better defined
superiorly and outwardly and, with the t. p. line, accompanied usually by
bright brown shadings. Reniform tolerably large and distinct, with an
interior shaded brown annulus; the disconnected subreniform is pale and
moderate though well defined. T. p. line single with two strong subequal
teeth and a strongly marked inflection on s. m. interspace. Subterminal in-
terspace usually bright brown. S. t. line inconspicuous; the usual sub-apical
dark shade or streak. Hind wings dark yellow with an irregular median band ,
tapering, but continued beneath the longer dark fuscous hair to internal margin,
constricted superiorly. Basal hairs dark. Beneath all the black bands very
attenuate. Expanse 80 to 82 mm.

Eastern and Middle States; very common.

I do not believe this to be tbe Phalaena neogama of Smith. In
the Berlin Museum I have named this species Catocala communis,
while two specimens from Texas therein contained differed from the
present by their brighter colored secondaries, and otherwise more nearly
resembled Abbot's figure. I determined these two latter specimens as
C. neogama, Smith sp. I have no further material from the South at
the moment before me, but believe my determinations in 1867 will be
justified by future discoveries.

27. Catocala subnata, Grote.

Catocala subnata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. p. 327 (1864).

% 9 • — Anterior wings pale grey with a greenish or bluish tinge. All the
lines are narrow, better defined superiorly, not very distinct. Reniform
smaller, less prominent than in C. neogama, Guenee, which this species closely

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10 AUG. R. GROTE.

resembles. Sub-reniform large, open, formed by a deep sinus of the t. p. line.
Hind wings bright yellow; hairs at the base and along internal margin more
yellow, less obscurely colored than in C. neogama. Median band as in C. neo-
gama, but less irregularly edged. Thorax pure grey; body parts paler than in
C. ueogama. Expanse 80 to 90 mm.

Middle States. Rare. " Kanawha, 1867" £ Edwards' Collection.

Differs from C. neogama, Guenee, by its slender body parts and
greater expanse. At first sight it resembles it closely, but the large
open sub-reniform, the paler hind wings, and the more acutely dentate
t. p. line are distinguishing characters.

28. Catocala piatrix, Grote.

Catocala piatrix, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. 3, p. 532 (1864).

% J • — A. well sized species with slenderer body parts than C. neogama, but
stouter than the succeeding species, C. palaeogama, with which Mr. Walker has
confounded it. Very distinct in color and -appearance from its allies. An-
terior wings dark wood brown, or blackish brown, slightly silky, darker shaded
in the sub-basal space, on the costa above the discal cell, and obliquely sub-
apically on the terminal space. When fresh with powdery greenish scales
along the the veins. Lines black. Basal half-line with a single tooth, termin-
ating with an outward inclination. T. a. line geminate, with the outer line
sometimes less distinct, with an obsolete sub-ccstal tooth, irregularly undulate,
divaricate. A paler costal shade spreads obliquely from costa over the sub-
reniform. Reniform shaded with black, thrice excavated exteriorly, followed
by a blackish shade. Subreniform usually closed but connected with the t. p.
line, occasionally open, always paler and well defined. T. p. line black, dis-
tinct, without dilations, a prominent sinus on s. m. interspace; discal teeth
sub-equal and prominent. Subterminal line geminate, with a greyish center.
Hind wings deep yellow, internal margin and base clothed with long dark
brownish hair. Median band broad, not much constricted, tapering suddenly
to internal margin. Thorax concolorous with primaries ; tegulre bordered with
black lines; prothorax with a black line. Expanse 78 to 84 mm.

Not rare throughout the Atlantic District. I have a specimen
from Southern Alabama.

29. Catocala palaeogama, Guenee.

Catocala palaeogama, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. 3, Plate 3, fig. 2 (1864).

% 2- — Anterior wings grey, powdered with greenish grey and black scales
and shaded with blackish, and with bright brown on the subterminal space.
Ordinary lines black, rather broad and distinct. Reniform moderate, rounded,
indistinct, with a brownish center, sometimes entirely black. Sub-reniform
pale, small, independent or rarely connected with t. p. line. Sinus oft. p. line
on submedian space broadly marked, acute, not deep. Hind wings dark yellow.
Median band narrow, much constricted, tapering wavedly to internal margin.
Expanse 72 to 75 mm.

Less common than the preceding species. Eastern and Middle
States.

A well marked variety of this species is :

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a. Catocala phalanga, Grote.

£ 9 . — Primaries paler than in type, pale greenish grey, whitish before the
reniform on median space. Base of the wing suffused with black and the nar-
row subterminal space entirely black between the t. p. and the white marked
sub-terminal line. Reniform variable as in the type.

30. Catocala liabilis, Grote.

£ <j) . — Smaller and slighter than C. palaeogama, of the same general habit,
with paler more evenly colored primaries. Fore wings pale grey with a green-
ish tint. All the lines black, narrow, often indistinct. Basal half-line and t. a.
line as in C. palaeogama. T p. line with less prominent teeth, and differing by
being connected with and encircling the inconspicuous sub-reniform, which is
usually open, a, little paler than the ground color of the wing, moderate, sub-
pyriform, excavated outwardly. The sub-median sinus is prominent and more
broadly marked : the t. p. line followed by a faint whitish shade. The s. t.
space is inconspicuously brownish ; s. t. line faint, preceded by a whitish shade
much as in C. palaeogama. Terminal interspaceal points evident. Secondar-
ies dark yellow, a little paler than C. palaeogama; bands similar, the median
a little broader, the marginal proportionally a little narrower than in C. palaeo-
gama. Thorax pale grey, concolorous with primaries; thoracic lines sub-obso-
lete. Expanse 60 to 65 mm.

A number of coincident specimens examined from Pennsylvania.

31. Catocala consors, Guence.
Phalaena consors, Smith.

^ 9 • — A- species of moderate size, a little stouter than C. habilis ; the orna-
mentation of the primaries recalling C. epione. Forewings dark ashen, pulve-
rulent, concolorous. Lines black and usually broad and evident. T. a. line
outwardly oblique, waved, without costal tooth. Eeniform large, with a nar-
row internal brown annulus, excavated externally. Subreniform small, nearly
fused with reniform, pyriform, whitish or pale, evident. T. p. line, with a
single not very prominent tooth opposite the cell, below which it is very moder-
ately waved or dentated ; submedian sinus moderate. Beyond it the s. t. is ob-
scure brown, and then a broad greyish shade precedes the inconspicuous sub-
terminal line. Hind wings bright deep yellow; median band twice constricted,
fiexuous ; deep corresponding excavations are formed in the external band,
while the yellow interspace between the bands is narrower than usual. Be-
neath the purplish-brown terminal shades are very broad on both wings. Ex-
panse 60 to 63 mm.

Georgia. (Ridings.)

32. Catocala ponclerosa, G. & R.

Catocala jwnderosa, G. & R. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. 6, Plate 4, fig. 2. (1866).

Catocala nebulosa, Edwards.

% $? • — A fi ne stout bodied species with somewhat of the habitus of C. neo-
gama. Anterior wings greyish cream color, variable in depth of tint, much
shaded with deep brown, transvere lines black. Basal space to t. a. line en-
tirely suffused superiorly with blackish-brown. Median space usually pale or
quite light, when it contrasts with basal and terminal coloration quite strongly.
Reniform bisannulate, obliterate, concolorous. Subreniform small, entirely
enclosed but connected with the t. p. line, distinctly margined, concolorous.
T. p. line black, distinctly defined, slightly dilated before internal margin and

12 AUG. R. GROTE.

again immediately on costa, irregular, with two prominent teeth the lower of
which is about a third shorter than the upper. Terminal space, with a pur-
plish shade, brown, centrally shaded with paler scales. Posterior wings dark
or deep yellow; the median band much as in C. neogama,but slightly broader,
narrowing the basal yellow space which is more or less concealed by the longer
hair-like basal scales. Head and thorax brown, tegulse with narrow marginal
lines. Abdomen dust color, tufted on the basal segments. Expanse 70 to 75 mrn.

Middle and Western States ; not common.

Resembles C. muliercula, in color as much as any species, but larger,
and little slenderer than C. neogama. The faint purple lustre of the
primaries reminds one of Erebus, Letis and allied genera.

Mr. Edwards compares the secondaries quite wrongly with those of
C. cerogama, which C. ponderosa in no wise resembles. The specific
name chosen by Mr. Edwards had already been used five times in the
family.
38. Catocala muliercula, Guence.

£ 9. — Primaries deep brown, shaded with bluish over the paler median
space. Lines black; t. a. arcuate, once waved on internal nervure ; t. p. line
with two equal projected teeth opposite the cell, below which it runs obliquely
inwardly downward, slightly dentate, projected outwardly again before the
slight sinus or internal nervure. A pale shade before the moderate reniform ;
subreniform quite small, very pale, evident, tending to be joined to the t. p.
line. Hind wings bright deep yellow; basal hairs blackish ; median band broad,
continued, not constricted; marginal band broad, its inner edge twice lightly
excavated, the lower notch the deepest. Abdomen basally tufted, dark above;
thorax concolorous with primaries. Expanse 58 to 60 mm.

Middle and Western States. Rare.

Smaller than C. innubens, which has paler brown primaries powdered
with grey, and orange secondaries.

34. Catocala badia. G. <{• R.

Catocala badia, G. & R. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. 6. Plate 4, fig. 1 (1S66).

% 9 • — A moderate sized species of very distinctive appearance, reminding
one a little of Ophiusa. Legs long, strongly spurred. Primaries pale chestnut
brown with two transverse dark brown broad shades obscuring the ordinary
lines. The first within the arcuate t. a. line, the second over and without the
angulated t. p. line and neatly defined outwardly. The reniform is obscured.
The t. p. line may be discerned with difficulty; it has a single tooth opposite
the single more or less marked angulation of the outer edge of the dark shade :
it runs deeply inwardly below the reniform, forming the open subreniform, and
here greatly constricting the median space; below this it is a little irregular,
forming an improminent dentation on vein 1. Hind wings light bright yellow ;
median band not constricted, tapering towards internal margin before it ex-
pires ; marginal band narrow with irregular or crenulated inner edge; fringes
blackish. Expanse 58 mm.

Middle and Eastern States. Not rare ; occurred frequently at See-
konk, Rhode Island.

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35. < atoeala antinympha, Hubner sp.
Catocala melanympha, Guenee.

% 9 • — Smaller and slighter than C. muliercula. Primaries dead black, with
velvety black lines defined by very narrow pale shades. Reniform with pale
center and internal annulus. The brown color of the subterminal space fills in
the large and open subreniform, within which the pale external edging of the
t. p. line becomes more evident. The pale grey serrated shade before the s. t.
line is tolerably distinct, as are the interspaceal terminal double, black and
pale points. Hind wings light bright yellow with black basal hairs and an
even well continued median band. Fringes black, whitish at apex. Expanse
54 mm.

Middle and Eastern States. Rare.

36. Catocala serena, Edwards.

% 9 . — Dusky ashen. Head, collar and costse of primaries, more or less suf-
fused or shaded with a darker blackish ashen tint. Lines fine. T. a. with a
fine costal tooth, thence slightly waved to internal margin. T. p. line finely
dentate, with a single slightly projected tooth opposite the cell. Reniform
small, inconspicuous, single. Subreniform open, pale, formed by a deep sinus
oft. p. line, which runs again deeply inwardly at internal vein. The pale ser-
rated subterminal shade is evident, preceded and followed by dark shades.
Hind wings rather light yellow, with a narrow angulated continued black me-
dian band tapering to internal margin. Basal hairs dusky. Marginal band
broad, its inner edge even, angulated or elbowed. Beneath the bands are broad,
leaving narrow yellow interspaces ; body dark. Expanse 58 to 60 mm.

Several specimens from Pennsylvania examined. My good friend
Mr. Sanborn has sent me a specimen from Massachusetts.

37. Catocala illecta, Walker.

%. — A broad winged, moderately stout species, recalling C. concumbens in
appearance and color of primaries. Forewings and thorax pale grey, lightly
shaded, evenly colored; collar marked with brown linear shades. Lines fine
and black. Reniform small. T. p. line acutely dentate, with a single strongly
projected tooth opposite the cell (the usual lower tooth reduced), the moder-
ate subreniform open, formed by a deep sinus of the t. p. line which is
again rather deeply inflected on the internal nervure. Subterminal shad-
ings very inconspicuous. Hind wings bright golden yellow without darker
basal hairs. Median band proportionally narrow, once constricted, even,
squarely and abruptly terminated much before the margin. Terminal band
narrow forming a disconnected spot at the angle ; fringes whitish. Abdomen
yellow. Beneath, body and wings grey. Disc yellow; bands narrow ; on se-
condaries median band discontinued superiorly, forming a discal lunule on the
cell. Expanse 75 mm.

A single specimen without locality in Mr. Edwards' Collection.

38. Catocala Clintonii, Grote.

Catocala Clintonii, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 3, p. 89. PI. 3, fig. 4 J , (1864).

I have fully illustrated this species, of which I have seen but few
specimens from New York aud Massachusetts, as above cited. It is
rare in Collections and I have not yet seen the male.

14 AUG. R. GROTE.

39. Catocala nuptialis, Walker.

Catocala nuptialis, Walk. C. B. M. XIII, p. 1206 (1857).

This species I have not identified. The description in the British
Museum Lists agrees in some points with the succeeding, without coin-
ciding.

" United States."

40. Catocala abbreviatello, Grote.

^ £ . Primaries smooth pale grey, but little shaded, a little darker termin-
ally. Basal half line fine. T. a. line black, very broad and distinct, straightly
outwardly oblique to below median nervure opposite the subreniform, thence
entirely lost and obliterate. Eeniform moderate, annulate, with a black spot in-
teriorly. T. p. line faint, obliterate, plainest opposite the disc, without promi-
nent teeth, encircling the open subreniform, the inner edge of which latter,
approximate to the extremity of the black portion of the t. a. line and superior-
ly touching the lower part of the reniform, is alone marked and distinct. Sub-
terminal shades vague ; sub-terminal space faintly tinted with brown. Hind
wings bright yellow. A rather narrowed, slightly constricted median black
band expires much before the margin. Hind border not wide, interrupted
and forming a prominent spot at anal angle. Beneath, the median band is
aborted superiorly. Thorax pale grey, collar with a darker stain. Abdomen
dust color, pale. Expanse 46 mm.

Two specimens from Texas (Belfrage).

Resembles no species known to me in the peculiar appearance of the
ordinary lines of the primaries.

41. Catocala freclerici, Grote.

£._ Front, between the eyes, narrowly longitudinally dark brown. Ter-
minal palpal joints dark brownish, mixed with grey on 2nd joint. Basal joint
pale. Vertex, collar and thorax very pale testaceous greyish or whitish, without
markings; collar faintly olivaceous. Abdomen clear bright yellow : beneath
paler. Legs pale greyish, tarsi annulate with black. Anterior wings with ob-
literate markings, somewhat dark olivaceous, but overlaid everywhere with
pale scales, through which the lines are faintly visible. All the lines are dull
olivaceous blackish, most strongly marked on costa. Basal half line distinct.
The t. a. line appears widely geminate, the outer component line broadly tri-
gonately marked on costa. Median shade irregular, perpendicular. Ordinary
spots obsolete. Eeniform apparently large and circular, succeeded by an ir-
regular darker shade. T. p. line even, regularly scolloped and brought into re-
lief by a coincident narrow very pale shade. Subterminal line dark, evenly
dentate, slightly projected opposite the disc. A distinct terminal series of in-
terspaceal black points and short pale streaks. Fringes pale. Secondaries
largely clear bright yellow. A narrow black median band tapering inferiorly
and discontinued shortly beyond its inward projection, expiring much before
internal margin. Terminal band narrow, especially at apex where it is even
and leaves a broad yellow apical space below which it is externally evenly
scolloped. It is discontinued abruptly at 2nd nervule. At vein 1 on the mar-
gin is a faint black spot. Beneath both wings are clear yellowish with narrow
terminal and median bands. Expanse 57 mm. Length of body 28 mm.

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Two specimens from Texas (Friedrich) examined in the Berlin Mu-
seum. Very distinct in appearance from any of its congeners.

42. C'aiocala microiiympha, Guenee.

%. — Anterior wings slightly dentate, costa arched to the apices which are
produced, chestnut brown varied with whitish grey and blackish. The two
median lines distinct but narrow, separated above but nearing below : t. p. line
strongly projected opposite the cell where it is bidentate, the inferior tooth
greatly reduced, afterwards uniformly waved, without a sinus on the sub-me-
dian nervure which is shaded with black along its entire length. Reniform re-
placed by a black streak. Median shade well defined, stopping at the cell and
thence ascending towards the terminal margin where it touches with black two
or three nervules. Subterminal line whitish, undulate or zigzag, nearly per-
pendicular, touching in passing the exerted tooth of the t. p. line. Hind wings
ochrey yellow, with a broad arcuated hind border, as usual interrupted and
forming a spot at anal angle; median band narrow, slightly angulated, with
two streaks of blackish scales joining it from the base. Beneath, the median
band is broader, especially at costa towards which it nearly spreads to base.
Primaries beneath entirely yellow to the first black band.

I have not identified Guenee's description which I here translate.
Size and habit of the European C. protonympha, which it nearly
resembles.

43. Catoeala polygama, Guenee.

Differs from the European C. hymenea as follows: — % . — The anterior wings
are a little narrower, with the terminal margin more rounded, cinereous with
a slight greenish tint, much more shaded and powdered with ferruginous, es-
pecially behind the t. p. line where this color brings into relief the dentate sub-
terminal line. The ordinary lines are less clearly marked, their angles softened.
The t. p. line is more lightly waved and, above the s. m. nervure, makes a
profound sinus, broad, black and bordered with ferruginous. The median band
of the hind wings more constricted on the cell, beyond more greatly arcuated
or rounded and it is continued to the terminal margin. The hind broader is
less largely intruded upon by yellow scales at the apex and the spot at anal
angle is larger. The second joint of the palpi is notably securiform and the
third slightly spatulate.

I translate Guenee's description. I have before me a number of
specimens (Canada to Virginia) which differ in appearance among
themselves but which I cannot separate into species, and which I refer
to Guenee's C polygama. The largest specimens are much shaded
with whitish before the ordinary spots, while the median space be-
hind is tinged with gliucous. The base of the fore wings is much
shaded with deep brown, while the subterminal space is bright brown
and usually strikes the eye. But again specimens are before me
wanting all pale and bright brown colors, uniform dull brown and
blackish and more like Guenee's indifferent figure. The expanse varies,

1G AUG. R. GROTE.

the Cauadiaa specimens being smallest. The shade of the secondaries
is not uniform. One specimen is remarkable for the encreased size of
the subreniform and the deep orange yellow secondaries. One speci-
men is shaded with blackish along internal margin of primaries. The
terminal band of secondaries is sometimes disconnected from the anal
spot. These specimens vary from 38 to 50 mm. in expanse. But the
course of the ordinary lines remains nearly the same, and I think we
have to do with a single variable species. The lower discal tooth of
the t. p. line is sometimes reduced and the lines are nearer together at
internal margin in some specimens. The sinus of the t. p. line is al-
ways deep and marked.

44. Catocala amasia, Guenee.

Phalama amasia, Smith (upper figure).

This pretty species is rare in Collections and I have no specimens
before me at the moment. In the Berlin Museum is a specimen from
Georgia (Sieber).

45. Catocala formula. G. & R.

Phalucna amasia, Smith (lower figure).

Catocala formula, G. & E. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. 6. Plate 4, fig. 5 (1866).
% 9 . — There is little doubt that this very distinctively marked
species, which is fully illustrated as above cited, is intended by Abbot
as the male of C. amasia, and figured on the same Plate in the Insects
of Georgia. My specimens are from the Middle States, however,
and I have seen none yet from the South.

46. Catocala conuubialis, Guenee.

" 48 mm. — Primaries a little produced at apices, pale ashen with the two
median Hues tolerably approximate; the t. p. line followed by a second, paral-
lel, but less distinct. Keniform annulate, complete ; beneath it a second spot
also annulate, rounded and joined to the two lines by a blackish streak. Hind
wings yellow with a narrow median band, joining near the middle of the wing
a black streak from the base, and narrow marginal band interrupted and form-
ing a spot at anal angle."

Guenee describes this species together with its larva, which eats
the leaves of Cephalanthus occidentalis (button bush), from a drawing
of Abbot's, without reference to which it will probably be difficult to
identify the species.

47. Catocala grynea, Cramer sp.
Catocala nuptula, Walker.

% 9 • — Primaries pale dull glaucous grey, squamation smooth and close. All
the lines faint and indicated by bright brown scales. Sinus of the t. p. line
deep and marked, below this there is a prominent bright brown shade on the
margin ; ordinary lines propinquitous at internal margin. Costal brown marks
evident. Ordinary s2>ots vague, pale ringed. Hind wings deep yellow j median

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 17

band joins a blackish ray from base, but appears beyond as a black spot on thf
margin. Hind border constricted but not disconnected before anal angle. Ex-
panse 40 to 50 mm.

Eastern, Middle and Southern States. Quite common and not at.
all variable except in size. Cramer's figure of this easily recognised
species cannot, I think, be mistaken.

48. Catocala praeelara, G. & R.

Catocala praeelara, G. & R. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. 6. Plate 4, fig. 4 (1866).

^ 9- — Slighter tban C. grynea which it imitates, but is quickly distin-
guished by the brilliant green reflection of the fore wings, the deep brown
color of the subterminal space superiorly, which soils sub-apieally the terminal
space, and the pale yellow secondaries on which the hind border is disconnected.
Expanse 40 to 44 mm.

Eastern and Middle States; less frequently occuring than C. grynea.

This species is fully illustrated as above cited. It does not vary and
cannot be confounded with any other from the unusually strong gloss
or sheen of the fore wings above.

49. Catocala fratercula, G. & R.

Catocala f rat ercula, G. & R. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vpl. 6. Plate 4, fig. 3 (1866).

^ 9- — A moderate species, varying in the distinctness of the median black-
shade, which ascends as usual to external margin. The median space is some-
times shaded with whitish before the reniform. There is no sinus to the t. p.
line. The shape of the median band varies in being more or less acutely pro-
duced opposite anal constriction of the hind border. The primaries above vary
in depth of color. Fxpanse 42 to 46 mm.

Rhode Island to Virginia (Kanawha). Not common.

50. Catocala minuta, Edwards.
Catocala parvula, Edwards.

^ 9 . — Smaller than the preceding species which it resembles in color. Pri-
maries dull wood ashen with something of an ochraceous tint. T. p. line acutely
dentate. Subterminal white serrated shade vivid and distinct, especially at
costa, and this is a quick character. The general appearance of the primaries
varies immensely. Sometimes the base is dead black; again the black color
Bpreads to t. p. line; again it is confined to the internal margin; this latter
variety is C. parvula, Edwards. Again the whole wing is blackish, except the
vivid white subtermiual shade which rarely is obsolete inferiorly. The thorax
is always pale. Hind wings pale yellow ; median band narrow, flexuous ; hind
border usually continuous, generally broken in var. parvula. Exp. 35 to 40 mm.

Rhode Islaud, New York; very common.

Some of the varieties of this little species are exceedingly pretty. I
have been told the larva is to be found on the common Locust (Robinia).

51. Catocala gracilis, Edwards.
Catocala similis, Edwards.

% 9- — Primaries clear bluish grey varied with blackish. Lines faint, obso-
lete. A basal dash. Internal margin washed with blackish, broadly and

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15 AUG. R. GROTE.

lightly, from t. a. line outwardly. T. p. line perpendicular with a hroadly
marked sinus, with one hardly prominent tooth. Two specimens in Mr. Ed-
wards' Collection have the wings somewhat hoary and the lines more perceiva-
ble. These are labelled aimilis. This species has the primaries of a purer grey
than usual. It approaches C. androphila in the appearance of the wings; the
secondaries are deep>yeHow, with a narrow even median band discontinued much
before the margin. Hind border discontinued and appearing again as a detached
large spot near the angle. Beneath the band is attenuate. Thoracic lines dis-
tinct. Veins of the primaries above indicated. Expanse 40 to 42 mm.

New York, Rhode Island; not uncommon.

52. Catocala androphila, Guenee.
Corisce arnica, Hiibner.

% 9- — Primaries pale gray, the lines fine, not very evident, the t. a. line the
heavier marked. A distinct black median shade on costa above the reni-
form and continued beneath it, running upward to external margin below
apex. A brown shade fills the space left by the exserted portion of the t. p.
line beyond the reniform. This black median shade is marked on costa, but
else sub-obsolete in all the males I have before me and the brown shading very
faint. The t. p. line minutely dentate without prominent teeth. Subreniform
small, pale and both spots inconspicuous and often incompletely ringed. The
serrated sub-terminal white shade is tolerably distinct; fringes dark. Hind
wings bright yellow ; abroad black terminal band is squarely discontinued
and appears as a black dot at anal angle. Fringes dark except at apex, where
is a small yellow patch. Beneath the marginal band is brokenly and narrowly
continued to anal angle and the median band is indicated by tolerably large
spots or fragments. A specimen from Texas differs by its dirty, ochreous grey
primaries much shaded with deep black and may be a distinct species. Ex-
panse 40 to 45 mm.

Eastern States, southward. Not rare.

According to Guenee, who describes from Abbot's unpublished draw-
ings, the larva feeds on oak. The specimen in the British Museum
determined as " Catocala arnica" is an Ephesia elonympha, Hiibner.

53. Catocala lineella, Grote.

% 9 • — A little smaller than C. androphila. The primaries notably darker,
being powdered with glaucous, bluish or greenish-grey, and black scales on a
paler ground. Lines black and more distinct while similar to C. androphila;
subreniform connected more or less evidently with the t. p. line. Serrated
whitish subterminal shade and marginal black lunated line distinct. Second-
aries deep yellow, a few dusky hairs at base. Terminal band much as in C.
androphila. Beneath, the median band is merely expressed by two small dis-
connected dots, of which the upper is sometimes wanting and occasionally both.
Expanse 36 to 38 mm.

Same localities as C. androphila.

Perhaps this is Guenee's var. a of C. androphila. I have a number
of coincident specimens and I believe it to be distinct speci6cally.

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54. Catocala niessalina, Guence.

%. — Habit of C. androphila, but a little larger. Primaries of an even vio-
laceous brownish grey, with all the anterior half shaded with pale grey. The
ordinary lines are faint, flexuous, not angulated, nearly parallel and very con-
tiguous inferiorly. Eeniform continuous to the t. p. line. Hind wings pale
ochre yellow, base a little dusky, without median band, but with a wide hind
border continued to both margins, and having a single sinus not far from anal
angle. Beneath, paler with traces of the median band. Abdomen slender,
acute, brown beneath. Thorax grey, with a brown collar.

N'ot identified by me. I have translated Guenee's description on
page 107, Vol. 3, of the Noctuelites. This species should be recognis-
able from the continuous hind border of the secondaries, an exceptional
character of this group.

In addition to the above enumerated fifty-four species of the genus,
of which seven have not been seen by me, Dr. Behr has described three
species from the Western District in these Transactions which remain
equally unknown to me. Most of the material I have used is in the
collection of the American Entomological Society, together with Mr.
Edwards' specimens kindly loaned me for examination.

After writing so far my kind friend, Mr. Charles A. Blake, sends me
specimens of two black winged species of Catocala from Pennsylvania
which I describe here :

2. Catocala lachrymosa, Guence.

% .—Anterior wings dark, blackish, sparsely sprinkled with bluish cinereous,
shaded with deep brownish on the sub-terminal space. Primaries alittle more
produced at the apices and the expanse greater compared with C. epione. T.
a. line broadly marked on costa, thence thrice waved to internal margin, pre-
ceded by a cinereous shade which becomes whitish, broad and evident on the
margin. T. p. line with two prominent discal teeth, a deep inflection below
vein 2, distinctly preceded by whitish scales on the margin. The two lines are
here very approximate. Sub-terminal line black, distinct, dentate, preceded
by cinereous scales which are also more evident on internal margin as well as
towards costa. Secondaries deep black, with white lringes, cut with black cen-
trally. Beneath, the hind wings are largely whitish at base; beyond a narrow,
rivulous white m. band. Thorax with black lines, similar in color to primaries.
Abdomen black above; body whitish beneath. Expanse 80 mm.

This species seems in a measure intermediate between C. epione and
C. desperata, while more nearly resembling the latter. Guenee's de-
cription is, as might be expected, trenchant and accurate. All the
lines are very black and evident, though the two median are less broad
than in C. epione, in appearance more as in C. desperata. The black
tub-terminal is a ready character.

20 AUG. R. GROTE.

:; bis. Catocala Robinsonii, Grote.

£ £ . — I have alluded to this species above under C. insolabilis. The prima-
ries are evenly smooth, pale greenish cinereous, without shades. This is a lit-
tle stouter than C. insolabilis ; larger and of a different hue compared with C.
retecta. Median lines narrow and black. T. p. line acutely dentate ; subreni-
Ibrm open. Median shade perceptible above reniform narrowly on cOsta, else-
where not apparent. Median lines accompanied by pale shades. Subterminal
indistinct, dentate, consisting of a darker outer and paler inner shade line.
Hind wings black with white fringes. Beneath with narrow median white
bands on both wings. Expanse 75 mm.

With the Californian species noticed by Dr. Behr, we have now
fifty-eight (58 ) described North American species of Catocala, nine of
which remain unknown to me.

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Descriptions of North. American NOCTUIDAE.-Bfo. 1.

BY AUG. R. GROTE.

The typical specimens described in the present Series of Papers are
contained in the Collection of Lepidoptera now belonging to the Amer-
ican Entomological Society and separately preserved, formerly the pro-
perty of Mr. C. T. Robinson.

These descriptions have been written preparatory to a Revision of
the North American Noctuidae, in which an attempt will be made to
define the genera more completely and in accordance with the more
recent classificatory views expressed by Lederer. — Dr. Herrich-
Schaeffer's system for designating the nervulation has priority, seems
the best and is used here.

1. Hadena (mamestra) badistriga, n. sp. — % 9 —Palpi thickly
scaled, third joint small, concealed, maxillae moderate, eyes hairy. % anten-
nae simple, hind tibiae with two pair of small unequal spurs. Head and thorax
blackish brown, collar pale. Anterior wings pale along costal region to beyond
t. p. line. Ordinary spots obsolete. Of the usual lines only the t. a. and t. p.
lines evident; these black, narrow, single, continuous, distinct. T. a. line run-
ning obliquely outwardly, roundedly projected to base of cell, thence inversely
to internal margin. T. p. line evenly and greatly projected outwardly over the
Tiervules without the cell, below which it runs inwardly and forms a notch on
sub-niediau fold where it meets a broad blackish-brown shadeddash extending
from base of wing to this point. A second similar dash along the disc, stretch-
ing from t. a. line along median fold. The wing is shaded with brown, more

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 21

continuously terminally where the veins are marked with blackish. A double
narrow interrupted terminal line. T. p. line followed by a paler shade render-
ing it very distinct. % secondaries wholly whitish, 9 darkly bordered, crossed
by a faint post median and distinct terminal line ; fringes whitish. Beneath,
thet.p. line on primaries is faintly marked as is the transverse line on second-
aries superiorly; marginal interrupted lines distinct. Expanse 30 to 32 mm.

Habitat. — Canada, New York State.

Varies in the more or less evident pallor of the collar and costal re-
gion of primaries. I have bred this species from larvae found on the
common honeysuckle Saunders Collection, No. 631. — Differs much
from its congeners in appearance. The white % secondaries are some-
what pellucid.

2. Emmelia (agrophila) apicella, m.— % 9 .—Head and thorax
above orange ferruginous ; this color extends over the primaries obliquely down-
ward at base. Beyond this, and margining it, a pale, whitish shade runs ob-
liquely downwardly and is continued vaguely along the internal margin ;
apices with a similar distinct oblique patch, while the extreme costal edge is
tipped with ferruginous ; else the primaries are blackish as are the fringes ex-
cept along the whitish apical patch. Hind wings and abdomen above blaekish.
Beneath the body parts are whitish. Expanse 16 to 18 mm.

Habitat. — Central Alabama ; June.

This little species is not rare, occurring with A. leo and A. dama,
Guenee. It is very distinct in its ornamentation from any of GueneVs
species, of which it is possible there are in reality only two, A. onagrus
being perhaps identical with A. leo. Under a microscope the blackish
portion of the primaries above in apicella are seen to be dusted with
pale scales. There are no traces of the ordinary spots and lines.

EUTOREUMA, m.

The porrect pointed palpi extend for half their length beyond the
head. Front with a large rounded clypeal swelling, filling up the
space between the eyes. Minute black ocelli. Maxillae moderate. %
antennae minutely and finely bristled. Abdomen long, linear. Thorax
compact and squared. Wings angulate. Forewings produced at apices
and extremity of vein 4. Veins 3, 4, 5, equidistant at base. Cell
open ; veins 6 and 7 together from s. c. nervure opposite 5. Vein 8
shortly out of 9 to apex. Veias 9 and 8 approximate. Vein 10 out
of 9 to costa; 11 running close to s. c. nervure and 10 to costa. Hind
wings with vein 5 equally strong; external margin rounded, cut away
at anal angle from vein 1. Middle tibiae with terminal, and hind
tibiae with two pair of unequal spurs. A species of moderate size,
with dark discolorous collar elevated in front, close squamation, naked

22 AUG. R. GROTE.

clypeus hid by the long second palpal joint, even fringes, dark colors
and appearing allied to Toxicampa.

3. Eutorcnina tenuis, m.— % 9 .—Brownish ashen; head palpi and
collar blackish, discolorous with the paler thorax and abdomen. Forewings
more or less clouded, or deeper colored superiorly, especially towards apices
within apical streak. All the veins narrowly and neatly picked out by ochrey
scales. Lines fine, ochrey with darker edges. T. a. line nearly straight. T.p.
line even, acutely angled on vein 6, at which point it is joined by a distinct
even oblique apical streak similarly colored. Below it runs evenly obliquely
to internal margin nearly continuously with the apical streak. This latter
with the upper part of the t. p. line above vein 6 form the two limbs of a Y.
Reniform large, narrowly annulate with ochrey scales. Median shade dark,
diffuse. Subterminal line fine, dentate, pale, issueing from above the
middle of apical streak; terminal space pale with pale terminal line. The
evenness and tenuity of the lines is noticeable. Secondaries a little darker than
primaries; an oblique median line, similar to t. p. line, most obvious towards
anal angle; a faintly marked subterminal line. Beneath, without markings;
neuration perceivable from the folds in the wings. Expanse 28 to 30 mm.

Habitat. — Central Alabama; July, August. Of frequent occurrence.
jflATIGRAUOIA, m.

Palpi moderate, porrect ; head rather square in front ; clypeus round-
edly swollen, scaled ; epicranium somewhat raised longitudinally.
Maxillae moderate. Antennae simple, minutely ciliate in % . Abdo-
men linear; with the thorax not tufted or crested, smoothly scaled.
Win^s full, entire, rounded, with corresponding ornamentation. Fore
wings with vein 2 a little nearer 3 than usual ; 3, 4, 5 equidistant at
base, divaricate; 6 opposite 5, from the point of divarication of 9
which crosses 7, thus closing and forming a very small accessory cell.
Vein 8 to apex ; 9 to costa ; 10 from accessory cell ; 9, 10, 11 approx-
imate. Kind wings 9-veined ; 3 and 4 from one point; 5 a little re-
moved, equally strong; cell open as on primaries. A species of moder-
ate size, with pulverulent, obscure, geometriform ornamentation or
rather perhaps that of Mania. With a faint resemblance to some of
the genera allied to Homoptera, this species seems rather related to
Kuclidia.

4. IMati gramma pulverilinea, in.— % 9 .—Olivaceous blackish with
powdered pale or greyish scales. Basal half-line and t. a. line faint, atomical,
irregular waved, blackish, edged with pale scales. Median shade blackish, con-
tinued, irregular. Reniform difficult to perceive, of the ground color of the wing,
with an encircling ring of loosely massed pale scales, erect, constricted medially.
T. p. line and sub-terminal more evident and similar. The first is moderately
and widely rounded superiorly, slightly interspaceally lunate, powdery grey
with blackish bordering lines. Sub-terminal sub-parallel with the t. p. line,
continued, distinct, similar in appearance with the t. p. line but without evident

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 23

blackish edging line; from the course of the t. p. line, these two nearly parallel
lines are divaricate at costa. The sub-terminal space between these two lines
is blackish, darker than the wing elsewhere, free from pale scales at the sides.
Terminal line a series of blackish interspaceal marks followed by whitish scales.
Fringes concolorous with terminal space. Secondaries resembling primaries; the
median shade line obsoletely (not always perceptibly) continued. Thet. p. and
subterminal line are here more or less obviously continued from the primaries,
as is the terminal line. Beneath almost without markings; faint dark discal
shade dots and a more or less evident darker median line on hind wings. Ex-
panse 30 to 34 mm.

Central Alabama; June and August. Quite common, entering the
house to light. In this and preceding genus I take a slight tubercle
on each side behind and very close to the eye as ocelli.

PLEOSECTYPTERA, m.

The single species hitherto described has been referred toHeliothis.
It belongs however to Guenee's Quadrifidae or Packard's sub-family
Catocalinae. Fore wings 12 veined : veins 3, 4 at base, divaricate ; 5 from
incomplete cross vein ; costal veins aggregated ; 8 thrown off shortly
from 9 to apex ; 9 crossing 7 and thus forming a small accessory cell
above disc from which 6 is thrown off below ; 6, 7, 8, divaricate ; 11
out of centre of m. nervure to costa, beyond it the nervure is a little
bent; 10 out of accessory cell near extremity, here 9, 10, 11, run
idosely together. Hind wings with vein 5 equally strong. Male fore
wings beneath with a tuft of rigid hairs directed upward on vein 2 and
a second above on median nervure. Legs finely scaled, % hind tibiae
bent, with a long external pencil of hair, middle and hind tibiae finely
spurred. Palpi hanging, divaricate; maxillae moderate, antennae simple
to the naked eye, % with fine and short bristles. Body linear, closely
scaled, abdomen a little longer than secondaries, 9 pointed, %> with
swollen genitals. The species resemble Geometridae and are bright
colored.

5. Pleonectyptera pyralis, Subner sp.— % $ .— Head and collar dark
purplish lead color, discolorous with thorax and abdomen which are, yellow.
Wings with corresponding ornamentation and color, yellow to thet. p. common
line, beyond which they are dark reddish as are the fringes, less completely so
in % . On these broad reddish margins may be seen a series of dots composed
of black and white scale points, the common sub-terminal line; a dark apical
streak; the t. p. line is yellow centered, geminate, its inner line blackish,
acutely projected opposite the disc, oblique. M. shade and t. a. line continued,
narrow, faint, blackish ; former running just within the clouded reniform; or-
bicular a small black dot. Median shade continued across hind wings, faint,
very near the equally faint discal streak. Beneath, the body and wings are
stained with bright orange-red. % Thorax white. Three black continuous ri-

24 AUG. R. GROTE.

villous lines cross both wings; discal spot on primaries large and distinct. Ex-
panse 30 to 32 :nm.

Cental Alabama ; July. Readily flies when disturbed.

6. Pleonectyptera geometralis, m. — 9- — s ' ze > ornamentation, and
coloration beneath of 9 P. pyralis; but above the wings are reddish fawn color,
not clear yellow to the common t. p. line. Outside of this line the wings are
terminally but little more reddish than centrally. The median shade and t. a.
line are dark reddish ; orbicular dot a little larger and m. shade closer to the
less prominent reniform spot compared with P. pyralis. On the secondaries the
common oblique t. p. line is removed nearer the base of the wing, close to the
common m. shade line, the latter fusing with the discal mark.

Same locality with P. pyralis; June. A single specimen taken.
Very distinct in appearance from the want of contrast in color between
the wings terminally and centrally, so obvious in P. pyralis.

7. Pleonectyptera phalaenalis, m. — 9- — Much smaller than the pre-
ceding and differently colored and ornamented. Palpi divaricate and structure
of body parts as in 9 P- pyralis. Pale dull olivaceous fawn color with a reddish
tinge especially on hind wings. On primaries above only two lines visible; the
t. a. and t. p. lines, which are approximate. Both are obsoletely geminate,
with pale included shade ; the inner line wanting in the t. a. line and the outer in
the t. p. line. Reniform blackish, sub-quadrate, relatively large, erect; orbicular
a dot on the straight t. a. line. T. p. line slightly sinuate or projected superiorly.
Hind wings with faint traces of an oblique transverse line as in the preceding
epecies. Body above, concolorous with wings. Beneath, wings and body parts
etained with vermillion. Above traces of a common dotted sub-terminal line.
Beneath black discal dots and a faint black common transverse line. Expanse
24 mm.

Same locality with the preceding. A single specimen ; August.

8. Hypena toreuta, m.

Hypena internalis, Rob. Ann. N. Y. Lye. (nomen bis lectum).
% 9 . — Primaries entirely obscure sooty black. Ordinary lines indicated by
minute white dots. On internal margin without and at base of the usual faintly
indicated t. p. line is a conspicuous stained white spot. Secondaries blackish.
Orbicular replaced by a small tuft of deep black raised scales. Expanse 28 to
30 mm.

Habitat. — Middle States. The female is a little the paler and
allows the usual ornamentation of the primaries above to be more
easily perceived. Very recognisable from the whitish blotch on in-
ternal margin. Not in frequent in various localities in New York
State. The name given by Mr. Rubinson has been used in the genus
by Mr. Guenee, for a different species.

9. Renia discoloralis, Guenee.

% 9 . — This is the largest of our species of Renia, a genus readily
recognised from the characters offered by the antennae and labial palpi.
The male antennae are thickened and finely bristled for over three-

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTEItA. 25

quarters of their length when they are provided with a long dense and
rigid tuft of hair, beyond this they are slender and curled. The fe-
male antennae are simple, and in both sexes relatively short. The
male palpi have the seeond joint disproportionally elongated, fringed
with long scales above, and are porrected ; the female palpi are pro-
jected straightly forward after the fashion of Hypena, except in E. re-
strictalis. The structure of the palpi however varies slightly with the
species. The male R. discoloralis has the primaries above of a clear
brown, more or less pale owing to ah admixture of light colored scales
giving the wings in some specimens a powdery appearance. The t. a.
line is narrow, thrice unequally waved. Median shade diffusely
shaded, of Varying distinctness, oblique. T. p. line inwardly lunulate,
irregular, obsoletely geminate, the outer line hardly discernible and
the line itself often obliterate. Orbicular small, usually distinct,
rounded, pale yellowish. Reniform narrow, subluniform, clear pale
yellowish or ochrey with an upper and lower black included dot; often
these dots are connected by a middle line. Sub-terminal line dis-
tinct, geminate, with pale included shade, broken opposite the cell,
projected on vein 4, again broken or indistinct below vein 3. A ter-
minal line of interspaceal black points. Secondaries dark, crossed by
two distinct lines. The male antennae are tolerably long from the base
to the tuft. The long palpi porrect.

The female is usually discolorous. The sub-basal, sub-terminal and
terminal fields of the primaries above are paler than the rest of the
wing and give it a blotchy appearance. The color varies considerably.
One specimen from Virginia is evenly ochrey griseous and has the or-
dinary spots deep yellow while the wing, thorax and head is more or
less sprinkled or stained with deep yellow scales. The shorter anten-
nae are simple ; the labial palpi projected straightly forward, equally
as long as in the the male, terminal joints divaricate. One specimen
resembles the $ in color but the primaries are more profusely pow-
dered with pale scales. Expanse 35 to 40 mm.

Habitat. — New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia.

Not rare. Mr. Walker's Hypena fallacialis is a synonym. In the
British Museum Collection the most discordant material has been ar-
ranged under Hypena, and many of the descriptions in the List under
Hypena are of no value whatever.

10. Renia brevirostralis, m.— % £ .—Pale oelirey or bone color. Male
antennae shorter altogether and particularly so from the base to the usual tuft,
compared with R. discoloralis. Female antennae simple. Male palpi porrect,

TRANS. AMER. ENT. S0C. IV. (4) FEBRUARY, 1872.

26 AUG. R. GROTE.

proportionally a little shorter than usual. Female palpi long, projected straight! y
forward, third joints divaricate. The sexes are alike in color, but the female
primaries arc a little deeper toned and the lines are less distinct except the sub-
terminal. The primaries have a peculiar clotted appearance less from a sparse
sprinkling of black scales than from the fact that little is usually perceivable of
the lines than a series of distinct black nervular dots. Median shade more or
less evident below the reniform, diffuse. Ordinary spots but little apparent, pale,
of the usual shape ; reniform with two black dots, but these are sometimes want-
ing and sometimes the spot is incompletely edged with dark scales. Sub-ter-
minal line consisting of ageminate series of dots with a paler included shade;
the line becomes more or less continuous towards costa. Secondaries paler than
primaries with two tolerably evident and continuous transverse lines and a ter-
minal series of black points as on primaries. Expanse 30 to 32 mm.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania, Alabama. Not unusual. Its pale Her-
minia-like color and dotted ornamentation render it very recognisable.

11. Renia hi rial is. m. — % O. — Compared with R. brevirostralis the male
antennae are longer. The position of the longer palpi does not differ between
the sexes as much as usual, since in the male these are less obliquely porrected.
This species is dull purplish griseous, evenly colored, with obliterate ornamen-
tation. The ordinary spots are pale, yellowish and of the usual appearance ; in
all my % specimens without dots ; my single female has them distinctly con-
nected. M. shade faint. The t. p. and sub-terminal lines barely perceptible ;
darker, irregular. Terminal lines as in R. brevirostralis but on secondaries
mere continuous. Expanse 32 to 34 mm.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania ; Texas. The Texas specimen (Belfrage
leg.) does not differ except by being a little darker and more distinctly
marked. This species is but little larger than R. brevirostralis; the
color is dull, obscure and faded looking. The t. p. line when perceiv-
able is narrow, irregular, much as in R. discoloralis. The subterminal
line is usually more apparent and is indicated by dotted aggregations
of dark scales. The whole insect is very inconspicuously marked-
The male antennae are rather noticeably pale colored.

12. Renia restrictalis, m. — % 9 • — The narrowest species known to me.
Glossy purplish blackish, darker than R. larvalis. Antennae as usual, but the
female palpi are shorter and notably porrected, more so than in the male, in
which sex they agree in appearance with R. larvalis. Lines indistinct, except
sub-terminal which consists of a series of small equal double dots (the outer
faint) with pale included shade, much as in R. brevirostralis. Ordinary spots
small, as usual yellowish ; reniform in all my specimens without dots. Second-
aries nearly equally dark and coneolorous with primaries with tolerably evident
transverse lines. The sexes do not differ in color, but as in R. brevirostralis and
R. larvalis, the male wings are a little narrower, primaries more pointed at the
tips, while in the female the wings are fuller, the external ma-gins more round-
edly exerted. Expanse 27 to 28 mm.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania. This species reminds one a little of Aglossa.

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 27

In all the species hitherto discussed the transverse posterior line is
narrow, irregular, lunulate or rivulous, tending to be marked with ner-
vular dots. In the two following it is even, of the usual Noctuid sub-
sinuate appearance and quite distinct.

13. Renia centralis, m.— ^ 9 .— Blackisji, obscurely colored. Sizesmall,

form slight, wings rather full; % antennae slender, ornamented as usual, Q
simple; % palpi long, strongly porrected, £ palpi projected obliquely forwards.
Deeper shaded on costal region. T. a. line narrow, linear, irregular. Orbicular
yellowish, indistinct, black ringed. Reniform yellowish, of the usual form
black ringed and black dotted, inconspicuous. T. p. line irregular, linear, fol-
lowed by a pale shade apparent at costa. Subterminal followed by a pale shade
also apparent at costa. Terminal black nervular dots. Secondaries nearly con-
colorous with primaries with the usual ornamentation, lines very evident re-
lieved by very pale shades towards anal angle. Beneath the two subparallel
common wrinkled lines crossing both wings are very distinct and relieved by
following pale coincident lines or shades; blackish discal marks on both wings.
Expanse 23 to 26 mm.

Habitat. — West Virginia.

More distinctly marked than the two preceding species, while simi-
lar in color.

14. Renia pastoralis, m.— % .—Palpi porrect; male antennae as usual,
wings a little wider than in preceding species. Dull obscure brownish, paler
within t. p. line. Eeniform with the customary dots, less prominently discolor-
ous than usual. T. p. line even, gently curved, continuous, pale with indistinct
dark marginal lines. Subterminal similar in appearance, but less distinct, pale,
irregular inferiorly, broken opposite the disc and again inferiorly more or less
plainly. Terminal line dotted on primaries, continuous on hind wings. Hind
wings like primaries, a little lighter colored within the two transverse pale lines
continued from primaries. Beneath the pale common line is evident. Expanse
28 mm.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania. My two specimens differ slightly and
of one I have no locality. The transverse anterior line is very faint
and median shade not perceptible in my specimens.

15. Ronia Relfragei, m.— % £ .—Darker colored than R. pastoralis with
distinct lines. Palpi a little longer in the female, in both sexes sub-porrected,
in the male held as in R. pastoralis. T. a. line even, distinct, dark, with preceding
pale shade. Reniform black dotted, small, inconspicuous, not discolorous,asin
R. pastoralis. T. p. line even, curved," continued, resembling t. a. line, with a
following pale shade. Sub-terminal line indistinct, propinquitous, vaguely in-
dicated by darker scales, with a faint succeeding pale shade, irregular. Termi-
nal narrow black lines sub-continuous on both wings. Secondaries similarly
colored with primaries and with the t. p. line continued across them nearly as
distictly. Beneath the propinquitous t. p. and sub-terminal lines of the upper
surface are distinguishable. Expanse 26 to 27 mm.

Habitat. — Texas (Beifrage leg.). Similar to R. pastoralis but darker
and more distinctly darkly lined.

Z$ AUG. R. OROTE.

T am sure I hope Mr. C. V. Riley will continue to copy my descrip-
tions in this Family in the Missouri Reports, and avail himself, even
without acknowledgment, of all other information useful to himself in
my writings, without at the same time continuing a style of remark
that is repugnant to good taste and cannot deserve any worthy popu-
larity. In, as I believe, redescribing Acronycta lepusculina Guenee,
the remarks as to the description of A. occidentalis, G. & R., only be-
tray an unacquaintance with the species of the genus ; otherwise, since
the European A. psi and the American A. occidentalis, are not at all
to be properly compared with the species of Mr. Riley discusses, it
would seem to be only for the sake of the opportunity for a reflection
that a comparison is instituted. An entire description of A. occiden-
talis seemed superfluous, since our species offers but few points of dif-
ference when compared with its European analogue ; these points
were briefly given. And no one else seems to have misunderstood our
species ; while the synonymical remarks accompanying the description
rendered a mistake impossible to any informed person. Mr. Saunders,
in the pages of the Canadian Entomologist, has since found some of the
slight points of difference drawn from the imagos inconstant, and has
added other slight specific characters, while showing the larvae of the
two species to be quite distinct in color and appearance. In the birth
of his new species of Acronycta, Mr. C. V. Riley indulges in a burst of
wild comparison that betrays rather than conceals his unacquaintance
with his subject. In another place Mr. C. V. Riley exhibits afinesamp'e
of that impertinence which has its origin in lack of thought and con-
sideration, in refusing to regard the West Indian and South American
Philampelus satellitia (li/caon, Cramer), as distinct from our United
States Philampelus pandorus (satellitia J Harris, ampelophaga, Bois.
MSS.), and this without knowing both of the species he incorrectly
unites. It is perhaps not to be wondered at, that while gathering all
his synomymical information in the Sphingidae from my own and Mr.
Robinson's Catalogue and List, Mr. C. V. Riley should accept so much
and rudely and badly criticise so little. For his information, and not
in defense of llubner or Geyer, it may be stated that Cnotus is taken
from the Greek, and not necessarily any more " gibberish" than the
surname of the gentleman. I think that the literary Executors of the
late lamented Mr. Walsh have cause for an action for piracy against
Mr. C. V. Riley for using quotation marks to the verb eliminate, with-
out due credit to the author of the witticism. But then of course
much more valuable property of the deceased is worn and badly worn
by our Entomological Elisha.

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 29

Synopsis of the North American species belonging to the
Genera EEUCOSPIS, SMICRA and CHALCIS.

BY E. T. CRESSON.

Genus EEITCOPSIS, Fabr.

Abdomen petiolate , bnlbiventris.

Abdomen sessile or subsessile.

Body black, immaculate, without metallic lustre; wings black, hyaline at

tip apicalis.

Body black, immaculate, with a green metallic lustre ; wings hyaline.

Abdomen green-sericeous at apex ; the ovipositor reaching to the apex of

scutellum mexicana.

Abdomen bright golden at apex; ovipositor not reaching to base of second

abdominal segment Sumichrastii.

Body more or less marked or banded with yellow or red :

Abdomen short, broad, much narrowed at base; posterior femora very
large, broadly margined above with yellow; abdomen with two or

three yellow bands ; wings fuliginous tcxana.

Abdomen elongate, not much narrowed at base :
Ovipositor long, reaching to base of abdomen :

Prothorax with lateral and posterior margins broadly yellow; scutel-
lum almost entirely yellow; the 9 with apex of abdomen ferrugin-
ous , Poeyi.

Prothorax with lateral and posterior margins narrowly yellow; scutel-
lum narrowly yellow at apex atlinis.

Prothorax with lateral and posterior margins red; scutellum red at

apex floridana.

Prothorax with posterior margin only narrowly yellow; scutellum
narrowly yellow at apex :
Apex of abdomen broadly yellow ; posterior femora with a yellow

stripe beneath azteca.

Apex of abdomen and posterior femora entirely black <lnbiosa.

Ovipositor short, not reaching to base of second abdominal segment; pro-
thorax with two yellow bands; scutellum immaculate; abdomen
with a silvery band at apex of second and third segments. .tolteca.

1. Leucopsis bulbiventris, n. sp.

%. — Black, densely punctured, more or less tinged with green and purple;
head small, not wider than thorax, face purplish, clothed with short whitish pu-
bescence; antennae , theantennal grooves very deep and bright metallic

green; mandibles small, robust, reddish at base; prothorax with a narrow, in-
terrupted, yellowish band near posterior margin; mesothorax more obviously
green over tegulae, posterior margin narrowly yellow; scutellum broad, sub-
quadrate, immaculate; postscutellum small, flat, transverse, rounded poste-
riorly, smooth and shining; metathorax green, with a patch of dense silvery seri-

30 E. T. CRESSON.

ceous pubescence on each side behind each posterior wing; tegula? piceous ;
wings yellowish, dusky on costal margin, especially beyond stigma; legs sliort,
tips of anterior femora within, their tibiae within and their tarsi pale yellowish :

intermediate legs ; upper edge of the posterior coxae, a spot beneath at

tip, a spot on trochanters beneath, upper edge of their femora, a line beneath
before the teeth, dilated basally, a stripe on their tibiae behind, not reaching the
base, and their tarsi, pale yellow; femora small, ovate, polished within, teeth
numerous and minute except the basal one which is largest; abdomen as long
as head and thorax, clavate, being slender at base and much swollen at apex,
incisures of segments indistinct ; first segment narrow, slightly dilated and con-
vex at base and somewhat contracted before apex ; second segment narrowed
at base, the apex of the third (?) margined with silvery sericeous pubescence;
fouxtb (?) segment with dense silvery sericeous pile, converging towards the
disk : apical segment very small. Length .47 inch.

Eab. — Mexico. One specimen collected by Prof. F. Sumichrast.
The shape of the abdomen recalls that of some species of the Dipterous
genus Conops, although rather more strongly clavate.

2. Leucospis apicalis, n. sp.

£ . — Dull black, tinged with brownish, densely punctured, face with short
silvery pubescence, clypeus, mandibles and scape beneath pale ferruginous;
prothorax at sides and posterior margin more or less brown ferruginous, a trans-
verse raised, sometimes pale line before posterior margin; scutellum brownish
posteriorly: metathorax with pale golden pubescence; tegulae dull fulvous;
wings blackish, apical third hyaline ; legs more or less tinged with brown, pos-
terior femora immaculate, with about nine short, robust, obtuse teeth ; abdomen
elongate, slightly compressed at tip, subsericeous, immaculate, more or less
tinged with brownish, especially at apex, densely punctured, shining later-
ally; ovipositor reaching to tip of scutellum. Length .40 inch.

Hah. — Mexico. Prof. Sumichrast. Two specimens. Easily re-
cognized by the immaculate dull black body and the blackish wings
tipped with hyaline.

3. Leucospis niexicana.

Leucospis mexicana, Walk. Jour. Ent. i, p. 20, J .

Hah. — Mexico. Prof. Sumichrast. Three 9 , one % , specimens.
The thorax and apex of abdomen of $ is strongly metallic green,
clothed with short pale sericeous pile ; face pale ferruginous, with a
silvery pubescence, as well as posterior orbits ; a band of pale silvery
green pubescence behind scutellum ; base of abdomen with a smooth
polished excavation ; posterior coxae smooth and polished on the
outer flat surface; their fomora with six to eight small teeth beside
the large obtuse basal tooth. The % seems to accord tolerably well
with Westwood's description and figure of MetaUopsis cayennensis
(Germar Zeits. Ent. i, p. 204, pi. 4. fig. 4). The face is pale
reddish as in 9 , with a cupreous reflection, while the body is more

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brilliantly green, especially the abdomen, the apex of which is gold-
en green aud somewhat depressed, the very large second segment
has a fine, central longitudinal carina on its entire length ; the legs
are tinged with brown, the posterior femora margin above and beneath
from and including the large tooth, to the base, with yellow as in the
$ , their tibite are reddish at tips, with a yellow line behind reaching
to basal third ; the antennal grooves are deep and bright cupreous.
Length of ? , .30— .45; of % , .35 inch.

4. Leucospis Sumichrastii. n. sp.

9. — Short, broad, densely punctured, black, tnore or less tinned with metal-
lic green; face and posterior orbits with a fine silvery pile ; occiput flat, trans-
versely striated, bright green, bounded above by a sharp carina; antenna;
black, scape above and base of flagellurn beneath ferruginous, scape yellowish
beneath; prothorax broad, dull black; scutellum broad, with a smooth shining
spot on apical middle; metathorax above pnle ferruginous, clothed with a
dense silvery-white pubescence; tegulae piceous; wings hyaline, the costa,
narrowly beyond stigma, continued more broadly on upper half of apical mar-
gin, fuscous; four anterior tibiae tinged with ferruginous within, tips of posterior
coxa; above, and narrow upper and lower margin of their large femora, not
quite reaching apex beneath, pale yellowish, the band beneath from large tooth
to base rather broad, the small teeth about eight in number; posterior tibiae
reddish behind ; abdomen with first segment narrower than the second, nearly
quadrate, smooth, polished and deeply excavated at base, apex thickly punc-
tured ; base of second segment contracted, this segment finely and deusely
punctured, the apex broadly margined with a dense bright golden pubescence;
apical segment, except at base, clothed with a dense bright golden pubescence
and when viewed laterally is interrupted on each side of middle by a longitu-
dinal greenish stripe; ovipositor short, porrect, not exceeding in height that of
the second segment, although the groove extends nearly to the base of the seg-
ment. Length .32 inch.

Hab. — Mexico. Prof. Sumichrast. One specimen. A short robust
form, easily distinguished by the abdomen being ornamented with
bright golden at apex.

5. Leucospis texaoa, n. sp.

% . — Black, opaque, with a rather dense pale sericeous pubescence and large
dense punctures ; two obscure reddish spots on middle of face; mandibles and
palpi rufo-piceous ; antennae reddish, black at tips, scape yellow ; two spots be-
hind antennae, posterior margin of prothorax, Hue over tegulae, posterior mar-
gin of scutellum, small spot beneath wings and an oblique line on each extreme
side of metathorax, also yellow ; sides of prothorax and tegulae pale ferruginous;
wings fuliginous ; legs ferruginous, anterior coxae, a stripe on each side of their
femora, base of intermediate femora, and posterior coxae above and at base be-
neath, black; four anterior knees and tibiae in front yellowish; posterior fe-
mora very large, almost circular, a large blackish stain on inner side and a
large black spot on outer side, broadly margined above with yellow, and a yel-
low spot beneath near base, armed beneath with three very large, long, distant

32 E. T. CRESSON.

rather sharp, black teeth and near apex a smaller blunt one, beyond which are
two or three minute serratures not distinctly defined ; posterior tibiae yellow
posteriorly ; abdomen short, subglobose, narrowed at base, extreme base smooth
and rufo-piceous; a narrow band near base, two broader approximate bands,
sometimes confluent, near apex, and a lunate spot at apex surmounting an ob-
long smooth depressed space, yellow. Length .30 inch.

Uab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) Two specimens. This has a remarka-
bly short, robust form, different from that of any of tbe other species,
and approaching more nearly to that of Sumichrastvi, although quite
different. The very large, almost circular, posterior femora, with only
four distinct teeth, three of which are long, slender and acute, readily
distinguish it from auy other North American species.

6. Leucospis Poeyi.

Leucospis Poeyi, Guer. Icon. Beg. Anim. iii, p. 414. LaSagra, Hist. Cuba, pi.
18, fig. 4.

Uab. — Cuba. (Poey.) Two % 9 specimens. Readily distinguished
from all the other N. A. species by the broad, heavy yellow markings.
The form of both sexes is similar to that of ujftnis, to which it is allied
also in ornamentation, although much slighter in the latter species.
The prothorax is broadly margined, laterally and posteriorly, with yel-
low, leaving anteriorly a large semi-circular black mark, bicolored —
reddish and black — in 9 ; the scutellum is yellow except narrow basal
margin ; the metathorax, a large mark on posterior margin of pleura
and also a line over tegulae, are also yellow; tegulas fulvous; wings
yellow, tipped with dusky ; legs yellow, with ferruginous coxae tipped
beneath with yellow; posterior femora fuscous, reddish above and
rather broadly yellow at base and apex ; abdomen ferruginous at apex,
with a yellow streak on each side of ovipositor, a broad yellow band at
apex of first segment and another on the third, the second with a small
lateral spot; ovipositor attaining nearly to base of scutellum. The %
has only a spot on each side of metathorax instead of a band ; base of
coxae black ; abdomen with three broad, continuous yellow bands.
Length £ 9 , .40 inch. Parasitic upon Megachile Poeyi, Guer.

7. Leucospis aflinis.

Leucospis ajfinis, Say, Long's Second Exped. ii, p. 327, % 9 > (1824). = fraierna
Say, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist, i, p. 269, % 9 ,(1835).= subnotata, Westw. Ent. Mag.
ii, p. 215. (1835); Germ. Zeits. Ent. ii, p. 250, %, (1839).= basalis, Klug. MSS.
Westw. Germ. Zeits. Ent. ii, p. 204. % 9 , (1839).= canadensis, Walk. Jour. Ent.
i, p. 17, £,(1860).

Hab. — Canada to Texas. Fifty % 9 specimens examined. This
common species varies greatly in size {.'!■) — .lb inch) and somewhat
in markings. The vertex is more or less tinged with green or purple,

AMERICAN IIYMENOPTERA. 33

sometimes obsoletely so ; the prothorax has the lateral and posterior
margins generally entirely yellow, sometimes the latter are indistinctly
so, while the anterior medial spot, which is generally distinct and trans-
verse, is sometimes reduced to a dot or entirely wanting ; the yellow
lateral margin of metathorax, the yellow band on apex of scutellum and
the yellow stripe beneath posterior wing, are distinct in all the speci-
mens before me, while the two yellow dots on disk of the mesothorax are
generally wanting; the posterior coxae varies from almost entirely
black to entirely ferruginous, and their femora have the basal and
apical spots sometimes much enlarged, while their teeth vary in num-
ber and size ; the abdominal markings vary but little, the lateral spot
on second segment of 9 i s sometimes wanting and the two stripes on
apex is sometimes much reduced ; while in the % the apical spot is
sometimes wanting; the ovipositor of 9 also varies slightly in length.

Var. florirtana. — % 9 . — This has all the markings bright fiery ferruginous
or reddish-yellow instead of yellowish-white; apical half of flagellum black,
with the terminal joint dull ferruginous ; the head is without any metallic lus-
tre; the thoracic markings are all well-defined except the two discal marks on
mesothorax, which are subobsolete ; the wings are dark fuscous along costa;
posterior coxse almost entirely ferruginous, and their femora broadly reddish-
yellow at tips, or reddish with a discal fuscous spot, the teeth numerous and
minute, except the basal one, their tibiae orange-yellow; first segment of abdo-
men ferruginous, with a narrow reddish-yellow band before apex, apical mar-
gin black ; second segment immaculate ; the subapical band on third segment
rather narrow and regular, the two stripes on apical segment abbreviated, some-
times obsolete; the ovipositor attains the base of the abdomen. Length .45 in.

Hah. — Florida. Two 9 , two % specimens.

8. Leucospis azteca, n. sp.

9. — Black, densely punctured, clothed with a short whitish sericeous pile;
face tinged with green and purple, vertex strongly so; extreme tips of antennse
fulvous, scape yellow ; a narrow band near posterior margin of prothorax, nar-
row lateral margin of mesothorax, a broader band on apex of scutellum, some-
times a narrow line on postscutellum, apical margin of metathorax, generally
interrupted, and a narrow oblique line on the flanks, all yellow; tegulse brown
or pale piceous ; wings more or less dusky, darker along costa and at apex;
legs black, sericeous, posterior coxse, their femora within and all the tibiae
within, more or less tinged with ferruginous ; posterior femora with a yellow
stripe on their basal half beneath, not quite reaching the base, the teeth mi-
nute, except the basal one which is broad and blunt, their tibiae with a yellow
stripe behind ; abdomen sericeous, first segment with a rather broad apical yel-
low band, the third segment with a narrow subapical yellow band behind which
is a sublunate yellow mark enclosing a smooth shallow brownish fovea, some-
times interrupted by it, apex with a broad yellow stripe, broader beneath and
divided by the ovipositor, which attains the apex of scutellum. Length .32 — .40
inch.

TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. IV. (5) FEBRUARY, 1872.

34 E. T. CRESSON.

fifat.— Mexico. Prof. Sumichrasfc. Three specimens. Easily re-
cognized by the apex of abdomen being broadly yellow.

9. Ijom'ospis flnbsosa, n. sp.

5. — Differs from azteca only as follows: — Smaller; posterior fe-
mora entirely black ; abdomen with a narrow yellow band at apex of
first segment and another at apex of third segment; apical segment
entirely black, sericeous; wings fuliginous, paler ou posterior half.
Length .lis inch.

Hub. — Mexico. Prof. Sumichrast. One specimen. May prove to
be only a variety of azteca.

10. Ijeucospiti tolteoa. n. sp.

9 . — Black, densely punctured ; head tinged with dark green, clothed with a
silvery sericeous pubescence; mandibles tinged with rufous; antennae black,
reddish at base of flagellum beneath, scape yellowish-white beneath : two nar-
row bands on prothorax, the anterior one more or less interrupted and abbre-
viated, (sometimes the posterior one is obsolete), the lateral margin of meso-
thorax and a broad band on posterior margin, before scutellum, yellow ; scutel-
lum immaculate, slightly tinged with green; metathorax pale ferruginous,
densely clothed with silver}' pubescence; tegulae brown; wings pale fuscous,
with a central longitudinal, hyaline streak; legs black, sericeous, coxae more or
less tinged with brown; a short stripe on anterior femora at tips above, their
tibiae in front, extreme tips of intermediate femora and base of their tibiae,
small spot at tip of posterior coxae, a broad stripe on their femora above,
not reaching base, and another beneath from large tooth to base, and their tibiae,
all yellow; tarsi pale fulvous ; femoral teeth minute; abdomen short, robust,
■slightly contracted at apex of first segment, densely and finely punctured,
clothed with a very short silvery sericeous pile ; first segment shining, green
above, with a deep piceous excavation at base, and before the apex a smooth
polished piceous band ; second and third segments each with a broad apical
band of sericeous pubescence, changing from silvery to pale golden-green when
viewed in certain lights; ovipositor short, porrect, not reaching to base of third
segment, although the groove extends quite to base of second segment. Length
.25 inch.

% . — Differs only in the shape, color and sculpture of the abdomen, which is
elavate,more strongly tinged with green, the second segment being much con-
tracted at base ; first segment less shining, more deeply and coarsely punc-
tured, with no piceous band near apex, apex of abdomen clothed with a golden
green pubescence, and the terminal segment very small. Length .25 inch.

Hah. — Mexico. Prof. Sumichrast. Four 9 , one % specimens.
This is our smallest species, resembling Sumichrastii more than any of
its congeners ; the form is, however, not so robust and the $ abdomen
not abruptly narrowed at base of second segment ; the yellow markings
of thorax and the silvery bands of abdomen will easily distinguish this
from Sumivhrastii.

AMERICAN BYMENOPTERA. 35

The following species have not been identified : —

L.eacospis Shuckardi, Westw. Ent. Mag. ii, p. 214; Germ. Ent. Zeits. i,
241. — " % — Black; head with two rounded spots between eyes; base of mandi-
bles reddish; antennae black, scape fulvous, extreme apex of flagelluin reddish;
collar with two yellow band; disc of mesothorax with two small oblong spots
and a subcuneiform lateral stripe, yellow; scutellum with a broad lunate yellow
band; epimera of metathorax entirely yellow; abdomen with a broad band on
first segment, a narrow one on second, and a rather narrow one on third, yel-
low, all interrupted medially and abbreviated laterally; apex with two lunate
yellow spots; ovipositor attaining to the middle of first abdominal segment;
anterior and intermediate coxae black, posterior pair black, yellow at apex ; four
anterior legs yellowish-fulvous, base of femora obscure ; posterior femora pice-
ous-black within, apex fulvous, externally yellow, with a large, rounded, infer-
ior black spot and armed beneath with six teeth ; posterior tibiae and tarsi ful-
vous, with an internal black line; wings fuscous. Length 5} lines."

Hab. — North America.

liOueospis Klugii, Westw. Germ. Zeits. Ent. i, p. 249; pi. 3, fig. 1.—" % .
— Opaque black; scape beneath ferruginous; narrow posterior margin of pro-
thorax, lateral margin of mesothorax and a lunate band on apex of scutellum,
yellow; basal half of abdomen black, apex yellow ; first segment with posterior
margin narrowly and indistinctly yellow, and second segment with black band
on apical margin; legs fusco-piceous, apex of four anterior femora yellow; pos-
terior femora externally fuscous, inferior margin narrowly yellow, internally
fulvous, armed beneath with seven black teeth ; wings pale yellowish. Length
4J lines."

Hab. — Mexico.

Leucospis integra, Hald. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. ii, p. 53.—" % .—Black,
covered with pale yellowish pile; antennae yellowish beneath; thorax scabrous,
with a. spot of yellow pile posteriorly ; tegulae yellow ; wings translucent; legs
yellow, except basal half of first and second pairs of femora, posterior femora
black, tipped with yellow. Length 5 mill."

Hab. — Not given ; probably Pennsylvania. This is possibly nothing
but Chalcis ovata, Say.

Genus SMICKA. Spinola.
Body entirely black, immaculate ;
Face entirely black :

Petiole as long as remainder of abdomen and nearly as long as posterior
coxae; posterior femora black or brown, generally yellowish at

base; antennae long 1. in icrogastcr.

Petiole shorter than remainder of abdomen and about two-thirds the length
of posterior coxae ; posterior femora entirely black; the antennae

shorter 2. canadensis.

Face with a large angular white mark 3. albiirons.

Body black, immaculate; abdomen more or less red :

Posterior femora reddish-yellow above, base and spot beneath near apex pale
yellow 4. flebilis.

36 E. T. CRESSON.

Posterior femora obscure reddish, varied with blackish, inner side mostly

reddish 5. rufofcmorata.

Body black, more or less marked with white or yellowish :
Markings of thorax very small and indistinct; the posterior femora with a
single pale dot on upper outer middle ; the abdomen entirely

black 6. delumbis.

Markings of thorax small, but distinct:
Posterior femora with irregular whitish markings at apex, varied with pale
brown :

Abdomen black, with two or four white spots at base 7. torvina.

Abdomen black, with numerous lateral white spots 8. flavopictu.

Abdomen reddish at base and sides, with numerous pale spots..9. delira.

Posterior femora with a broad, irregular, whitish band on the apical

half; the abdomen reddish at base and sides, with six white

spots 10. mendica.

Posterior femora with a broad basal margin and dot at apex above, pale yel-
low ; prothorax and scutellum each with two small yellowish spots ;

abdomen black 11. subobsoleta.

Posterior femora with a short yellowish stripe above near apex and a dot

beneath; abdomen mostly yellow, petiole black 12. Toluoa.

Posterior femora margined above and at base beneath with yellowish, and
armed beneath with only six teeth ; apical half of the abdomen

yellowish 13. mexicana.

Posterior femora pale fulvo-ferruginous, with three yellow spots at apex;
abdomen pale sanguineous, with four pale yellowish spots at

base 14. sanguineiveiitris.

Markings of thorax large, white, yellow or reddish :

Posterior femora black, margined above and at base beneath with whitish,
also a white spot beneath near apex :
Scutellum black, with two large ovate white spots ; posterior tibire with a

small pale spot on outer side near base 15. bio<'iilul;i.

Scutellum yellow, except extreme base and apex ; posterior tibise with a

broad yellow annulus 16. let'ta.

Posterior femora black, with basal margin beneath, a large spot at apex
above, and a small spot near apex beneath, white; the posterior
coxae above and most of abdomen red; the scutellum mostly

white 19. lauta.

Posterior femora yellow, with a large, median black spot, generally con-
fluent with a spot at apex; the scutellum almost entirely yel-
low; the abdomen fulvous, with a yellow subinterrupted me-
dian band 17. ambigua.

Posterior femora yellow, with a large irregular black mark near middle and

a small black spot on extreme tip; scutellum with two large yellow

spots ; abdomen black, with a median yellow band... 18. arcana.

Posterior femora yellow, irregularly black at base and along inferior edge ;

the scutellum with a large, longitudinally ovate, black, central

spot 20. Nortonii.

Posterior femora yellow, with a slender, subfusiform, oblique, black stripe
near apex; scutellum with a large, median, cuneiform, black spot;
abdomen banded with yellow 21. coxalis.

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 37

Posterior femora yellow, with a large central black spot, confluent with
lower edge which is narrowly black to apex; scutellum with a cen-
tral black stripe or basal spot :
Lower edge armed with six mostly large irregular teeth ; protuberance

beneath posterior wing black and yellow 22. bracata.

Lower edge armed with twelve mostly small irregular teeth; protuber-
ance beneath posterior wing entirely yellow Var. eorequalis.

Markings of body and legs bright deep orange-yellow ; posterior femora with
a small black spot beneath near base; scutellum divided centrally

by a black stripe 23. eucausta.

Body ferruginous :

Petiole of abdomen short:

Abdomen ferruginous, immaculate ; head, metathorax, posterior coxse, tibise

and petiole of abdomen black 24. barbara.

Abdomen piceous-black, with two white spots; petiole pale yellowish ; pos-
terior coxse ferruginous, with a large black spot..25. Scutellaria.
Petiole of abdomen very long and slender :

Scutellum ferruginous, with a central black stripe, the lateral margin

whitish 26. debilis.

Scutellum yellowish-ferruginous, with a large dorsal black

mark 27. pel iolata.

Body coccineous or scarlet :
Petiole of abdomen short :

Posterior femora with about five short distant teeth; four anterior legs

red 28. Lanieri.

Posterior femora with numerous minute teeth; the four anterior legs

black 29. coccinea.

Petiole of abdomen very long and slender ; wings fuliginous, apical third sub-
hyaline; posterior femora immaculate, with numerous minute

teeth 30. coecinata.

Body fiery yellowish-red or orange :

Wings dusky hyaline, darker towards base, the cubitus with a dark spot;
scutellum with a black dot at tip; posterior coxae with a black

spot , 31. flammeola.

Wings uniformly fusco-hyaline; scutellum immaculate; posterior coxa? with

a broad exterior black stripe 32. intermedia.

Wings clear hyaline; scutellum and metathorax with a central black stripe;

posterior coxae with a black spot 33. iguea.

Body lemon-yellow or luteous :

Petiole of abdomen nearly as long as posterior coxse and slender; most of
head, mesothorax, scutellum, wings except apex, and abdomen ex-
cept base, black 34. miranda.

Petiole of abdomen short, not more than half the length of posterior coxae:
Posterior femora with four teeth :

Luteous; mesothorax reddish-brown, with two central luteous stripes;
scutellum with a large triangular reddish-brown spot: posterior

coxse except base more or less sanguineous 35. Eubule.

Lemon-yellow; disk of mesothorax black, immaculate; the flagellmn
black 30. dorsata.

38 E. T. CRESSON.

Lemon-yellow ; disk of mesothorax black, with three or four quad-
rate yellow spots; flagellum fulvous 37. pulchra.

Lemon-yellow; mesothorax with three black stripes; flagellum ferrugin-
ous 38. exoniafa.

Posterior femora with six teeth; body luteous ; three marks on mesotho-
rax, large spot on scutellum, and breast, black. .39. COiiipactilis.
Posterior femora with numerous small teeth :

Wings blackish, with hyaline tips ; body lemon-yellow ; mesothorax line-
ate with black; posterior coxas with broad black stripe above, their

femora with two black spots 40. moil It czu ma.

Wings hyaline or subhyaline :

Posterior coxae yellow, bilineate with black:

Luteous; posterior femora with two brown or black stripes on outer
side, the lower one near base oblique ; base of metathorax with two

black spots 41. aztcca.

Lemon-yellow; posterior femora with a single, short, slender, ob-
lique, black stripe on outer side near lower edge; base of meta-
thorax black, a central apical black spot 42. conjiuigeiiK.

Posterior coxae black within and a slender black stripe at base on outer
side; mesothorax brown, with four yellow stripes; posterior fe-
mora yellow, with a broad central fulvous stain and a black

apical spot 43. lenta.

Posterior coxse lemon-yellow, with broad stripe above ; petiole of abdo-
men very short ; abdomen long, subfusiform, narrowly banded with

black 44. lit a rise.

Posterior coxse luteous, with a dusky stripe on inner side; scutellum
with a transverse black mark near tip; pleura with a broad ob-
lique black stripe 45. tolteca.

Posterior coxa? lemon-yellow, with a rounded black spot on outer side :
Metathorax with a transverse black spot at base...46. iligropicta.

Metathorax with a central elongate black spot 47. mirabilis.

Posterior coxse luteous, with apical half black; scutellum immaculate;

posterior femora luteous, immaculate 48. Gumlladiii.

Posterior coxse lemon-yellow, black at extreme tips, femora with two

black spots on outer side, confluent on lower edge 49. .ju via.

Posterior coxse yellowish, immaculate :

Pale luteous ; thorax with small blackish markings... 50. pallen*.
Pale lemon-yello.w, immaculate; abdomen cocciueous on apical

half .". 51. delicata.

Pale lemon-yellow, immaculate; abdomen tinged with rufo-testa-
ceous 52. iiiimaculata.

1. ftmi vra microgaster.

Chalcis microgaster, Say, Long's Second Expedition, ii, p. 326.

Bab. — New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, The antennae are
long, robust, the scape more or less compressed at tip beneath ; the
four auterior legs more or less dull yellowish, the posterior femora not
so much swollen as usual, sometimes brown and generally more or less
tiuged with reddish-yellow at base, the teeth are numerous and minute ;

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 39

posterior tarsi pale; petiole slender, cylindrical, nearly as long as pos-
terior coxse and as long as the remainder of abdomen, which is small
and subglobose, polished and black. Length .15 inch.

2. Sniicra canadensis, n. sp.

% . — Entirely black; face transversely rugose ; clypeus smooth and polished,
piceous ; antennae subrobust, scape cylindrical, not compressed beneath at tip;
thorax densely and coarsely sculptured ; apex of scutellum rounded ; meta-
thorax coarsely reticulated, with a central ridge furcate before apex ; tegulse
piceous; wings hyaline, faintly dusky at tips ; four anterior legs more or less
varied with yellowish-brown; posterior femora entirely black, rather larger
than in preceding species, the teeth numerous and minute; tarsi pale; abdo-
men entirely black, smooth and shining ; petiole stout, shorter than remainder
of abdomen and about two-thirds the length of posterior coxae. Length .Iti
inch.

Hub. — Canada. Two specimens. Stouter than microgaster, with
shorter antennae, larger posterior femora and shorter, stouter petiole.

3. Smicra albifrons.

Chalets albifrons, Walsh, Ins. Inj. Veg. 111. p. 37, fig. 8.

Hab. — Illinois. This is the smallest species known to me, being
only .08 inch long. It is easily distinguished by the large angular
white mark on the face. The posterior femora have a whitish streak
on the upper basal half of outer side.

4. Smicra flebilis, n. sp.

% . — Black, clothed with pale pubescence ; clypeus and mandibles reddish;
antenna? long, black, scape piceous, compressed and carinate beneath at apex ;
thorax densely and confidently punctured, immaculate; scutellum subconvex,
rounded and margined at apex; metathorax coarsely reticulated; tegulse pale
brown ; wings slightly dusky, subiridescent ; legs yellowish-ferruginous, coxae,
trochanters and base of four anterior femora black; posterior femora brown-
black, orange-yellow at base, shading into pale yellow beneath, a pale yellow
spot near tip andasmaller one above it, inner side pale orange-yellow with a
brown mark on middle curving to apex above, teeth numerous and minute;
posterior tibiae black with apale yellowish spot near base ; abdomen subglobose,
smooth and polished, piceous, reddish at base and sides, pubescent at apex, pe-
tiole black, stout, cylindrical, nearly as long as remainder of abdomen. Length
.20 inch.

Hab. — Massachusetts. Two specimens. Resembles microgaster in
form, but is larger, with posterior femora maculate with yellowish, and
the abdomen mostly red.

5. Smicra rufofemorata, n. sp.

% . — Dull black, head rugose, mandibles tinged with reddish; antennae as
long as head and thorax, scape compressed beneath ; thorax immaculate, with
dense coarse punctures; metathorax coarsely reticulated, pubescent: tegulse
piceous; wings fusco-hyaline ; legs ferruginous, coxae, trochanters, four anter-
ior femora at base and beneath, and the four posterior tibiae, black ; posterior

40 E. T. CRESSON.

femora not as large as usual, more or less stained with fuscous, the teeth very
minute; posterior tarsi yellowish; ahdomen small, subglobose, smooth and
polished, ferruginous, dusky at apex, petiole stout, cylindrical, black, about
two-thirds as long as posterior coxce. Length .20 inch.

ffab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) Two specimens. Same form as jlebilis,
to which it is very closely allied, and may prove to be only a variety
of it.

6. Smicra delnmbis, n. sp.

-v o. Black; spot between antennas, short line on anterior orbits, inter-
rupted line behind eyes, and mandibles except tips yellowish-white; antenna*
black, flagellum sericeous, apex sometimes pale ; two whitish, approximate dots
on lateral anterior margin of prothorax ; two small distant spots on disk of me-
sothorax, wanting in 9 , and a dot on each side of scutellum, pale ferruginous ;
apex of scutellum rounded, margined, unarmed ; tegulee pale piceous ; wings
tinged with dusky, subiridescent; extreme base and apex of four anterior fe-
mora, base and apex of their tibia; and within and their tarsi pale yellow ; pos-
terior trochanters luteous in % , their femora ovate, with a yellow dot on upper
outer middle and a spot at tip above in 9 , teeth numerous and minute, their
tibiae with a pale yellowish spot near base and at apex, their tarsi white ; abdo-
men small, about as large as posterior femora, subglobose, smooth and polished,
black, immaculate, petiole stout, rather more than half the length of posterior
coxse. Length .15 inch.

ff a l m — Massachusetts, Delaware. Two ( % 9) specimens. Much
like canadensis.

7. Smicra torvina, n. sp.

9. — Black, opaque; spot between antennas, transverse spot beneath each
posterior ocellus, spot on anterior orbits, narrow posterior orbits, and the large
mandibles except tips, pale yellow ; thorax densely rugulose ; prothorax with
four whitish dots on anterior margin — two on each side and two, approximate,
above — and a reddish spot near each posterior angle ; mesothorax with a short
line on each side of middle lobe and two spots on posterior part of each lateral
lobe, pale orange-yellow; scutellum with a rounded pale yellowish spot on
each side, tegulse pale yellow, fuscous posteriorly; wings hyaline; legs black,
sericeous, tips of four anterior femora, their tibise at tips and within and all the
tarsi except tips, yellowish-white; posterior coxse entirely black; their femora
black, inner side with a yellowish apical spot, outer side with a spot at base be-
neath, a spot at tip above and a transverse tortuous band near apex, pale yellow-
ish, sometimes irregularly margined with brown, and interrupted into spots, fe-
moral teeth minute ; posterior tibiae black, with a yellowish annulus at tip and
another near base; abdomen subfusiform, smooth and polished, first segment
with a whitish spot on each side between middle and apex, sometimes wanting
and the second segment with a larger spot of same color on each side at base,
sometimes the fifth segment has lateral pale spot; petiole robust, scarcely half
the length of posterior coxse. Length .15— .20 inch.

Hub — Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois, Texas. Ten specimens.
The markings ou posterior femora vary considerably.

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8. Smiera ftavopieta.

Smiera flavopicta, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Fhil. iv. p. 99.
Hah. — Cuba. Very closely allied to torvina ; the third, fourth and
fifth abdominal segments have two yellow spots on each side, and the
posterior femora are rather differently ornamented.

9. Smiera delira, n. sp.

%. — Black; face prolonged beneath eyes; a large subrhomboidal spot be-
tween and beneath base of antennae, a large spot beneath eyes, and mandibles
except tips while; narrow posterior orbits continued upward over the summit
of the eye and then transversely to lower ocellus, a dot behind each upper ocel-
lus and a dot on anterior orbits, ferruginous ; first joint of antennae long, very
robust, fulvous, with a black stripe at tip within; second joint elongate, about
one-fourth the length of the first, fuscous ; flagellum ferruginous, fuscous above,
the joints very short and compact; thorax finely punctured ; prothorax varied
with ferruginous markings, the anterior margin with six yellowish spots; me-
sothorax with four yellowish spots on each side of disk; scutellum with a later-
al yellowish stripe; tegulae pale yellow, a ferruginous clot beneath ; wings hy-
aline; legs honey-yellow, varied with pale yellow, coxae and base of femora
black; posterior femora marbled on apical half with ferruginous and yellow-
ish-white, teeth very minute; posterior tibiae pale yellowish at and base apex,
dusky medially; tarsi pale; abdomen ovate, smooth and shining, ferruginous
at base and apex, black on disk above, with a more or less distinct whitish
spot on each side of the segments, large on second and on two or three apical
segments; petiole short, black. Length .15 inch.

Hab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) In style of ornamentation this ap-
proaches very nearly to torvina, which is, however, larger and differ-
ently shaped, and the abdomen differently marked.

10. Smiera mendiea, n. sp.

% . — Black, varied with ferruginous and whitish ; a white spot between base
of antennae; sides of face, orbits, confluent with a line that curves around the
posterior ocelli and terminates on occiput, and mandibles except tips, yellowish
ferruginous; scape black, ferruginous laterally, (flagellum broken off); pro-
thorax ferruginous above, with four small yellowish spots on anterior margin;
mesothorax sparsely and finely punctured, black, side pieces ferruginous, a
spot on each side of anterior middle, and a spot in front of tegulae, whitish;
scutellum flat, sparsely punctured, shining, narrowly margined with pale fer-
ruginous, with a white transverse mesial band interrupted on the disk ; narrow
space immediately beneath wings pale ferruginous; tegulae pale piceous ; wings
hyaline, iridescent; four anterior legs honey-yellow, tarsi pale, coxae and base
of femora blackish ; posterior coxae black, their extreme tips and trochanters
honey-yellow ; posterior femora much swollen, ovate, outer side with basal half
black, tinged beneath with brown, and with a white spot over basal tooth,
apical half irregularly white, interrupted beneath and at tip with brown and
by a double black spot on upper margin near apex, on inner side black, mar-
gined above with ferruginous and with a whitish spot at tip, the teeth numer-
ous and minute; posterior tibiae brownish behind, with a whitish spot near base
and another near apex ; tarsi pale yellowish ; abdomen rather larger than pos-

TRANS.AMER.ENT.SOC.IV. (6) FEBRUARY, 1872. '

42 E. T. CRESSON.

terior femora, smooth and polished, short ovate, ferruginous, piceous above, two
spots on middle of first segment, two on base of second segment and two on
apex, white ; petiole short, stout, black. Length .20 inch.

Hal. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumiehrast.) One specimen. Larger than
delira which it somewhat resembles, but may be readily distinguished
by the posterior femora being broadly tipped with whitish.

11. Smicra siifool>soleta, n. sp.

^ . — Black, opaque; face, broad anterior orbits not reaching summit of eyes,
narrow posterior orbits, clypeus, labrum, and mandibles except tips, lemon-
yellow; antennae black above, ferruginous at tips and beneath, scape yellow be-
neath, flagellum short, thick, with transverse joints ; thorax with dense dilated
punctures, a spot on each side of prothorax above, tegulse and a spot on each
side of scutellum, pale yellow ; four anterior legs lemon-yellow, the coxae, a
stripe on their femora behind, and a short slender stripe on their tibite, black ;
posterior legs black ; their trochanters beneath, a spot at tip of their femora
above, a large spot at base, extending on upper edge nearly half way to apex,
and a dot on middle of inner side, lemon-yellow ; their tibiae with a subobso-
lete yellowish spot near base, their tarsi pale honey-yellow, terminal joint black ;
femoral teeth minute; abdomen small, not larger than posterior femora, subglo-
bose, smooth and polished, piceous, immaculate, petiole stout, about half the
length of posterior coxae. Length .20 inch.

Hab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) One specimen.

12. Smicra Toluca, n. sp.

9- — Black, clothed with pale pubescence; sides of face, extending broadly
half-way up orbit of eye, and narrow posterior orbits, lemon-yellow ; antennae
black, scape slender, brown, yellow beneath ; thorax broad, robust, with dense
dilated punctures ; narrow posterior margin of prothorax, the short lateral
carina on anterior margin, two oblique stripes on middle of mesothorax, con-
verging behind, a transverse spot over tegulae, and two oblique spots on posterior
margin of scutellum, confluent on the bilobate, acutely and rather broadly mar-
gined apex, lemon-yellow; metathorax coarsely reticulated; tegulae brown,
with a yellow central dot; wings hyaline, tinged with yellowish ; legs polished
black, four anterior knees, stripe on their tibiae within and their tarsi more or
less, yellowish ; posterior femora with a narrow interrupted stripe above and a
small spot beneath towards tip on outer side and a stripe above and two spots
beneath on inner side, yellowish, lower edge with eight or ten teeth, which are
larger than usual ; abdomen ovate, smooth and shining, yellow, banded with
reddish, on first segment with piceous which is broadly dilated beneath; peti-
ole short, stout, black. Length .28 inch.

Hub. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumiehrast.) One specimeu.

13. Smicra mexicana, n. sp.

9 . — Black, clothed with short pale yellowish pubescence, longer and whitish
on metathorax; narrow, subinterrupted orbits, scape beneath, narrow posterior
margin of prothorax, spot on each posterior angle of mesothorax, and two trans-
verse spots on scutellum yellow ; antennae black, scape slender, brown above ;
thorax broad, robust, densely punctured; scutellum large, subconvex, apical
marginal carina interrupted medially ; tegulae piceous ; wings faintly yellowish,
narrowly fuscous on costa; legs shining black; tips of four anterior femora
within, anterior tibiae within, broad stripe on posterior coxae beneath, not

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reaching base, a continuous stripe on their femora above, a short, broad stripe
at base beneath, a small spot beneath near apex, transverse band on inner side
near apex (which is ferruginous), and a short stripe on their tibiae on each side
near apex, yellow ; posterior femora with four large blunt teeth and two small
ones, sometimes obsolete, towards base; abdomen shining, black, pointed at
apex, a band on second, and the following segments more or less yellow ; petiole
short, stout, black. Length .35 inch.

% . — Face spotted with yellow ; posterior coxae with a short slender yellow
stripe on each side near apex; abdomen smaller, the band on the second and
the following segments orange-yellow; otherwise like J. Length .30 inch.

Hab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Five % £ specimens. An
easily recognised species. Differs from Toluca by the yellow margined
posterior femora and the paucity of the teeth.

14. Sine era sangiiiiiiventris, n. sp.

9- — Black, head and thorax marked as in delira; antennae slender, blackish,
fulvous beneath ; tegulae whitish ; wings faintly dusky ; four anterior legs pale
honey-yellow; posterior coxae black, ferruginous at tips and beneath; their fe-
mora fulvo-ferruginous, with several irregular yellowish marks at tip and a
spot on basal tooth ; on inner side a short black line, the teeth numerous, min-
ute and black; posterior tibiae fulvous, with apex and spot near base, yellow;
tarsi pale; abdomen subfusiform, smooth and polished, pale coccineous, with
four yellow spots near base ; petiole robust, about half the length of posterior
coxae, dull ferruginous. Length .18 inch.

Hab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) One specimen. Readily distinguished
from delira, which it resembles in the ornamentation of head and
thorax, by the pale sanguineous abdomen and differently colored pos-
terior femora.

15. Smicra bioculata, n. sp.

%. — Black, opaque; face, broad anterior orbits not reaching summit of eyes,
narrow posterior orbits, two dots beneath lower ocellus, clypeus, labrum. and
mandibles except tips, lemon-yellow ; antennae black above, ferruginous be-
neath, scape with a pale stripe beneath ; thorax with dense dilated punctures ;
a large spot on each side of prothorax above, two oblique dots on disk of meso-
thorax, two large ovate spots on seutellum and the tegulae, lemon-yellow;
wings hyaline; four anterior legs lemon-yellow, their coxae, trochanters and
base of femora behind black, their femora honey-yellow in front; posterior legs
black, upper edge of their femora, sometimes broadly interrupted about the
middle, leaving only a spot at apex, and a stripe at base beneath, sometimes
nearly contiguous with a spot near apex, lemon-yellow; a yellow spot near base
of tibiae, their tarsi honey-yellow; femoral teeth minute; abdomen small, not
larger than posterior femora, subglobose, smooth and polished, piceous, shading
into ferruginous at base, petiole stout, about half the length of posterior coxse.
Length .20— .23 inch.

Var. facet a, %. — Pale markings white; posterior femora broadly margined
above at base and beneath nearly to apex; abdomen entirely ferruginous.
Length .18 inch.

Hab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) Three specimens.

44 E. T. CRESSON.

It!. Siiiirra lecta, n. sp.

% 9- — Black; face, mouth, broarl anterior orbits not reaching summit of
eyes, posterior orbits dilated beneath, and scape beneath, lemon-yellow ; flag-
ellum beneath and at tip fulvous; thorax densely punctured, pubescent ; pro-
thorax yellow above, interrupted medially and posteriorly by a black spot on
each side, lateral anterior margin, also yellow; mesothorax with two short, ob-
lique, yellow lines ; scutellum large, prominent, convex, lemon-yellow, basal
and apical margins narrowly black, sometimes a small black spot on basal
middle; tegulse lemon-yellow; wings faintly dusky, iridescent; four anterior
legs, including their coxae, lemon-yellow, anterior femora with a black spot at
base behind; posterior coxae with a broad yellow stripe beneath; their femora
with upper edge, not reaching apex, and basal half beneath, broadly lemon-yel-
low, also a small spot on lower edge between middle and apex, on inner side
the upper edge, the extreme base and a large subapical spot, also lemon-yellow,
teeth numerous and minute; posterior tibiae yellow, black at base and apex:
tibiae yellow; abdomen small, smooth, shining, dark ferruginous, immaculate,
piceous towards apex above ; petiole short, black. Length .20 — .23 inch.

Hah. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Two specimens.

17. Smicra ambigua, n. sp.

% . — Black, pubescent; head lemon-yellow, vertex and occiput black : flagel-
lum fulvous beneath and at tip, scape yellow beneath ; prothorax yellow with
a large black spot in front; mesothorax with two broad oblique stripes on disk
and lateral margins, yellow; 6cutellum large, prominent, convex, yellow;
a small spot on basal middle and a short band on apical margin, black : pleura
with two spots beneath wings, that beneath tegulae small ; tegulae pale yellow ;
wings tinged with dusky, pale at apex; legs lemon-yellow; posterior coxae black,
yellow beneath, their femora on each side with a large irregular black spot on
disk and another at apex, sometimes confluent, the teeth numerous, minute and
black; posterior tibiae broadly black at base and apex; abdomen small, sub-glo-
bose, fulvo-ferruginous, sometimes darker on apical half, with a stain on each
side of first segment and a band or two spots on base of second segment, pale
yellow ; petiole short, not half the length of posterior coxae, black, more or less
pale at base. Length .20 — .25 inch.

Hub. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Five specimens. Closely al-
lied to lecta and may prove to be a variety of that species. This seems
also to approach abdominalis, Walk., which however is said to have
the petiole long and the abdomen piceous.

18. Smicra arcana, n. sp.

%. — Robust, black ; head yellow, large spot or vertex enclosing ocelli, occi-
put, clypeus, dot beneath eyes and tips of mandibles black; antennae black,
scape yellow beneath ; large mark on each side of prothorax, two oblique spots
an middle of mesothorax, two large spots on scutellum, postscutellum and te-
gulae, yellow; thorax densely and confluently punctured: wings hyaline;
four anterior legs yellow, their coxae, trochanters and base of femora black :
posterior coxae black with a pale yellow spot beneath ; their femora large, yel-
low on outer side, with a large irregular, submedian black band not reaching
upper edge but curving to base which it attains by a narrow line, apex with a
black spot, inner side blackish, with upper margin and a broad band near apex,

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 45

yellow, teeth numerous and minute; posterior tibiae yellow, brownish near
base; abdomen shining, piceous-blaek, with an abbreviated yellow band at
base of second segment; petiole short, stout, black. Length .20 inch.
Hub — Delaware. One specimen.

10. Smicra lauta, n. sp.

9 • — Black : head white, lower margin of face brownish ; a spot on middle of
front, spot covering ocelli, confluent with occiput, and tips of mandibles black ;
antenna? black, scape white beneath ; thorax with rather sparse, not deep, punc-
tures, shining; posterior margin of prothorax dilated laterally, four longitudinal
stripes on mesothorax, scutellum except base and apex, and the tegulae, white;
scutellum large, rouuded at tips, depressed centrally; wings tinged with dusky ;
four anterior legs white; posterior coxa? black beneath, dark red above, their
femora black, with a large irregular spot above at tip, a small rounded spot be-
neath and an elongate spot at base beneath, white, inner side reddish with two
whitish spots near tip which is black, teeth numerous and small; posterior
tibiae dull ferruginous, their tarsi whitish; abdomen smooth and polished,
pointed at tip, rufo-piceous ; petiole very short and stout, yellowish-ferrugi-
nous. Length .25 inch.

Hub. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen. A very
handsome and distinct species.

20. Smicra Xortonii. n. sp.

%■ — Head lemon-yellow, space behind antennae, vertex except a short line
before each posterior ocellus, occiput, a small oblique spot beneath base of each
antenna, lower margin of cheeks narrowly and tips of mandibles, black ; scape
black above, yellow beneath, (flagellum wanting); thorax broad, robust, with
large, dense, coarse punctures; prothorax yellow; mesothorax black, with
four narrow yellow stripes, the two central ones oblique, converging and abbre-
viated behind, almost contiguous; scutellum yellow, with a large longitudi-
nally ovate black discal spot; metathorax black with apex yellow; pleura black,
a spot beneath wings and the large prominentconvex swelling behind, yellow ;
tegulae pale yellow, pupilled with brown; wings yellow-hyaline; legs lemon-
yellow, posterior coxae with a broad black stripe above and beneath, not reach-
apex ; their trochanters black; their femora large, oblong, irregularly black at
base, as well as the inferior margin which has about ten irregular teeth, on in-
ner side the base is obliquely black and with a short oblique central band ab-
breviated above ; their tibiae pale fuscous at the extreme base ; abdomen banded
alternately with black and yellow, the first segment with two blackish spots at
base; petiole short, reddish-brown, yellow above. Length .35 inch.

Eab. — District of Columbia. (Coll. Mr. E. Norton.) One speci-
men. This fine species, which at first sight closely resembles the
three following, may be distinguished at once by the yellow posterior
femora being black only at base on outer side.

21. Smicra coxalis, n. sp.

%. — Black, profusely marked with lemon-yellow; face transversely rugose,
lemon-yellow, with two approximate blackish marks above clypeus; space be-
hind antennae covering vertex and occiput black; scape lemon-yellow beneath ;

46 E. T. CRESSON.

prothorax lemon-yellow, a large transverse spot on anterior middle and a spot
on each posterior corner, black ; mesothorax densely and coarsely punctured,
black, with four yellow stripes, those on disk oblique, converging and abbre-
viated behind; scutellum yellow, with a large, broad cuneiform, discal black-
mark ; metathorax yellow, black on basal margin ; pleura black, with aslender
yellow line on anterior margin, the prominent convex swelling beneath. poster-
ior wings entirely yellow; tegulae pale luteous ; wings yellowish-hyaline ; legs
lemon-yellow ; posterior coxae very long, attenuate at tips, black beneath,
with two black stripes above, the outer one abbreviated at base; their femora
with an oblique black stripe on each side near base, and the ^extreme tips
black especially on inner side; their tibiae dusky at base; abdomen subcom-
pressed, smooth and shining, subpubescent, black, first segment except apical
margin, and broad band at base of second and third segments, yellow; petiole
short, black. Length .30 inch.

Hab. — Delaware. One specimen. Easily recognised by the con-
spicuous oblique black stripe on posterior femora near base.

22. Smicra bracata.

Chalcis bracata, Sanborn, Rep. Sec. Mass. Bd. Agric. Jan. lSfi3, p. 172, fig. 46.

Hab. — Conn., Penn., I). C. Three specimens. Closely allied to
Nortonii, differing principally as follows: — Scutellum with a large,
longitudinal ovate black spot ; metathorax black, except spines which
are yellow ; protuberance beneath posterior wings black and yellow ;
posterior coxae entirely black except a yellow spot at base of outer side;
posterior femora with a large discal black spot on outer side and black
on inner side with a yellow spot at base and another near apex; lower
edge with four large and two to four very small teeth ; posterior tibise
black at base. Length .28 — .35 inch.

Var. co^equalis. — $ . — Differs only by the femora having twelve
mostly small irregular teeth, entirely different from those of bracata,
and by the protuberance beneath posterior wing being entirely yellow.
Length .23— .28 inch.

Hab. — Massachusetts, Delaware. Two specimens.

This may be the nigricornis, of Fabr., or the maculata, of Fabr., al-
though of the latter Walker (Entomologist, p. 218,) says "scutellum
apice bicornutum ; trochauteres flavi," while in bracata the scutellum
is broadly rounded at apex and unarmed, and the trochanters are black.
In other respects there appears to be nothing to separate them.

23. Smicra encausta, n. sp.

% . — Robust, black ; head orange-yellow, middle of the front behind antennae
confluent with a transverse mark on vertex enclosing ocelli, which is confluent
with posterior margin of head, black; antennae short, robust, black, scape with
a yellow stripe beneath ; thorax short, broad, with rather large dilated punc-
tures ; prothorax orange-yellow with a large black mark on anterior middle;

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two oblique marks on disk of mesothorax, narrow lateral margin, and the scu-
telluin except a slender dorsal depressed stripe, also orange-yellow; pleura
entirely black; tegulse pale yellow, brown posteriorly; wings dusky, pale at
apex; legs orange-yellow, four anterior coxae, trochanters and extreme base of
their femora, black; posterior coxae short, black, a large spot, furcate anterior-
ly, beneath at tip and a smaller one near base within, yellow ; their trochanters
black; their femora large, almost circular, with a small black spot on lower
middle of outer side and another at extreme tip on both sides, teeth numerous,
minute and black; their tibiae blackish, with a narrow orange-yellow band near
base and apex; their tarsi yellowish; abdomen as large as posterior femora,
compressed, shining, black, a spot on each side of first segment at base and a
narrow band at base of second segment, orange-yellow ; petiole short, stout,
black. Length .20 inch.

Hab. — Colorado. One specimen. This truly lovely species may be
easily recognised by the beautiful bright orange markings in contrast
with the deep black color of the body, and by the large nearly circular
posterior femora being almost entirely orange-yellow.

24. Smiera barbara. n. sp.

^. — Same form and sculpture as rufofemorata ; ferruginous; head fuscous,
sides of face ferruginous ; antenna? slender, black, scape sometimes tinged with
reddish; pleura, metathorax and tegulae more or less black; wings fusco-hya-
line: coxae, except sometimes posterior pair above, base of anterior femora, and
four posterior tibiae, black : posterior femora almost sanguineous, immaculate,
with minute black teeth ; posterior tarsi fulvous; abdomen as in rufofemorata ;
petiole shorter, fuscous. Length .20 — .25 inch.

Hab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) Three specimens.

25. Smiera seutellaris.

Smiera scutellaris, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 98. Jan. 1865.
Nab. — Cuba. (Coll. Dr. Gundlach.) One specimen. This is dull
ferruginous, with antennae, most of pleura, large spot on posterior coxae,
part of femora and tibiae and most of abdomen black; sides of face,
whole of scutellum, tips of posterior coxae, spots on their femora and
tibiae and a spot on each side of abdomen above, pale yellowish. Length
.23 inch.

26. Smiera debilis.

Chalcis debilis, Say, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist, i, p. 271.

Hab. — Delaware, "Indiana," Illinois. This is a small slender spe-
cies, of a ferruginous color, varied with pale and black markings j the
petiole of abdomen is very long and slender. Length .15 inch.

27. Smiera petiolata.

Smiera petiolata, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 97.

Hab. — Cuba. (Coll. Dr. Gundlach.) One specimen. Closely al-
lied to debilis, Say. The petiole is twice the length of the remainder
of abdomen, and very slender. Leugth .15 inch.

48 E. T. CRESSON.

28. Sniiora I>aiiieri.

Chalcis Lanieri, Guer. Icon. Ee'g. Anim. iii, p. 412, pi. 67, fig. 4.

ifai.— Cuba. Two % ? specimens. A large bright scarlet or coc-
cineous species, with head above and behind, antennae, most of meso-
thorax, a broad stripe on posterior coxae above, a single spot or streak
near base of their tibiae, black; wings uniforinily dark fuscous; the
femoral teeth five in number, distant and irregular; metathoracie
spinespromiuent; abdomen immaculate, petiole short and stout. Length
.35 inch.

29. Smiera coceinea.

Smiera coceinea, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 91.

ff a l. — Cuba. (Coll. Dr. Gundlach.) One specimen. This is al-
lied to Lanieri, but is at once distinguished by the thorax, posterior
coxae, femora and tibiae being entirely coccineous, and the four anterior
legs black. Length .25 inch.

30 Smiera coccinata, n. sp.

£ . Coccineous ; head yellowish, vertex, occiput and two spots on face, black :

antenna black, scape compressed, with a yellowish carina beneath near apex :
thorax coarsely transversely wrinkled, a spot on each side of prothorax above,
two short broad stripes on disk of mesothorax, a spot on each side over wings
and two rounded spots on base of scutellum, black; scutellum coarsely trans-
versely wrinkled, convex, apex with two prominent compressed rounded pro-
cesses; metathorax coarsely reticulated; tegulse dull luteous ; wings blackish
fuscous, apical third subhyaline; legs bright coccineous, two anterior pairs
paler, with tibia and tarsi tinged with yellowish; posterior trochanters and row
of numerous minute femoral teeth black; tarsi yellow; abdomen small, globose,
smooth and polished, petiole as long as remainder of abdomen, slender, whitish.
Length .27 inch.

Hob. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen.

81. Smiera flammeola, n. sp.

^ J . — Fiery reddish-yellow ; head yellow, vertex and occiput tinged with
reddish-yellow; antenna black, scape yellow beneath; prothorax strongly
tinged with yellow; mesothorax transversely rugulose, clothed with short erect
black pubescence, the anterior, posterior and dorsal sutures and a slender black
median stripe, sometimes abbreviated, black ; scutellum with erect black pu-
bescence, and a central dusky stripe, apex rounded, margined, % with a cen-
tral black dot at tip ; mesothorax coarsely reticulated, tinged with yellowish ;
base sometimes narrowly black; pleura tinged with yellow and with two black
oblique stripes^on each side, sometimes reduced to spots near base of four anter-
ior coxae; tegulae pale yellowish; wings dusky hyaline, pale at tips, a slight
dusky cloud beneath tip of humerus and a small blackish spot covering the
cubitus; four anterior legs lemon-yellow; posterior legs fiery orange-yellow,
smooth and polished; the coxse more or less black within, and in % a black
dot on outer side near base, in 2 this is indicated merely by a dusky stain ;
trochanters of % black; femora of 2 with a dusky stain on outer middle, the

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teeth numerous, small and black; tarsi pale orange-yellow; abdomen long,
fusiform, acuminate at tip in 9 , short, ovate in % ; petiole short, stout. Length
.26— .36 inch.

Hab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Five % 9 specimens.

32. Smiera intermedia.

Smicra intermedia, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 92.

Hab. — Cuba. (Coll. Dr. Gundlach.) One specimen. Yellowish-
ferruginous ; abdomen scarlet; vertex, occiput, cheeks, antennae, te-
gulae, four anterior legs, posterior coxae above and their tibias and tar-
si, black; wings fusco-hyaline. Length .25 inch.

33. Smiera ignea.

Smiera ignea, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 92.

Hab. — Texas; Cuba. Ileddish-orange ; flagellum, central stripe on
mesothorax, a small spot on each side of it, as well as the anterior and
posterior margins, a central spot on posterior coxae above and the ex-
treme tip of abdomen, black; wings hyaline; abdomen elongate, acu-
minate and pointed; petiole short, pale yellow. Length .25 inch.

34. Smiera miranda, n. sp.

% . — Pale lemon -yellow ; head black, a short line on anterior orbits, cheeks,
and mandibles yellow ; antennae black, scape dull yellowish, compressed and
carinate beneath near apex ; mesothorax transversely wrinkled, black, as well
as scutellum except apex, which is bituberculate as in coccinata ; tegulse pale
luteous; wings blackish, apical third hyaline; extreme tips of posterior coxas,
their trochanters, the numerous, minute femoral teeth, and tips of their tibiae
black; abdomen black, smooth and polished, subglobose, yellowish at base;
petiole long, slender, nearly as long as posterior coxae, lemon-yellow. Length
.30 inch.

Hab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen. This beauti-
ful species is shaped and sculptured precisely like coccinata, and may
prove to be the % of Lamyrvs, Walker.

35. Smiera Eubule.

Smiera Eubule, Poey MS.— Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 93.
Hab. — Cuba. Four specimens. Luteous; vertex, antennae, spot on
each side of prothorax, most of mesothorax, large triangular spot on
scutellum, apical half of posterior coxae and spots on their femora, dull
ferruginous; scutellum and metathorax each with two acute spines;
posterior femora armed beneath with four large teeth, the basal one
very stout; wings subhyaline ; sometimes the prothorax above, the
mesothorax and scutellum are entirely brownish and the posterior coxae
rufous except extreme base. Length .35 inch. This species destroys
the larvae of Callidrt/as Eubule.

36. Smiera dorsal a. n. sp.

9-" — Bright lemon-yellow; space behind antennae, vertex, occiput, scape be-
hind, flagellum, spot on disk of prothorax, mesothorax except broad lateral mar-

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50 E. T. CRESSON.

gin, large triangular spot at base of scutellum, metathorax except large mark
beneath posterior wing, and a large irregular, crenulated depression on pleura,
black ; thorax with dense coarse punctures, clothed with a rather long pale
pubescence; wings hyaline; tips of posterior coxae, their trochanters, three
spots on outer side of their femora— one on middle of upper margin, one at tip
and a larger one on middle of lower margin, extending to inner side — and base
of their tibiae, black; femoral teeth four in number, the two middle ones long,
acute, black, the others blunt and tipped with black; tips of tarsi dusky; abdo-
men small, subcompressed, smooth and polished, stained with ferruginous at
base, the segments above banded with black; petiole bright yellow, slender,
more than half the length of posterior coxae. Length .25 inch.

Bab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) This may prove to be only a variety of
pulchra.

37. Smicra pulclira.

Srniera pulchra, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 94.

Jlab. — Mexico; Cuba. Five specimens. This species is lemon-yel-
low ; antennae brown-ferruginous; spot on vertex, occiput, disk of pro-
thorax, large mark on mesothorax enclosing three or four yellow spots,
most of pleura and metathorax, tips of posterior coxae, three spots on
their femora, base of their tibiae and bands on disk of abdomen, black;
wings subhyaline ; scutellum and metathorax each with two stout acute
teeth ; posterior femora armed beneath with four large acute black
teeth, the two middle ones the longest and directed backwards. A
specimen from Mexico has a broad central black stripe on scutellum.
Length .20— .25 inch.

38. Smicra cxoruata, n. sp.

%. — Lemon-yellow; back part of head, three more or less dilated stripes on
mesothorax, a transverse band in front, another on posterior margin, a slender
central stripe on scutellum, generally ending in abroad triangular mark at apex,
and an oblique line on pleura, black; antennae blackish above, fulvous be-
neath, scape yellow ; scutellum bilobate behind ; wings hyaline; tips of poster-
ior coxae, their trochanters, a short stripe on upper edge of their femora, a
spot at tips, a round spot on lower edge between middle and apex, the four long
acute oblique teeth, three spots on inner side, and extreme base and apex of
their tibiae, black; their femora more elongate than usual, not so much swollen;
abdomen banded with black above; petiole short, yellow. Length .22 — .25
inch.

Hab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Four specimens.

39. Smicra compactilis, n. sp.

9- — Dullluteous; depressed space behind antennae, back of head, a large
mark on disk of mesothorax, a narrow longitudinal mark on each side, none of
which extend to posterior margin, a broad, transverse mark on disk of scutellum

and most of the pleura, black ; antennae ; thorax broad, densely coarsely

punctured; scutellum large, bituberculate behind; wings dusky, especially
along costa; legs entirely luteous, posterior femora large, much swollen, armed
beneath with four large teeth tipped with black; abdomen pale yellow at base

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and apex, varied with dusky on dorsal middle; petiole short, stout. Length
.30 inch.

Hab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen.

40. Smicra inontezuma, n. sp.

% . — Lemon-yellow ; spot on middle of front, a band on back of head, anten-
nae, except scape beneath, spot on anterior middle of prothorax, a large mark
on anterior middle of mesothorax enclosing a yellow spot, a stripe on each side
connected behind by a narrow sutural line, a dot on basal middle of scutellum
and a sutural line on pleura, black,- scutellum rounded and margined at apex ;
metathorax with a prominent subacute lateral spine; wings blackish, apical
third subhyaline ; extreme tips of posterior coxae, a broad line above not reach-
ing base, their trochanters, a spot on tips of their femora, a spot near lower edge
between base and apex, the minute teeth and extreme base of their tibiae, black;
abdomen pale fulvous, with base and band at base of second segment yellow;
petiole short, stout. Length 30 inch.

Hab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Two specimens.

41. Smicra aztcca, n. sp.

% . — Luteous-yellow, hear] and thorax beneath lemon-yellow; the excavation
behind antennae, dot on each posterior ocellus and back of head, black; flagel-
lum ferruginous, scape yellow; a dot on anterior middle of prothorax, a spot or
short line on each side above, sometimes wanting, four lines on mesothorax, the
central two converging behind where they unite and reach the basal margin in
one line, a central stripe on scutellum and sometimes the sutures of pleura,
black; thorax densely punctured ; scutellum rounded and margined at apex ;
metathorax coarsely reticulated ; wings yellow-hyaline, paler at tips; four an-
terior legs entirely lemon-yellow; posterior pair luteous, their coxae with two
black stripes the upper one generally much broader and longer than the outer;
posterior femora large, both sides with a stripe above and an oblique stripe to-
wards base beneath, black, sometimes those on outside are pale brown and some-
times nearly obsolete ; the teeth numerous, minute and black; posterior tibiae
brown at base; abdomen yellow, bands with fuscous or dull fulvous; petiole
short, stout, with a lateral black spot on stripe. Length .30— .40 inch.

Hab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Five specimens.

42. Smicra conjungens.

Sm.iera corijungens, Walker, Notes on Chalcidiae, iii, p. 53, %.
Bab. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Three £ specimens. This
fine species is yellow, with head behind, space behind antennse, two
dots including the two posterior ocelli, a band on prothorax in front, a
short streak on each side, three stripes on mesothorax, the middle one
very broad and dilated in front, all connected on hind border, a central
stripe on scutellum, basal margin of metathorax, a dilated spot on
apical middle, a short oblique line on each side within lateral swelling,
and two oblique stripes on pleura, all black; scutellum rounded atapex
and unarmed; wings yellow-hyaline, faintly dusky at tips; posterior
coxae with a broad black stripe within and a very slender one on outer
side, sometimes indistinct; posterior femora on inner side with two
black stripes, the upper one emitting two black bands, one on middle

52 E. T. CRESSON.

angular, and the other at tip, outer side with lower edge and a short
oblique streak below the middle, black, the teeth small, irregular, tipped
with black; posterior tibiae with a blackish streak behind, not reach-
ing apex ; abdomen with broad black bands, first segment with two
large black spots at base; petiole about two-thirds the length of posterior
coxae, black at tip. Length .35 inch. This is a near ally to azteca,
but the posterior legs are differently marked.

43. S in i era Icuta, n. sp.

% . — Head lemon-yellow, vertex tinged with fulvous, as well as back of head,
the posterior margin of which is black; antennas fulvous, paler at tips, scape
yellow beneath ; prothorax fulvous, varied with yellow, a black spot on each side
beneath lateral angle; mesothorax brown, with four yellow lines, two on each
side, approximate, and all connected with the yellow posterior margin; scutellum
yellow, with a large rounded, central, reddish-brown spot, the apex produced,
subbilobate, blackish ; metathorax coarsely reticulated, black, with a broad
basal yellow band; pleura black, with two yellow spots beneath tegulse, which
is yellow, pupilled with brown; wings yellow-hyaline, apex clear hyaline;
legs lemon-yellow ; posterior coxse fulvous above, black within, with a short
slender blackish line on outer side, distinct at base and gradually fading
towards apex ; posterior femora lemon-yellow, with a broad median fulvous
band, irregular in outline and dilated on upper edge, a black spot on extreme
tips, inner side blackish, two spots near apex and lower margin yellow, the
teeth numerous, small, black ; posterior tibiae yellow, varied with fulvous ; ab-
domen pale yellow, varied with fulvous before apex ; petiole very short, stout,
yellow. Length .22 inch.

Hub. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen.

44. Smicra maria>.

Chalcis marice, Riley, Fourth Annual Report, Nox. Ins. Mo. p. 109, fig. 39. £ 9 •
Hab. — N. Y., D.C., Ky., La. Eighth 9 specimens examined. This
pretty little species has been bred from the cocoons of Attacus Polyphe-
mus and Promethea. It may be recognised by the following charac-
ters : — Lemon-yellow ; head with an arcuate black mark behind anten-
nae, connected with a short longitudinal line to lower ocellus and then
to back of head which is margined with black ; antennae black or brown,
scape yellow beneath ; a spot on anterior middle of prothorax, three
stripes on mesothorax, connected before and behind by the sutural
line, a spot on each side over tegulae, a central stripe on scutellum,
basal and lateral margins of metathorax, a spot on apical middle and
two oblique stripes on each side of pleura, all black; mesothorax with
the central black line depressed and transversely striated ; wings
hyaline ; a broad stripe on outer side of posterior coxae, their extreme
tips, their trochanters, the minutely dentate edge of their femora and
six narrow bands on abdomen, black; petiole very short in 9 , longer
in % , tipped with black; abdomen of 9 long, fusiform, acuminate at
apex, of % short, ovate. Length .15 — .25 inch.

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45. Smicra tolteca, n. sp.

9- — Pull luteous, slightly tinged with orange; excavation behind antennae,
and posterior margin of head, black; flagellum blackish, fulvous at tips, scape
yellow; mesothorax tinged with pale fulvous, with a sutural line each side, a
short bidentate band in front, an angular spot on disk (connected with the bi-
dentate band by a pale fulvous line), sutural line at base, a transverse spot near
apex of scutellum, and most of pleura, black ; apex of scutellum broadly, acute-
ly margined, slightly emarginate at middle ; metathorax coarsely reticulate,
with a short black line between it and the large lateral swelling ; wings yellow-
ish-hyaline; legs luteous-yellow, posterior pair darker, their coxae with a dusky
stripe within and a faint fulvous stain on outer side; posterior femora varied
with fuscous within, the teeth numerous, small and black; their tibiae dusky at
base; abdomen elongate, fusiform, acuminate at tip, tinged with fulvous, base
of first segment, and band at base of second, yellowish; petiole short, yellowish.
Length .30 inch.

Hub. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen. In some
specimens the mesothorax will doubtless be ornamented as in monte-
zuma.

4(5. Smicra nigropicta.

Smicra ?iigropicta, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 95.
Hah. — Cuba. Ten % 9 specimens. Lemon-yellow; antennas, ante-
rior and posterior margins of, and three longitudinal marks on meso-
thorax, anterior suture of pleura, spot on scutellum, a transverse black
mark at base of metathorax, large spot on posterior coxae, tips of their
tibiae, and dorsal bands on the abdomen, black; wings hyaline ; femoral
teeth numerous, small and black ; scutellum unarmed. Length .20 —
.30 inch.

47. Smicra mirabilis, n. sp.

% ■ — Lemon-yellow; spot between ocelli, posterior margin of occiput, anten-
11 re above, spot on middle of prothorax, three stripes on mesothorax — the central
one confluent with a transverse band on anterior margin and also with a band di-
lated laterally, before scutellum— an elongate cuneiform mark on disk of scutel-
lum, a large elongate quadrate spot on middle of metathorax, a mark beneath an-
terior coxae, spot on each side of pleura, and a large spot on posterior coxae above,
all black; thorax with large dense punctures and with sparse, erect black pub-
escence; wings hyaline; a spot on extreme tips of posterior femora covering
also base of their tibiae, pale fuscous ; femoral teeth numerous and minute ; ab-
domen small, not larger than posterior femora, subcompressed, honey-yellow,
second and following segments each with a transverse dorsal black spot; peti-
ole short, lemon-yellow. Length .22 inch.

Hah. — Georgia (Blake) ; Texas (Belfrage). Four % specimens.
Closely allied to nigropicta, from which it may be distinguished by the
black mark on metathorax being longitudinal instead of transverse, as
in that species.

54 E. T. CRESSON.

48. Smicra Gumllachii.

Smicra Gundlachii, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 93.
Hob. — Cuba. (Coll. Dr. Gundlach.) One specimen. This fine
large species is luteous-yellow ; the antennae except scape, spot on ver-
tex, apical half or two-thirds of posterior coxae and their tibiae except
base, black; wings subhyaliue, costa fuscous; scutellum immaculate,
with an obtuse tubercle on the disk and two subacute flattened teeth
on the carinate posterior margin; femoral teeth numerous and small;
abdominal segments with their margins pale ferruginous, the third seg-
ment having a large blackish spot above near tip ; petiole nearly as long
as remainder of abdomen. Length .35 inch.

49. Smicra jh\<;b. n. sp.

£> . — Head lemon-yellow ; excavation behind antennae and head behind,
black; antennae fulvous, blackish above, yellow beneath ; prothorax lemon-
yellow, with a spot on anterior middle, and one on each side, black ; mesothorax
black, with two oblique stripes on disk and lateral margin rather broadly yel-
low; scutellum lemon-yellow, with a large transverse black spot, connected to
base by a slender black line, apex rounded, unarmed; metathorax with basal
and lateral margin rather broadly black; sutures of pleura broadly black; te-
gulae dusky; wings hyaline; legs lemon-yellow; tips of posterior coxae, their
trochanters, a large spot on outer disk of their femora, continued beneath and
within, and along inferior dentate margin to apex ending there in a spot on
both sides, black; femoral teeth numerous and minute; posterior tibiae black
at extreme base; abdomen yellow, banded with black and fulvous, base of first
segment with a longitudinal black stripe; petiole about half the length of pos-
terior coxae, black. Length .23 inch.

Hob. — Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Two specimens.

50. Smicra pallens.

Smiera pallens, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 96.

Hab. — Cuba. Four specimens. Pale yellow ; flagellum, a central
stripe and spot on each side of mesothorax (sometimes indistinct) as
well as anterior and posterior margins, spot on scutellum, tip of meta-
thorax and stain on tip of abdomen, black or dusky; legs immaculate;
femoral teeth numerous, minute and dusky ; wings hyaline ; scutellum
unarmed. Length .10 — .12 inch.

51. Smicra delicata, n. sp.

9- — Pale yellow, more or less tinged with honey yellow; antennae pale fer-
ruginous, flagellum fuscous above; thorax imperceptibly punctured, almost
smooth ; wings hyaline ; a honey-yellow spot on extreme tips of posterior fe-
mora, also covering base of their tibiae; femoral teeth numerous, very minute,
and black ; abdomen ovate, subcompressed at tip, pale coccineous, pale yellow-
ish at base ; petiole short, pale yellow. Length .15 inch.

Bab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) Two specimens. Allied to immaculata
which, however, is more uniformly pale yellow except abdomen, with
the petiole much longer and slender.

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52. Smicra immaculata.

Smiera immaculata, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 97.
Hab. — Cuba. Two specimens. Entirely pale yellowish ; antennae
slightly dusky at tips ; wings hyaline ; femoral teeth numerous, minute
and dusky; postorior tarsi blackish at tips; abdomen tinged with ful-
vous; petiole as long as the remainder of abdomen. Length .10
inch.

The following species have not been identified : —

Smicra nigrifex, Sulzer. Walk. Ent. Mag. ii, p. 22.—" % 9 .—Black ;
head with two spots between eyes; metathoracic scutellum bispinose at apex;
tegulas yellow; legs black; four anterior femora yellow at tips; posterior fe-
mora yellow, base above and apex black, armed with thirteen black teeth; four
anterior tibiae fuscous; posterior tibiae yellow at tips; their tarsi fulvous, with
fuscous tips ; wings dusky. Leugth 3 lines."

Hab. — Europe. Said to occur also in North America, with charac-
ters slightly modified.

Smicra side, Walker, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2 ser. i, p. 145.—" 9 .—Black ;
spots on face and posterior orbits yellow; antennae piceous ; thorax with ferru-
ginous spots; petiole tolerably long; abdomen fusiform, smooth, shining, apex
attenuate and acuminate, with ferruginous and yellow bands, base ferruginous,
apex black ; legs fulvous; coxae black; tips of tarsi fuscous; four anterior fe-
mora ])iceous, tips fulvous; base of tibiae fuscous, tips yellow; posterior femora
black, base and apex varied with fulvous and yellow; their tibiae with black
bands; wings fuscous. Length 4J mill."

Hah. — Florida. This seems to approach delira.

Smicra pompiloicles, Walker, Notes on Chalcidiae, iii, p. 53, 1871.—

" £.— Black; antennae red beneath; petiole longitudinally furrowed, short;
abdomen red, fusiform, as long as thorax; hind femora with a large fusiform
yellow spot on outer side and on inner side a very broad yellow stripe, much
narrowed towards the tips ; a slender red stripe beneath along the minute black
teeth ; wings cinereous, brown towards base. Length 3£ lines."
Hab. — Mexico.

Smicra tenebrosa, Walker, Jour. Ent. i, p. 181.—" %.— Black; orbits
yellow, broad on face and interrupted on each side of vertex; thorax with a
yellow sjjot on each side in front and another on each side of scutellum, which
is unarmed; petiole very short ; legs yellow; hind coxse black, very lone ■ hind
femora with many minute teeth, with an angular black band which traverses
the disk on each side and is connected on the inner side with an apical black
spot; hind tibiae black at base and tips ; wings blackish, paler at base and along
hind border. Length 2£ lines."
Hab. — Orizaba, Mexico.

Smicra divisa. Walker, Jour. Entom. i, p. 178.—" % £.— Black; head
with a yellow spot on each side of the front; thorax with a yellow curved band
in front; scutellum unarmed, with a yellow hind border; petiole yellow, long,
slender, nearly as long as hind coxae in % ; anterior tibiae of % yellow beneath ;
hind coxae very long; hind femora with one large and several small teeth, and

56 E. T. CRESSON.

with two yellow stripes on outer side in % , and one in 9; hind tibiae with a
yellow spot; wings cinereous, with a lurid tinge along costa. Length 3 — 3£
lines."

Hab. — Orizaba, Mexico.

Smicra dimidiata. Sichel (Conura), Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4 ser. v, p. 390.—
" 9 . Black, abdomen entirely yellow ; antennae blackish, yellowish beneath ; scu-
tellum emarginate at apex, bilobate; legs black, knees and tarsi yellow; pos-
terior femora with five large teeth, and a large golden spot on outer middle >
wings hyaline, dusky at base. Length 8 mill."

Hab. — Orizaba, Mexico.

Smicra erytlirina. Walker, Jour. Ent. i, p. 179. — " 9- — Bed; head yel-
lowish in front, with a black mark behind ; antennae black, scape red ; protho-
rax with a black sutural line between it and mesothorax ; scutum of the latter
with a black longitudinal line; scutellum unarmed; pectus mostly black; pe-
tiole short ; abdominal segments with piceous bands on fore border ; hind coxae
with black stripe on each side ; hind femora with black streak and lower black
stripe on inner side, armed with many minute teeth ; wings cinereous. Length
3i lines."

Hab. — Orizaba, Mexico. This seems allied to flammeola.

Smicra Fidius, Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. v, p. 127.—" 9 .—
Red, front and under side yellow ; antenna) black, piceous beneath, scape yel-
low, black at tip; sides of thorax marked with yellow; breast mostly black, a-
black line passes along the back of scutum of mesothorax ; metathorax black ;
petiole short; abdomen black towards apex; fore and middle legs bright yel-
low; hind coxse yellow, tinged with red above and each having a black spot on
outside; hind thighs red, their tibiae yellow towards base which is black, hav-
ing a black band across the middle and reddish at tips; hind tarsi yellow, tips
piceous; wings hyaline. Length 2\ lines."

Hab. — West Indies.

Smicra Pratinas, Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. v, p. 130.—" %. —
Bright red ; crown of head black, a spot of same color along lower edge of eye;
fore chest with a large black spot on its back and a smaller one on each side ;
a small black spot on each of the epimera of middle chest ; petiole long ; abdo-
men smooth, shining, short; antennae black, red at base, joints 10 — 14 yellow;
hips and thighs red, latter tinged with black; shanks black, with yellow tips,
tarsi yellow; hind legs red, coxae black towards tip and that generally on up-
per side ; hind tibiae dark red, black at base and towards tips; wings dark
brown. Length 2 lines."
Hab. — West Indies.

Smicra Ampyx, Walker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 ser. v, p. 129.—" 9 .—
Tawny; mouth yellow ; petiole as long as abdomen which is elliptical; fore
and middle legs yellow; wings hyaline. Length 1J line."

Hab. — West Indies.

Smicra fulvcscciis. Walker, Ent. Mag. ii, p. 25.— " % 9 .—Ferruginous,
paler beneath; antennae fuscous, fulvous beneath; petiole slender, half the
length of abdomen, shorter in 9; abdomen ferruginous, banded with fuscous
above; legs yellowish ; posterior femora with fourteen black teeth ; posterior

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 57

tibiae fuscous beneath; wings hyaline ; % abdomen sometimes fuscous, banded
with fulvous at base. Length 2J lines."

Hab. — St. Vincent's Island, West Indies.

Smiera transitiva, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3 ser. i, p. 371. — " £ .
— Luteous ; head black about the ocelli; thorax with a dilated black line;
scutellum with two luteous spots and a hindward transverse luteous line; scu-
tellum bidentate ; metathorax black; petiole tawny, nearly half the length of
abdomen; abdomen black, acutely conical, tawny at base; hind coxae black
towards tips; hind femora with three black spots, armed with four large black
teeth; wings dark cinereous. Length 3 lines."

Hab. — East Florida. This seems allied to pulchra, Cress., from
Cuba and Mexico.

Smiera abdominalis. Walker, Jour. Entom. i. p. 177.— "% .—Luteous ;
head black behind; antennae black, tips and scape luteous; prothorax black
along fore border; disks of scutum and parapsides black; scutellum unarmed,
black along fore and hind border; paraptera and metathorax black; petiole
long, black ; abdomen piceous above, with a yellow middle band ; hind coxse
black above; hind femora minutely dentate, with a black spot on each disk and
with black tips ; wings brownish, cinereous towards tips. Length 2£ lines.

Hab. — Orizaba, Mexico. Seems closely allied to ambiijua.

Smiera stibpunetata. Walker, Ent. Mag. ii, p. 25.— "£ £ .— Yellow ;
head beneath with a black band; antennas fuscous, fulvous beneath; meso-
thoracic scutum black anteriorly, with a central black stripe; parapsides and
paraptera spotted with black; the spots between scutum and scutellum connec-
ted ; scutellum with a black spot ; pectus with two black spots; metathoracic
scutellum with a black band; petiole half the length of abdomen; abdomen
fulvous, with five dorsal black spots and apex black, first segment yellow; legs
yellow; posterior coxas with black spots ; posterior femora with base beneath
and apex black, armed with fourteen black teeth; posterior tibise at base, apex
and beneath fuscous; wings hyaline; % abdomen sometimes fulvous, banded
with fuscous. Length 2\ lines."

Hab. — St. Vincent's Island, West Indies.

Smiera inaculata, Fabr. {Chalcis) Ent. Syst. ii, p. 198. Walk. Entomolo-
gist, p. 217.

Hab. — " Cayenne." (Fabr); " New York" (Walk.). According to
Walker's description, this is closely allied, if not identical, with bracata,
Sanborn.

Smiera nigrieornis, Fabr. (Chalcis) Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 243.

Hab. — North America. This seems also closely allied to bracata,
the short, meagre description of Fabricius applying much better to this
latter species, than does that of maculata.

Smiera pmietata, Fabr. (Chalcis) Ent. Syst. ii, p. 196. Sichel (Conura)
Ann. Soc. Fr. 4 ser. v, p. 392.— " 9 .—Yellow ; antennas black, scape yellow;
three triangular spots on disk of mesothorax, large spot on apex of scutellum,
and a transverse fascia on each side of pleura, black ; abdomen yellow with
luscous spots; base and tips of posterior femora (which are 12-dentate), and a

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58 E. T. CRESSON.

spot near inferior margin, base and tips of their tibiae, and tips of tarsi, black ;
wings hyaline, costa yellow; apex of seutellum emarginate, subbilobate. Length
8 mill."

Hab.— West Indies (Fabr.); Mexico (Sichel).

Smicra Pylas, Walker, Entomologist, p. 337 ; List Chalcid. Brit. Mus. i,
p. 3. — " 9- — Yellow; head behind and between ocelli black; antennae piceous,
scape yellow ; mesothorax with a marginal abbreviated band in front, a narrow
dorsal stripe and a broad lateral stripe abbreviated posteriorly, black; seutel-
lum with basal margin and an obconical dorsal spot, black; paraptera with
two black spots ; second segment of abdomen with an obsolete fuscous band;
legs yellow; apex of tarsi fuscous; posterior eoxse spotted with black ; femora
with three piceous spots, armed with black teeth; wings hyaline. Length 2}
lines."

Hab. — Mexico. Walker says this " hardly differs form punctata."

Smicra amoena, Say, (Chalcis) Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist, i, p. 270. — " Body
yellow, slightly tinged with green; occiput and antennae, excepting basal joint
beneath, black; thorax quadrilinear with black, the intermediate lines conflu-
ent at middle and all united by a transverse line behind and by a slender trans-
verse line at the suture of the first segment, on which the lines do not extend ;
scutel with a longitudinal black line; metathorax, excepting at base, black;
petiole black, about one-third as long as abdomen ; each segment of abdomen
with a black band; pleura black, with about four yellow spots; posterior coxae
at tip, maculated band, inferior edge and tip of their femora, and tip and base
of their tibiae, black; femora about the size of abdomen, with six or eight large
prominent black spines, the superior one divided into three or four. Length
less than one-fifth of an inch."

Hab. — " Indiana. Obtained from the pupa of a Thecla."

Smicra Liamyrus, Walker, Entomologist, p. 337. — " $. — Yellow; head
black; antennae black, scape yellow; a subpentagonal black spot on disk of
mesothorax; seutellum with two elevated teeth at apex ; petiole long and slen-
der; abdomen yellow anteriorly, black posteriorly; posterior coxae very long,
apex piceous, as well as their trochanters ; their femora with nine minute black
teeth; their tibiae piceous at apex; wings obscure fuscous, apex subhyaline.
Length 3 lines."

Hab. — Mexico. This seems closely allied to mivanda, which has
the whole of mesothorax and the seutellum except apical margin black
and the lower and lateral margins of face yellow.

Smicra captiva, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3 ser. i,p. 42. — " J — Yel-
low ; flagellum rufo-fuscous, tips of mandibles ferruginous ; a black vase shaped
outline on disk of mesothorax, and a black line each side; transverse black
line at base of seutellum, the latter with a pear shaped spot on middle and an
angular spot at lateral margins; pectus black at base of coxae and an oblong
black spot beneath wings ; wings hyaline ; apex of posterior coxae, a brown spot
on femora above and two on their sides beneath ; base and apex of ti biae reddish-
brown; margins of the abdominal segments narrowly bordered with reddish-
brown ; widening into spots at sides and on middle. Length 3 lines."
Hab. — Panama.

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Smicra seutellaris, Sichel (Conura), Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4 ser. v, p. 388,
1865. — "9- — Entirely yellow; apical half of antennae, femoral teeth and apical
joint of posterior tarsi, black; mesothorax transversely striated; scutellum em-
arginate at apex, subbilobate ; posterior femora with eight acute teeth; wings
yellowish-hyaline. Length 13 mill."

Hub. — Orizaba, Mexico.

Genus CHAL.CIS, Fabr.
Posterior femora black, with a yellow stripe above and at base beneath ; abdo-
men clothed with golden pubescence.... pubescens.

Posterior femora black, with a white or yellow spot at tips ;

Tegulse black, with posterior margin narrowly white com i fat or.

Tegulse entirely white or yellow ovata.

Posterior femora yellow on outer side, with large black discal spot....robusta.
Posterior femora yellow on outer side, with a black spot at tips be-
neath tegularis.

Posterior femora ferruginous, with a yellowish spot at tips :

Four anterior legs yellow-ferruginous, with yellow spots ; posterior coxse

black coloradensis.

Four anterior legs black, varied with yellow ; posterior coxse red.. pedalis.

1. Chalcis pubescens.

Chalc is pubescens, Walker, Notes on Chalcidae, iii, p. 47.

Hob. — Mexico. (Prof. Suuiichrast.) One 9 specimen.

2. Chalcis comitator.

Chalcis comitator, Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3 ser. i, p. 350, %,.
Hub. — Mexico. (Prof. Suuiichrast.) One 9 specimen.

3. Chalcis ovata.

Chalcis ovata, Say, Long's Second Exped. ii, p. 326, (1824) .=annulipes, Walk.
Ent. Mag. ii, p. 29, % J , (1835). =incerta, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 101,
(1865).=? minuta, Linn. Syst. Nat. 952; Fabr. Eut. Syst. ii. p. 19 b.=? Leucospis
Integra, Hald. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. ii, p. 53.

Hab. — United States ; Mexico; West Indies. Forty-five % 9 spe-
cimens examined. Size variable (.14 — .28 inch) ; the pubescence varies
from whitish to bright golden, sometimes tolerably dense, sometimes
scarcely perceptible; apex of scutellum generally rounded, sometimes
bituberculate, occasionally more or less emarginate ; tegulse white or
yellow; wings generally hyaline, sometimes slightly dusky; legs vari-
able in color, the four anterior femora sometimes black, with tips only
white or yellow, sometimes white or yellow with base only black; their
tibiae sometimes entirely white or yellow, but generally more or less
black behind; spot at tips of posterior femora tolerably constant in size,
but varies in color from white to yellow ; their tibiae sometimes en-
tirely white or yellow behind, generally with a median black band,
which is occasionally narrow and interrupted, sometimes very broad,
leaving only a white or yellow spot near base and at apex; their tarsi

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white or yellow, with the last or two last joints black ; abdomen more
or less pubescent at apex with silvery white or golden hairs.

4. Chalcis robusta. ^

Chalcis robusta, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv, p. 101.
Hub. — Cuba. Four specimens.

5. Chalcis tcgularis, n. sp.

9 .—Black, sides of face with dense silvery pubescence ; labrum and base of
scape beneath yellow; apex of flagellum ferruginous; thorax immaculate,
large, with regular, dilated punctures; scutellum produced, apex bidentate and
fringed with whitish pubescence; metathorax coarsely reticulated; tegulse
pale hyaline; legs lemon-yellow, posterior coxae above, apical half of their fe-
mora within, aspot on outside beneath near apex, as well as the row of minute
teeth, black; posterior tibiae black, with a pale yellow stripe behind; posterior
tarsi dull ferruginous; abdomen short, ovate, smooth and shining, immaculate,
sides and apex with pale pubescence. Length .20 inch.

Ilab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) One specimen. Distinguished at once
from ovata and robuata by the posterior femora being entirely yellow
on outer side, except black spot at extreme tips.

0. Chalcis coloratlciisis, n. sp.

% . — Black, densely punctured, clothed with a short golden sericeous pubes-
cence ; scape pale beneath ; thorax with regular, dilated punctures; apex of scu-
tellum emarginate; tegulse yellowish-white; wings hyaline, iridescent; legs fer-
ruginous, coxae black, four anterior knees, tips of their tibiae, their tarsi, spot
at tip of posterior femora, a band near base of their tibiae and another at tips,
pale yellow; femoral teeth small, numerous and black; abdomen short ovate,
smooth and polished, apical segments clothed with pale golden pubescence.
Length .20 inch.

Ilab. — Colorado. One specimen.

7. Chalcis pcdalis, n. sp.

9 .— Head and thorax black, with pale sericeous pubescence; thorax with
large, regular, dilated punctures, apex of scutellum subdentate; tegulae white;
wings hyaline; four anterior legs black, apex of their femora, their tibiae at base,
apex and within, and their tarsi except apical joints, whitish ; posterior legs fer-
ruginous, spot at tip of femora above and a spot at base and apex of their tibiae
behind, white; abdomen as long as head and thorax, black, immaculate,
polished, apex pubescent. Length .23 inch.

Ilab. — Texas. (Belfrage.) One specimen. Closely allied to coh-
radevsis, which has differently colored legs.

The following species have not been identified : —
Chalcis pemlator. Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3 ser. i, p. 351, % .
Ilab. — San Domingo.

OhalciS restituta. Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3 ser. i, p. 351, ? .
Ilab. — Jamaica.

Chalcis compacta, Walk. Jour. Ent. i, p. 183, % .
Ilab. — Orizaba, Mexico.

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Descriptions of new species of DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA
found within the United States.

BY WM. H. EDWARDS.

1. COLIAS AsTR/EA.

2. Anthocaris JYlia.

3. Neophasia Menapia, $>■

4. Argynnis Bremnerii.

6. Argynnis Eurynome.

7. Argynnis Meadii.

8. Grapta Hylas.

9. Satyrus Charon.

5. Argynnis inornata. | 10. Erebia Meadii.

Colias Astrsea, n. sp.

Male. — Expands 2 inches. Upper side pale ochraceous, very little
tinted with orange on disks of secondaries from cell to marginal bor-
der and from base to hind margin of secondaries below cell, this color
being not decided but only a tint ; border of primaries pale black, of
medium width, erose within, very little advanced on costa and send-
ing out a short and attenuated spur on inner margin ; border of second-
aries very narrow, erose within, and unusually long, exteuding from
above upper sub costal nervule to below lower median ; discal spot of
primaries a short black streak ; on secondaries wanting.

Under side of primaries yellow nearly as above, without orange ; of
secondaries yellow densely covered with black scales so as to obscure
the whole surface ; discal spot of primaries very narrow, black, enclos-
ing a few yellow scales, of secondaries white, as in Alexandra, without
a ring; no spot on costal margin ; a scarcely perceptible pink tint at
base; legs yellow, the tibia and tarsi faint pink; palpi yellow tipped
with pink. (Antennae wanting in the specimen described.)

From a single male taken near the Yellowstone Lake by the Hayden
Expedition, in 1871. On the under side this species is nearest Alexan-
dra; on the upper of a different shade of color from any of our species.
Anthocaris Julia, n. sp.

Male. — Expands 1.3 inch. Upper side pure white, black at base;
primaries have a bright orange apical patch, edged outwardly by a
sharply serrated black band which is broadest at apex and narrow as it
descends the margin, but is not broken into distinct spots as in the allied
species Sara&ud Reakirtii ; on the arc a sinuous black bar nearly pro-
tracted to costal edge, and at its upper extremity expanded in direction of
base to double its width elsewhere ; from the lower third of hind margin
proceeds a stripe of scattered black scales which borders the orange patch,

62 WM. H. EDWARDS.

sometimes terminating a little below the lower outer corner of the dis-
cal bar but usualy curving around the bar and separated from it, and
even reaching the sub-costal nervule, but in no case forming a continuous
stripe with the bar as is often seen in the two allied species; costal
edge specked with black ; secondaries usually immaculate but occa-
sionally showing small marginal black spots on the nervules; fringes
of both wings white, black at tips of the nervules. Under side white,
the apex and apical portion of the hind margin yellpw, between which
color and the orange spot is a pinkish space, all much obscured by
greenish brown scales ; the orange spot reduced and paler ; costal
margin pinkish, thinly covered with small brown spots ; on the arc a
bent bar nearly bisected; secondaries have the nervures for one-third
the distance from base orange, beyond to margin yellow ; the surface
thickly covered with irregular patches of greenish brown on which are
sprinkled yellow scales.

Body grey-black above, beneath, thorax white, abdomen yellowish ;
the outer portion of the orbits of the eye orange; legs whitish, the fe-
mora orange ; palpi furnished with intermingled white and black
hairs; antennae orange at base, grey-brown above, grey below; club
black tipped with yellow.

Female. — Expands 1.1 inches. Upper side bright lemon-yellow ;
the orange spot as large as in male, paler, replaced by yellow next
the apical border; sometimes, however, this yellow space is divided
into spots edged by black scales, imitating the usual markings of Sara ;
the discal bar as in male but limited by subcostal nervure ; fringes yel-
low, black at tips of nervules ; under side yellow, marked as in the male.

From 22 specimens, 10 % , 12 $ , taken by Mr. Mead, on the 9th
10th and 12th of June, 1871, in the pine woods of the mountains im-
mediately surrounding the South Park, at Fairplay, Colorado. The
species was not seen elsewhere. It was swift of flight and easily alarmed
when it became very difficult to capture. In this respect and in its
limited locality it offered a strong contrast to A. Ausonoides, which
was found in all situations throughout the Territory.

This species may be readily distinguished from Sara by its size and
by the far greater degree of mottled surface on secondaries ; also by
the sinuosity of the discal bar and the curvature and arrangement of the
stripe from margin ; the black border is proportionately narrower at apex,
is continued down the margin without interruption and is very sharply
serrated throughout. Nearly the same differences are found between
Julia and Reakirtii, though some individuals of this last species have
the secondaries as densely mottled as in Julia and similarly. In

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some respects Julia is intermediate between the other two, but is more
constant to its type than either. The female appears to be always yel-
low, whereas in Sara one half are yellow and in Reakirtii none. Be-
sides this species and Ausonoides, Mr. Mead brought home Creusa of
Doubleday, a few specimens of which were taken in company with
Ausonoides. No other species of Anthocaris was seen.

\ eopliasia Menapia, Felder ; Edw. But. of N. A.

Female. — Expands 2 inch. Upper side sordid white ; primaries bor-
dered on costa and at apex and on hind margin with fuscous as in male,
enclosing in same manner white spots, at least five in number ; seconda-
ries differ from male in that the hind margin is bordered by a broad fus-
cous band, within which, next margin, are five large, rounded, soiled-
white spots; each of these spots meets the margin which at that point
is edged with orange. Under side of primaries nearly as above, ex-
cept that the curved extremity of the costal band of upper side is
separated and becomes a distinct spot on the lower part of the arc.
Secondaries have the nervures all broadly bordered by fuscous, and
crossed by a sub-marginal fuscous band corresponding to the anterior
portion of the band above; the margin edged by orange spots in the
interspaces; and the edge of both costal and abdominal margin more
or less washed with same color; shoulder also orange.

Until quite lately the female of Menapia has been unknown or sup-
posed to be similar to male. In the " Butterflies of North America,"
I have figured such a female erroneously. The true female has been
brought from San Juan by Dr. Bremuer and will be seen to differ
widely from the male.

Argynnis Bremnerii, n. sp.

Primaries long, narrow, produced apically ; hind margin convex or
nearly straight.

Male. — Expands 2 to 2.4 inches. Upper side yellow-fulvous, dark
brown at base and nearly up to mesial band; hind margins bordered by
two fine parallel black lines, the intervening fulvous space divided by
the black nervules ; resting on these lines are pale fulvous, double-con-
vex spots, rather sub-ovate next apex of primaries, and each preceded
by a black spot which at apex of primaries and on whole of seconda-
ries are lunate, but on posterior half of primaries serrate ; the rounded
spots small ; the mesial zigzag band very heavy on both wings aud
confluent; the marks in cell of primaries as in Monticola, the first of
the three sinuous bars being usually confluent at its lower extremity
with the second ; in the sub-median interspace a sagittate spot ; sec-

64 WM. H. EDWARDS.

ondaries have on the arc a heavy black spot like the letter C inverted,
connected with the mesial band by a black bar that crosses the lower
sub-costal interspace ; fringes yellowish, black at tips of nervules.

Under side of primaries red-fulvous next base and over inner margin
ferruginous along the nervules, pale buff apically ; spots as above ; the
ferruginous sub-apical patch encloses two or three imperfectly silvered
spots; the marginal spot also imperfectly silvered; the black lunules
replaced by ferruginous. Secondaries ferruginous from base to out-
side the second row of spots ; space between this and first rows pale
buff, somewhat irrorated posteriorly with ferruginous ; the seven mar-
ginal silver spots narrow, sub-triangular, edged above with ferruginous;
the seven of second row are each narrowly edged with black, the first
three nearly equal, the fourth minute, the fifth large, sub-rotund, the
sixth sub-rectangular, the seventh lunate; in the third row, each edged
with black, the first and third nearly equal, lunate, the second sub-
pyriform, cut by the ferruginous arc ; in cell a small round spot, and
three spots at origin of nervures; shoulder well silvered; abdominal
margin slightly.

Body black covered with fulvous hairs, beneath grey-fulvous; legs
buff; palpi buff, fulvous in front, fuscous at tip; antennae fuscous
above, fulvous below ; club black, fulvous at tip.

Female. — Expands 2.7 inches. Upper side similar to male, the
marginal lines and lunate spots confluent, forming a broad, black band
the enclosed fulvous spots much paler than the ground ; black mark-
ings heavier than on male, and basal portions still more obscured.

Under side of primaries fiery-red, ochraceous at apex ; the silver
spots distinct, three sub-apical and six or seven marginal ; secondaries
ferruginous at base and on disk mottled with ochraceous; the band
clear ochraceous ; the silver spots shaped as in male, but larger and
well silvered.

From 2 % , 1 9 . taken on San Juan Island by Dr. Bremner of H.
M. Ship Zealous, in 1871, and in the collection of Henry Edwards, Esq.
of San Francisco.

This species is sufficiently unlike any of our Argynnides, and I hardly
know which is its nearest ally. In heaviness of the black markings it
resembles Monticola, in the beauty of the silvering Cybele, while iu
shape of the wings it is like Ralcyone.

Argynnis Inornata, n. sp.

Primaries strongly arched, produced apically, straight on hind mar-
gin in the male, slightly concave in the female.

Male. — Expands 2.5 inches. Upper side red fulvous much ob-

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scured from the mesial band to base so as to render the blackish mark-
ings indistinct as compared with Hesperis, the nearest allied species ;
margins bordered by two parallel lines that are confluent on primaries
and on upper half of secondaries, forming a black band through which
faintly appears a tint of fulvous in the interspaces ; on this band rests
a connected series of black lunules enclosing pale fulvous spots; the
other black markings as in Hesjjeris, but heavier; on disks of second-
aries paler spots corresponding to the second row on underside ; the
black markings in cell of primaries next anterior to the spot on are
strongly bent so as to enclose a sub-quadrate space which is paler than
the ground color ; fringes luteous, black at tips of all nervules. Under
side of primaries cinnamon brown at base and up to the mesial black
band and within the P like spot on the arc ; but the sub-quadrate
space and that portion in cell next posterior is bun ; rest of wing bun ,
including the sub-marginal and sub-apical spots.

Secondaries reddish-brown from base to outside of second row of
spots, the band between this and outer row buff and immaculate ; the
marginal spots large, broad, sub-triangular, very slightly edged above
by brown ; tbose of second row mostly large, broad-oval ; of the third
row, the first on costa is nearly round, the second trapezoidal, the third
a dash only ; the spots of the second and third rows lightly edged
above with black ; two round spots in black rings in cell, a long oval
at base cf sub-median and a dash at base of sub-costal ; all these buff,
scarcely differing from parts of the ground color, and without silver.

Body covered with fulvous hairs, grey buff beneath, abdomen buff;
legs buff, palpi same, fulvous in front and at tip ; antennae black above
fulvous below ; club black, tip fulvous.

Female. — Expands 2.7 inches. Upper side paler, the general ap-
pearance more that of an Euptoieta, the whole outer portion of the
wings, including the sub-marginal spots and the discal spots of second-
aries faded to a whitish ochraceous ; in cell of primaries the space
within the P and that between the two black lines next base deep
orange fulvous, rest of cell of same shade as the disk, the subquadrate
space conspicuous ; under side of primaries orange fulvous instead of
cinnamon-brown ; secondaries next base pale brown mottled with buff,
the spots shaped as in male but greatly enlarged; on the submarginal
spots of secondaries may be seen a few scales of silver.

From a pair belonging to the collection of James Behrens, Esq., of
San Francisco, and taken at Downieville, California.

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66 WM. II. EDWARDS.

Argynnis Eurjiiosne, n. sp.

Primaries slightly arched, rounded apically ; hind margin convex.
Male. — Expands from 1.7 to 2 inches. Upper side uniform yellow
fulvous, very little dusky at base ; hind margins of both wings edged
by a common conspicuous black band formed by the usual parallel
lines and the lunules anterior, all of which are confluent, the lunules
enclosing fulvous spots ; the rounded spots next preceding small ;
across the disk of each wiug a delicate confluent zigzag band, before
which, on primaries, are the usual cellular inscriptions; at the base of
lower median interspace a black mark and a sagittate spot below ; on
cell of secondaries a spot like the letter C inverted ; fringes luteous, on
primaries only cut with black at tips of nervules. Under side of pri-
maries pale buff, the disk and a narrow space along the nervules pale
ferruginous ; the three upper or sub-apical spots silvered as well as the
five upper marginal spots.

Secondaries yellow buff throughout, but from base to second row of
spots mottled with pale ferruginous and olivaceous, the latter, in fresh
specimens often a decided green ; the band between the two outer rows
of the spots broad, yellow-buff and immaculate, except that on the
upper edge are olivaceous or green shadows projected from the silver
spots ; the spots of the outer row are triangular, those of the second
long oval, the 1st and 5th equal and the 2nd, 3rd and 6th narrower
than the 1st but equally long, the 4th small, the 7th lunate, all deli-
cately edged by black above ; in the third row are three large spots,
the 1st and 3rd luuular,the 2nd subquadrate, all edged with black above
in cell a round spot in black ring ; a long oval in the interspace below
and a dash of silver at base of cell and also of subcostal interspace ;
shoulder and abdominal margin well silvered.

Body above black covered with dark fulvous hairs ; beneath buff;
legs buff; palpi buff", fulvous above at tip; antennae black anuulated
with greyish above, fulvous below ; club black tipped with bright ful-
vous.

Female. — Expands 2 inches; Color paler, the sub-margiual spots
whitish, the black marginal band broader and all the markings heavier.

This pretty species I have known for some years and had supposed
it to be Astarte, Doubleday. But Mr. A. Gr. Butler, to whom I sent a
specimen for comparison with the type of Astarte in the British Mu-
seum Collection, writes me that it is not that species, which, he adds,
resembles rather a Melit?ea in the character of its markings on the un-
der side. Mr. Mead fouud the species common throughout Colorado, fly-
ing among the grasses and along the streams, frequently alighting and

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easily taken. Fresh specimens are beautifully ornamented on the un-
der surface, the silver being conspicuous and the yellow and green
bright. Among a large number taken by Mr. Mead, one male was
without silver, the spots being clear yellow.

Argyiinis Meadii, n. sp.

Primaries slightly arched, but little produced, straight on hind
margin.

Male. — Expands 2.2 inches. Upper side bright fulvous, very little
obscured at base; hind margins bordered by two fine parallel lines en-
closing throughout a narrow fulvous space, divided by the black uer-
vules; upon these lines rest a confluent series of black spots, those next
apices and next anal angle lunate, the remainder, on primaries, nearly
serrate and those on middle of secondaries sharply serrate, all enclosing
fulvous spots; the rounded spots next preceding moderately large;
the mesial zigzag band common, narrow and uniform ; in cell of pri-
maries the usual inscriptions ; at origin of lower branch of median a
black mark, and below, in next interspace, a sagittate spot; discal spot
on secondaries shaped like the letter C inverted ; the second row of
silver spots of under side are indicated above by a slightly paler space;
fringes of primaries almost wholly black, there being merely a little
luteous against the middle of each interspace; of secondaries wholly
luteous, except a little black at tips of the posterior nervules. Under
side of primaries pale cinnamon brown at base and along the nervures
of disk, remainder light buff, except that the hind margin and apical
portion are of a delicate yellow-green ; the five upper marginal spots
are well silvered and sub-apically are three others, the middle one be-
ing conspicuous.

Secondaries wholly golden-green, a sub color of buff showing along
the middle of the band between the outer rows of spots ; all the spots
well silvered ; of the seven marginal, the one next anal angle is sub-
lunate, the next three are broad and sharply serrate, the two follow-
ing less serrate and the last at outer angle sub-ovate ; all these com-
pletely edged with black ; the second row consists of seven, mostly
long oval, the 1st, 2nd and 6th from costa of equal breadth, the 3rd nar-
rower, the 5th very broad, the 4th a point, the 7th irregular, all heavily
edged above with black, and slightly elsewhere ; the third row of four,
the 1st sub-rotund, the 2ud trapezoidal, the 3rd and 4th rather dashes
of silver, all edged above only with black ; in the cell two rounded
spots in black circles, a long oval in sub-median interspace and a dash
at base of sub-costal ; shoulder and abdominal margin lightly silvered.

Body above covered with fulvous hairs, beneath, thorax grey buff,

68 WM. H. EDWARDS.

abdomen buff; legs fulvous; palpi white furnished in front with long
fulvous hairs that are black at tips ; antennae fuscous above, fulvous
below, greyish next club ; club black, tip fulvous.

Female. — Same size. Color pale, the submarginal spots still paler
than the ground, rather a sordid white, as are also the spots across
disk of secondaries; the marginal lines confluent and the lunules
heavy, especially on secondaries; otherwise like male ; under side like
male, the lighter portions of fringes nearly white.

This lovely species was first brought to notice by Mr. Mead, who
took a single male in perfect condition at Turkey Creek Junction, in
Colorado in 1871. Subsequently a female was brought in by the
Hayden Yellowstone Expedition, taken the same season.

Gs°apta Hylas, n. sp.

Male. — Expands 1-7 inch. Upper side dull red fulvous, fadiDg to-
wards margins ; hind margin of primaries broadly bordered with
dark brown, on the anterior edge of which is a series of yellow den-
tations ; on costa a ferruginous sub-apical patch and another on in-
ner margin near angle; spots as in Faunus ; secondaries have a dif-
fuse fuscous border extending over one-third the wing, fading gradu-
ally into fulvous on disk, and enclosing a sub-marginal series of small
yellow spots; a large black spot on costa and a small one on arc, the
two being often joined and sometimes confluent ; abdominal margin
much obscured by brown; edges of hind margins covered with yellow
scales; fringes white in the emarginations, fuscous at tips of nervules.

Under side marbled in shades of grey, tinted with brown near base
and throughout streaked with black or fuscous ; the basal space limited
on disk by a band with outline as in Faunus ; in cell three spots dis-
posed as in Faunus; the extra-basal space nearly uniformly grey,
mottled with darker shades; the usual sub-apical patch on primaries
scarcely lighter than the rest; across the disks a complete series of
brown points which on primaries are mostly edged with grey-white scales,
but on secondaries are nearly lost in the grey shade of the wing; incis-
ion of primaries bordered by dark-brown or blackish lunations; on sec-
ondaries these are broken into separated serrated spots from apex to
tail and often more or less wanting ; discal mark silvered, very slender,
curved, open, not barbed but attenuated, especially the lower limb
which equals the other in length.

Body fuscous above dark grey tinted with brown below ; legs and
palpi grey; antennae dark above, fuscous below; club black, tip
yellow.

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 69

Female. — Expands 1.8 inch. Upper side paler, yellow-fulvous be-
yond disk; yellow spots larger; under side iron-grey, suffused at base
with brown; the markings nearly obsolete ; discal spot nearly obsolete ;
sometimes this is a narrow line bent at an obtuse angle.

From about 20 specimens taken in Colorado, in August 1871, by
Mr. Mead. These were found in company with G. Zephyrus and
Vannessa Antiopa. The species is near Faunus in many respects but
differs decidedly in the coloration of under surface, and in the shape
of the silver mark. The upper side also shows nothing of the in-
tense fulvous of Faunus.

Satyrus Charon, n. sp.

Jsf<*fe.—Expands from 1.5 to 1.7 inch. Upper side dark brown ;
hind margins bordered by two fine parallel lines, a little anterior to
which is a third line, not distinct; primaries have a blackish band
along posterior side of cell, as in S. Silvestris; also two ocelli be-
yond disk, the upper and larger always present, the other some-
times wanting, or a mere point; these are black in faint yellowish
rings, though the rings are sometimes obsolete ; fringes of seconda-
ries brown, of primaries brown mixed with grey. Under side of
primaries brown with a slight tint of yellow ; the marginal and sub-
marginal lines distinct ; costa and apex greyish ; the basal portion
streaked with brown ; the ocelli black in bright buff rings and with
white central dots; secondaries brown mottled with grey, especially
on outer limb and next base, and throughout much streaked with
brown ; the inner of the two marginal lines diffuse and the sub-mar-
ginal much scolloped towards outer angle; the disk crossed by a
dark band with blackish irregular edges; the ocelli minute, consist-
ing of black spots with white central dots, and varying from one to
six on individuals.

Body, legs and palpi dark brown; antennae annulated with brown
and whitish above, whitish below ; club pale fulvous.

Female. — Expands 1.7 inch. Paler than the male, but similarly
marked.

This species was first met with by Mr. Mead, in Colorado, near the
Twin Lakes, in Upper Arkansas Valley, (elevation 80UO feet) in July
1871. It flew near the ground, frequently alighting on the sage-
brush, aud seemed much more partial to flowers than was Satyrus
Ridingsii, also common in that vicinity. By the latter part of July it
was abundant throughout the entire Park and mountain country and
so continued till September.

70 WM. H. EDWARDS.

Erebia Meatlii, n. sp.

Male. — Expands 1.5 to 1.7 inch. Upper side light brown ; prima-
ries have a large, sub-triangular, fulvous patch on disk, within which
are two large black ocelli, each with minute white pupil ; secondaries
have a single small black ocellus in ferruginous ring and with white
pupil, the latter sometimes wanting. Under side brown covered with
blackish streaks, mostly abbreviated ; both wings edged by two paral-
lel dark lines, the inner one of which is diffuse on secondaries, and at
a little distance anterior is a third line, wavy and diffuse; the fulvous
space on primaries deeper colored and occupying a larger portion of the
wing than on upper side, reaching nearly to base ; the ocelli as above
but each surrounded by an ochraceous ring ; on secondaries are two
small ocelli with white pupils, one being in lower median interspace
and the other in sub-median ; across the disk a wavy dark band and
another nearly parallel towards base.

Body fuscous, legs and palpi same ; antennas annulated fuscous and
whitish above, whitish below; club fulvous.

Female. — Expands 1.8 inch. Color paler, the fulvous less intense,
similarly marked ; sometimes a black dot mid -way between the two
ocelli and a small black spot below and near the lower one.

Found by Mr. Mead, at Bailey's Kanch, in the South Park, Colo-
rado, about 45 miles from Denver, during the last week of August
1871. Although not found at a few miles on either side of this point
it did not seem to be uncommon there. Altogether 49 specimens were
taken, a few of them perfect, but the greater part old and worn. They
should be looked for about 1st of August.

AMERICAN IIYMENOPTERA.

Additions to the "Synopsis ofN. Am. MUTILX.ID/E."

BY CHAS. A. BLAKE.

Since the publication of the "Synopsis" (Trans, vol. iii, pp. 217 —
265), I have had the opportunity of examining a small but interesting
collection of Mutillae from Texas, containing several new species, and
varieties of some already known. A list of the species will be given
below, with descriptions of such as appear to be new.

I have also had the unexpected pleasure of seeing a copy of "D'une
Monographic des Mutilles de l'ancien Continent, by M. 0. Radoszkov-
sky," a handsome and exhaustive work, published in St. Petersburgh,
in 1870, in which he has adopted a somewhat similar classification to
that given in my " Synopsis." He also attaches some importance to
the form of the ventral carina of the basal abdominal segment. Not
having examined a sufficiently large series of individuals, I have been
unable to determine its value as a specific character.

Genus MUTILLA, Linn.
Subgenus MUTILLA, Blake.
DIVISION I.
Jflutilla Grotei, Blake, Synopsis, p. 228.

One % specimen from Bosque Co. (Belfrage.)

Hut ilia Promethea, Blake, Synopsis, p. 229.
Two % specimens from Dallas Co. (Boll.)

Hut ilia Ssi.yi. Blake, Synopsis, p. 229.
One % specimen from Bosque Co.

flotilla ornativentris, Cress.— Synopsis, p. 230.

Four 9 specimens. One very fine specimen from Bosque Co. mea-
sures 6 lines in length.

Subgenus SPH.EROPTHALMA, Blake.
DIVISION I.— Subdivision I.
VI ill il la pennsylvanica, St. Farg.— Synopsis, p. 233.
Two % specimens from Dallas Co.

Subdivision II.
.Hut ills* Orcns, Cress.— Synopsis, p. 233.

Two % 9 specimens from Dallas Co. have the clothing of the ab-
domen coccineo-ferrugiuous instead of fulvous.

Hutilla Gorgon, Blake, Synopsis, p. 233.

Three 9 specimens from Dallas Co. One specimen measures only
5 lines in leno-th.

~> CIIAS. A. BLAKE.

Mutilla Zelaya, Blake, Synopsis, p. 234.
One % specimen from Bosque Co.

mutilla ciotho, n. b P .

o. Black ; head subquadrate, posterior angles rounded, not as wide as the

thorax, densely rugose, clothed with black pubescence, cheeks below the eyes
closely and irregularly punctured ; eyes round, prominent; scape of antennae
punctured, black, flagellum piceous. Thorax robust, ovate, narrowed poste-
riorly, densely clothed above with black pubescence, sides closely punctured,
inesothorax armed posteriorly with a small tubercle on each side, metathorax
abruptly truncate, closely punctured. Legs black, clothed with black hairs,
intermediate and posterior tibiae armed with long spines. Abdomen ovate,
basal segment closely punctured, clothed with long erect black hairs, second
segment having a broad band of reddish golden pubescence, emarginate ante-
riorly and posteriorly, divided by a narrow central longidinal line of black,
base and apical margin black, third and fourth black, apical segment clothed
with reddish golden pubescence. Under side black, closely punctured, sparse-
ly clothed with black hairs, margins of all the segments fringed with long black
pubescence. Length 10 lines.

One specimen from Dallas Co. This fine species is allied to comanche.
It differs from the latter in having the head less rounded, and the tho-
rax somewhat longer, the clothing is also less coarse than in comanche.
It also resembles occidental^ in the ornamentation of the abdomen,
but the head and thorax are entirely black.

M ill ilia L.e«la, n. sp.

9.— Black; head subquadrate, posterior angles rounded, wider than the
thorax, densely punctured, thinly clothed with scattered golden hairs. An-
tennae fuscous ; eyes small, round ; mandibles ferruginous at base, black at tips.
Thorax short, ovate, thinly clothed with obscure golden pubescence, sides
coarsely reticulate, metathorax abruptly truncate. Legs black, clothed with
black hairs, intermediate and posterior tibiae armed with long spines. Abdo-
men ovate, clotbed above with coarse golden pubescence. Underside covered
with coarse confluent punctures, margins of the segments fringed with black
hair. Length 6£ lines.

One specimen from Dallas Co. Closely resembles aureola, Cress.

Vlmilla Chiron, n. sp.

% .—Black ; head not as wide as the thorax, clothed with long blaok pubes-
cence ; antennae blaok; eyes small, round, prominent. Thorax short, ovate,
clothed with long black pubescence; metathorax coarsely reticulate. Wings
moderate, fuliginous, three submarginal cells, the marginal cell truncate at tip,
first submarginal large, second small, subtriangular, its basal and apical ner-
vures sinuate, receiving the first recurrent nervure near the base; third sub-
marginal larger, slightly narrowed beneath, receiving the second recurrent
close to its apical nervure. Legs black, clothed with black hairs. Abdomen
ovate, petiolate, basal segment coarsely punctured, second closely and finely-
punctured, clothed with long, erect black pubescence, remaining segments
densely clothed with long fulvo-ferruginous pubescence. Underside shining,
second segment closely punctured. Length 4i lines; expanse of wings 6
lines.

AMERICAN IIYMENOPTERA. 73

Two specimens from Bosque Co. This species is closely allied to
falvohirta, Cress., but may be readily distinguished by the clothing of
the head and thorax being black, and having the third submarginal
cell distinct. One variety has the thorax and apical segment of the
abdomen clothed with fulvous pubescence.

Multilist yEgina, Cress.— Synopsis, p. 235.

Two 9 specimens from Dallas Co. have the pubescence paler and
brighter than those from Colorado ; the apical segment of the abdomen
is black, as well as the pubescence of the legs.

Mutilla occidentalis, Linn.— Synopsis, p. 236.

Five % 9 specimens from Dallas Co. Some of the 9 specimens
have the pubescence bright fulvous, with a golden sericeous lustre
when viewed obliquely.

Mat ilia Creusa, Cress.— Synopsis, p. 236.

Seven 9 specimens from Dallas Co.

IVIutilla bioeulata, Cress. — Synopsis, p. 236.

Three £ specimens. One specimen from Dallas Co. has the second
abdominal segment almost entirely yellow-ferruginous.

IVIutilla Castor, Blake, Synopsis, p. 237.

Three % specimens from Dallas Co. This species may be distin-
guished from fenestrate/, by the basal segment of abdomen being more
nodose and castaneous, while in the latter species it is invariably
black.
Mutilla fenestrata, St. Farg.— Synopsis, p. 238.

Four % specimens from Dallas and Bosque Counties.
Mutilla Creou, n. sp.

% . — Ferruginous; head round, closely punctured, thinly clothed with erect
black hairs; scape of antennae castaneous, flagellum piceous. Eyes round, pro-
minent. Thorax ovate, densely punctured, sparsely clothed with erect black
hairs,' metathorax roundly truncate, coarsely reticulate. "Wings moderate, fus-
cous, subhyaline from base to beyond the middle, marginal cell subovate, round-
ly truncate at tip, three submarginal cells, second subtriangular, receiving the
first recurrent nervure at middle, third narrowed beneath, receiving the second
recurrent close to its apical nervure. Tegulse round, tufted posteriorly with
pale hairs. Legs black, thinly clothed with whitish hairs. Abdomen ovate,
petiolate, basal segment densely punctured, second segment fulvo-ferruginous,
darker at base, finely and closely punctured, apical margin black, third, fourth
and fifth segments black, clothed with long black pubescence, apical segments
with pale yellowish. Ventral segments fringed with pale yellowish hairs, apex
with two sharp longitudinal carinse. Length 5 lines ; expanse of wings 6i lines.

One specimen from Bosque Co.
Mutilla Waco, Blake, Synopsis, p. 238.
One 9 specimen from Bosque Co.

TRANS. ASIER. EXT. S0C. IV. (10) MARCH, 1872.

74 CHAS. A. BLAKE.

Tliililla Admetus, n. sp.

^ . — Head and thorax black ; the former round, not as wide as thorax, coarse-
ly punctured, thinly clothed with erect hairs, antennae black ; eyes round, pro-
minent. Thorax ovate, narrowed posteriorly, coarsely punctured, metathorax
roundly truncate, deeply reticulate. Wings fuliginous, marginal cell short,
roundly truncate at tip, second submarginal subtriangular, its basal nervure
sinuate, receiving the first recurrent nervure before the middle, third submar-
ginal indistinctly defined. Legs black, thinly clothed with black hairs. Ab-
domen ovate, petiolate, basal segment black, coarsely punctured, second and
following segments dark ferruginous, closely punctured, thinly clothed with
erect black hairs, margins of the segments fringed with black pubescence.
Length 6 lines; expanse of wings 8£ lines.

One specimen from Comal Co. This may be the % of Waco.

Hut ilia 4-guttata, Say.— Blake, Synopsis, p. 246.

Three 9 specimens from Dallas Co., measuring 4| — 6} lines in
length, one specimen being unusually robust.

M ii t ilia ferrugata, Fabr.— Blake, Synopsis, p. 246.
Sixteen 9 specimens of all sizes and varieties.

Mutilla mutata, Blake, Synopsis, p. 247.
One 9 specimen from Dallas Co.

H lit ilia searvola, Blake, Synopsis, p. 247.
One 9 specimen froni Bosque Co.

^1 lit ilia balteola. Blake, Synopsis, p. 248.
One 9 specimen from Dallas Co.

Mutilla albopilosa, n. sp.

9 . — Ferruginous ; head subquadrate, posterior angles rounded, closely and
finely jiunctured; eyes small, round; antennae fusco- ferruginous : mandibles
tipped with black. Thorax subquadrate, narrowed behind, densely punctured,
metathora,x abruptly truncate. Legs castaneous, clothed with glittering white
hairs. Abdomen ovate, second segment, densely and finely punctured, apical
segments blackish, fringed with whitish pubescence, underside paler than
above. Entire insect clothed with erect white hairs. Length 4 lines.

Hob. — Texas. (Belfrage.) One specimen from Comal Co.

This species closely resembles some individuals of ferrugata, but may
be readily distinguished by the rather dense white erect pubescence.

DIVISION II,
Mutilla Oeeola, Blake, Synopsis, p. 248.
One % specimen from Bosque Co.

JI ut ilia gramliceps, n. sp.

% . — Bright ferruginous; head subquadrate, nearly three timesaswide as the
thorax, hind margin deeply concave, posterior angles produced into acute teeth,
finely and closely punctured, cheeks armed posteriorly beneath with a long
acute spine; mandibles long, bidentate at the tips which are blackish. An-
tennae: scape and two basal joints of flagellum pale ferruginous, remaining

AMERICAN IIYMENOPTERA. 75

joints fuscous. Eyes small, round. Thorax elongate subquadrate, feebly nar-
rowed at middle, prothorax with a small tubercle on each side, metathorax
roundly truncate, reticulate. Wings only rudimentary. Legs castaneous,
thinly clothed with whitish hairs, calcaria white. Abdomen elongate ovate,
sessile, stained with castaneous, closely and finely punctured, thinly clothed
with silvery hairs. Length 3 lines.

9 . — Bright ferruginous; head nearly as large in proportion to the thorax as
that of the male. Thorax robust, subquadrate, minutely punctured, sides deeply
excavate. Legs castaneous, thinly clothed with glittering hairs, posterior tibiae
armed with spines. Abdomen above stained with castaneous, thinly clothed
with silvery pubescence. Length 2| lines.

Two ( % 9 ) specimens from Bosque Co. A very curious little spe-
cies, in structure allied to laticeps, Blake.

.Tlutillst simillima. Smith. — Synopsis, p. 255.

Three 9 specimens from Dallas and Bosque Counties.

n ill ilia Eloetra, n. sp.

9 . — Head black, subquadrate, posterior angles rounded, closely punctured,
vertex clothed with reddish golden pubescence ; eyes round, prominent; scape
of antennas castaneous, flagellum piceous. Mandibles ferruginous at base,
black at tips. Thorax ovate, narrowed posteriorly, bright ferruginous, finely
punctured, thinly clothed with reddish golden pubescence, bearing on each side
two small tubercles, metathorax coarsely rugose on disc, abruptly truncate.
Legs black, thinly clothed with glittering white hairs. Abdomen ovate, en-
tirely black above, closely and minutely punctured, thinly clothed with bla&k
pubescence. Under side closely and finely punctured, clothed with silvery pu-
bescence, the margins of the second third and fourth segments fringed with sil-
very pubescence, apex black. Length 4£ to 6 lines.

Two specimens from Dallas Co. Very distinct by the abdomen be-
ing entirely black above and clothed with silvery pubescence beneath.

Genus AGA5IA, Blake.
Agama Aulas, n. sp.

'J,. — Uniform dark honey-yellow; thinly clothed with erect white hairs.
Head subquadrate, posterior angles rounded, shining, very minutely and dis-
tantly punctured; eyes large, round, prominent, ocelli moderate; scape of an-
tennas honey-yellow, scutellum fuscous; tips and upper edge of mandibles
blackish. Thorax elongate subquadrate, rounded in front, pro- and mesothorax
finely punctured, the latter with four faintly impressed longitudinal lines, me-
tathorax roundly truncate, broadly and shallowly reticulate. Wings moderate
yellowish hyaline, marginal cell large, ovate lanceolate, first submarginal cell
narrow, second subquadrate, pointed towards base, its basal nervure sinuate,
third, subobsolete. Stigma fuscous, its apical two-thirds lying within the mar-
ginal cell. Tegulse round, polished, honey-yellow. Legs fuscous, thinly clothed
with whitish hairs. Abdomen elongate-ovate, petiole pyriform, its ventral
carina terminating anteriorly in an obtuse tooth, second segment shining,
minutely and distantly punctured, apical margins of all the segments fringed
with white pubescence. Length 5 lines; expanse of wings 8J lines.

Hab. — Texas. (Belfrage.)

76 CHAS. A. BLAKE.

Agama miuuta. n. sp.

% .—Uniform dark honey-yellow ; head round, shining, minutely punctured ;
eyes large, prominent; antennse pale fuscous. Thorax elongate-ovate, closely
punctured, metathorax roundly truncate, broadly and feebly reticulate. Wings
hyaline, marginal cell ovate, first submarginal large, second small, subtriangu-
lar, pointed towards base, receiving the first recurrent nervure at base. Stigma
large, pale fuscous, two-thirds within the marginal cell. Tegulse, round, pale
honey-yellow. Legs honey-yellow, thinly clothed with white hairs. Abdo-
men elongate-ovate, petiole pyriform, the ventral carina terminating in a sharp
tooth anteriorly, second segment shining, minutely punctured, apical margins
of all the segments thinly fringed with pale pubescence. Length 2 lines; ex-
panse 3i lines.

Hab. — Texas. (Belfrage.)

Agama jnxtfa. n. sp.

% . — Uniform dark-brown ; thinly clothed with whitish hairs. Head rounded,
narrowed posteriorly, finely punctured; eyes large, prominent as well as ocelli.
Antennse pale honey-yellow; mandibles tipped with black. Thorax robust,
elongate-ovate, shining, finely punctured, mesothorax with four longitudinal
impressed lines, metathorax roundly truncate, broadly reticulate. Wings
moderate, yellowish hyaline, marginal cell broadly ovate, first submarginal
elongate, second subquadrate, pointed towards base, its basal nervure sinuate.
Stigma elongate, its apical three-fourths lying within the marginal cell. Te-
gulse round, polished, honey-yellow. Legs pale honey-yellow, thinly clothed
with whitish hairs, calcaria fuscous. Abdomen elongate-ovate, petiole subpy-
riform, second segment sbining, feebly and remotely punctured, apical margins
of all the segments castaneous, thinly fringed with pale yellowish pubescence.
Length 4£ lines ; expanse of wings 8J lines.

Hab.— Texas. (Belfrage.)

Agama attenuata. n. sp.

% . — Uniform dark honey-yellow ; head round, shining, eyes large, prominent
antennse honey-yellow. Thorax elongate-ovate, shining, finely punctured,
disc of mesothorax elevated, sides closely punctured ; metathorax closely and
finely reticulate, gradually roundly truncate. Wings moderate, hyaline, with
a faint fuscous cloud in the apical region, marginal cell ovate, truncate at tip,
first submarginal large, second very small subtriangularr, eceiving the second
recurrent nervure before the middle. Stigma large, yellowish, lying almost
wholly within the marginal cell. Tegulse minute, pale honey-yellow.. Legs
pale honey-yellow, thinly clothed with concolorous hairs. Abdomen elongate,
petiolate, petiole one-third the length of entire abdomen, pyriform, densely
punctured; second segment finely punctured, third castaneous. Entire insect
sprinkled with erect whitish hairs. Length 3 lines; expanse of wings 5 lines.

Hab.— Texas. (Belfrage.)

Note. — " Subdivision II." should have been inserted on page 233 of
the " Synopsis," immediately before species 21 ( Orcus), and " DIVI-
SION II" on page 248, immediately before species 77 (propinqua).
By some unaccountable oversight they were omitted.

AMERICAN HYUENOPTERA. 77

Notes on North American TENTHREDINID.E,
with descriptions of new species.

BY EDWARD NORTON.

Abia Kennicotti, Norton.

Var.— Color wholly greenish-blue, with metallic reflections, hairs blackish;
fine cinereous hair is visible in certain lights on all the segments of the tergum ;
tarsi whitish ; wings distinctly clouded on the second marginal and the upper
half of third submarginal cells, the basal band as in other specimens; apical
edge of all the segments of the tergum whitish.

Hub. — Texas. (Belfrage.) One specimen.

PTE\OS, nov. gen.

Ptilia, Sec. 2. Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii, p. 367. 1869.

Tenthredinidse, Subfam. 2, Div. E. — Wings with one marginal, ap-
pendiculate cell and four submarginal cells, the second receiving two
recurrent nervures ; the second cell is long and the third is wider than
high; lanceolate cell petiolate. Under wing not appendiculate, and
with two inner cells. Antennae 3-jointed, slender, furcate in males,
ciliate ; maxillary palpi 4-jointed. Legs as in Ptilia; tarsi without
processes beneath, not dilated, first joint longest ; tibiae with two apical
spurs, no side spurs.

Ptenos texanns.

Ptilia texana, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii, p. 367, $ % . 1869.
Texas. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Ptenos niger, n. sp.

'£,.— Length 0.20; hr. wings 0.46 inch. — Color black; antennse not as long as
thorax, slender ; third joint furcate, with long coarse cilise, bent at tip, piceous ;
a piceous spot on each side of thorax, the edges of basal plates, of first segment,
and of each segment of venter, piceous ; palpi pale ; nasus and labrum fringed
with white hair; abdomen thick; legs blackish-piceous, with the apex of fe-
mora and most part of tibiae pale, their base piceous; wings hyaline, basal half
violaceous, sub-obscure, stigma piceous.

Texas. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Ptenos nigropectus, n. sp.

'J,.— Length 0.22; br. wings 0.46 inch. — Head, most part of thorax and apex
of tergum black; tegulse, collar, anterior angle, sutures of metathorax at sides,
and most of abdomen yellow-red; the very broad membranous notch waxen
whitish ; the four anterior legs yellowish below the tips of femora, black above ;
hinder legs black, becoming piceous below the femora; stigma and costal space
yellowish, basal half of wings smoky-yellow, apical half clearer, nervures
blackish ; antennte furcate, ciliate, slender, shorter than thorax, ciliae black.

Texas. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

78 EDWARD NORTON.

Hylotoma McL,eayi.

Larva.— Length about one inch ; width 0.16 inch. Head not large, pale green
about the mouth, dark green above; two black eye spots and two longitudinal
lines above. Body white, with a pale green tint; an indistinct darker green
stripe down the middle of back ; on each side of this a row of eleven yellow
spots, one on each segment, and a similar row on each side of body above legs
but not corresponding with those above ; five rows of black dots on each side,
viz. three rows of dots down the back, between and outside of the yellow dots,
one row of eleven larger dots along each side of body in middle, and another
row of eleven on each side between the yellow dots above legs. Legs twenty-
two number, wholly green, the anal pair used in walking. Anal segment pale
green. When at rest or disturbed it rolls spirally, the head outward and tail
upon back. Feeds separately, one on a leaf above, eating the outer edge.

Connecticut. Found for successive years on the Chinese honeysuc-
kle. July 17th, spun dark brown cocoons on the ground near the
surface; came forth July 22nd of the following year.

Hylotoina dorsalis, Klug.

Much like H. scaputarix, but more slender. Cilise on antennae
black; antennas channeled above; scutel wholly rufous; anterior pair
of femora and tibiae yellow-red ; their tarsi black in 9 , pale before in
% ; wings violaceous, a distinct darker spot covering the whole of
marginal and part of submarginal cells; first recurrent nervure re-
ceived near the first submarginal vein, second near the second vein.
In scapularis, the first is received in the middle of cell.

Mexico. Two % 9 specimens. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Il> lotoma lepida. Klug.

This has a little of black on the inner orbits, and the tips of all the
tibiae black ; the ridge of nasus forms a deep triangular enclosed basin
between the anteuuae.

Mexico. One % specimen. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Hylotoma consobriua, n. sp.

9 . — Length 0.40 ; br. wings 0.80 inch. — Antennae clavate, black, with the two
basal joints pale; head, thorax and the four and a half basal segments of abdo-
men brown-yellow ; mouth whitish ; the three and a half apical segments of
tergum black; legs yellow, the middle of all the femora, the apical two-thirds
of all the tibiae, and all the tarsi black, except the basal two-thirds of the first,
which is pale ; spines yellow ; less of black on the anterior femora ; wings black-
ish at base and tip beyond the stigma ; a broad yellow band across the middle;
nervures the color of bands; body slender; ridge between antennae flattened
so as to form a triangular enclosed space.

Mexico. One specimen. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Cladius sequalis, n. sp.

£.— Length 0.22; br. wings 0.45 inch. Antennae long and slender (about
0.18 inch), quite pilose, third joint a little shorter than fourth, a little swelled
at base beneath, apex of joints 3 — (5 swelled ; final joint of maxillary palpi ovate,

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 79

much larger and rather longer than the preceding; face on each side of ocelli
channeled; a ridge, channeled through the centre, passing down between an-
tennae; claws with a strong inner tooth near middle. The whole body shining
black, palpi and legs below knees whitish, anterior legs tinged with rufous,
hinder tibiae blackish at tip; wings hyaline, a smoky cloud passes across upper
wings from base of stigma to tip of inner apical cell and from thence along lan-
ceolate cell to base of wing ; outer cross-nervure of lower inner underwing cell
coincides with that above it.

Faruaington, Conn. Four % specimens.

Paehylota varicolor, n. sp.

P .—Length 0.48; br. wings 0.94 inch. — Color shining black, with the abdo-
men, except at base, yellow red ; a blackish band, broken in middle, across
first and second segments; the anterior angle, basal plates and base of venter,
white ; wings violaceous-brown, their basal third clear. Head not as wide as
thorax, closely ciliate with greenish-cinereous hairs ; antennae short, not as
long as to scutel, clavate, densely ciliate with cinereous hair, seen from the
side a slight process near the base of third joint beneath ; all the palpi 4-jointed,
the second and third maxillary globose; ocelli nearly in a straight line, or an
obtusely flattened triangle. Head and body polished, pleura smooth, with a
patch of grey hair in middle. Abdomen rather long, rounded. Legs stout;
tibiae simple, with end spurs; tarsi with processes beneath, first joint nearly as
long as all the rest, joints 2 — 4 short and stout; claws strongly cleft. Upper
wings long, marginal appendix large, first submarginal cell prolonged on the
costa; second receiving the first recurrent nervure on the first cross-nervure,
and the second near its middle ; third cell twice as long on the marginal vein,
its outer cross-nervure bent in the middle nearly to a right angle with a short
incomplete nervure arising from its outer angle; lanceolate cell petiolate, its
petiole long; under wings not appendiculate, with two inner cells, the upper
cell bent outward, with an incomplete nerve as in the upper wing; a small
lanceolate cell at base of wing.

Mexico. Two specimens. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Pristiphora i«leiiti<lem.

Pristiphora identidem, Norton. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i, p. 77. £> •
Pristiphora idiota, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i, p. 77. £, .

These prove to be the same species. Mr. W. C. Fish. (Packard's
Guide, p. 217) bred the larvae on the Cranberry on Cape Cod, Mass.
Larva with seven pairs of abdominal feet, (20-footed), long, cylindrical,
smooth, about 0.30 inch in length; when full-grown dark green, with
two lighter green stripes running from head to the tail ; head of a
lighter color. Cocoons were spun June 20th, at the surface of the
ground ; imago came forth June 29th.

Nematus tralineatus, Norton.

Larva. — 20-footed, slender, bright green, palest at head and tail, with five
rows of black dots down the back, the outer row on each side irregular and
with intervals; another row of black dots on each side above the feet; the three
anterior pairs of feet black at the base, middle and tip.

Farmiugton, Conn. First seen upon the Weeping Willow {Salix

80 EDWARD NORTON.

tristts) about August 1st, in immense numbers, almost stripping large
trees. They begin upon the outer edge of the leaf and eat all except
the inner midrib. They are very sensitive to disturbance, very lively
and are generally found with the hinder part of the body bent up over
the back, and holding by the forward pair of feet only.

A great number of the insects were found flying about the trees
August 19th, about ten males to one female. The males are almost
wholly black upon the thorax.

Nematus cliloreus, Norton.

Variety $ . — The antennae piceous beneath toward the tip and the •
labrum white.

Texas. One specimen. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Emphytus Itoliii. n. sp.

9.— Length 0.56 inch.— Allied to tarsatus. Color shining black; antennae
black, with the three apical joints and a dot on the tip of fourth above white ; an
obscure line beneath; tip of apical joint black; tegulae white ; scutel black;
legs white, with their coxce, the four anterior femora, apical two-thirds of the
hinder femora, a spot at tip of two anterior tibise and the tips of the four hinder
tibise black; claws and tips of claw-joints black; wings smoky-hyaline; a white
spot at base of stigma.

Texas. (J. Boll.) One specimen.

Antennae more slender than in tarsatus and the head not so wide.

Empliylus maonlatns, Norton.

Larva.— (Riley, Prairie Farmer, May 25, 1868; American Entomologist, i,p, 91,
fig. 76. Packard Guide, p. 221, fig. 147). Feeds on the Strawberry leaf. " Length
0.60 — 0.65 inch. — Somewhat translucent. General color light dirty yellow, with
a glaucous shade along dorsal and subdorsal regions, inclining often to deep
blue-green on the thoracic segments ; minutely wrinkled transversely. Venter
light glaucous. Legs 22 (6 pectoral, 14 abdominal and 2 caudal), of the same
color. Head more yellow than body, with usually a dark brown spot above,
one nearly of the same size on the upper front and two smaller ones on each
side, joined by a brown line, the anterior spot being lower than the other; these
two are sometimes blended, and there is but a triangular spot on top of head.
The depth of shadiug on the body varies.

Pupa. — A dirty glaucous color, the members being somewhat lighter in color
than body."

These larvae form two broods in the year — in May and July. The
perfect insect appearing in April, May and August. They eat innu-
merable small holes in the leaves. When not feeding they rest, curled
up spirally, on the under side of the leaf. The eggs are deposited
in the stem of the plaut and cause it to swell a little. Jn some places
they have caused great damage to the strawberry plants.

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 81

Dictynna cordoviensis, n. sp.

£. — Length 0.18; br. wings 0.42 inch. — Antennae rather longer than head
and thorax, 10-articulate, slightly clubbed, as in Athalia, joints enlarging to
apex, quite bent, as in Sciapteryx, final joint obtuse. Eyes quite protuberant,
approaching below. Head narrow, concave behind, no distinct marginal edge
on border of occiput, which round towards neck from eyes; a deep channel on
each side of ocelli and a basin below the lower ocellus ; clypeus depressed, nar-
row, very shallow, margin straight; labrum rather pointed; mandibles with no
inner teeth. Abdomen as in Hylotoma, short, flattened, obtusely rounded at
apex. Spurs of tibiae short; claws simple. Wings broad ; one marginal, appen-
diculate cell ; first submarginal long, ovate, its nervure dividing from second
broken, third longer and wider than second; first recurrent nervure received
near base of second cell; lanceolate cell petiolate, very small, placed opposite
the inner apical nervure ; under wing with a large appendiculate cell, one in-
ner cell beneath the marginal, no lanceolate cell, outer cells all open. Head
and antennae black; metathorax, pectus and abdomen above, mostly blackish ;
labrum, mesothorax, scutellum and pleura, yellow-brown; middle of each seg-
ment of tergum and most of venter, indistinctly brown ; coxae, femora, anterior
tibiae and tarsi, yellow-brown; remainder of legs blackish : wings smoky, sub-
hyaline, a minute black dot in middle of brachial and second submarginal
cells.

Cordova, Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One 9 specimen.

Dictyima politus. n. sp.

%. — Length 0.18; br. wings 0.42 inch. More slender than D. cordoviensis ;
form of head and sculpture the same; (antennae wanting); head and body
shining black; legs yellow-brown, tips of femora and tarsi blackish; wings
subviolaceous, neuration as above.

Cordova, Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One % specimen.
Hemichroa albido-variata, n. sp.

9 . — Length 0.35 ; br. wings 0.70 inch. — Color black, the edge of nasus, labrum
tegulae, collar, anterior angle, a stripe on each side of anterior lobe of thorax,
and a band across four basal segments of tergum, wax-white ; edges of the
three apical sagments waxen; legs whitish, a black band on the hinder femora
and the hinder tarsi blackish above. Antennae moderate, not slender, filiform,
joints of nearly equal length and size. The two basal joints very short and
deeply set, third rather the stoutest; lower ocellus in a deep basin, nasus deep-
ly notched ; lower half of face and the pleura with cinereous hairs : remainder
of body shining; the head nearly as wide as thorax; body quite thick and
stout; the first tarsal joints rather arcuate, with processes beneath. Claws
cleft; wings hyaline, faintly smoky, stigma and costal nervure brownish ;
second submarginal longest, receiving the two recurrent nervures, third of
nearly equal width ; lanceolate cell contracted ; the under wing with two inner
cells, lanceolate cell retracted.

Texas. One specimen. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)
Hemichroa fraternalis, n. sp.

% .—Length 0.30 ; br. wings 0.60 inch.— Shining black, more slender than
albido-variata; tegulae and anterior angle piceous ; legs pale, with the basal one-
third of femora and the coxae black, hinder legs mostly black; sculpture and
wings as in albido-variata, of which it is very probably the male.

Texas. (Belfrage.) One specimen.

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82 EDWARD NORTON.

Dolerns similis, var. yultonensis, Norton.

This species from Alaska is a little smaller than specimens from the
Atlantic Coast, but agrees with them precisely in form and sculpture.
The difference in color may be specified as follows : — In similis, the
thorax is black, with the anterior angle and anterior lobe of mesotho-
rax partly rufous. At times the anterior angles are black. In variety
yukonensis the whole thorax is black, but in one specimen the anterior
angle is rufous. A % specimen has the mouth pale and the basal half
of the two hinder tibiae yellow. The inner claw tooth is stouter in the
9 and rather more feeble in the % than in similis.

Dolerns riistinetus, n. sp.

9-— Length 0.28; br. wings 0.56 inch. Eather short and stout; head and
thorax coriaceous, with coarse punctures, the whole of pleura coarsely pitted,
the pits of equal size on the pro- and metapleura, as in middle ; about half as
large as in similis; body with quite sparse whitish hair. Color black; tegulae,
prothorax, a spot in middle of anterior lobe of mesothorax, a band across side
lobes from scutellum to wings, a stripe across the metapleura from anterior
wings, and a band across the apical half of segments 2 — 5 of tergum, yellow-
red ; legs apparently all of one color; wings blackish-hyaline.

San Francisco, California. (H. Edwards.) One specimen.

Dolerns eoeeinifera, n. sp.

9. — Length 0.50; br. wings 0.95 inch. — Head back of ocelli polished; face
about and beneath ocelli very coarsely punctured ; labrum subpolished ; nasus
incurved; mandibles punctured above; remainder of body polished, except
the pleura, which is coarsely pitted ; inner spur of anterior tibiae bifid ; claws
with a strong inner tooth near middle. Antennae, head, a V on anterior lobe
of mesothorax, scutel, metathorax, basal plates, pleura, pectus, terebra sheath
and legs, black; mesothorax, anterior angle, neck and abdomen coccineous;
spurs yellowish; wings violaceous, obscure, nervures black, a clear spot at ex-
treme base of wings, lines leading to the bullae clear; first submarginal cell
nearly circular and much contracted at the cross-nervure.

Near San Francisco, California. (H. Edwards.) Several specimens.
This fine species seems to be a variety of tejonensis, from which it dif-
fers in having the clypeus notched and the pleura more coarsely pitted,
and the scutel, metathorax and pleura black.

Selandria Snmiehrasti, n. sp. (Sec. 1, Tribe 1.)

9- — Length 0.25; br. wings 0.50 inch. Rather stout; antennae moderately
swelled in middle, the four apical joints diminishing in size and length, final
joint pointed ; no sutures at sides of ocelli, a lengthened pit back of each upper
ocellus, three little pits back of antennae; nasus wide, margin subsinuate, a lit-
tle protuberant in middle ; surface shining, covered with whitish hair; inner
claw tooth near the tip, long, appearing bifid. Color of head back to neck, pro-
and mesothorax, scutel, tegulse and collar, yellow- red; remainder of body shin-
ing black; three little dots back of antennae, cheek, labrum and palpi, black;
legs black, the two or three basal joints of tarsi clear white ; wings subobscure,
blackish, lower half of stigma brownish ; first submarginal cell rather long, se-

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 83

cond submarginal cross- nervure receiving the recurrent nervureat the intersec-
tion of second and third cells, lanceolate cell petiolate, under wing with no inner
cells, its marginal cell with a small appendiculate cell at the tip.

Cordova, Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen.

Selandria earyte. Norton. — Packard's Guide, p. 224, 1868. (See. 1, Tr. 2.

9-— Length 0.25; br. wings 0.40 inch. — Antennae moderately enlarged in
middle, first and second joints of equal length, four apical joints short, together
about as long as the two preceding, the whole quite bristling with coarse hair ;
head polished, eyes widely separated, a deep irregular fissure back of each up-
per ocellus, no channels at sides of ocelli, three smooth basins back of base of
antennae, having in the centre of each a minute deep pit; nasus wide, trun-
cate ; claws of tarsi apparently bifid. Color shining black; pro- and meso-
thorax and scutellum rufous, apex of the latter black ; nasus and legs white, the
tarsi blackish ; base of coxae and a line down the upper side of legs black ; up-
per wings subviolaceous; first submarginal cell rather ovate, longer than wide ;
lanceolate cell petiolate ; under wings with two marginal cells and one sub-
marginal inner cell (all the other species have one discoidal inner cell and no
submarginal), all the outer cells closed as in figure 3 (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i, p.
151), the bounding nervure not touching the margin; tbe submedial cell is
without cross-nervure, but does not reach the margin of wing, and the lanceo-
late cell is short.

%. — Antenna? (one specimen) 10-jointed, apical joint minute; lower half of
inner orbits white; anterior legs wholly whitish, also the middle tibiae; under
wings with one marginal and no inner cell, formed as in figure 2 (ibid.) with
no cross-nervure in submedial cell.

Farmington, Conn. The wings present a good many supplementary
nervures and irregular cells. The first marginal of one wing has two
additional cross-nervures ; on another wing are two additional discoidal
cells. One under wing outer cell has three outer nervures, bent and
overlying each other.

The larvaa feed on the Hickory (Juglans squamosa). They are
found upon the under side of the leaf, sometimes fifteen or twenty on
a leaf, which they eat from the outer extremity inward, often leaving
nothing but the strong midribs. They cover themselves wholly with
white flocculent tufts, which rub off when touched, leaving a green,
twenty-two legged worm about 0.75 inch when full grown, darkest *
above and with indistinct blackish spots on the sides. The head is
white with a small black dot on each side. Specimens taken with
the leaves July 4th, went into the ground about July 20th. The co-
coon is formed near the surface of the ground and covered with earth
and sand drawn together. Four specimens came forth about August
22nd, all seeming very small for so large larvae.

Dr. Packard (Guide p. 223) mentions a similar larva feeding upon
the butternut, which may prove to be the same with this.

84 EDWARD NORTON.

Selamlria longipeimis, n. sp. (Sec. 1, Tribe 2.)

$. — Length 0.26; br. wings 0.68 inch. — Antennae, except two basal joints,
wanting. A suture like pit back of two upper ocelli, no suture at their sides, but
strongly channeled; three pits back of antennas; nasus rather wide, margin
truncate ; labrum rounded ; head and body shining, not highly polished; legs
thickly covered with white hairs ; inner claw teeth long, just within the tip.
Black, palpi black; nasus, labrum, apex of all the femora, basal third of the
tibiee and the basal tarsal joint, clear white; anterior claw joint waxen; wings
very long, not very wide, upper pair blackish, semi-obscure, marginal vein
bending rapidly up to the costal margin, the whole vein forming almost a half
circle; lanceolate cell petiolate; lanceolate cell of under wing long, extending
nearly to tip of wing, receiving the cross-nervure near its tip ; traces of broken
outer nervures at ends of nerves.

Near Cordova, Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrasfc.) One specimen. The
neuration of the under wing is quite unlike any other species of this
Section (1).
Selamlria mexicana, Norton. (Sec. 1, Tr. 2, Div. A.)

Variety. — Larger than the type specimen, being 0.37 inch long.
The wings are obscure violaceous, and the color of legs piceous instead
of whitish.

Mexico. Three % $ specimens. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Selandi-ia fascipennis, n. sp.

£ , — Length 0.30 — 0.35 ; br. wing 0.68 — 0.72 inch — Color yellow-red; anten-
nae, a spot about ocelli, palpi, and the three apical segments of tergum, black ;
legs yellow-red, the apical half of all the tibiee and all the tarsi, except a yel-
low band on the first joint, black; wings black, very black at base, with a wide
yellow band across the middle, including most of stigma, narrowest above.
Antenna?, the two basal joints pale, of nearly equal length, the four apical joints
decreasing rapidly in size and length ; head rather thin, nearly as wide as
thorax; ocelli in a small triangle, the lower ocellus in a deep small basin, three
little round pits above base of antennae. ; hinder coxae twice as long as those
preceding; claws strongly cleft, with a large, blunt inner tooth; wings rather
long, first recurrent nervure received near the middle of second submarginal
cell, and the second nervure near the base of third ; lanceolate cell rather large ;
under wings with an appendiculate nerve on the marginal cell.

% . — The male has the antennae pale beneath, and the first and second joints
.partly black; the under wings are without inner cells and have the outer cells
closed as in Strongylogaster mellosus, %.

Mexico. Six % £ specimens. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Selamlria iiircqiii«leiis, n. sp.

9- — Length 0.25; br. wings 0.50 inch. — Color piceous red, with the head, two
stripes on the side lobes of thorax, metathorax and breast black; abdomen pi-
ceous, the apex of each segment darkest; a spot on each side of nasus and the
labrum pale; tegulae and edge of collar white ; legs the color of body; wings
smoky-yellowish. Antennas black, short, formed as with halcyone, the apical
joint not decreasing suddenly in length ; face below the occiput quite depressed,
rugose; nasus with a shallow angular notch; claws deeply cleft; under wings
with one inner cell ; outer cells open.

Texas. Two specimens. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 85

Selamlria albicollis, n. sp. (Sec. 1, Tr. 2, Div. B.)

£ . — Length 0.30 ; br. wings 0.60 inch. — Color black, shining : a spot in the
middle of labrum, tegulse, edge of collar, a round dot in the. middle of the an-
terior angle, white ; the four hinder legs black above and brownish before;
anterior legs whitish-browu, their coxae and femora above, black ; inner claw-
tooth slender, not prominent; wings hyaline, the costal and basal nervures
white ;*first submarginal cell long oval, basal corners rounded ; the outer under
wing cells all open, their single inner cell subtriangular, their lanceolate cell
retracted.

Texas. (Belfrage.) One specimen.

Selandria q. alba, Norton.

%. — (See. 4, Tribe 4). — About seventeen male specimens of this species ex-
amined. All have the under wings without middle cell ; all the outer cells
closed, the bounding nervure closely following the margin of the wing, the
inner ends of marginal, submarginal and discoidal outer cells all forming
nearl} 7 a straight line; lanceolate cell reaching the margin of wing: the four
anterior legs, below the middle of femora, are yellow-white; the apical two-
thirds of hinder femora and the basal two-thirds of the tibiae the same color.
The % of my S. obsoletum appears to be identical with this.

9 . — (Sec. 4, Tribe 3). — The under wing middle cells of this seems to be quite
variable ; sometimes there are two inner cells on the wings, sometimes one and
at times none.

This may easily be distinguished from all other species of this Sec-
tion (4) by the form of the lanceolate cell, which does not coincide at
tip with the cross-nervure above, as in figure 1 (ibid. p. 219), but ex-
tends a little beyond it, while in all others, the lanceolate cells does
not reach it, being shorter.

Selamlria flavipes. Norton. (Sec. 5.)

9 var — Length 0.25 ; br. wings 0.60 inch. — Differs in having all
the tarsi black, and the wings more clouded. The first submarginal
is incomplete as in many of our specimens.

Cordova, Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) One specimen.

Selamlria coecinata, n. sp. (Sec. 5.)

J. — Length 0.25 ; br. wings 0.60 inch. — Body stout; antennae long, stout,
joints diminishing equally in length and size; lower ocellus in an oval well de-
fined basin, channels at sides of ocelli curved, each rising in a pit back of each
upper ocellus, and eding in a little deep round pit back of each antenna, but
separated from pits of antennse; the bottom of these pits flat, with a central
prominence; nasus broadly truncate at margin; surface of head dull, rather
coriaceous, of body shining, not polished, nor punctured; inner claw tooth
stout, nearly as large as outer. Head black; basal joint of antennse, nasus, la-
brum and palpi, white; thorax and abdomen bright coccineous, with a round
spot on each side of scutel, sutures of metathorox, a double spot on pectus, and
ovipositor sheath, black; under a lens the red color on the thorax is seen to
color the prominences and fill the sutures, while the spaces between are waxen ;
the black spots are well defined; legs white, the intermediate tarsi and hinder
tibiae and tarsi blackish; wings slightly clouded, nervures black; all the an-
gles of first submarginal cell rounded ; a dark cloud around the lower shoulder

86 EDWARD NORTON.

of lanceolate cell, which is without cross nervure; under wings with two inner
cells, their lanceolate cell long and receiving the cross-nervure within the tip
as in flavipes.

Var. 9 . — First joint of antennae black ; all the femora with a wide black
band.

Near Cordova, Mexico. (Prof. Sumichrast.) Two specimens.

Macrophya exoavata, Norton.

Var. 9. — The basal half of third and the two basal joints of antennae rufous;
labrum and two spots above, part of tegulse, base of metathorax, first visible
segment of tergum rufous, the whole edge of collar, a large spot beneath tegulse,
basal plates and tips of tergum, white ; legs as in excavata; wings more smoky,
under wings without inner cell, their lanceolate cell not coinciding with cross-
nervure, but withdrawn as usual in Macrophya; sculpture and form as in ex-
cavata.

Texas. (Belfrage.) One specimen.

Lophj rus fulva, n. sp.

<j) .—Length 0.30; br. wings 0.65 inch. — Antennas 13-jointed, black. Color
yellow-brown; a lunate mark through ocelli, touching base of each antenna,
scutel, metathorax and band on first segment of tergum, spot on breast and
lower half of venter, black; legs pale yellowish, tarsi tipped with black, hinder
tarsi darkest; wings faintly smoky. Antennae short, quite thickened in middle,
tapering to ends, subserrate beneath ; head not as wide as thorax ; body quite
stout; spurs simple; lanceolate cell of wings closed in middle, supetiolate,
without oblique cross-line.

Texas. One specimen. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Cephus cinctus, n. sp.

%. — Length 0.28; br. wings 0.56 inch. — Color black; a square spot on the
nasus, a spot curving around each lower orbit and on the middle of each man-
dible yellow; tegulse and a spot under each wing, under the neck, on pectus,
the sides of basal plates, an irregular dentate band widest at sides, on the first,
second and fourth and on the sides of third, fifth and sixth, and apical seg-
ments of tergum, and on the apical edge of each segment of vertex, yellow; legs
vellow, growing reddish towards the tarsi, trochanters and the anterior pair of
femora before, black; wing smoky. Antennae slightly clavate, 18-jointed.

Colorado. One specimen. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

Xyela senea, n. sp.

%. — Length 0.30: br. wings 0.72 inch. — Antennae black, head and thorax
bronze, with purple reflections, greenish about the face ; labrum and palpi pale
reddish; abdomen shining steel-blue; legs ferruginous, hinder tibiae blackish.
Third joint of antennae three times as long as the six remaining joints together^
basal joint arcuate ; head and thorax delicately, closely sculptured ; claws with
a strong inner tooth ; wings hyaline, nervures as in tricolor.

Texas. Five specimens. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.)

This may be a variety of tricolor. On one of the wings is a sup-
plementary marginal cell.

AMERICAN HYMENOPTERA. 87

Description of a new species of JIASARIS. from California.

BY E. T. CRESSON.

Masaris Edwardsii, n. sp.

9 . — Black, opaque, head and thorax clothed with a short blackish
pubescence; orbits, filling up sinus of eyes and slightly interrupted
at summit, a subtriangular spot on middle of front, clypeus except a
large U-shaped black mark on disk, and mandibles except tips, pale
lemon-yellow; the black mark on clypeus is sometimes slightly con-
fluent above with the black on each side of the face, thus forming a
slender yellow T ; apex of clypeus deeply arcuate ; labrum pubescent,
fuscous, edged laterally with yellowish ; antennae short, clavate, black-
ish above, fuscous or fusco-testaceous beneath, the three or four basal
joints beneath more or less yellowish ; anterior and upper margins of
prothorax, confluent in front and broad anteriorly, two short lines or
dots on disk of mesothorax, broad posterior margin of scutellum, some-
times two dots on postscutellum, metathorax except two large spots
on posterior face, a large irregular mark on each side of pleura, and
the tegulas, all lemon-yellow; metathoracic spines long, slender, sub-
acute ; wings fusco-hyaline, the marginal and first submarginal cells
darker; spot on coxae, femora except base and stripe behind, tibiae
and tarsi lemon-yellow, tarsi dusky beneath, their tips honey-yellow ;
abdomen very finely and densely punctured, segments 1 — 5 each with
a broad continuous apical lemon-yellow band, that on first segment
uneven anteriorly, sometimes enclosing two black dots, those on re-
maining segments sometimes slightly emarginate on anterior middle ;
apical segment broadly rounded at tip, with a broad central band ;
venter banded with yellow, the apical segments with two yellow spots.
Length .40 — .45 inch.

S . — Longer than £ , shining, more thickly pubescent; orbits, fill-
ing in sinus of eyes and slightly interrupted at summit, a large tri-
angular spot on middle of front sometimes confluent on each side
above with orbits, clypeus, mandibles and basal joint of antennae,
flesh-color or yellow; middle of front prominent, with a central black
dot; clypeus smooth, convex, apex deeply arcuate; labrum yellow;
antennae longer than head and thorax, pale yellow tinged with fulvous

88 E. T. CRESSON.

at tip, a stripe on first five joints above, sometimes only on fourth and
fifth, and lateral half of following joints except margins, black or
fuscous, first joint short, robust, second joint very short and trans-
verse, third fourth and fifth joints long, cylindrical, subequal, the
third being a little shorter than the fourth which is equal in length
with the fifth, sixth joint broadly dilated towards apex, about as long
as third, seventh joint very short and as broad as the sixth, remaining
joints narrower and coalite, the sixth and following joints forming
the club are flattened above and concave beneath, the outer margin
deeply erose; thorax marked as in 9 , except that the yellow markings
are less heavy, the pleura has a large ovate spot, the scutellum is
margined posteriorly from base of wings, sometimes interrupted, the
postscutellum has sometimes a short discal transverse line, the meta- '
thorax has sometimes a double spot on basal middle and a narrow line
covering lateral angles, all yellow ; wings yellowish dusky, paler than
in 9 , tip of marginal cell fuscous; legs Colored as in $ , the inter-
mediate tibise suddenly dilated anteriorly both on outer and inner edge,
also middle of their femora beneath ; abdomen elongate, shining, base
of segments depressed, the bands on segments 1 — 4 narrow, slightly
dilated laterally, those on the five basal segments are squarely emargi-
nate on each side anteriorly, sometimes only those on segments 2 — 4
are slightly emargiuate on each side anteriorly, the bands on two or
three apical segments very broad; apical margin of terminal segment
subarcuated with prominent lateral angles and beneath with two stout
subacute black teeth ; venter broadly banded with yellow, the second
segment prominent on basal middle, the third segment transversely
elevated with a stout subacute central tooth pointing posteriorly, apex
with a patch of deuse pale pubescence. Length .50 inch.

Hab. — California. Four £ 9 specimens were collected by my
friend Henry Edwards, Esq., of San Francisco, to whom this inter-
esting species is respectfully dedicated; and one % specimen was col-
lected, and kindly presented to the Society, by Lord Walsingham.

This fine species is more closely allied to zonalis than to any of the
other species. It is larger and more robust than zonalis, with broader
abdominal bands in 9 , while the antennal club and apex of abdomen
in % are entirely differently shaped, the deeply erose inner edge of
the former being a ready distinguishing character, quite different from
anything to be seen in any of the other five species.

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 89

Descriptions of North American 5TOCTUIDAE, No. 3.

BY AUG. R. GROTE.

HARASMALVS, Grote.

Tn this genus, which is related to Eurhipia and Ripogenus, the
body parts are rather square and compact. Head concealed from
above. Antennae short, shortly bipectinate from the base outwardly.
Labial palpi a little dependant, projected straightly forwards, closely
scaled. Caputal scales massed on each side of the vertex, towards
antennal base. Thorax with an anterior dorsal tuft, and a double
crest behind. Tegulae with raised scales. Abdomen recurved at tip,
compact, hardly exceeding the hind wings; anal segment trigouately
tufted j two pre-anal dorsal segmentary crests. Legs short; spurs
feeble. Wings at rest folded on themselves, ample, elongated, entire.
Forewings with straight costal edge ; hind margin roundedly oblique,
a little exerted at median nervules. A pliant very evident median
fold. (The neurational features cannot be examined at present from
paucity of specimens.)

The singular species has the habit of folding the wings when at
rest in such a manner as to conceal their true size.

Marasmalns ventilator, Grote.— % .—Forewings pale dull olivaceous
ochrey, washed with whitish, with narrow white lines and blackish and ferru-
ginous blotches. Double basal arcuate white lines with blackish included
space most deeply marked on costa. The wing is whitish before the faint dark
arcuate median shade. Orbicular obsolete. Reniform, a white diffuse lunule
with superposed included black dots connected by an arcuate line; above re-
niform a blackish costal shade which is apparently margined on either side by
the t. p. line, composed of two widely separate narrow indistinct white lines.
Beyond the reniform superiorly a bright ferruginous patch, and the costal
region is ante-apically ferruginous with three white dots. Subterminal line
faint, irregular, whitish, preceded on the fold by two blackish blotches. Ter-
minal line black, fading inferiorly; fringes white, black dotted, blackish at
apices and again medially. Hind wings pale blackish, with an irregular clear
subterminal shade, a ferruginous patch at about the middle of the external
margin and a blackish shade at anal angle; a black terminal interrupted line ;
fringes whitish. Beneath with obliterate markings, washed with whitish grey ;
primaries with the ante apical costal ferruginous shade; secondaries with black-

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90 AUG. R. GROTE.

ish shade at internal angle with a discal mark and superposed costal blackish
shade. Thorax beneath pale grey. Above the corporal tufts are deep ferru-
ginous; anal hairs pale. Abdomen dark above; segments with pale edges.
Above the veins of primaries tend to be picked out by pale scales. Expanse,
26 m. m. Length of body, 9 m. m.

Habitat. — New York; Andover, Mass.; "on fence with folded
wings like Tettices (orthoptera)" — Sanborn.

PIIYPROSOPUS, Grote.
Forewings with straight costal margin, entire; external margin
rounded, oblique; the internal angle rounded; the wing is elongate,
rather narrow, full outwardly posteriorly about median nervules. A
submedian fold discontinued exteriorly. Veins 4 and 5 approximate
at base, 5 from extremity of median vein, 3 a little removed. Cell
open ; a small accessory closed cell, its upper margin not angulated ;
from its lower angulation vein 6 is thrown off straightly opposite 5 to
external margin ; 7 and 8 arise together from its outer end, 7 to ex-
ternal margin,. 8 to apex. 9 out of 8 shortly to costa; 5, 6, 7 divaricate.
Subcostal nervules aggregated ; 10 out of upper margin of accessory
cell, very near 9 ; 11 out of subcostal nervure opposite 2. Hind wings
with costal edge a little sinuate or centrally depressed, rising to rounded
apices. Median vein 3 branched ; 5 indepeudant, 3 and 4 together,
2 thrown off much within the middle, nervules long. Squamation
close and dense. Head with a dependant frontal tuft. Labial palpi
projected straightly forward beyond the head, second joint thickly
scaled, terminal joint slender, continuous with second, finely scaled,
acuminate. Legs finely scaled with slender spurs. Antennae % rather
long, shortly bi-serrate, the serratures diminishing gradually to tips.
Abdomen a little longer than hind wings, linear.

PIiyi>rosopns eallitrichoides, Grote. — %. — Fuliginous or purplish
ferruginous, primaries with mottled pale scales, a purple reflection terminally.
T. a. line pale, angulatad on disc, obsolete superiorly; below the angulation
very oblique, even, joining the internal margin near the base. Reniform ob-
soletely indicated by superposed dark dots. T. p. line very distinct, pah-, even,
a little bent. This line runs inwardly obliquely from apex to internal margin
at the middle. It is geminated below to vein 7, at which point the inner line
runs narrowly back to costa above the reniform. This inner line is the true
t. p. line, the outer the propinquitous subtermiual : fringes short. Secondaries
pale ochreous, terminally with indistinct darker shadings and a pale line per-
ceivable on internal margin. Beneath immaculate, pale ochreous. Expanse
21 m. m.

Habitat. — New York ; Texas.

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 91

This little species seems at first sight allied to Calpe or Hemiceras.
Tn outline it has a spurious resemblance to Coelodasys. From my
nute book this is the Dory odes acutalis of the British Museum Coll.
and Lists; not, of course, Guenee's species.

PARGRAPTA, Hilbner.

The wings are ample, long and angulate. Primaries with the apical
augle acute. Below the apex the external margin sweeps inwardly,
but is outwardly produced and full at the extremities of median
veinlets, sloping again inwardly to the retired internal angle. Fore-
wings with 12 veins. Veins 4 and 5 spring together from the median
nervure, 5 a little bent at base towards 4; vein 8 a little removed
from 4; these three nervules appear propinquitous at base, as if aris-
ing together. Discal cell open. A small accessory cell, from the lower
angulation of which vein 6 is thrown off on external margin. Veins
7 and 8 are thrown off together from the outer angulation of the
accessory cell; vein 7 on to the external margin, subapically; vein 8
on to the costal margin just before the real apex of the wing. Vein
9 out of 8 on to the costal margin, a short furcation. Costal veins
approximate. Hindwings with the external margin slightly acutely
projected below the extremity of vein 7; the margin appears slightly
interspaceally scalloped, retires below this first subapical projection,
rising again at extremity of median veinlets. Nervules long ; discal
cell open. Veins 3 and 4 arise together. Vein 5 is independant, and
arise a little nearer the base of the wing.

The body is tolerably stout; abdomen bluntly terminated, a little
recurved in % , no longer than secondaries. Palpi very slender, di-
varicate closely scaled; 2d joint elongate, obliquely ascending; 3d
joint longer than usual, attenuate, porrected at right angles with the
second. Head small. Legs rather short and slender, closely scaled;
hind tibiae with a pair of central spurs longer than those at the apices
of the joint. Antennae short and simple.

The general resemblance of P. decoralis to the Geometridae is very
great. At first we seem to have a species of Selenia or Endropia be-
fore us. The squamation is somewhat thin and powdery.

Pargrapta decoralis, Hiibnen, Zutr. 91, 92.— £ 9 .—Grey with a lilac
hue, distinctly shaded with ferruginous, of varying tint. Usually the male is
brighter ferruginous and less distinctly marked. Basal half-line distinct on
costa. T. a line arcuate, distinctly inwardly notched on disc. Outer half of
the median space, margined inwardly by the median shade, ferruginous; here

92 AUCx. R. GROTE.

the pale annulate reniform is perceivable. T. p. line distinct, even, dark, with
a narrow succeeding pale shade, projected opposite the disc, slightly sinuate
inferiorly. Subterrainal line dentate, faint, accompanied opposite the disc by
vague broad ferruginous or bright shades. Secondaries with all the lines con-
tinuous. Median line distinct; outer transverse line (corresponding with t. p.
line) vague, with succeeding ferruginous shades. Discal black dot and streak.
Terminal lines double on both wings, subcontinuous, lunulated ; fringes cut
with ferruginous. Beneath paler with all the markings distinctly reproduced.
The more ferruginous diffusely shaded specimens are also more evidently
washed with purplish outside of the t. p. line. It varies in tint; the ferru-
ginous shadings become almost blackish in some female specimens. Expanse
25 to 26 m. m.

Not rare in New York State; Mass.; Penna.

This species seems to mimic P^ndropia homuraria G & /?, more than
any other of the Geometridae. The paler ferruginous purply washed
specimens have somewhat the tints of Choerodes.

Dr. Fitch's Hypena elegantalis is a synonym. According to Mr. Ri-
ley, such names should obtain, because they are "better known," or ' ; for
reasons repeatedly given," or " for reasons which it would be too te-
dious to give," etc., etc. (See the Fourth Missouri Entomological Re-
port.) In this same report "moral objections" are found to Dr. Le
Conte's List of Coleoptera and our own of the moths, and it charged
that " indignation " is the sentiment that such works arouse in the
breast of the " true naturalist." Meaning, of course, the editor of the
aforesaid Annual. Setting aside the verbiage with which our most
modern author clothes his grievance, and coming to the point, we are
complained of for using the authority for the combined terms we retain,
instead of using iu every case the original authority for the species.
Attacus cecropia, Linn., is cited as a case in point on page 57. But
the impression sought to be conveyed by Mr. Riley is a false one. The
terms used for that species do not convey the same scientific idea. They
are not, strictly speaking, identical. For, until 18G5, it does not seem
to have been proven that Platysamia cecropia afforded a distinct struc-
tural generic type. It seems to us an "injustice" to the original
author of the combined generic and specific term, that he should not
be quoted when his term is used. It is his property and, if it is used,
he should be cited.

But Mr. C. V. Riley himself would not " carry out the law of
priority too relentlessly." He " relents " when the species described
in the reports as new, are found to be old discoveries. We are then
asked to entirely ignore the original discoverer, to prefer Mr. C. V. Riley

AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 93

to Zeller, Guenee or LeConte. It requires a singular obtuseness to be
"indignant" at a procedure which at least always recognizes the origi-
nal description and a singular assurance to demand in the same breath
a suppression of both description and describer.

JMADOPA, Stephens.

Jtladopa interpunota, Grote.— % 9 .—Primaries dark shaded pearly
grey, finely irrorate with black scales, with three nearly equidistant transverse
even brownish lines preceded by pale coincident shades. The first line nearer
the second, while the third is slightly arcuate, continued from apices to internal
margin within the angle. Between the first and second lines a black dot on
the disc, the orbicular. Beyond, but approximate to the second line, a larger
black dot, the reniform. A series of minute interspaceal terminal dots. These
are more continuous on the pale secondaries, which show a discal dot beneath.
Legs darker than the body parts and abdomen above. Expanse 20 to 22 m. m.

Habitat. — Central Alabama.

Outline and ornamentation of the European M. salicalis, but smaller,
a little darker and at once distinguished by the discal dots.

BliEPTINA, Guenee.

Two species from the Atlantic district and the Gulf are contained
in the collection. The antennae are simply pubescent, the palpi
closely scaled, held free from the front, elevated and recurved at the
tips, without sexual characters. The outline of the primaries is simi-
lar to Renia, but notably less exerted on external margin, while the
costal edge is more depressed. The coloration is pale purplish-grey
and the species in appearance resemble Agrotis, Caradrina, etc., while
the ornamentation is but slightly modified from that of Renia.

Bleptina caratlrinalis. Guenee. — % J.— Rather pale brownish grey,
smoothly scaled, with a very light purplish shade, lines brownish; markings
not very distinct except the subterminal line. Basal half line perceivable;
t. a. line improminent, single, shorty waved. Median shade diffuse, continued,
usually more prominent in the male, oblique, a little sinuate, touching the
reniform. This latter, with the reduced orbicular, is usually black and con-
trasting in the female, whereas in the male it is deep yellowish, stained, with
au included scale dot and ringed. T. p. line roundedly projected opposite the
disc, finely dentate or waved, tending to mark nervular dots. Subterminal
line geminate, even, prominent, with a stained pale central shade and accom-
panied by lateral brownish shadings which tend to become nervular on termi-
nal space. The line is roundedly outwardly bent over the median nervules.
Terminal interspaceal black dots; fringes pale. Secondaries paler towards the
base, dark along external margin, with double dark shaded transverse lines,
relieved by a paler external shade. Terminal black points and fringes as on
primaries. Beneath the wings resemble secondaries above; discal dots dis-

94 AUG. R. GROTE.

tinct; primaries the darker. Palpi in both sexes pointed, recurved, rather
pale or testaceous colored. Expanse, 25 to 30 m. m.

Habitat. — New York, Pennsylvania, Texas.

The female has the lines, except the subterminal, less distinct
usually than the male and the ordinary spots often filled in with
black. The specimens of B. caradrinalis from the Middle States
measure 28 to 30 m. m.

Bleptina inferior, Grote. — % £• — Darker and of a different hue com-
pared with B. caradrinalis. The reniform is creamy pale, as is the orbicular,
subobsoletely black ringed and shows an inferior black included dot. The
markings of its congener are reproduced by this smaller species but less dis-
tinctly. The color of the primaries is of a more bluish and darker grey, and
they are more uniformly colored, hardly darker shaded terminally. The sec-
ondaries are much darker, almost wholly blackish; the lines imperceptible or
obsolete. Beneath both wings blackish, the subterminal line alone barely per-
ceivable. Expanse, 24 to 26 m. m.

Habitat. — Alabama, Texas.

Three specimens ef B. caradrinalis (Belfrage legit) from Texas are
as small (25 m. m.) as B. inferior, but differ from B. inferior by their
color, the paler secondaries lined above and the characteristic appear-
ance of the ordinary spots in both sexes; in all of which they exactly
agree with the larger Northern specimens of their species. I have
fourteen specimens of B. caradrinalis and five of B. inferior before me,
all of which latter have their antennal stem a little darker above com-
pared with B. caradrinalis.

HERMINIA, Treitschke.

I refer to this genus nine species, specimens of which, from the At-
lantic district are contained in the collection before me. These fall
into two groups in a wide sense. The first six species have in com-
mon a more or less apparent crooking of the male antennal stem
towards the middle, where it is tufted. The structure of the labial
palpi is subject to slight specific modification, but, except in H. mor-
bidalis, the palpi do not afford any strong secondary sexual character.
In this species the palpi, with their straight 2d and reduced 3d article,
are directed upwardly, though not as strongly recurved as usual in
the male; while in the opposite sex they are projected forwards. This
character reminds us of Renia. In the remaining species the second
article is bent. In H. laevigata the male palpi seem a little more
densely scaled. In this group the species have a more or less strongly
expressed resemblance to certain European forms. The second group
consists of two small species which have the male antennae more or

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less lengthily pectinate, without nodosity, tuft or crooking. In H. ser-
raticornis, the larger of the two species, the % antennae are more
shortly pectinated, the antennus is longer, while in II. longilabris the
male antennal pectinations are lengthy and finer. The female of this
latter species has simple antennae. The structure of the labial palpi
differs in the two species. In both they are exaggeratedly long. In
H. serraticornisS ( 9 ignot.) they are obliquely ascending, the second
joint is straight, the third a little recurved. In H. longilabris % .
The palpi are disproportionately elongated, projected forward, separ-
ating towards the tips; they are more leugthily compressedly scaled
and have a flattened appearance. They resemble the palpi of the
European H. tentacularis. Both of these smaller and lighter species
look excessively like Greometridae, a resemblance which is heightened
by their antennal structure, while the color is that of the first group.
My knowledge of the European forms does not afford me strict
analogues to these two latter American species.

From the excellent descriptions in the eighth volume of the Species
General des Lepidopteres, I am at once enabled to identify the three
North American species described by M. Gruenee. Beyond these I
cannot find that our species have been intelligibly described. After
having compared Mr. Walker's types of Lepidoptera in the British
Museum Collection with the Lists. I find that little or no reliance can
be placed on this author's original generic determinations. Where,
therefore, his specific descriptions are not conclusive, it will be no
injustice to omit any reference to them. We ought not to encumber
our catalogues with a mass of apocryphal names, the existence of
which tends to retard our knowledge of these insects by repressing
our observations from a fear of synchronism.

Ilei'ininia laevigata, Grote. — % J. — Rather pale carneous brown,vari-

ably, more or less distinctly shaded with rich deep brown on the primaries
above, which, in fresh specimens, show a purplish gloss. Squamation pulve-
rulent. Basal half line obvious. T. a. line nearly perpendicular, followed by
a more or less extended diffuse dark olivaceous brown shade, which, though
usually extending to the small blackish elongated orbicular dot, is sometimes
wanting. Reniform large, lunate, usually filled in with black scales which
then broadly contrast; sometimes open with a darker encircling line. Behind
the reniform and approximate, as usual in this genus, to the transverse posterior
line with which it coincides in shape, is the diffuse median shade, sometimes
entirely obsolete, sometimes very obvious, again lost in a deep concolorous
brown shade which then precedes the transverse posterior line. T. p. line of
the usual shape, arcuatedly projected beyond the disc, where it sometimes

96 AUG. R. GROTE.

shows a slight superior notch. Subterminal line distinctly geminate, with a
pale centre, nearly straight, a little irregular, continued ; it is somewhat bent
as in Renia, and is accompanied superiorly by a more or less evident blackish
shade. A very distinct series of terminal interspaceal black marks. Second-
aries fuscous, with faint discal lunule and double lines, the subterminal fol-
lowed by a pale shade and angulated before anal angle; black terminal marks
as on primaries, but more linear and continuous. Thorax colored like prima-
ries. Beneath with double lines and a discal dot on both wings; less distinct
on primaries, and where, in dark specimens, the markings are sometimes lost.
Male antennae ciliate, thickening at base towards the middle, before which is
a very minute tuft, not very sensibly nodose or crooked. % fore tibiae with a
dense dark testaceous fascicle of hairs, which can be extended. Expanse, 35
to 40 m. m.

Habitat. — Atlantic District (Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia).

The largest, most variable and richest colored of our species, and
one which reminds us a little of Renia discoloralis. The transverse
lines are always true to their specific characters, but the presence or
absence of the median and accessory deep brown shades makes a great
difference in the general appearance of specimens. Sometimes the m.
shade and brown shadings accompanying the ordinary lines are en-
tirely obsolete.

Herininia morbidalis, Guence. — % 9- — Whitish grey sparsely sprin-
kled with olivaceous scales. Lines olivaceous, distinct. T. a. line a little ir-
regular, continued, sometimes nearly even when it is also more diffuse. Reni-
form diffuse and well sized, olivaceous. The median shade is not always ap-
parent; in some specimens it may be noticed, appearing as a diffuse preceding
shade approximate to the t. p. line, widening inferiorly. T. p. line roundedly
projected beyond the disc where it is sometimes notched, of the usual shape.
Subterminal line distinctive, being composed of a series of blackish V-shaped
nervular marks edged outwardly by sagittate white shades, the points accumi-
nate on the veins which, on the terminal space beyond, tend to be marked by
pale scales. A series of minute nervular black points. Secondaries paler,
with the peculiar subterminal line of the primaries less distinctly continued,
and a fainter internal line and discal mark. Palpi with the elongated second
article straight; in the male obliquely ascending, third joint recurved; in the
female directed more straightly forwards. Male fore tibiae with a pale ochra-
ceous tuft. In this species the wings are ample; the external margin of pri-
maries full and rounded. Expanse, 30 to 35 ni m.

Habitat. — New York, Pennsylvania.

Early recognized by the sagittate subterminal line of the wings
above.

Herminia petlipilalis, Guen.ee. — % 9 . — Pale powdery olivaceous
griseous. Lines narrow, even, dark olivaceous, T. a. line outwardly projected
on subcostal nervure. Reniform spot faint, curved, linear. T. p. line some-
what acutely projected opposite the disc, otherwise of the usual appearance,

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tending to be a little broader marked on costa. Subterminal obliquely rigid,
linear, running from the extreme apices to internal margin within the angle,
without accompanying paler shades, single. Usually this line is obliterate
before the apices. Apical fringe touched with dark olivaceous; costal edge at
apex with a small whitish mark. Secondaries pulverulent, rather darker than
usual, with double transverse lines, the outer with external pale shade and
angulated before anal angle; discal mark faint. Palpi recurved in both sexes,
second joint bent, appearing a little shorter in the female. Male fore tibiae
with a brush of blackish hairs not retractile as in the preceding species. Ex-
panse, 28 to 32, m. m.

Habitat. — New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia.

Superficially this species resembles the European H. barhalis. The
palpi are, however, differently held and shorter. The 2nd joint is
straight in H. morbidalis and H. barbalis, where, in the female, the
palpi are nearly straightly projected. The subterminal line is simple
in H. pedipilalis; the lines are finer and the secondaries darker than
in the European H. barbalis.

Herminia crnralis, Guencc—% 9 .—Pale ochreous brownish or dark
testaceous, with a light reflection. Wings proportionately short.; external
margin of primaries evenly rounded. All the lines dark, narrow, distinct.
T. a. line perpendicular, even. T. p. line of the usual shape, nearly even, a
little notched on the extra discal projection. Subterminal rigid, distinct, even,
continued, running from costa before the apex to internal margin within the
angle, succeeded by a very narrow, pale lined shade. Minute marginal linear
points. Secondaries with double continuous lines. Beneath the wings are pale
with powdery darker scales and double propinquitous powdery lines ; black
discal dots on both wings. Male fore tibiae with a fascicle of long scales, out-
wardly stained with blackish. Male antennae nodose. Expanse, 27 to 30 m. m.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania.

In color and appearance this species resembles the European H. tarsi-
plumalis, but is shorter winged and brighter tinted. As remarked by
M. Gruenee, the course of the t. p. line is similar to that in the much
slighter H. grisealis.

Herminia marcidilinea, Grote.— % 9. —A little larger and stouter
than H. cruralis. Similarly colored and ornamented, but the squamation is
more pulverulent. Lines hardly so distinct; t. a. line narrowly dentated or
notched. Subterminal line running as in H. cruralis, but the line itself is ob-
solete, or nearly so, and an even, well marked, very pale shade replaces it,
running across both wings. In its secondary sexual characters this species
agrees with H. cruralis. Expanse, 31 to 33 m, m.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania, Alabama.

Closely allied to H. cruralis, but distinguishable from the different

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appearance of the transverse lines of the wings ahove. The specimen
from Alabama is a little darker colored, somewhat olivaceous. The
squamation of the wings above in H. marcidilinea is powdery, with an
admixture of pale scales.

Herminia obscuripennis, Grote. — % 9- — Both pair of wings above
are obscure dark blackish brown, the primaries with a violaceous reflection.
Course of the darker lines as in H. cruralis, but the t. p. line is more bent in-
feriorly. Antennae nodose; fore tibia with a retractile fascicle of testaceous
scales. Body concolorous. Expanse, 25 to 30 m. m.

Habitat. — Central Alabama.

Three specimens, taken at Demopolis, at once differ from allied
species by their obscure blackish color. The 9 is smallest.

Herminia oclireipennis, Grote. — % 9. — Pale testaceous, shaded ter-
minally with bright rusty ochraceous. The female has the wings entirely of
the latter color. Ornamentation resembling that of H. cruralis. The t. a. line
is waved and arcuated. T. p. line dentate and waved, much as in H. marcidi-
linea. Discal spot evident. Subterminal line rigid, followed by a pale linear
shade, broadly marked. Secondaries pale, with powdery dark and ochrey
scales. The two transverse lines unusually wide apart. Beneath with double
propinquitous lines and distinct discal marks. Male antennae strongly nodose
and crooked; male fore tibiae with exaggerated bright testaceous retractile
tufts. Expanse, 28 to 33 m. m.

Habitat. — West Virginia, Pennsylvania.

While the pattern of ornamentation is that of the preceding species,
H. oclireipennis differs by its more intense coloration, somewhat squarer
primaries, the exaggerated male tibial tufts, while it is a little stouter
and in its general appearance very distinctive.

gg S. g. PHILOMETRA, Grote.
Herminia serratieornis, Grote.— % .—Wings ample; primaries with
the costa a little depressed centrally, rising to the apices, below which the
rounded external margin is a little depressed. Brownish ochreous; primaries
with brown lines. T. a. line waved. Median shade very prominent, broad
and diffuse, obscuring the discal mark. T. p. line a little irregular, waved,
plainly notched opposite the disc on its exerted portion. Subterminal line
prominent, shaded, twice inwardly angulated, touched with blackish before
the apices. Terminal broken line barely noticeable. Secondaries powdered
with blackish, nearly as dark as primaries, with double transverse shade lines.
Beneath with double external propinquitous shaded lines and discal dots.
Antennae rather long, without nodosity, shortly pectinate; pectinations gradu-
ally decreasing to the tips. Fore legs with a brush of blackish hair. Palpi

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long, obliquely ascending, a little bent and recurved at tips. Expanse, 26 to
28 m. m.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania, Virginia.

The broad median shade is characteristic of the present and follow-
ing species. Rubbed specimens easily lose the narrow ordinary lines,
leaving the diffuse median shade and subterminal line alone evident.

Herminia longilabris, Grote. — % 9 • — Slighter and more slender
than H. serraticornis ; coloration and ornamentation similar. Male antennae
lengthily pectinate; in both sexes relatively short. Labial palpi very long,
projected forwards, divaricate. Median lines narrow, shaped as in H. serrati-
cornis, but more even. Median shade diffuse and prominent; subterminal
line more linear, less angulated than in H. serraticornis. Beneath more yel-
lowish, brighter stained, with a straighter and fainter external and a propin-
quitous bent and distinct interior line. Male fore tibiae not tufted. Expanse,
23 to 26 m. m.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania, Virginia.

Very easily distinguished by the above characters. When, by any
accident, the palpi are broken off, the insect looks very much like a
Geometer.

RENIA, Guenee.

Renia alutalis, Grote. — 9 . — Brown. Primaries pale leather brown,
evenly colored. T. a. line straight, single, linear, faint, in the 'J, probably
more distinct. Beniform concolorous, with two black dots, the lower the larger.
Median shade even, diffuse, apparent below reniform. T. p. line linear, irregu-
lar waved, marked on costa, else faint. Subterminal line determinate, consist-
ing of a strongly marked preceding blackish shade, shaped as in allied species,
and a faint following line. Terminal series of nervular dots distinct. Second-
aries fuscous, paler within, crossed by two faint lines, corresponding to the t. p.
and s. t. lines of the primaries as usual, with the even terminal border darkest
and the space between the lines (corresponding with the subterminal space of
fore wings) the palest. Palpi projected; thorax concolorous with primaries.
Legs brownish with the tibiae blackish. Beneath, both wings resemble upper
surface of secondaries. Expanse 32 mm.

Habitat. — Philadelphia. (Bunte).

This species has the outline of R. brevirostralis, 9 , is perhaps a little
larger and differently colored. I regret not to know the % , as in this
genus both sexes should be observed, but I can have no doubt that it
belongs here.

Reilia plenilinealis, Grote.— 9 .— Ochreous brown shaded with black-
ish brown from the costa downwardly. Ornamentation distinct; lines black-
ish. T. a. line even, gently sinuate. Median shade diffuse, nearly straight,
obscuring the reniform which is indicated by two superposed black dots some-
times fused into a black lunate mark. T. p. line fine, regularly lunulated, but

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pastoralis Grote.
Belfragei Grote.

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slightly projected beyond the cell. Subterminal line pale, preceded by an
evident blackish coincident shade. A neat terminal series of interspaceal
black marks. Secondaries blackish fuscous; the t. p. line continued, distinctly
relieved by a pale shade inferiorly. A subterminal line preoeded by a darker
shade analogous to the s. t. line of primaries. Beneath paler, both wings
similar, with continued transverse lines distinct, the subterminal preceded by
a distinct blackish shade; discal black dots. Expanse, 25 m. m.

Habitat. — Philadelphia, (Bunte).

Outline of allied species, but differing in color and in the distinct
ornamentation. Palpi projected, compressedly fringed, 2nd article
elongated, while the 3rd is porrected at right angles. My specimens
are all females ; without a knowledge of the male, so that the antenual
structure can be noted, I do not feel certain of its generic position.

The following is a list of the North American species of Renia:

discoloralis Guenee. i restrictalis Grote.

Hypena fallacialis, Walk. j centralis Grote.

brevirostralis Grote.
alutalis Grote.
pltnilinealis Grote.
larvalis Grote.

In my previous paper, on page 27 of this volume, the observation
relative to the appearance of the t. p. line in this genus, contained in
the first four lines on that page, applies to Renia pastoralis and R.
Belfragei. It is mistakenly printed before the description of R. cen-
tralis. The t. p. line is even, geminate and sinuate in the two last
named species of Renia. In the rest it is less conspicuous, irregular,
linear, dentate or waved, tending to be marked by dots on the veins.
In appearance R. larvalis, R. restrictalis and R. centralis are blackish
with indistinct markings ; R. restrictalis the narrowest, most glossy
and darkest.

HYPENA, Treitschke.

In the collection before me I separate fourteen species of Hypena
from the Atlantic District. I have seen in the British Museum
specimens referable to this genus and recorded under specific names
that I here enumerate without having again identified the species.
While Mr. Walker's Hypena fallacialis is a redescription of Renia
discoloralis Guenee, his other species not recorded here are, for one
cause or another, unentitled to acceptance in our Lists.

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Hypena citata, Grote. — 9- — ® nr smallest species with a casual resem-
blance to the European H. antiqualis, but more nearly allied to the succeeding
species. Apices of primaries determinate, external margin roundedly exserted
at extremity of median nervules; fringes rather long, cut at extremity of
the veins. Blackish, washed with whitish, indistinctly marked, somewhat
speckled. At base downward along internal margin obliquely to t. p. line the
forewings are pale, dull brownish ; orbicular a black scale dot. T. p. line dis-
tinctive, nearly perpendicular, continued, outwardly a little irregularly waved,
whitish with an inner olivaceous brownish marginal line. Rsniform annulate
with pale center touching the t. p. line at extremity of disc. A very indistinct
minutely dentate arcuate subterminal line. A diffuse oblique whitish apical
6hade; costal anteapical white marks. Terminal line black, broken on the
veins, interspaceal, preceded by a coincident white line. Kervules tending to
be marked by white scales. Hind wings blackish, concolorous, dark; fringes
interrupted with a paler shade. Beneath both wings like secondaries above.
Body parts pale beneath, dark above ; labial palpi with the second thickly
scaled joint elongated. Expanse, 19 m. in.

Habitat. — Alabama; August.

A similar inception of the t. p. line on costa may be traced in H.
evanidalis and H. humuli, but the line is continuous and everywhere
distinct in H. citata.

Hypena evanidalis, Robinson.— % 9 . — I think that the " lighter rusty-
brown " specimens mentioned by Harris in his description of H. humuli, refer
to this form which may, indeed, not be specifically distinct from the following,
than which it seems a little smaller. Light dusty ruddy brownish with a
more or less evident apical blackish shade. A dull blackish costal patch
above the discal cell ; on this are two separate pairs of superposed raised scale
dots. An angulated pale line at extremity of cell. A subterminal series of
small dots opposite terminal interspaceal black points. Hind wings rather
pale with paler fringes. Labial palpi elongated. Expanse, 28 to 30 m. m.

Habitat. — Eastern and Middle States.

Resembles the European Hypena rostralis, but differs by the more
even, less sinuate external margins of the wing

Hypena liumuli, Harris. — % 9 • — Darker and larger than the foregoing,
I think Harris' " dusky or blackish brown " specimens are to be referred here.
The fore wings are marbled and obscurely colored. The ornamentation is seen
with difficulty, but it consists of raised scale dots and the angulated extra dis-
cal line as in H. evanidalis, from which it may not be distinct. Harris' figure
in the "Insects Injurious to Vegetation " undoubtedly represents this form
and not the preceding. On the whole this species rather resembles the Euro-
pean H. obsitalis, though narrower winged and darker, and, with H. evani-
dalis, quite unlike H. rostralis in the shape of the wings. Expanse, 30 m. m.

Habitat. — Throughout the Atlantic District; I have a specimen
from Alabama.

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Hypena ereotalis, Guence. — % 9- — Bright blackish brown with ashen
shade and raised scales in lines and dots. Discal and submedian black longi-
tudinal lines or dashes more or less evident. Extra discal angulate line of
dark raised scales, followed by a pale shade, distinct and continued. Sub-
terminal dentate line followed by pale coincident shade evident on the dark
terminal ground color of the wing which is neatly limited superiorly by the
oblique apical shade. A continued dark terminal line preceded by pale diffuse
terminal points. Hind wings very dark fuscous. Expanse, 30 to 32 m. m.

Habitat. — Throughout the Atlantic District.

A well marked form of this species is :
a. Hypena subrufalis.

In both sexes a ferruginous shade fills in the lower half of the wing
to the extra-discal or transverse posterior line and renders the dentate
transverse anterior line apparent interiorly. It tinges both lines and
the terminal space, leaving the costo-apical region ashen as in the
type. The discal and submedian dashes are obsolete. The superior
portion of the primaries above the ferruginous shade is of a dull sooty
black. Else it agrees well with type and occurs as commonly.

Hypena seabra, Fabricius, sp. — % $. — Larger than H. erectalis, with
very wide secondaries. Uniformly darker, more obscurely colored. Eaised
scales in dots and lines as in the preceding species. The primaries have an
.even somewhat olivaceous blackish appearance, with a slight ashen wash sub-
terminally and apically. Expanse, 32 to 34 m. m.

Habitat. — Very common throughout the Atlantic District.

Hypena baltimoralis, Guence.— % 9.— This is the American repre-
sentative of the European H. crassalis. The primaries are rich brown from
the base to the t. p. line leaving the internal margin usually pale. The brown
color is produced downwardly near the t. p. line. The line is uneven, pro-
jected opposite the disc, thence running inwardly, instead of being continued
perpendicularly for a space as in H. crassalis. Beneath the subterminal line
is indicated by a single whitish dot below costa where in H. crassalis are
usually two. H. baltimoralis varies much in depth of color, and while in
some specimens the brown basal patch contrasts forcibly, in others the ter-
minal space is nearly equally dark colored. The brown color varies in tint.
These darker specimens seem to be analogous to the var. terricollalis of the
European H. crassalis. Expanse, 32 to 34 m. m.

Habitat. — Canada, Eastern and Middle States ; quite common.
The male has been described by Mr. Walker, under the name of
benignalis.

Hypena abalienalis, Walker. — % 9 • — Quite nearly resembles the
dark var. of H. baltimoralis. The primaries are entirely blackish to the
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over m. nervules and is more even than usual. Basal whitish line sometimes
apparent. Subterminal line white, angulate, appearing interlaced with t. p.
line and reminding us of Cidaria atricolorata. Expanse, 26 to 30 m. m.
Habitat. — Same localities with the preceding.

Hypena bijugalis, Walker. — % 9 . — Primaries with a brown basal patch
like H. baltimoralis, than which this is a somewhat smaller species. The t. p.
line is distinctively shaped ; it is nearly perpendicular, twice scalloped, pro-
jected most prominently and shortly over median nervules. Subterminal line
an undulated series of distinct dots. Following the t. p. line the wing is palest
shaded; in dark specimens with a violet wash. Varies in tint. Expanse, 21
to 31 m. m.

Habitat. — Eastern, Middle and Southern States.

Hypena manalis. Walker. — % 9 . — Smaller than the preceding species.
A median oblique olive brown patch extending downwardly from costa, mar-
gined inwardly by the even strongly outward oblique t. a. line, and outwardly
by t. p. line, which is similar to t. a. line in appearance, but roundedly project-
ed over m. nervules, thence inwardly oblique nearly joining t. a. line at lower
angle of the median patch. Elsewhere the primaries show a purplish reflec-
tion. Subapical blotches or dash very obvious. S. t. line dotted. A minute
raised scale dot on the cell, in place of orbicular, on the dark patch. Expanse,
23 to 25 m. m.

Habitat. — Canada, New York; altogether rarer than the preceding
and our prettiest species.

Hypena madefactalis, Guenee. — % 9- — •*■ broad winged species,
colored like the foregoing, but less intensely and brightly. Primaries olivace-
ous brown to t. p. line which is nearly perpendicular, continued, a little waved,
variable in evenness. The t. a. line perceptable, not pale like the t. p. line but
darker shaded than basal space. Orbicular dot more or less evident. T. p.
line followed by purplish washings. Subapical blotches variable in distinctness.
Subterminal shades and lines inconspicuous. Beneath wing and body are
ochrey tinted, former with obsolete markings. Expanse, 30 to 32 m. m.

Habitat. — New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia.

Guenee describes from a figure of Abbot's. I think this is the species
intended, but there are slight discrepancies in the two descriptions.

Hypeua toreuta, Grote. — (=internalis \\ Robinson.)
This species is described in a previous paper. Mr. Robinson's des-
criptive term had been used by Guenee for another species. With
the succeeding the external margin of primaries is unusually rounded.

Hypena sordidula, Grote. — % .— Size and color and form of H. toreuta.
Sooty black, powdered with grey scales. The ordinary lines are faintly ap-
parent, nearly perpendiclar, brought into relief by pale powderings, waved or
undulate. T. p. line usually marked by pale scales on costa. Several ante-

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apical minute pale costal dots. Fringes interrupted with whitish on both
wings, short. Secondaries deep blackish, with black discal dot apparent. Be-
neath paler, dusted with pale scales, without markings, except terminal lines
as on upper surface and discal marks. Expanse, 30 m. m.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania.

Differs from Hypena ioreuta at first sight by the absence of the pale
patch on internal margin.

Hypena profeeta, Grote.— %. — A large species with the costa of prima-
ries depressed. Blackish brown with a very faint purplish lustre. Median
space the darkest, denned by the darker shaded, nearly perpendicular, waved
or uneven median lines faintly relieved by pale scales. Subterminal lines
faint. Fringe on both wings blackish; secondaries concolorous, without marks.
Beneath a little paler with shaded discal dot and diffuse common exterior line.
Body concolorous ; antennae somewhat pale. Expanse, 35 m. m.

Habitat. — Pennsylvania; agrees with H. deceptalis in the shape
of the wings, but an obscurely marked species with diffuse shaded
lines.

Hypena deceptalis. Walker. — % £. — Blackish brown. Wings wide;
costa depressed; apices produced. Fore wings with two distinct continued
even propinquitous sub-parallel pale or white median lines; the t. a. slightly
angulated at costa and again less evidently at vein 1 ; the t. p. line a little bent
on m. nervules opposite the cell ; an indistinct subterminal series of darker
shadings. Median space darker than the wing elsewhere, tolerably narrow ;
ordinary spots obsolete. Hind wings unicolorous, a little paler than primaries :
beneath both wings paler than above. Body colored as wings; antennae tes-
taceous. Expanse, 32 to 38 m. m.

Habitat. — West Virginia, Canada (the small specimens) " No. 625."

DESDERATA:
Hypena ediotalis, Walker.
" A large species with marbled primaries."

Hypena danmosalis, Walker.

"Related to H. edictalis; the outer line is pale margined, regularly
scalloped."

TORTRICODES, Guenee.

Of a single species inhabiting our Territory I have specimens
before me which are apparently all males. These are characterized
by an extraordinary semicircular deep cut in the external margin at
about the middle and which divides the primary wing into two lobes.
The parts are not widely separated and the edges are fringed, so that

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we can imagine the margin to be abnormally drawn in. The neura-
tion is aberrant in consequence. The full secondaries have the cell
incompletely closed. Vein 5 is removed from 3 and 4 at base and
originates from the closure of the cell before the median fold. This
neuration agrees with that exhibited by what is here considered as a
second species with undivided wings, but what is in all probability
the normal female form of this remarkable genus. From all the
species described by Guenee ours differ at once by the absence of cos-
tal tufts; but the neuration agrees, on the whole, with Guenee's des-
cription, and I must consider our forms correctly referred here.

Tortricodes bifidalis, Grote. — % .—Light, rather dull brown. Ou
eosta at base a trace of the basal half-line. T. a. line even, margining in-
wardly a diffuse deep brownish shade which extends over the median space
anteriorly and fades towards the linear median shade line. Reniform small,
pale centered, sometimes divided into two pale dots. T. p. line blackish, linear,
like median shade in appearance, slightly projected below costa, inwardly
curved at vein 1, a little irregular, less distinct towards internal margin. Sub-
terminal line very distinct at costa where it is brought into relief by pale
scales and forms a prominent exerted acute tooth on the upper lobe. The in-
ternal margin of the upper lobe shows a black dot at its middle, and the ex-
tremity of the fissure is touched with black. A blackish apical shade. Second-
aries fuscous with inconspicuous discal marks and double transverse lines
relieved by paler shades; beneath the discal dot is black and distinct and the
lines more evident; the inner black, denticulate. Head and appendages and
thorax above concolorous with primaries. Abdomen like secondaries with a
series of darker dorsal segmentary shades. Expanse, 25 m. m.

Habitat, — Atlantic District (New York to Texas).

I have taken this species at Hastings, N. Y., on June the 18th.

Neither the present nor the following show any costal hair tuft on
on the primaries like that characterizing the Brazilian and West In-
dian species described by M, Guenee. Our species differs from the
description of T. orneodalis from Guadaloupe in many respects such
as color, the presence of the distinct subterminal line and in all the
details of the ornamentation and size.

What appears a second species exists in the collection and occurs iu
the same localities, but at first sight, by its color and style of ornamen-
tation and size, this suggests an affinity with the preceding species.
And as I see that Guenee records his 2nd group of the genus as want-
ing the characteristic cut of the fore wings, I can consider this species
as not differing generically from T. bifidalis.

There is no vestige of a cut on the primaries, which have the out-

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106 AUG. R. GROTE.

line and appearance of Heterogramma, as illustrated by Gruenee. It
corresponds with that genus in the absence of accessory cell on the
primaries and the course of veins 6, 7 and 8, which are thrown off on
the external margin from the same stalk. Veins 3, 4 and 5 are equi-
distant and approximate at base. The cell is closed and there is a
cellular fuld. But on the secondaries vein 5 is not " recurved and
touching median nervure," since it issues from the discal cross-vein
and is but little slighter. It is not continuous, however, with tbe
discal fold, but is thrown off from the cross-vein nearer the median
nervure. Veins 6 and 7 are furcate opposite to 3 and 4. The an-
tennae are without peculiarity, slender. The palpi agree with those
of T. bifidalis, being divaricate, bent upwardly and held free from the
head. Structurally the difference between the two seem to be con-
fined to the primary wings.

Tortricodes indivisalis, Grote. — 9- — kight brown, a little variable
in color, some specimens being darker. T. a. line perpendicular, followed by
a diffuse dark broad shade as in T. bifidalis. Median shade broadly linear,
waved, copying the t. p. line, which latter is narrower, inwardly angulated on
the disc and again on submedian fold. Subterminal line very distinct, pre-
ceded by a distinct diffuse deep brown shade, followed by a narrow coinciding
atomical pale line, copying in its course the t. p. line, deeply augulate opposite
the cell ; at its inception this angulation mimics that of this same line on the
upper lobe in T. bifidalis. An apical shade. Apices acuminate and the ex-
ternal margin produced at extremity of median nervules. Secondaries pale
testaceous blackish with an inner dark line and outer geminate linear pale and
dark shade lines. Beneath with double minutely dentate distinct common
lines, the inner somewhat undulate or irregular. Discal dots, as are the lin^s
most distinct on secondaries. Expanse, 22 to 25 m. m.

Habitat. — New York, Alabama.

On a critical comparison T. indivisalis differs from T. bifidalis by
the course of the t. p. line, which, in that species, after the costal an-
gulation, descends perpendicularly to submedian interspace, whereas
it is here angulated on the disc and mimics the subterminal. The gen-
eral color is brighter, the diffuse shade which follows the t. a. line is
not so dark, while the wing at base is paler than elsewhere and in-
creases the resemblance of the two forms. In T. bifidalis, after the
first very distinct outward oblique stroke of the subterminal, the line
becomes nearly lost and its after-course, skirting the base of the inci-
sion, can hardly be determined, but it appears to descend weakly to
internal margin. The hind wings and under-surface agree in the two
forms, which I am inclined to consider as merely sexes of one species,

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with the fore wings cleft in the male. And with four specimens of T.
bifidalis before me and eight of T. indivisalis, I cannot but be sure
that most, if not all, of my T. bifidalis are males, and of my T. indivi-
salis, females. The differences in the appearance of the two forms
seem after all to be merely owing to the cleft in the wings of one;
though the shade of color is not quite the same and the course of the
t. p. line constantly differs. The dark colored maculate legs seem to
be similar in appearance in both species while the armature seems
alike; both forms have a single long spur at the extremity of the
middle tibiae. I shall then not be disappointed that the two prove to
be sexual forms of one species. Guenee had only males before him
with cleft wings, and speaks doubtfully of the probable sexual peculi-
arities of the female. If T. bifidalis and T. indivisalis are £ and 9,
the sexual secondary characters will be confined to the primaries.

CLANYMA, Guenee.
Two species of this genus are described by Guenee from our Terri-
tory and specimens are contained in the collection before me. These
are notable from exaggeration of the labial palpi, which, in the female,
are thickly scaled and extended forwards and are longer than the
head and thorax together ; the 3rd article is held at right angles with
the elongated second, small, distinct, subspatulate, porrect. In the
male they are thrown backwards over the head and thorax, closely ap-
plied and furnished with a large hidden tuft of light-colored hair
capable of expansion.

Clanyma angulalis, Hubner, sp.— % £. — Primaries brownish frosted
with pale slightly purplish scales; colors bright. A narrow blackish half-line;
t. a. line similar, inwardly oblique, outwardly waved. A minute orbicular dot.
Median shade obsolete superiorly, forming an inwardly oblique very promi-
nent deep brown shade streak below the disc to internal margin. Eeniform
well sized, deep brown, approximate inferiorly to the linear t. p. line, which
latter resembles the t. a. line in appearance, a little irregular, projected oppo-
site the disc. Subterminal line diffuse, followed by a distinct whitish shade,
perpendicular, a little jagged or dentated. Costal region at apices with a brown
shade below which, on external margin, is a bright yellowish shade patch. A
narrow continued terminal line; the fringes are obsoletely spotted with brown-
ish. Secondaries pale ochreous, darker shaded inferiorly, the t. p. line of the
primaries continuous. A diffuse subterminal line followed by a whitish shade
at the angle. Beneath with powdered dark scales and double lines on both
wings; discal dot on secondaries evident. Expanse, 24 to 28 m. m.

Habitat. — Massachusetts to Alabama.

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Clanyina asopialis, Guence— %.— Deep purplish brown or blackish.
T. a. line with a pale interior shade. Median shade diffuse, filling up the
anterior half of the median space below m. nervure, narrowly obliquely con-
tinued to costa superiorly just within and touching the circular reniform spot
which is divided by a pale streak. T. p. line a little diffusly shaded, especially
inwardly interiorly. Subterminal a little diffuse with a distinct pale shade,
projected and angulated, touching the middle of external margin, dentated and
geminate. A dark spot on the external margin. Hind wings blackish, very
pale along costal region, with double diffuse transverse lines, the subterminal
touched with whitish at anal angle, % palpal tufts deep testaceous. The costa
of primaries is more depressed, apices more acuminate than in C. angulalis,
than which this is a smaller darker and more compactly built species : the %
abdomen is notably more reflexed. Expanse, 20 to 23 m. m.

Habitat. — New i'ork to Alabama.

Guenee's description is based on defective material and is at best
comparative. But tbis is undoubtedly bis species, recognizable from
tbe cbaracter assigned to tbe reniform spot.

I bave now identified all of Guenee's descriptions of Deltoidae from
our Territory, witb tbe exception of Rivula propinqualis. Tbe species
referred by Guenee to Helta, will be described in a succeeding paper.

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Synopsis of the MAIiACHIIDJE of the luited States.

BY GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

The following synopsis of our Malachiidae contains all the species
known to me as inhabiting our territory. Collops is not included, as
a descriptive catalogue has already been presented in the preceding
volume of these Transactions.

The following table will enable our genera to be readily recognized.
All the genera have eleven-jointed antennae :

Anterior tarsi % 4-jointed.

Head long; first joint of antennae cylindrical Tropliimiis.

Head short; first joint of antennae deformed Teiiinopsophiis.

Anterior tarsi 5-jointed in both sexes.

Elytra very short; body apterous in both sexes.

Second joint of anterior tarsus £, prolonged over third Eildeodes.

Elytra covering abdomen or nearly so.
Antennae inserted on the front nearly between the eyes.

Second joint of anterior tarsus % not prolonged Malachius.

Second joint slightly covering the third.

Head elongate Tanaops.

Antennae inserted at anterior edge of front near the sides.
Anterior tarsus of male simple, joint 2 not prolonged.
Form elongate, legs long; females apterous.

Anterior tarsi % stouter than in female Micro! ipus.

Form broad, legs moderate; female winged.
Anterior tarsi similar in the sexes.

Elytra similar in the sexes Anthocoinus.

Elytra prolonged and appendiculate in % Pseudebwus.

Anterior tarsi with second joint prolonged over the third.

Elytra similar in the sexes Attain*.

In the above table MalacMus includes Hapalorhinus ; Microlipus
includes also Charopus, sp. Lee. List; Pseudebxus contains the
species under Ebscus in the List; Attains includes Acletus, Lee. In
the determination of the genera the course indicated by Duval has
been followed. In a previous paper I intimated that some of our
species of Attains might be Ebseus, under the impression that the
second joint was prolonged obliquely inwards. There appears to be a
greater degree of motion between the second aud third joints of the

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anterior male tarsus than is usual among coleoptera, so that joints o. I
and 5 are frequently at right angles to the two preceding joints, while
the prolongation of the second joint seems thus to be directed ob-
liquely inwards. In every instance, however, the process is found to
be canaliculate beneath for the reception of tbe third joint, and speci-
mens of the same species are before me, some with the tarsal joints
all in line, others with the last three oblique to the others. In the
accompanying diagrams the upper two
cuts represent the anterior male tarsus of
Attalus as seen directly from above and
also from the side and slightly beneath.
This is the form seen in our fauna. The
lower two cuts show the tarsus of Ebseus
with the oblique prolongation of the second
^xp^j v jr^"' joint. Avletus does not essentially differ from
^^^ ~~*^— : ^' Attalus. The process of the second joint is,
Wy f however, shorter and the antennae more dis-

tinctly serrate in the male than in the other
species of Attalus, but these seem scarcely to
warrant generic separation. As Duval observed
very little reliance can be placed on characters drawn from the extent
of the coriaceous margin of the front, or from similar structure in the
ventral segments.

Mkrolipus differs from Charopus in having the anterior tarsal
joints of male nearly of equal size, and stouter than is usual in the
group.

Of the genera above cited Endeodes, Tanaops and Microllpus are
peculiar to the Pacific region, the first being found oniy along the sea-
coast. Malachius contains one introduced species, four from the
Pacific and one from Dacota. Anthocomus and Pseudebseus are
peculiar to the Atlantic region. Trophimus and Temnopsophus have
each but one species, while Attalus is found in every portion of our
fauna, many of its Pacific forms assuming the elongate head of Tanaops.

TROPHIMUS, Horn.

Trophimus, Horn, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 84.

T. SCiieipennis, Horn, loc. cit., p. 85. — Head elongated black, shining.
Thorax reddish yellow with small black spot near middle of anterior margin.
Elytra black with aeneous tinge. Legs black. Length .12 — .14 inch; 3 — 3.5
mm.

Collected in Colorado.

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The genus Trophimm is the representative in our fauna of the
European Troghps and Homceodipnus, but resembles more nearly
Cephalagonia Wollast. as well in form as in most of its characters, it
differs from the latter, however, in the third joint of the antenna?
being shorter than the fourth and the first tarsal joint long. This
genus and the following are the only ones with 11-jointed antenna?,
in which the anterior tarsi differ in the sexes in the number of their
joints.

TEMtf OPSOPHUS, n. g.
Head short obtuse in front. Eyes prominent. Antenna? nearly as
long as the entire body, eleven-jointed; first joint longer than the two
following together, stout, very slender at base
and with a short process from the anterior
margin projecting inwardly; joints 2-10 equal,
joint eleven longer than the tenth ; insertion
at the anterior margin of front. Maxillary
palpi moderately long, first joint slender, sec-
ond globular, emarginate on the proximal
side to receive the third which is triaugular
and thick. Anterior tarsi four-jointed in the
male. Elytra entire.

This represents in our fttuna the genus
Colotes of Europe, from which it may readily
be distinguished by the form of the basal
joint of the antennae and the form of the
palpi.

T. bimaculatus, n. sp. — Piceous, shining.
Head piceous, anterior margin of front yellowish,
vertex with slight linear impression, surface sparselv
punctulate and finely alutaceous. Antennae pale yellowish, tip darker. Thorax
oval, in front broadly rounded, apex truncate, sides rounded in front and con-
verging to apex, color piceous, shining, apex paler, surface punctulate and
finely alutaceous. Elytra piceous with large yellow spot behind the humerus
joining the margin which is also narrowly margined with yellow, apex pale
testaceous gradually joining the darker color of the rest of the surface; form
oval, rapidly widening behind; surface rather coarsely but sparsely punctured.
Body beneath piceous. Legs pale brownish- testaceous, femora at base paler.
Body winged. Length .08 inch; 2 mm.

The elytra are broadest near the apical three-fourths and are
nearly twice as broad at this point as at base. The thorax resembles
in form that of Endeodes.

One specimen % in the cabinet of Mr. H. Ulke from Louisiana.

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In the very greatly magnified representation the antennae are much
too short. The detached figure in front of the head is the maxillary
palpus, the penultimate joint being concave to receive a corresponding
convexity of the terminal joint.

E\DEODES. Lee.

Endeodes, Lee. Arcana . . atura, 1859, p. 122.

This genus is the only one in our fauna with the elytra so abbrevi-
ated as not to cover the greater part of the abdomen. Our species are
found along the California sea coast, and may be known as follow* :

Body entirely ferruginous.

Elytra opaque black, basal margin ferruginous b:es;alis.

Body almost entirely black; thorax ferruginous; elytra black.

Head, antenna? and legs ferruginous ab ilominalis.

Head, antennse and legs black oollaris.

E. basalis, Lee. (Ateksius) Proc. Acad. 1853, 168.

This species is entirely ferruginous except the elytra which are
opaque, nearly black, with the basal margin ferruginous and some-
times a narrow sutural and lateral space of the same color. Length
.14 inch ; 3.5 mm.

E. abrtominalis, Lee. loc. cit.

In this species the abdomen, under posterior of body and elytra are
black, the head, thorax, antennae and legs ferruginous. It otherwise
resembles the preceding. Length .1 1 inch ; 3.5 mm.

E. collaris. Lee loc. cit. — Head, antennae, legs, elytra and abdomen black.
Thorax red and more shining and usually broader than in either of the pre-
ceding species, with which it otherwise agrees in form. The black color has a
slight tinge of blue. Length .14 — .22 inch; 3.5 — 5.5 mm. (The latter measure-
ment is that of an unusually large female.)

The genus Endeodes may be known by its short elytra, apterous
body, five-jointed tarsi, the anterior pair rather shorter than usual and
the second joint % prolonged aver the third, as in Attains, and con-
cave beneath. They were originally described as Atelestus.

JIALAC'HIUS, Fab.
Malachius, Fab. Syst. Ent. 1775, p. 207.
Sapalorhinus, Lee. Proc. Acad. 1859, p. 75.

Tarsi all five-jointed, simple in both sexes. Head short, antennaj
inserted nearly between the eyes.
Our species may be thus arranged:

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Antennae serrate in the males.

Elytra simple at tip in the two sexes.

Second joint of antennas similar in length and form to third sciiciis.

Second joint of antennae much shorter than the third biguttulus.

Elytra appendiculate in the male auritus.

Antennae pectinate in the males.

Elytra appendiculate in the male mirandus.

Elytra not appendiculate in the male.

Elytra shining blue, tipped with yellow mi \1 sis.

Elytra black Ulkei.

]M. sene.US, Linn. Fauna Suecc. 1761, 202; Erichs. Mon. 66.— The head and
thorax are metallic green, the labrum and apical angles of thorax pale yellow-
ish. The elytra are in great part red, with a common triangular metallic green
space, including the entire base of the elytra, the sides converging to a point
near the appex. The under surface is black with a metallic tinge and the
legs similar in color to the thorax. Length .24 — .32 inch; 6 — S mm.

Occurs in the New Pingland States. Au introduced species in our
fauna.

M. auritus, Lee. Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 165. — Head and antennae black. Tho-
rax rufous with large discal black spot, occasionally with lateral margins only
rufous. Elytra bluish, sub-opaque, rarely with a greenish tinge, surface with
usually two indistinct costae; tip in male, of similar color to the remainder of
surface, appendiculate; female tipped with rufous. Under surface and legs
black with faint metallic tinge. Length .20 — .30 inch ; 5 — 7.5 mm.
Occurs in California and Oregon.

M. biguttulus, Horn, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870' p. 87. — Head and antennae
black. Thorax black, shining, with a tinge of green. Elytra metallic blue,
shining, with a small yellow smooth spot on each near the apex. Legs and
under surface black with a slight tinge of blue. Length .14 inch ; 35 mm.

Resembles mirandus in form, but has a totally black thorax, more
shining and not appendiculate elytra. In all our native species of
Malachius the second joint of the antennae in both sexes is smaller
than the third and usually of an oval form.

One specimen from Fort Tejon, California.

M. lllixtus, n. sp. — Head black, very shining, smooth and with a slight
longitudinal impression within the antennae. Antennae black, strongly pecti-
nate in the males and strongly serrate in the females. Thorax somewhat broader
than long, very smooth and shining, black, lateral margin red. Elytra slightly
broader at base than the thorax and feebly expanding to apex; color brilliant
blue, shining, apices in both sexes tipped with reddish yellow; surface slightly
scabrous. Under surface and legs black, with tinge of blue. Length .14 — .18
inch ; 3.5 — 4.5 mm.

Two specimens from California. The female resembles that of
auritus, but is much more shining and has its antennas very nearly as
strongly serrate as those of the male of that species. From mirandus

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it differs in its greater lustre and by the males of latter having the
elytral apex appendiculate.

M. mi rami us, Lee. (JETapalorhinus) Proc. Acad. 1859, p. 75. — Head black,
front slightly impressed, smooth, shining. Antennae black, strongly pectinate
in the males, serrate in the females. Thorax smooth, shining black, sides and
occasionally apex, broadly margined with yellowish red. Elytra scarcely
shining, variable in color from ochreous to blue, frequently of the former color
clouded with the later. Apex paler and smoother, appendiculate in the males.
Body beneath black, tinged with blue. Legs black, hind tibise and middle
knees yellowish. Length .16 inch; 4 mm.

There need be no difficulty in distinguishing this species from the
preceding, by the color of the hind tibiae alone, even in doubtful
cases. In some unusually large specimens the aspect is that of
auritus, but there are many characters serving to distinguish the
latter.

This species is widely distributed in California, but most abundant
at Fort Tejon on the flowers of various Leguuiinosae.

IH. Ulkei, n. sp. — Black, feebly shining, sparsely clothed with cinereous
pubescence. Head black, with slight vertical impression. Antennae black,
strongly pectinate from the fourth joint, third joint triangular. Thorax
broader than long, sides fully rounded, surface punctulate and sub-opaque,
sides broadly margined with yellow. Elytra black, feebly shining, surface
scabrous, sides parallel, broadly rounded at tip. Body beneath black, shining.
Legs black. Length .14 inch ; 3.5 mm.

Resembles Anthocomiis Erichsonii, Lee, but has the pectinate an-
tennae inserted as in the other species of this genus.

One specimen from Dacota, kindly loaned, with many other species.
by Mr. II. Ulke, to whom it is dedicated.

TANAOPS, Lee.

Tanaops, Lee. Proc. Acad. 1859, 74.

Caphalistes, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1859, pt. iv., p. 209.

This genus appears to occupy an intermediate position to the Mala-
chii on the one hand and the Attali on the other, not only in the
position of the antennae but also in the form of the anterior tarsus of
the male. The latter is described by LeConte as having the first
two joints thicker than the following, and by Motschulsky as longer.
Both of these facts are true, but the second joint is very distinctly
prolonged over the third, although to a very slight extent. The two
species vary in the structure of the abdomen.

T. abdominalis, Lee. Proc. Acad. 1859, p. 74.— Black with slight tinge
of blue, shining, sparsely clothed with short black hairs. Head elongate,
front slightly impressed, anterior margin of epistome membranous. Antennas

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black, ferruginous at base, serrate, longer than half the body. Thorax slightly-
broader than long and somewhat narrower in front, surface smooth shining,
sides broadly margined with rufous. Elytra slightly broader behind, shining,
surface punctulate and slightly wrinkled, color black with slight tinge of blue,
lateral margin, apex and suture (except at base) margined with reddish-yellow.
Legs black, femora and coxae yellow. Length .16 inch ; 4 mm.

Male. — Body beneath entirely yellow, sides of metasternum brown. Ab-
dominal segments entire, the last three with reniform excavations deeper in
the terminal which has also within the excavation a cup-like process. Second
anterior tarsal joint prolonged slightly over the third.

Female. — Body beneath black, abdomen yellow. Abdominal segments, ex-
cept the last two, interrupted at middle, terminal segment black.

Occurs in various parts of southern California.

T. longiceps, Lee. (Malachius) Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 165; (Tanaops) Proc.
Acad. 1859, p. 74; apicalis Motsch. (Cephalistes) Bull. Mosc. 1859, iv., p. 409, pi.
4, fig. 28; unicolor Motsch. loc. cit. p. 410. Resembles the preceding in form
and sculpture and differs as follows; Epistoma in front of insertion of antenna
membranous. Thorax totally black, rarely with hind angles paler. Lateral
margin of elytra near apex only, apex and suture at apical half rufous.
Length .14 — .16 inch; 3.5 — 4 mm.

Male. — Antennae more distinctly serrate. Abdomen with last two segments
with two rounded foveas separated in a similar manner. Body beneath and
legs black, anterior trochanters yellow.

Female. — Last two abdominal segments entire, penultimate elevated along the
middle, anterior segments membranous at middle.

This species is variable in the extent of the paler margining of the
elytra. The two species of Motschulsky are examples of this, and I
have but little doubt in uniting them with the species of LeConte,
which has but a few months' priority and was not known to Motsch-
ulsky.

Occurs with the preceding species in California.
T. longiceps and abdominalis may always be distinguished by the
extent of the membranous margin of the epistoma, the former has
the membrane extending to the point of insertion of the antennae, so
that the ring in front is incomplete, while the latter has the antennal
insertion completely surrounded by a corneous ring although very
narrow in front.

MICRO LIPUS, Lee.

Microlipus, Lee. Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 168.

M. laticeps, Lee. loc. cit. — Elongate, aeneous black, moderately shining,
finely cinereo-pubescent. Head with two frontal and one vertical impression,
anterior portion of epistoma membranous, yellow. Antennae black, three
basal joints on the under side pale yellow. Thorax broader than long, sub-
opaque, finely granulate and punctured, entire margin narrowly bordered with
yellow. Elytra slightly rugose, greenish-black tipped with yellow, and not

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appendiculate in the male. Body winged % , beneath and legs black, anterior
and middle coxae and bases of their femora yellowish. Length .14 inch; 3.5
mm.

Occurs in California. Males only known.

M. {Charopus) uniformis, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1859, iv., p. 405,
described from the female, may possibly be identical with this one.
The description applies quite well to what might be the female of
laticeps excepting that no mention is made of the very fine thoracic
yellow margin.

M. lsevieollis, n. sp. — Elongate, bluish-green. Head shining, smooth,
front feebly impressed. Antennae black, four basal joints paler beneath.
Thorax broader than long, black with tinge of green, smooth shining, margin
at hind angles reflexed. Elytra parallel % , bluish-green, moderately shining,
surface finely scabrous, apex tinged with yellow, but not appendiculate. Body
beneath and femora black, shining, tinged with green, tibiae and tarsi piceous.
Length .14 inch; 3.5 mm.

One specimen from Nebraska in the cabinet of Mr. H. Ulke, easily
distinguishable from all our species by the smooth and shining head
and thorax. The thorax is proportionately broader than any of our
species, unicolored, and the margin more broadly reflexed at the hind
angles.

JI. mcereilS, Lee. (Charopus) Proc. Acad. 1859, p. 283; (MicroUpus) Class.
Col. N. Am. p. 192.

This species resembles laticeps in color, sculpture and size, and dif-
fers in the thorax being somewhat larger, more narrowed behind and
truncate at apex with the basal angle yellowish. The tips of the
elytra are yellow and appendiculate in the males. The females are
apterous and the sides of the elytra diverge toward the apex. The
tips are broadly rounded not appendiculate nor yellow, and the surface
less rugose than in the males. Length .12 — .14 inch; 3 — 3.5 mm.

Occurs in California.

M. longicollis, Motsch. {Charopus), Bull. Mosc. 1859, iv., p. 41)5. Lee.
(MicroUpus) Class. Col. N. Am. p. 192.— Black, with slight tinge of blue, sub-
opaque. Thorax longer than wide, sides nearly straight, converging to base
which is nearly truncate, median broad band black, sides broadly rufous.
Elytra elongate parallel, at tip yellowish and appendiculate in the males,
broadly rounded in the females. Body beneath black, shining, with slight
seneous tinge. Length .14 — .lfi inch; 3.5—4 mm.

One specimen of each sex is before me from Motschulsky, by whom
they were obtained from California.

From the short descriptions given it may be seen that the following
table exhibits the differences between the species :

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Elytra not appendiculate in the males.

Thorax finely punctured, sub-opaque, scarcely wider than long...Iaticeps.

Thorax smooth, shining, distinctly wider than long lsevicollis.

Elytra appendiculate in males.

Thorax not longer than wide, its hind angles only yellow moerens.

Thorax longer than wide, sides broadly rufous longicollis.

Microlipus resembles Malachius in form and general aspect, but tbe
species are more slender and tbe legs longer. The antennae are
scarcely serrate and are inserted at the sides near the anterior margin
of front. The sexual characters serve also as a means of readily dis-
tinguishing Microlipus from all the other genera of the tribe in our
fauna.

ASfTHOCOMUS, Erichs.
Anthocomus, Erichs. Entomog. i., 1840, p. 97.

This genus may be distinguished from any in our fauna by its
eleven-jointed antennas inserted at the sides of the front, nearly or
quite at the anterior margin; tarsi simple and similar in both sexes;
elytra appendiculate in the males, not unlike those of the other sex in
form.

There need be no difficulty in distinguishing the species of this
genus from those of the next, as in the latter the species are all small,
the epistoma much narrower between the insertion of the antennas and
the elytra of the males obliquely prolonged, tipped with yellow and
with a hook-like process above.

A. Erichsonii, Lee. Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 165; otiosus % Er. Entom. p. 99;
lateralis, Lee. loc. cit. — Head black with tinge of green, shining, front impressed.
Antennse piceous, under side of four basal joints testaceous. Thorax broader
than long, sides broadly margined with yellow, median space black with tinge
of green, surface sparsely punctulate and with few greyish hairs. Elytra
parallel, black with bluish or fuliginous tinge, surface finely punctured and
rugulose and sparsely clothed with cinereous hairs. Under surface and femora
black, with slight greenish tinge, tibiae, tarsi and anterior coxae piceous.
Length .14 — .16 inch ; 3.5 — 4 mm.
Abundant in the Middle States.

A. flavilabris, Say {Malachius), Journ. Acad. Ser. i., vol. v., p. 169; Lee.
(Anthoc.) Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 166; cceruleus Rand. (Malach.) Bost. Journ. ii.,
p. 16.

Resembles the preceding species in form and size, but the color is
more decidedly blue, and the thorax entirely unicolored and nearly
black.

Females only are known. Occurs from the Middle to the Eastern
States.

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A. veiltralis, n. sp. — Head black, with greenish lustre, smooth, shining,
front impressed. Antennae pieeous, basal joints beneath paler. Thorax one-
half broader than long, smooth, shining, entirely yellowish-red. Elytra black,
punctulate and finely rugose. Under side of thorax and abdomen yellow,
metasternum black with tinge of green. Hinder legs entirely black, middle
and anterior femora pieeous, the under side testaceous. Length .14 inch ;
3.5 mm.

Resembles the two preceding in form, but may readily be known by
the entirely yellowish-red thorax and yellow abdomen.

Two specimens in Cabinet of Mr. H. Ulke, from Arizona.

PSEUDEB.EUS, n. g.

In this genus must be placed all our species hitherto called
Ebsew, one of them only having been known to Erichson. The rea-
sons which have compelled me to confer a new generic name have
already been given in the preceding portion of this essay. Having
simple tarsi in both sexes it must be placed near Anthocomus from
which it differs by the prolonged elytral apices always pale in the male
and with an obtuse hook on the upper side. The same sex also pre-
sents peculiarities in the terminal segments, which will be adverted to
in their proper places. Abdominal segments in both sexes entirely
corneous.

The species are four in number, and may be distinguished in the
following manner :

Last segment of abdomen % yellow, deeply grooved longitudinally and deeply
emarginate at tip.

Thorax yellow apicalis.

Thorax black oblitus.

Last segment of abdomen % black, not grooved, slightly emarginate at tip.

Thorax yellow bicolor.

Thorax black pusillus.

P. apicalis, Say, (Malachius) Journ. Acad. Ser. i. v., p. 170; Erichs.
(Ebceus) Entom. 119; minutus Mels. (Malack.) Proc. Acad, ii., 305.— Black with
tinge of blue. Thorax and legs pale yellowish testaceous. Head pieeous or
black. Antennae pale testaceous, terminal joints pieeous. Thorax broader
than long, sides gradually narrowed to base. Elytra slightly broader at base
than thorax, gradually dilated behind, sinuate near the tip and prolonged in
the male, broadly dilated and obtusely rounded at apex in the female. Body
beneath black. Length .07 % ,— .09 J inch; 1.75—2.25 mm.

Male. — Terminal abdominal segment yellow, prolonged, broadly and deeply
channelled and deeply emarginate at tip.

Female. — Terminal segment one-half broader than long, sub-triangular.
Occurs in the Middle and Southern States.

The males are comparatively slender in their form and the apical
fourth tipped with yellow. The females have the elytra much broader

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and at the broadest part nearly equal to one and a half times the
width of the base.

P. bicolor, Lee. (Ebceus) Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 167. — Similar to the preced-
ing, but with the thorax more rounded on the sides, scarcely narrowed to base
and shorter. Head yellowish-red but darker than the thorax.

Male. — Terminal abdominal segment black, not prolonged nor grooved,
broadly emarginate at tip. Elytra yellow at tip.

Female. — Terminal segment broadly oval at tip.

Similar in size and color to apicalis and occurring with it.

P. ptisillus. Say (Malachius) Journ. Acad. Ser. i. v., p. 170; Lee. (Ebceus)
Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 167.

Resembles bicolor in form, but has the upper surface entirely black.
Legs pale yellowish testaceous, femora at base piceous.

In sexual characters this species resembles bicolor, but the terminal
segment in the male appears to be nearly rounded and not emarginate.

P. oblitus, Lee. (Ebceus) Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 167.

Color above totally black, antennae at base and legs pale yellowish
testaceous. Resembles pusillus in color, but has the thorax somewhat
narrowed behind as in apicalis. Agrees with the latter also in its
sexual characters, having the terminal abdominal segment of the male
prolonged, channelled and deeply emarginate at tip, as well as pale
yellowish testaceous in color.

Similar in size to apicalis. Occurs from Canada to Georgia.

ATTAINS, Er.

Attalus, Er. Entom. i., 1840, p. 89.
Acletus, Lee. Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 167.
Scalopterus, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1859, iv., p. 406.

This genus is well denned in our fauna and may be distinguished
from all those with similar antennal insertion by the dissimilarity of
the tarsi in the two sexes; the second joint of the anterior tarsus of
the male being prolonged over the third and grooved beneath. As
has been already noticed in the beginning of this essay there exists a
very great freedom of motion between the second and third joints so
that while the first two joints may be in a line with the tibiae the last
three may be bent inwards at a right angle.

The species of this genus are numerous and difficult to separate, the
following table will assist in their determination :
Head elongate (as in Tanaops) longer than wide. Front nearly flat.
Thorax entirely rufous.

Head entirely black; elytra sub-opaque rostratus.

Occiput only black; elytra shining trimaculatus.

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Thorax with median black space.

Elytra shining, pale yellow, with broad black median vitta narrowed or

interrupted at middle oregoneusis.

Head broad, front convex.

Body above unicolored, black. (Exception made of a narrow pale margin at
tip of elytra or base of thorax.)

Antennae strongly serrate, or almost sub-pectinate % mgrellus.

Antennae. moderately serrate.

Lateral and apical margins of elytra bordered with a paler color.

Thorax with pale apical margin, apex of elytra bordered with tes-
taceous basalis.

Thorax entirely black.

Apical margin bordered with a narrowyellow space, % .tcrminalis.
Apical margin livid testaceous, extending obliquely along the

suture varians.

Lateral and apical margins not pale.

Legs all pale testaceous (species small broadly oval) grauularis.

Legs black, at least the middle and posterior.

Body black shining, legs and antennas black morula*.

Body black, elytra sooty, front legs andclypeus pale....pallifrous.
Body above bicolored or almost entirely rufous.
Head and thorax concolored, pale rufous.

Elytra entirely black, shining melanopterus.

Elytra pale rufous with small humeral black spot humeralis.

Elytra pale rufous with an apical and basal black spot.

Tibise and tarsi black. Elytra dull parallelus.

Tibiae and tarsi pale yellowish. Elytra shining I'ettiti.

Elytra bluish-black, suture and apex rufous rufiventris.

Head black, thorax either margined, entirely rufous or nearly black.
Elytra entirely black. Thorax usually entirely rufous.

Legs entirely black. Elytra shining Iligripes.

Anterior and middle tibise pale. Elytra sooty Otiosus.

Elytra black, margin of suture pale or rufous.
Thorax with discal black spot. Elytral limb and suture narrowly
bordered with yellow.

Abdomen black circumscriptum.

Abdomen rufous rufiveiltris var.

Thorax in great part black.
Abdomen pale yellow ciiictus.

,,,,,. f difficilis.

Abdomen black i . . ...

■ lobulatus.

Elytra livid testaceous.

Suture and margin often black scincetus.

From the above table the only known species omitted is A. (Sca-

hpterus) rufomarginatus, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1859, iv., p. 406; a

species from California resembling in general aspect Tcmaops abdomi-

nalis, Lee, and possibly closely allied to A. oregonensis.

In the " List," p. 53, LeConte notes A. Jiavifrons, Lee. There is no

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such species described, but in Dejean's Catalogue, edit, iii., p. 122,
may be found Anthocomus flavifrons, to which LeConte makes refer-
ence, Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 165, without, however, adding any descrip-
tion. There is but, the merest wreck of a specimen bearing this name
in LeConte's Cabinet, and it appears to be merely Anthocomus Erich-
sonii with a rufous front. At all events the name should be entirely
dropped until the species to which the name is applicable shall have
been described.

An examination of the above table will show two very well defined
groups into which the genus is primarily divided. The first resembles
Tanaops in many of its characters and indicates to the student the
difficulty of defining genera with any great degree of accuracy in this
family. In the group with broader and shorter heads the tendency is
( toward Malachius, although in this direction other points of difference
occur, that render the separation, much easier of definition.

A. rostratus, n. sp. — Head black, shining, very sparsely punctured, in
length greater than the thorax, and one-half longer than broad. Antennae
black, two basal joints piceous, longer than the head and thorax. Thorax pale
rufous, one-third broader than long and slightly broader behind, sides feebly
arcuate, base less so, margin reflexed behind and at base, and narrowly colored
with black, surface shining. Elytra at base broader than thorax, sides gradu-
ally divergent behind, surface sparsely punctured and feebly rugose; color in
great part blackish with lateral margin, apex and suture except at basal third
pale yellowish. Body beneath and legs black shining; thorax beneath and
abdomen pale rufous, terminal joint of latter black. Length (including head)
.18 inch ; 4.5 mm.

The head and thorax together are shorter than the elytra. The
surface above and beneath is sparsely clothed with short black hairs.
The form of elytral marking is very common in our species and the
relations of the pale margin and black enclosed space are variable. In
most species the black is reduced to a stripe, very narrow and some-
times divided at middle so as to form four spots, and in this case the
sutural pale space is apt to extend to the base.

One specimen from Keyesville, California, found feeding on the
flowers of iEsculus.

A. trimaculatus, Motsch. (Scalopterus) Bull. Mosc. 1859, iv., p. 407;
elegans, Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 86.

I have no doubt that the species described by me is the same as
that described by Motschulsky. It may easily be distinguished from
any of our species by its elongate head with the front rufous and the
vertex and occiput black, the rufous thorax and the more shining

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122 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

surface. The elytral spots are well defined and in all my specimens are
the same, consisting of a broad but short common scutellar black spot,
and an oval spot near the tip equidistant from apex, margin and suture.
It is also more sleuder than any other of our species. Length .16
inch ; 4 mm.

Occurs with the preceding and is not rare.

A. oregonensis, n. sp. — Head black, anterior margin of front rufous.
Thorax slightly broader than long, slightly narrower behind, varying in color
from rufous with median black space, to nearly black with margins and basal
angles narrowly rufous ; surface shining. Elytra shining, slightly rugulose,
pale yellowish with median black vitta on each, broader at base and apex and
very narrow at middle. Legs black, femora at basal half testaceous; thorax
and abdomen beneath pale yellowish, the latter tipped with black. Length
.10 inch; 2.5 mm.

The markings of the elytra vary as is indicated in the remarks
under rostratus, the majority of the specimens have the black vitta
almost divided and in one specimen in which the thorax is nearly
black, the yellow margin is reduced to a minimum.
Collected in Southern Oregon, by Mr. Wm. M. Gabb.

A. nigrcllus, Lee. (Acletus), Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 167.

I cannot find any valid differences between the type of this species
and the genus Attains. The antennae have joints more acutely tri-
angular with the angles more prolonged than is usual in the genus.
The second tarsal joint is oblique to those following it in the unique
before me, but the position is merely one of accident, such as has
already been referred to.

The species is totally black with feeble lustre. The thorax broader
than long, the angles all rounded, the hinder slightly reflexed. The
elytra are subqrarallel and somewhat rugose as in many of the species.
Length .12 inch ; 3 mm.

Occurs in the Lake Superior region.

A. basal is. Lee. (Anthocomus), Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 166; Lee. List (Attalus),
p. 54. — A small piceous black, shining species, almost as much dilated behind
as granularis, with the base of the thorax margined with yellow. In the male
the apex and a small portion of the sides and suture are also bordered with
yellow. Legs varying from piceous to testaceous. Body beneath black.
Length .06 inch; 1.5 mm.

Occurs in the Colorado Desert and Lower California.

A. terillinalis, Er. (Anthocomus), Entom. p. 108; Lee. (Attalu.s), List, p.
54; hecmorrhoidalis, Motsch. (Scalopterus) Bull. Mosc. 1859, iv., p. 408.— A small
species totally black above, shining and sparsely pubescent. The tips of the

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male elytra and a narrow space along their sides, not attaining the humeri,
are bordered with yellow. The legs are black, except usually the anterior pair
and frequently the middle tibiae which are pale testaceous. Length .10 inch;
2.5 mm.

Occurs in the Middle and Southern States.

A. varum*, n. sp. — Piceous, shining, sparsely pubescent. Head black
shining, anterior margin of front testaceous. Antennas brownish testaceous.
Thorax broader than long, sides feebly rounded, slightly narrowed to base
which is broadly rounded ; color black, shining and nearly smooth. Elytra
slightly wider at base than thorax, sides divergent, color piceous, lateral mar-
gin, tip and apex of suture pale yellowish testaceous. Body beneath piceous.
Legs pale yellowish testaceous, hind femora piceous. Length .08 — .10 inch;
2— 2.5 mm.

In this species the elytra are piceous, the tips pale testaceous with
the latter color extending along the suture without involving the mar-
gin. In two specimens before me there is in addition to the apical
space a juxta-sutural small spot a short distance behind the scutellum.
There need be no difficulty in distinguishing this from the forms of
scincetus as in the latter the hind angles of the thorax at least are
margined with yellow and the livid color of the elytra is reduced to
an oblique vitta extending from the humerus to the apex of suture.
In one specimen of varians the elytra are entirely piceous except a
very narrow lateral and apical margin.

Occurs iu Texas and Louisiana. Three specimens in the Cabinet of
Mr. H. Ulke.

A. granularis, Er. (Anthocomus), Entom. i., p. 112; Lee. (Attalus), List,
p. 54.

Our smallest species, easily known by its broadly oval form, the
elytra of the female being very nearly as broad as long. Color piceous.
Legs pale testaceous. Length .04 — .06 inch; 1 — 1.5 mm.

Occurs only in the Southern States.

A. morulas, Lee. (Menus), Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 167.— Totally black, shi-
ning, and with very little pubescence. The abdomen is piceous, the segments
at their margins paler. Legs piceous or black, the anterior pair somewhat
paler. Length .10 inch; 2.5 mm.

This species is widely distributed, occurring from Canada to Dis-
trict of Columbia and thence westward to Kansas.

A. pallifii-ons, iviotsch. (Anthocomus), Bull. Mosc. 1859, iv., p. 408; Lee.
(Attalus) List, p. 58. — A more elongate species than the preceding, with the
head and thorax alone shining; elytra sub-opaque and with a sooty appear-
ance and distinctly pubescent. The anterior margin of front and rarely the
hind angles of the elytra are testaceous. Anterior legs pale testaceous, middle
and hind femora piceous and their tibiae paler. Length .14 inch ; 3.5 mm.

124 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

Very distinct by the characters given in the table and is more
sleuder than is usual in the broad headed group of the genus.
Its geographical distribution corresponds with the preceding.

A. melaiiopterus, Erichs. (Anthocomus),'Entoraog.i.,p. 110. — Head, tho-
rax and abdomen pale rufous. Elytra and body beneath black. Legs pale
rufous, hind femora at tip piceous. Surface shining and scarcely pubescent.
Length .10 inch; 2.5 mm.

A very distinct species of which I have seen but one specimen in
the Cabinet of Mr. Ulke.

Occurs in Tennessee.

A. liumeralis, Lee. New Species, p. 94. — Pale rufous. Antennae brown-
ish at tip. Elytra with small humeral black spot. Pectus piceous. Anterior
and middle legs pale rufous, hind legs piceo-testaceous. Length .12 inch ;
3 mm.

The above characters will readily distinguish this from any known
species.

One specimen from Illinois.

A. parallelus, n. sp. — Form parallel, sub-cylindrical, sparsely pubes-
cent. Head rufous, front slightly impressed, shining. Antennae piceous,
under side of basal joints paler. Thorax rufous with small black spot at mid-
dle of anterior margin, one-third broader than long, sides and hind angles
broadly rounded, surface shining. Scutellum rufous. Elytra parallel, scarcely
broader at base than thorax, surface sub-opaque, rufous, with humeral and sub-
apical spot black. Body beneath rufous, metasternum piceous. Legs black,
under side of anterior and base of hinder femora pale testaceous. Length .12
inch; 3 mm.

This species is readily known by its coloration and its parallel form,
all our other species being more or less dilated behind.

One specimen collected in central Texas, by Mr. Belfrage.

A. I*ettiti, n. sp. — Head rufous shining, front slightly impressed. An-
tennae piceous, basal joints paler. Thorax rufous, shining, broader than Ions;,
sides and base conjointly arcuate. Elytra broader at base than thorax, dilated
behind, rufous, shining and with humeral and large apical spot black. Body
beneath pale rufous, metasternum black. Legs pale rufo-testaceous, hind
femora, except at tips, piceous. Length .08 inch; 2 mm.

A species recalling trimaculatus. The elytra are more black than
rufous and might be described as "black with suture, apical margin
and transverse band in front of middle rufous."

It may be known from the preceding species by the more shining
surface and the elytra dilated behind as is usual in the genus.

One specimen in my cabinet from Canada, presented by Mr. John-
son Pettit.

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A. rufiventris, n. sp. — Head rufous, shining. Antennee piceous with
the four basal joints paler beneath. Thorax rufous, shining, one-third broader
than long and slightly narrowed in front, sides rounded, base more broadly
rounded. Elytra bluish-black with slightly glaucous lustre, very sparsely
pubescent; entire suture and apex margined with rufous. Body beneath pale
rufous, metathorax and tip of abdomen black. Anterior femora beneath, and
bases of the other femora testaceous, tibiae and femora piceous. Length .12 — .16
inch ; 3 — 4 mm.

Variety. — Occiput and narrow median thoracic stripe black.

This species resembles circumscriptus, but may be distinguished at
all times by the rufous abdomen. In some specimens the occiput and
narrow discal thoracic space are black, increasing by this variation the
resemblance between the two. Rarely the sides of the elytra have a
very narrow rufous margin, but never extending to base.

Occurs from Ohio to Texas.

A. nigripes, Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 85.

The description of this species having been published so recently it
is hardly necessary to recapitulate. It is more slender than otfosus,
more shining and with entirely black legs. Length .08 — .10 inch;
2 — 2.5 mm.

Occurs in Colorado.

A. otiOSUS, Say. (Malachius), Am. Ent. (Edit., Lee.) vol. i., p. 109, pi. 48,
fig. 3; nigripennis || Say. Journ. Ac. iii., p. 184; nigripennis, Er. (Anthocomus),
Entom. 108; Lee. (Attalus), List, p. 53.— Body black, abdominal segments mar-
gined* with testaceous. Head black, anteriorly pale yellow. Thorax pale ru-
fous, rarely with a narrow median black stripe. Elytra black, sparsely
pubescent and feebly shining. Anterior legs and under side of middle femora
pale testaceous, middle tibiae and hind legs piceous. Length .12 inch; 3 mm.
A rather robust form widely distributed over our Atlantic region.
The original name under which it was described might with propriety
be restored in the present genus, although some confusion might arise,
as it is already so widely known under the name subsecpuently sug-
gested by the original describer.

A. circumscriptus, Say. (Malachius), Journ. Acad, iii., p. 185; Erichs.
(Anthocomus), Entom., p. 107; Lee. (Attalus), List, p. 53. — Body black. Head
black, labrum pale testaceous. Thorax with large discal black spot, margins
pale testaceous. Elytra black, sub-opaque, lateral and apical margins and
suture bordered with yellow. Anterior and middle femora pale beneath, above
piceous; anterior tibiae testaceous; middle tibiae and hind legs piceous.
Length .12 inch ; 3 mm.

This species appears to be almost entirely conflned to the extreme
Southern States. The characters in the table and those above briefly
given will distinguish it from any of our species.

126 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

A. cinctns, Lee. (Anthocomus), Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 166; {Attains), List, p.
53. — Black, abdomen pale yellow. Head black, anteriorly pale yellow. Thorax
black, shining, base narrowly margined with yellow. Elytra black, slightly
pubescent, lateral and apical margins and suture narrowly bordered with yel-
low. Legs pale yellowish testaceous. Length .12 inch; 3 mm.
Occurs near Fort Yuma, California.

A. difiicilis, Lee. (Anthocomus), Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 166; (Attalus), List,
p. 54.

Closely allied to the preceding and differs as follows : Body beneath
and abdomen black. Thorax at base and sides narrowly bordered
with yellow. Elytra black, glaucous, not (?) pubescent, suture at
base, apex and lateral margin near humerus bordered with yellow.
Legs as in circumscriptus. Length .14 inch; 3.5 mm.

Occurs with the preceding.

A. lobulatus, Lee. List, p. 54; lobatus || Lee. (Anthocomus), Proc. Acad.
1852, p. 166.

One of our smallest species, closely allied to the preceding two, but
rather more slender and with the sides of the elytra, apex and suture
more broadly margined with yellow. The head is sometimes totally
black, and the thorax at sides more broadly yellow. The legs are
pale testaceous. Length .07 inch; 2 mm.

Occurs on the borders of the Colorado Desert of California.

A. seincetus. Say, (Malachius), Journ. Acad, v., p. 170; Erichs. (Antho-
comus), Entom. p. 109; Lee. Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 166; Lee. (Attalus), List, p.
54 ; infuscatus, Motsch. (Scalopterus), Bull. Mosc. 1859, iv., p. 407.

A species easily known by its livid testaceous color. Head usually
black, anteriorly testaceous. Thorax with discal spot black. Elytra
livid, suture and lateral margins often brownish. Body beneath and
legs yellowish, metasternum black. Length .12 inch; 3 mm.

The sutural and lateral brownish spaces become at times broader so
that the pale color is reduced to a narrow oblique stripe from the
humerus to apex, and in this case forms the variety infuscatus.

Rather abundant over our entire territory east of the Rocky Moun-
tains.

One species I have not been able to place in any of the preceding
genera.

Ebseus submarginatus, Lee. Proc. Acad. 1852, p. 167; List (Ebozusl)
p. 54. — Longiusculus, seneo-niger, tenuiter pubescens, thorace subtiliter alu-
taceo, non transverso, versus basin angustato, basi rotundata obsolete rufes-
cente, elytris vix dilatatis depressiusculis, obsolete rugosis, abdomine breviori-
bus. Long. .06 unc. ; 1.5 mm.

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One specimen, Colorado River, California. The antennae and tibiae
are testaceous at base.

The specimen from which the above description was drawn is a
female and remains unique. It does not resemble any of the genera
in our fauna. The form of thorax is that of Endeodes or Temnopso-
phus. I prefer calling attention to it as of a doubtful genus to plac-
ing it (with views to the contrary) in any genus in our fauna.

The It III-: VI'll 1 1> . 1-1 or the United States.

BY GEORGE H. HORN, M. D.

The species are few within our faunal limits, and no territory in
the world of equal size is probably as poorly represented in this family.
One species only inhabits the United States and the portion of the
Continent to the north, the remaining species being from the penin-
sula of Lower California and resemble those from the adjacent regions
of Mexico, and are inserted in the present paper to render our know-
ledge of the fauna of that region more complete.

Two genera occur in our fauna, representing two groups as defined
by Lacordaire.

Thorax convex above, not channelled Kupsalis.

Thorax depressed, deeply channelled Itreiitlius.

EUPSAL.IS, Lac.

Lacordaire, Genera vii.. p. 430.

This genus represents the Arrhenodides of Lacordaire, distinguished
by the conical thorax not compressed in front, the antennae moder-
ately robust, but not terminated by a club. Head transverse, mandi-
bles prominent. Among the genera of the group, Eupsalis is known
by its short and broad rostrum, the broad head, the femora slender
and cylindrical at base. It is closely allied to Arrhenodes, in which
our species had been placed, but differs by the hind angles of the
head being effaced, and the surface shining.

E. maxillosus, Oliv. (Brentus) Ent. v. 84, p. 443, No. 17, pi. 1, fig. 1. c % ,
also, pi. 2., fig. 17, a % , b $. Lac. {Eupsalis) loc. cit; septe.ntrion.is Hbst.,
{Brentus) Col. vii., p. 183, No. 5, pi. 107, fig. 5, % . — Color variable from nearly
black to rufous. Thorax oval slightly longer than broad, apex truncate, sides
gradually divergent, base constricted ; surface smooth convex, very sparsely
punctulate. Elytra robust, more than twice as long as wide, slightly narrow-

128 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

ing to apex which is rotundato-truncate ; surface deeply striate, strife punc-
tured, those nearest the suture very indistinctly ; intervals convex; color usu-
ally somewhat paler than the thorax and with yellowish-white spaces irregu-
larly placed, consisting usually of a basal series containing a longer stripe on
the third and a short stripe on the fifth interval, an ante-median sinuous
transverse band consisting of short stripes on the intervals, a post-median
band, and a few sub-apical stripes. Body beneath black, shining. Length,
including rostrum, .34 — .80 inch; 9 — 20 mm.

Male. — Rostrum stout, basal portion shorter than the apical, apex broader
than base, mandibles large, prominent. Basal portion of rostrum above with
deep concavity, at sides with two fossae immediately in front of each eye.
Apical portion with carina on each side, surface sparsely tuberculate. Femora
of each pair of legs with a small spine near the apex. First two abdominal
segments deeply grooved at middle.

Female. — Rostrum slender, basal portion very short. Basal portion with
fossa immediately behind the insertion of the antennae and on each side two
impressions in front of each eye. Apical portion slender, cylindrical. Femora
all with small spine near apex. First two abdominal segments with feeble
median line.

Occurs from Canada to Texas, and westward to Nebraska.

BRENTIIUS, Fab.
Fabricius, Mantis. Ins. i. p. 95.

The species of this genus are (in our faunal limits) all from the
Peninsula of Lower California.

The following table will enable the species to be recognized :

Thorax of usual form, elongate, conical.

Dorsal channel deep, entire; femora all dentate % 9 peiliiisularis.

Dorsal channel shallow, basal; anterior femora toothed lucailUS $.

Thorax broadly constricted at middle.

Dorsal channel moderate, not extending in front of constriction.

Anterior femora alone toothed % lucailUS %.

B. peiliiisularis, n. sp. — Brownish black, shining. Head obconical,
constricted and quadrituberculate at base. Thorax elongate conical, con-
stricted at base, above depressed and deeply channelled in nearly its entire
length, the more deeply near base and gradually evanescent toward the apex;
surface finely and very sparsely punctured. Elytra longer than the thorax,
dorsum flattened, surface deeply striate, the first and second deeper at apical
three-fourths, strife punctured, intervals convex, with few very fine punctures
the third interval at apex with short yellow line one-fourth the length of
the elytra, the fourth interval yellow, beginning opposite the end of the pre-
ceding lineole and extending to base and not dilated, eighth interval yellow
extending as far as that of the fourth, but not attaining the humerus, and with
a short lineole on the ninth interval corresponding with that of the third.
Femora of both sexes with a small spine near their apices. Body beneath
black, shining, smooth along the middle, coarsely punctured at the sides, last
three abdominal segments coarsely punctured, but more sparsely at middle.

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Hind femora one-fourth shorter than the abdomen. Length .50 — 1.10 inch ;
13—28 mm.

Male. — Rostrum and head one-third longer than thorax, basal portion longer
than the apical, slightly compressed and near antennal insertion slightly ex-
planate, apical portion slender, slightly dilated at apex. First two abdominal
segments sulcate, sulcus extending forward on the metasternum nearly to the
middle coxae. Hind femur with acute spine at basal fourth, longer than the
apical. Hind tibia flattened arcuate, inner edge deeply sinuate and with
moderately long hairs.

Female. — Head and rostrum always equal to, rarely longer than, the thorax,
basal portion of rostrum shorter than the apical and in regular cone, apical
portion slender and cylindrical. Hind femur with a single spur, hind tibia
straight. Abdomen as in the male.

Resembles B. mexicanus, Sch.,but the dorsal channel of the thorax
is very much deeper. In the female of niexicanus there is a spine on
the anterior femur only, and the ninth interval of the elytra has no
liueole at apes.

Numerous specimens were collected at Cape San Lucas, Lower Cali-
fornia, by John Xantus.

B. lucauus, n. sp. — Brownish-black, shining. Head obconical, constrict-
ed at base. Thorax elongate conical, above depressed and moderately chan-
nelled at basal half, surface minutely and sparsely punctulate. Elytra slightly
longer than thorax, deeply striate, strise punctured, and with two yellow lines
on each arranged as in the preceding species, the inner with a small detached
portion at apex and an internal lineole, the outer without external apical
lineole. Body beneath as in peninsularis. Anterior femora with small tooth
near apex, middle and hind femora mutic, the latter not as long as the first
two abdominal segments. Length .40 — .62 inch; 10 — 16 mm.

Male. — Rostrum and head longer than thorax, basal portion longer than the
apical and of slender conical form, apical portion slender cylindrical, feebly
dilated at apex. Thorax broadly constricted at middle. Second segment of
abdomen with faint sulcus.

Female. — Head and rostrum not longer than thorax, basal portion short coni-
cal, apical slender cylindrical and twice as long as basal. Head broader than
in male. Thorax of regular elongate conical form. Abdomen not channelled.

Resembles anclwrago in the sexual difference in the thorax. The
elytra are not appendiculate and not more prolonged in the male than
the female. The females of ancfiorago and luca?ius cannot be distin-
guished.

Collected with the preceding at Cape San Lucas, Lower California,
by John Xantus.

The measurement given in all the species includes the entire length
from tip of rostrum to apex of elytra.

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130 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

Revision of the Species of L.EBI A of the United States.

BY GEORGE H. HORN, M. D.

In the second part of the volume xliii., and the first part of the
volume xliv., of the Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes
de Moscou, Chaudoir has published a review of the species of Lebiidae
as restricted by him. This tribe contains in our fauna only those
species which have heretofore been known under the one generic
name Lebia. Chaudoir proposes to divide the tribe into two primary
portions, as follows :

Lateral lobes of mentum with epilobes Lampriadje.

Lateral lobes of mentum without epilobes Lebiidte verm.

As no mention has ever been made by any author of the " epilobes
of mentum," I translate from Chaudoir's description. "The great
majority of Lebiidae have a mentum of which the lateral lobes are de-
void of that appendage which in the greater number of Carabidae
borders the inner margin of the lateral lobes, and which is separated
by a very distinct suture ; this appendage, which varies in dimension
and form, deserves to receive a name, and I propose that of epilobe for
the same reason that the side pieces of the sternum are called epis-
terua. Although this epilobe is wanting in many Lebiidae it also ex-
ists in a great number."

The first group, Lampriadje, contains in our fauna the genus

L.OXOPEZA, Chaudoir,
which includes all our large species with metallic green or blue elytra
and which may readily be known from all our other species by the
greater or less obliquity of the dilated joints of the anterior tarsus of
the male. The latter character is well defined in all the species.

As thus defined Loxopeza contains the following species :
Fourth joint of hind tarsus deeply emarginate.
Head and thorax rufous.

Elytra deeply striate; antennse pale grandis.

Elytra finely striate; three basal joints only pale atriventris.

Head black, thorax rufous.

Elytra deeply striate; outer joints of antennse darker tricolor.

Fourth joint of hind tarsus feebly emarginate.

Head and thorax rufous; elytra deeply striate majnscula.

Head black, thorax rufous; elytra finely striate atriceps.

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Ii. grandis, Hentz, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. iii., p. 58; Chaud. Bull. Mosc.
1S70, ii., p. 139.

Our largest species, easily distinguished by the characters of the
above table. The head is comparatively smooth, finely wrinkled
within the eyes and a few punctures sparsely placed on the front and
vertex. The antenna are slender and pale, although the outer joints
are darker than the three basal. Thorax nearly twice as wide as long,
with median line distinctly impressed, margin broad and surface finely
transversely strigose. The elytra are blue and with moderate lustre,
the striae deep but not punctured. The body beneath and legs are
pale yellowish testaceous, abdomen black, the first segment usually
paler. Length .38 inch ; 9.5 mm.

Occurs in the Gulf States, also Illinois, Nebraska and southward to
Texas.

Ii. atriTentris, Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ii., p. 13; Dej. Species ii., p.
454; Chaud. loc. cit. p. 142.

Resembles the preceding in miniature, but has the antennae black
excepting the three basal joints. The elytra are also finely striate and
the intervals flat, the striae are also finely punctured. Length .24 —
.28 inch j 6 — 7 mm.

Occurs everywhere in the United States north of the latitude of
Philadelphia and westward to Dacota.

Ii. tricolor, Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ii., p. 11; Dej. Spec, ii., p. 453;
Chaud. loc. cit. p. 140.

Closely resembles in general appearance the preceding species, but
less elongate and with black head and dark epipleurae. The antennae
are similar to those of atriventris. The head is sculptured as in gran-
dis, black, with labrum pale ; elytra deeply striate, color decidedly
green. Color beneath as in grandis. Length .28 — .34 inch; 7 —
8.5 mm.

Occurs in the Middle States northward to Canada.
Ii. majuscula, Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1870, p. 141.

This species so closely resembles grandis that it has, until the essay
by Chaudoir, been confounded with it. The very feebly emarginate
fourth joint of hind tarsus will, however, at once distinguish it. The
form and color of the two species are identical except that the present
species is perhaps somewhat narrower and less convex ; the color of
the elytra is less brilliant and the striae less deep and the intervals
more flattened. The thorax of majuscula is more strongly wrinkled

132 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

and the basal transverse impression much deeper. Some specimens
from the peninsula of California have the epipleurae brownish becom-
ing testaceous toward their apices, otherwise they are identical with
those from Arizona which correspond with the description by Chau-
doir. Length .28 — .38 inch; 7 — 9.5 mm.

Occurs in Texas, Arizona and Peninsula California.

Ii. atriceps. Lee. New Species, p. 5.

This species agrees with majuscula in having the fourth joint of
the hind tarsi very feebly emarginate. Head black, punctured and
feebly wrinkled. Antennae black, three basal joints and base of fourth
pale yellow testaceous. Thorax and elytra resemble those of atrioen-
tris. The body beneath is entirely black except the side pieces of the
metasternum, the mesosternum and thorax which are rufo-testaceous.
The femora are rufo-testaceous tipped with black at the knees, the
tibiae and tarsi entirely black. Varieties occur with the tibiae brown-
ish-testaceous. Length .26 — .30 inch; 6.5 — 7.5 mm.
Occurs in Kansas and Nebraska.

Lebiid^e ver^:.
This group contains those species in which the epilobes of the men-
turn are not distinct. The group is divided by Chaudoir into many
genera founded on characters which appear to be of a nature too
feeble to be used for generic distinction. Our genera have the tarsal
claws pectinate or serrate, with teeth not exceeding in number Jive,
other genera have teeth to the number of six or over.
The following genera occur in our fauna :

Mentum with a distinct tooth Iiebia.

Mentum not toothed.

Head behind the eyes constricted Dianchomeiia.

Head behind the eyes not constricted Aphelogenia.

LEB1A., Latr.

This genus contains by far the larger number of our species separ-
able in our fauna by well defined characters. The following dicho-
tomous table will enable the student to recognize our species, it being
nearly a copy of that of Chaudoir in order that foreign students may
the better trace the resemblances between any of our species and those
which are exotic and also to exhibit the positions therein of species not
known to Chaudoir.

AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 133

Elytra with fine or very shallow strise 1

Elytra deeply striate, striae smooth 12

1. Tarsal claws serrate rather than pectinate 2*

Tarsal claws pectinate 4

2. Palpi stout; fourth hind tarsal joint emarginate pulcliclla.

Palpi slender ; fourth hind tarsal joint emarginate 3

3. Head and thorax black cyanipennis.

Head black, thorax red riificollis.

4. Head more or less striolate or coarsely punctured ... 5

Head smooth or very feebly punctured 6

5. Head striolate; elytra green marginicollis.

Head coarsely punctured; elytra ornate lobulata.

6. Elytra unicolored, green or olivaceous 7

Elytra blackish or piceous sometimes with basal spot S

7. Body above unicolored 9

Body above bicolored 10

9. Color greenish or bluish ; legs black viridis.

Color olivaceous; legs piceo- testaceous or paler I>mnila.

10. Head and thorax rufous ; abdomen black plcuritica.

Head black, thorax rufous; abdomen pale vii*idi]>eiinis.

8. Elytra ornate with pale spots oi'iiata.

Elytra piceous collar is.

12. Head longitudinally rugoso-striolate anal is.

Head nearly smooth or very slightly rugulose 13

13. Elytra sub-ovate broader behind fuscata.

Elytra elongate parallel frigida.

I*, pulchella, Dej. Spec, ii., p. 457; Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1870, ii., p. 172. —
Head black, sparsely punctured. Antennae with three basal joints rufous,
outer joints nearly black. Thorax yellowish testaceous. Elytra yellowish
testaceous, usually paler than the thorax, finely striate and with a narrow
basal bluish band extending slightly on the humeri and somewhat broader at
the scutellum, a broad bluish band at two-thirds from the base, usually at-
taining the margin, with its anterior and posterior margins triundulate and
occasionally with a sutural extension uniting it with the basal band. Under
surface and legs pale yellowish testaceous, tarsi often piceous. Length .24 —
.28 inch ; 6—7 mm.

The stout palpi and style of ornamentation will at once distinguish
this pretty species.

Occurs from Canada to Texas.

Li. cyailipeimis, Dej. Spec, v., p. 385; Chaud. loc. cit., p. 174. — Head and
thorax black. Antennas black, frequently with the basal joint somewhat paler.
Elytra blue, with a tinge of violet, surface finely striate, but more deeply than
pulchella. Body beneath and legs black. Length .24 inch ; 6 ram.

* On an examination of the first three species the ungues will be found to
have the teeth directed very obliquely outward and short, so that the ungues
appear to be rather serrate than pectinate as in the other species.

134 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

Occurs in California from San Diego northward, but rarely as far as
San Francisco.

L«. ruficollis, Lee. Ann. Lye. v., 178; Chaud. loc. cit, p. 175.
Bears a close resemblance to the preceding species, but the thorax
is rufous. Length .24 inch ; 6 mm.

Occurs also in the region of San Diego, California.

Ii. marginicollis, Dej. Spec, ii., p. 271; var. affinis Dej. Spec, v., p. 387;
limbicollis Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1859, ii., p. 145 ; var. cupripennis Chaud. Bull.
Mosc. 1850, i., p. 75.

Resembles our more common viridis, but may be known from it and
all our other green Lebise by the rather deeply striolate head. In
color it more nearly resembles cyanipennis and in fact small specimens
of the latter so closely resembles the present that they may readily be
mistaken in a series without close observation. The margin of the tho-
rax is pale, while the disc is black and but rarely with even the faintest
bluish tinge. The variety affinis has the elytral intervals slightly
more convex than in the typical form ; var. cupripennis, Ch., occurs
in Peru, and, as the name indicates, has the elytra cupreous. Length
.17— .20 inch; 4.5—5 mm.

This species has a wide distribution occuring all over the northern
portion of our continent and at Ega. Brazil and in Peru.

Ii. viridis. Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ii., p. 14 ; Dej. Spec, i., p. 271 ; Chaud.
Bull. Mosc. 1870, ii., p. 192; var. cyanea Dej. Spec, v., p. 386; var. smaraydula
Dej. Spec, v., p. 387; var. mcesta Lee. Agass. Lake Sup., p. 203; Lamprias cyanel-
lus Motsch. Kaef. Russl., p. 42, note; Bull. Mosc. 1859, iii., p. 144.

This species is too well known to need any comment. Its color is
green in all its parts above, or bluish and more rarely dark violet.
These variations in color have given rise to the various synonyms
above noted. The cyanellus, Motsch., is undoubtedly a Californian
specimen of this species, for the author compares it with his own lim-
bicollis, while in the comparison between it and cyanipennis he men-
tions the same points which really serve to distinguish viridis from
cyanipennis, viz. , " Mais elle est plus petite et la tete et le corselet
sont d'une couleur bleuatre et non noire." I have, therefore, no hesi-
tation in striking this from our list of unknown species. Length .18
— .22 inch; 4.5 — 5.5 mm.

Occurs from Maine to Oregon and as far south as Guatimala.

AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 135

Ii. pumila, Dej. Spec. v.. p. 388 ; floricola Harris, N. E. Farmer, 1828 ; var.
maculicornis Lee. Ann. Lye. iv., p. 195.

Our smallest species and one of the smallest in the entire genus.
Its color is olivaceous above and nearly black beneath. The legs are
brownish or testaceous. The antennae are very dark and the third
joint pale testaceous in the great majority of specimens. Length .12
— .14 inch ; 3 — 3.5 mm.

This species cannot be confounded with any other in our fauna ex-
cepting possibly the small forms of the variety of viridis known as
moesta, but its smaller thorax, paler legs and the pale third joint of
antennas at once distinguish it.

Occurs from Maine to Kansas and south to Georgia.

L.. pleuritica, Lee. Ann. Lye. iv., p. 193. — Head and thorax rufo-testaee-
ous, elytra blue with a distinct tinge of green. Antennae entirely pale rufous.
Head nearly smooth, thorax finely transversely wrinkled, elytra moderately
elongate, striate, intervals slightly convex, lateral margin very narrowly
bordered with rufous, epipleuras rufo-testaceous. Body beneath and legs rufous,
abdomen black. Fourth joint of hind tarsi deeply emarginate. Length .26 —
.30 inch; 6.5 — 7.5 mm.

This species bears so close a resemblance to the preceding group,
Loxopeza, that I was persuaded to refer it there until after a closer
examination of the mentum. The anterior male tarsi are normally
dilated as in the other Lebiae and not obliquely.

Occurs from Canada to Texas, but not common.

Ii. viridipennis, Dej. Spec, ii., p. 452; Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1370, ii., p.
194; borea Hentz. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. iii., p. 256. — Head black with green-
ish lustre, and with few punctures. Antennas black, three basal joints testace-
ous. Thorax rufous, very finely wrinkled. Elytra green, finely striato-punc-
tate. Body beneath rufo-testaceous. Legs pale testaceous with the tips of the
femora and tibiae and the entire tarsi piceous. Length .20 — .24 inch ; 5 — 6 mm.
Occurs from Canada to Texas and not rare.

Ii. lohulata. Lee. New Species, p. 5. — Head piceous, nearly black, coarsely
punctured between the eyes, occiput smooth. Antennae pale, gradually thicker
to thej tip. Thorax piceous, margin pale. Elytra piceous, finely striate, striae
obsolete at tip and sides, and with a pale testaceous apical margin and a sub-
terminal spot occupying a short space of the intervals 5, 6, 7, not attaining the
base, and with a small lobe from its inner apical angle. Thorax beneath
piceous, body and legs pale testaceous, abdomen darker especially at the sides.
Epipleurae and a narrow margin of the elytra testaceous. Length .12 — .15
inch ; 3 — 3.75 mm.

Resembles ornata, but has more deeply striate elytra than is usual
in that species. The punctured head at once distinguishes it.

Occurs in Ohio, Virginia and Louisiana, but rare.

136 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

L.. ornata, Say, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ii., p. 13; axillaris Dej. Spec, v., p.
372; var. marginalia Dej. Spec, p. 373; apicalis Hald., brunnea Hald. Proc. Am.
Phil. Soc. 1842, p. 29S. — Head piceous, smooth. Antennae with three basal
joints pale, outer joints somewhat darker and slightly thicker. Thorax piceous
varying to testaceous, margin paler. Elytra parallel, flat, feebly striate,
piceous, lateral margin and apical spot testaceous, and a subhumeral spot of
oval form, narrow the base, of the same color. Body beneath and legs testace-
ous. Length .18 — .20 inch; 4.5 — 5 mm.

There appears to be some difference of opinion regarding the
synonymy of the species of Say and Dejean. The former author has
undoubtedly mixed two species, but refers to two varieties of his typi-
cal form which appear to be identical with varieties of Dejean's analis.
The typical form of Say is without doubt that briefly described. As
is seen above Chaudoir refers marginella, Dej., to this species as a
variety although it would seem rather to be a variety of analis and
did not Chaudoir have in his cabinet the types of Dejean I should
doubt the validity of his determination, but with the type before him
his view must be accepted as final. A variety is before me with the
thorax pale yellowish testaceous.

Occurs everywhere in our country.

Ii. collaris, Dej. Spec, ii., p. 456; Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1870, ii.,p. 199; nigri-
pennis Dej. Spec, v., p. 373; Chaud. loc. cit., p. 200.

Dejean's description, as also those of Chaudoir, do not seem to indi-
cate any difference between nigripcnnis and collaris except in size and
the color of the head and thorax. These characters are ordinarily
good, but in the present instance the color of the head and thorax is
s6en to vary in our series. The elytra are rather more parallel than
in ornata and almost totally black in color, the lateral and apical mar-
gins being narrowly bordered with pale brown. The under surface
and legs are pale testaceous or sometimes a little darker. Antennae
rather short, basal joints pale, outer joints brownish. Length .20
inch; 5 mm.

Occurs in the Middle and Southern States, but rare.

Ij. analis, Dej. Spec, i., p.-265; Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1870, ii., p. 211; ornata
% Say, var., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ii., p. 14; ornata % Lee. Ann. Lye. iv., p. 22;
var. appendiculata Chaud. loc. cit., p. 212; marginella%ljQC. List, p. 5.

Chaudoir is in error in supposing that Dr. LeConte has confounded
the analis and axillaris. The form which has served as the type of
the latter species is identical with that of Dejean. The ornata of Le-
Conte is the present species. This species and its varieties may be
readily known from all the others with ornate elytra, and which be-

AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 137

long to Lebia as at present restricted, by the deeply striolate head.
Head black, antennas dark, four basal joints paler. Thorax rufo-testa-
ceous, intricately rugulose. Elytra deeply striate, intervals more or
less convex, black and ornamented as follows with pale testaceous
spaces : appendiculata , Chaud., a humeral sub-quadrate space extend-
ing inward to the fourth stria and with a small spot appended to the
inner angle of the larger one on the third and fourth intervals. The
point of humerus is frequently tipped with black ; lateral margin
narrowly, apical margin broadly testaceous; analis, Dej., basal and
lateral margins narrowly, apical broadly testaceous; humeral stripe
short, occupying the basal portion of the intervals between the fourth
and sixth striae ; marginella J Lee. similar to analis, but with the
markings reduced to a mere trace of each. This variety resembles
collaris. Under surface and legs pale testaceous, abdomen darker.
EpipleuraD pale.

It. fuscata, Dej. Spec, i., p. 270; Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1870, ii., p. 230.—
Head piceous, smooth. Antennoe with basal joints pale, outer joints somewhat
darker. Thorax finely wrinkled, disc piceous, paler than the head, margin
broad testaceous. Elytra moderately elongate, sides arcuate and broader be-
hind the middle, surface deeply striate, color pale testaceous with the anterior
three-fourths of margin narrowly bordered with black, a scutellar black space
occupying the bases of the four inner interspaces, broader than long which
rapidly narrows to two interspaces, and at the middle of the elytra again
widens to three interspaces, and at the apex again narrows. In many speci-
mens a narrow band connects the middle of the hinder dilation with the mar-
gin, but this varies in width and is at times absent. Body beneath and legs
testaceous. Fourth tarsal joint deeply bilobed. Length .20 — .30 inch; 5 —
7.5 mm.

The smaller variety has the transverse band broad and it resembles
some of the more fully ornate varieties of omata, but is readily known
by the deeply striate elytra.

Occurs from Canada to Florida and westward to Missouri.

Ii. frigida, Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1870, ii., p. 242.

This species is unknown to me in nature. The description and fig-
ure recall at once specimens of omata with elytra more deeply striate
than usual, of which several specimens are before me. Can it be pos-
sible that it is merely a variety of L. fuscata f Its length is about
.18 inch; 4.5 mm.

Said by Chaudoir to occur near Boston.

TRANS. AMER. ENT. S0C. IV. (18) OCTOBER, 1S72.

138 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

DIANdlOMENA, Chaud.
The species comprised in this group are distinguished from the true
Lebiae by the mentum being without tooth and from Aphelogenia
by the very evident constriction of the head behind the eyes with a
greater convexity of the vertex.

In our fauna we have three :
Thorax narrowly margined.

Head and elytra green, thorax rufous abdominalis.

Thorax widely margined.

Head rugose at sides; elytra shining, moderately striate scapularis.

Head entirely rugoso-punctate; elytra less shining, deeply striate.

miranda.

». abdominalis. Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1843, p. 104; idem. 1871, i., p. 47.

To the characters already given it may be added : antennae black,
three basal joints piceo-testaceous, paler at their bases. Body beneath
pale rufo-testaceous, meso- and metasternum and epipleurae nearly
black. Legs pale rufous, tarsi piceous. Length .20 inch; 5 mm.

Occurs in Georgia, Texas and Missouri.

D. scapularis, Dej. Spec, v., p. 377; Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1871, i., p. 52 ;
Lebia solea Hentz, Trans. Am. Fhil. Soc. iii., p. 255; conjungens Lee. Ann. Lye.
iv., p. 194. — Pale yellowish testaceous. Head.irregularly striolate at the sides,
vertex nearly smooth. Antennae piceous, basal three joints testaceous. Elytra
moderately striate, shining, testaceous with three black stripes on both to-
gether, as follows : a lateral stripe from the humerus four-fifths to the tip,
becoming gradually broader and rounded at its apical end, this stripe does not,
however, attain the extreme lateral margin ; a common median stripe broad at
base, somewhat narrowed at middle gradually broader behind and rounded at
tip, but uot larger than the lateral stripes. Sometimes the stripes become con-
fluent at their apices and the yellow intervening spaces reduced to a very nar-
row and short stripe, in which case the elytra resemble those of analis.
Length .18— .24 inch ; 4.5—6 mm.

The variety known as conjungens, Lee, should be referred to this
species and not to vittata. It has all the characters of this group.
Chaudoir (Bull. Mosc. 1871, i., p. 41) suspected that it might be a
variety of vittata to which a head of scapularis had been inadvert-
ently attached and he requests a verification of his suspicion. It is
that variety of scapularis in which the black stripes become confluent
at their apices.

Occurs in the Middle States, Kansas, Dacota and the Indian Ter-
ritory.

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D. miranda, n. sp. — Yellowish testaceous. Head rugoso-punctate over
the entire space between the eyes. Antennae slender, pale yellowish testaceous.
Thorax not broader than the head, sides not sinuate near the hind
angles, disc sub-opaque, very finely rugoso-punctate. Elytra feebly
shining, slightly dilated behind, surface deeply striate, and with a
common median stripe cordiform at base, occupying the middle four
interspaces, and then gradually narrowing to the two middle inter-
spaces extending nearly to the apex and rounded at tip, with a
small oval spot near the lateral margin on a line with the tip of the
median stripe. Body beneath and legs pale testaceous. Length .22
inch ; 5.5 mm.

This species cannot be confounded with any other in our fauna, it
resembling superficially scapularis, but without the lateral stripe of
that species.

Occurs rather abundantly at Camp Grant, Arizona.

APHEL.OGENIA, Chaud.
Mentum without epilobes and truncate at bottom of emargination
and not toothed. Head not constricted. Tarsi with fourth joint of
posterior pair either bilobed or not. The following of our species be-
long to this group, and are thus distinguished :
Thorax widely margined.
Head and thorax pale testaceous; body beneath pale.

Elytra distinctly striate; and with narrow black stripes vittata.

Elytra finely striate; stripes broad \ _

l Spraguei.

Head black, thorax brownish ; abdomen black.

Elytra with striae obsolete, ornate with spots guttula.

Thorax narrowly margined.
Elytra black with two white stripes on each.

Abdomen entirely rufous biviltatn.

Elytra black with one white stripe on each.

Abdomen with two apical segments red bilinoata.

A. Spraguei, n. sp. — Head pale rufous, broadly oval, sparsely punctured;
palpi black. Antennas black, two basal joints piceo-rufous, and somewhat
paler beneath. Thorax similar in form to L. analis, Dej., pale ru-
fous, margin paler, surface finely wrinkled, median line finely im-
pressed, on each side of which near the base is a small shallow fo-
vea. Elytra pale rufo-testaceous with three broad black stripes uni-
ted in nearly their whole length and each rounded at its apex a3
follows : a common sutural stripe occupying the four inner intervals
except a small scutellar space; on each elytron an outer stripe on
the intervals 6 and 7, at one-third their length invading the fifth
and at apical third the eighth ; surface finely striate, striae obsoletely punc-
tured, intervals flat with finely chagrined surface. Body beneath pale rufo-
testaceous. Femora rufo-testaceous, at apices black, tibiae and tarsi black.
Fourth hind tarsal joint deeply emarginate. Length .24 inch; 6 mm.

140 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

This very distinct species bears a decided resemblance to some of
the varieties of L. analis and D. scapularis, from both it may at once
be known by its punctured and not grooved head. The testaceous
stripe which divides the black stripes at base is short, one-fourth the
length of the elytra and on the fifth interval. The conjoined black
stripes at apex have a trilobed termination. The mentum at base is
truncate and the head not not constricted behind, and it is therefore
placed in Chaudoir's Aplielogenia. Several specimens received since
the above description has been in type, have the basal stripe on the
fifth interval wanting.

One specimen communicated by Mr. Philip S. Sprague, of Boston,
who obtained it from Texas.

A. vittata, Fab, (Carabus) Syst. Eleut. i., p. 202; Dej. Spec, i., p. 267;
Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 11.71, i., p. 40 ; flavovittata Chev. Col. Mex. Cent, ii , No. 161
(fide Chaud.). — Pale yellowish testaceous, antennae black sometimes with the
basal joints paler. Elytra with a sutural black stripe occupying the two inner
intervals not attaining the apex nor base, a lateral stripe on the fifth, sixth
and seventh intervals, sometimes broader at apical end, but not attaining the
basal nor apical margins. Body beneath pale yellowish testaceous, legs vari-
able, sometimes totally black, usually with the tips of the femora and the en-
tire tibiae and tarsi black. Length .24 inch; 6 mm.
Occurs from Pennsylvania to Texas.

A. furcata, Lee. Ann. Lye. iv., p. 193; Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1871, i., p. 41. —
Similar in color to preceding, with the elytra striped in the following manner:
a narrow sutural stripe not attaining apex extending forward, becoming gradu-
ally broader to the middle of the suture, where it divides and extends forward
attaining the base, the two branches thus enclosing a very narrow triangular
space ; an outer narrow stripe starting at the base of the seventh interval ex-
tending obliquely inward to the fourth striae but not attaining the apical mar-
gin of the elytra. Body beneath and legs as in vittata. Length .24 — .30 inch;
6 — 7.5 mm.

Occurs from Canada to Kansas and California.

The typical form of vittata is that described above and all the speci-
mens before me correspond exactly with it. As compared with /ar-
eata the head is decidedly smooth, the thorax narrower, the elytra
shorter and less deeply striate. In furcata I include those forms with
the middle or sutural stripe furcate at its basal end. They are
always larger, elytra more elongate and parallel than vittata. The
figure which Chaudoir gives has not the sutural stripe of vittata fur-
cate, but has the lateral band more dilated at the apical end than is
usual in the species.

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A. guttula, Lee. Ann. Lye. v., p. 178; Chaud. Bull. Mosc. 1871, i., p. 44.—
Head nearly black, sparsely punctulate. Antennae pale testaceous. Thorax
piceo-testaceous, margin paler. Elytra pale yellowish testaceous, striae nearly
obsolete, and with three brownish spots at the posterior third, as follows : a com-
mon oval spot larger than the others with a prolongation forward along the
suture, and a smaller spot on each side of an irregular oval form very near the
margin ; apical margin narrowly broader with brown. Body beneath and legs
pale testaceous, abdomen nearly black. Length .12 — .16 inch ; 3 — 4 mm.
Occurs in California, Nevada and Utah.

A. bivittata, Fab. (Carabus) Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 59; Chaud. Bull. Mosc.
1S71, i., p. 45; quadrivittata, Dej. Spec. i.,p. 268. — Head black. Antenna? black,
basal joints testaceous. Thorax rufous, moderataly convex, very narrowly mar-
gined. Elytra black with an oblique white stripe starting at the humerus ex-
tending nearly to the apex and ending at the second stria; a short lateral
6tripe near to the margin, gradually broader behind. Epipleurse black. Body
beneath and abdomen pale rufous, meso- and metasternum black. Femora
rufous, black at tips, tibise and tarsi usually black. Length .22 inch; 5.5 mm.
Occurs in the Southern and Western States.

A. bilineata, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1859, iii., p. 145, pi. iii., fig. 6.
This species is almost an exact reproduction of the preceding and
differs as follows: elytra with an oblique stripe, lateral stripe absent,
abdomen black, last two segments rufous. Length .22 inch ; 5.5 mm.
One specimen from Fort Tejon, California, in my cabinet.

Two species in our list of Lebiae remain unaccounted for.

Li. angnlata, Boheman, Res. Eugen. 1858, p. 7; goniodera G. and H. Cata-
logus, p. 138.

This species is said to be from California, but the localities of the
insects collected on the voyage are so mixed as to be unreliable. Chau-
doir says (Bull. Mosc. 1870, ii., p. 113) that the species is a Rhom-
bodera ; the name proposed by Gemminger and Harold is therefore
unnecessary.

Li. ilivisa. Lee. Agassiz Lake Sup., p. 203 ; concinna \\ Lee. Ann. Lye. iv..-
p. 192.

This insect certainly does not belong to the Lebiidae verse as re-
stricted by Chaudoir. The following characters may serve to explain
its relationship.

Mentum with broad tooth of merely semi-corneous structure, basal mem-
brane of ligula distinct on each side; epilobes of mentum distinct, the suture
dividing the tooth from the body of mentum. Ligula obtuse at apex, bisetose,
slightly longer than the paroglossae which are entirely connate with it, mem-
branous and pilose at apex. Maxillary and labial palpi similar, terminal joints

142 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

as in Lebia. Tarsi robust, fourth joint deeply bilobed. Body above punctured
and sparsely pubescent.

The specimen before appears to be a female, the tarsi being short
and of nearly equal breadth. The male is required to determine with
certainty the position it should occupy. Should it belong to the
Lebiidae its position is probably near Dictya, Chaud. Its deeply
punctured head and thorax recalls a similar character in Cymindis.
In fact it resembles a Cymindide more than a Lebiide. It is, how-
ever, not a Singilis as surmised by Chaudoir.

Head rufous, broadly oval, coarsely punctured. Antennae black, basal joint
only rufous. Thorax rufous, coarsely punctured and more densely than the
head, sides broadly margined, arcuate, sinuate'near the hind angles which are
nearly rectangular, disc with feeble median line, basal transverse impression
moderate. Elytra violet blue, basal fourth rufous, surface feebly striate, striae
finely punctured, intervals flat and irregularly sparsely punctured, the punc-
tures coarse on the basal rufous portion. Body beneath rufous, abdomen black.
Femora rufous, tibiae and tarsi black. Epipleurae at basal portion rufous.
Length .32 inch; 8 mm.

One specimen, $ , from Lake Superior region.

The following species of Lebia have been published by Motschulsky
(Bull. Mosc. 1864, iii, p. 227), the only characters given being the few
words contained in a synoptic table, and those characters the most sub-
ject to vary of any made use of in the separation of species. They all
appear to me to be well known forms, and as far as the characters
given, are of value for determination, are as follows :

L. subfigurata, Motsch. — Apparently analis, Dej., var. appendiculata, Chaud.

£ SvSs! MoS } - These two are P robab * ™ ieties of ornata > sa ?-

L. brunnicollis, Motsch., 1864.— Appears to be lobulata, Lee. 1863.
L. flavolineata, Motsch. — Probably scapularis, Dej.
L. sublimbata, Motsch. — Unknown.

AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 143

Descriptions of some new North American COLEOPTERA.

BY GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

OMUS, Esch.
O. Lecontei, n. sp. — Black, shining. Head sparsely intricately rugulose,
frontal impressions shallow, deeply rugulose, clypeal region smooth. Thorax
trapezoidal, slightly broader in front than long, sides arcuate and gradually
convergent to base, anterior angles obtusely rounded, disc subdepressed at
sides rounded, lateral margin acute, very narrow and slightly reflexed; sur-
face feebly shining, intricately wrinkled, anterior transverse impression very
faint, median line nearly obsolete. Elytra elongate oval, sides arcuate in front
and gradually attenuate to apex, surface shining, and with large punctures,
each distinct and with scarcely evident foveate punctures, in a double series on
each elytron near the middle. Body beneath black, shining; thorax vermicu-
lately rugulose, sides of abdominal segments finely longitudinally strigose.
Terminal segment % deeply notched. Length .66 inch; 17 mm.

This species is closely allied both to califomicus and Audouinii, but
diners very distinctly from either. The form of thorax is almost ex-
actly that of the former species, the sculpture is intermediate between
the two, being less deep than in califomicus while the thorax of
Audouinii is comparatively smooth. The elytra in the
above species is broadest behind the middle, (fig. 2) in
the present species (fig. 1) the greatest width is in front
of middle and behind this point they gradually become
narrower and at the same time are much less arcuate.
This latter character gives this species a totally different facies from
any other previously described. The punctuation of the elytra resem-
bles that of califomicus, but is less deep. In Audouinii the punctures
are of a less decided character and the intervals between them irregu-
larly elevated so that the punctures appear to become confluent. The
elytral sculpture is remarkably uniform in all the specimens of Omus
that have passed through my hands, scarcely any variation occurring
in many individuals of all the species examined.

The specimens in my cabinet were collected by Mr. W. M. Gabb,
near Monterey, California.

CYCHRUS, Fab.
C. rngiceps, n. sp. — Black, feebly shining. Head elongate, on side cari-
nate, between the insertion of the antennae deeply transversely impressed, ver-
tex moderately convex, irregularly rugoso-tuberculate. Thorax cordate, at
base moderately constricted, hind angles rectangular, sides feebly margined.
Elytra regularly oval, moderately convex, surface striate, striee punctured, in-
tervals convex, interrupted especially at sides. Epipleurse nearly smooth.

144 GEO. H. nORN, M. D.

Anterior tarsi of male with three joints spongy pubescent beneath. Length
.54 £—.66 ? inch; 14— 17 mm.

This very distinct species belongs with C. cristatus and C. angulatus
being almost exactly intermediate in the sculpture of the head. A deep
groove on each side of the head limits within the supra-orbital ridge
and its extension forward over the insertion of the antennae, where it
forms a tubercle and then diminishing in size, extends to the margin
of the front. Between the base of the antennae a deep transverse
groove unites the lateral grooves and forms thus a triangular smooth
elevation, the base of which is the margin of the front. The front is
not carinate as in cristatus and avgidatus, but moderately convex and
roughened in the manner of an irregular cicatrix. In C. cristatus the
occiput immediately behind the eyes is constricted, in the one now be-
fore me, and angulatus, the head is not constricted. The thorax is
nearly that of C. punctatus, but with the disc less convex along the
median line and the transverse basal impression less deep. The elytra
are of regularly oval form as in the two species above cited, and the
surface sculptured . nearly as in C. intcrruptus. The antennae have
the basal joint moderately stout, and are about equal to half the length
of the entire body.

Both sexes are before me through the kindness of Mr. G. R. Crotch,
and are from the collections of Lord Walsingham, made during a
recent visit to Oregon.

LOINOCHARIS, n. g. (Hydrophilidai.)
Allied to Limnebius, differing as follows : — Abdomen composed of
eight segments, first five equal in length, sub-connate, sixth slightly
shorter, seventh and eighth narrower than the sixth, and the eighth
rounded at tip and not ciliate. Hind legs not ciliate, outer edge
finely spinulose. Antennae eight-jointed, similar to Limnebius, last
three joints forming an oval mass. Elytra sub-acute at apex, and at
tip of suture slightly dehiscent. Surface sparsely pubescent.

Ii. piceus, n. sp. — Oval, more attenuate behind, subdepressed, piceous,
shining, very sparsely pubescent. Head sparsely punctulate. Antennae and
palpi testaceous. Thorax transverse, twice as wide at apex as
long, at base two and a half times; apex slightly emarginate, base
broadly rounded, sides slightly arcuate and gradually narrowing
to apex; surface sparsely and finely punctulate. Scutellum small,
triangular, broader than long. Elytra oval, gradually narrowed
to apex, apex sub-acuminate and slightly dehiscent; surface
less shining than thorax, finely alutaceous. Body beneath black,
sub-opaque, densely punctulate, sparsely pubescent. Legs testa-
Length .06 inch; 1.5 mm.

AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 145

The entire upper surface is of uniform color and under a high
power is seen to be finely alutaceous. The species recalls the form in
miniature of some Australian species of Hydroporomorplia. The
generic characters are those of Limnebius with the exceptions indi-
cated. The presence of an eighth abdominal segment is a very un-
usual character and created some doubts in my mind at first as to the
correctness of the determination, but under the compound microscope
the last two segments are very plainly seen.

One specimen in my cabinet from a pool of water on the mountains
south of Fort Crook, California.

UEPTINUS, Mailer.
Ij. valiiliis. n. sp. — Broadly oval, depressed, testaceous, feebly shining,
sparsely clothed with short yellowish pubescence. Head broader than long,
densely punctured, frontal margin thicker, shining,
and slightly reflexed. Antennae testaceous, longer than,
head and thorax. Thorax nearly twice as wide at base
as long, apex emarginate and nearly as wide as the
length, sides strongly arcuate at basal angless, lightly
narrowed, base broadly emarginate, surface densely
punctured. Scutellurn broader than long. Elytra at
base slightly narrower than thorax, sides feebly % , or broadly arcuate 9 , as
long as head and thorax; surface depressed, densely punctured with a tend-
ency to become transversely strigose. Body beneath testaceous, more shining
than above, less densely punctured and pubescent. Length .20 inch; 5 mm.

Two specimens are before me which, from their dissimilarity of
elytral form, I take to be sexes of the same species. The male has the
elytra feebly arcuate on the sides and widest at base, the female has
the sides much more broadly rounded and broader at middle. In the
male the thorax has, near the apex, a very shallow broad fovea com-
posed of three depressions scarcely separated. The male anterior
tarsus is more dilated than the female. The accompanying diagrams
illustrate the two forms, that of the % being a fair representation,
that of 9 having the sides of thorax rather too strongly arcuate. In
this species the hind angles of the head are less prominent than in
our other species, americanus, Lee, or the testaceus, Mull., of Europe.
The prosternum distinctly separates the anterior coxae, is prolonged
slightly behind them, obtuse at tip and furnished with a brush of
rather stiff hairs. The mesosternum is carinate as in the other species,
and separates the middle coxas rather more widely than in L. ameri-
canus. The latter species has the prosternum very short and the
coxae are contiguous.

TRANS. AJ1ER. ENT. SOC. IV. (19) OCTOBER, 1872.

146 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

This species was obtained by Mr. Ulke from the Hudson's Bay
Region.

PITYOPHAGUS, Shuck.

P. rufipeniiis, n. sp. — Sub-cylindrical, black, shining, elytra rufous.
Head convex, black, moderately shining, coarsely but sparsely punctured,
sides behind the eyes very slightly divergent, then feebly narrowed at base.
Eyes small, round, inconspicuous. Antennse rufous. Thorax black, shining,
punctured similarly to the head, subquadrate, slightly longer than wide, sides
very feebly arcuate, apex truncate, angles slightly prominent, base broadly
rounded. Elytra as long as head and thorax, parallel, apex truncate, base
slightly broader than thorax; humeri rectangular, moderately prominent;
surface rather densely, but not regularly punctured, sutural stria obliterated
at basal third ; color rufous. Pygidiutn black, densely punctured and con-
cave. Body beneath black, shining, sparsely punctured. Legs rufous. Length
.26 inch ; 6.5 mm.

Similar in form to P. cej)halotes, Lee., but larger and differing by
the more fine punctuation of the elytra as well as in color.

Two specimens before me, one in my cabinet from Oregon and
another in the cabinet of Dr. LeConte, collected by the Messrs.
Matthews in Vancouver.

DERETAPHRUS, Newm.

D. oregonensis, n. sp. — Black, sub-opaque, elongate, elytra subcylin-
drical. Head black, moderately shining, punctulate. Antennae piceous, tip of
club paler. Thorax elongate obcordate, one-fourth longer than wide, sides in
front rounded, then parallel, finally sinuate to the hind angle; base scarcely
half as wide as length of thorax; surface convex, sparsely punctured with un-
equal punctures, median line very deeply impressed at basal three-fourths, im-
pression divided by transverse ridge at anterior third. Elytra one-half longer
than head and thorax, subcylindrical, parallel, at base slightly narrowed,
humeri moderately prominent anteriorly, base emarginate ; surface with nine
rows of large deeply impressed punctures, the ninth row obsolete at tip, the
intervals between rows 3 — 1, 5—6, 7 — 8, 8—9, elevated costiform, the first two
and last two costee confluent with each other at apex. Body beneath black,
more shining than the upper surface, sparsely punctulate. Legs rufous.
Length .46 inch ; 11.5 mm.

This is one of the largest species of the genus, until now not known
in our fauna. A specimen was received several years since from Cal-
ifornia, but from a source whence Australian species had been sent,
and little credit was therefore given to the authenticity of the locality,
especially as all the known species were Australian. Lately, however,
another has been attained free from any suspicion of error, and I have
therefore ventured to name it. Deretaphrus has place with the
Bothriderini of the family Colydiid^E.

The specimens before me in my own and Dr. LeConte's cabinet are

AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 147

from Oregon and (?) California. Many specimens have been obtained
by Lord Walsingham in a recent visit to Oregon.

PII.EtfOCERUS, Bonv.

P. americanus, n. sp. — Oblong, black, feebly shining, very sparsely
clothed with short black pubescence. Head densely and coarsely punctured.
Thorax wider than long, sides moderately arcuate and gradually narrowed
from base to apex, hind angles acute, base bisinuate, median lobe short and
slightly emarginate, surface densely and coarsely punctured, Elytra oblong
parallel, gradually attenuate at apical third, base slightly narrower than the
thorax, surface finely striate, intervals very feebly convex, densely punctulate.
Body beneath black, more shining than the upper surface, pro- and meta-
sterum coarsely but sparsely punctured, triangle of propleurse mere densely, ab-
domen finely punctulate. Length .30 inch; 7.5 mm.

One specimen from Vancouver, collected by Messrs. J. and H.
Matthews.

Through the kindness of M. de Bonvouloir T have been enabled to
study the unique of Ph. subclavatus, Bonv., in his cabinet. Our
species differs by its more elongate form and black color. In both the
thorax is slightly narrower between the apices of the hind angles.
The principal points of difference, however, may be found in the an-
tennas. Those of americanus are as follows; first joint moderately
stout, scarcely carinate in front, longer than the two following united,
second in part hidden by the first and with joints 3, 4, 5 nearly equal
in length, joints 6 — 10 one-half the length of the fifth, broader than
long and each broader than the preceding, eleventh joint narrower,
but longer than the preceding, and oval in form. The antennas of
the typical species are as follows : first joint thick, slightly carinate in
front, as long as the two following united, second small, in part hidden
by the first, third elongate, slightly longer than the two following
united, fourth to eighth becoming gradually thicker and submoniliform,
ninth and tenth broader and compressed, the terminal narrower and,
more elongate and nearly conical, the last three joints forming a loose
mass. Generically the two species entirely agree except in the form of
the antennae, and as both have been described from unique specimens
and apparently of different sexes, it seems better to await the discovery
of additional material before adding a new generic name, founded on
characters that may be insufficient.

CARDIOPIIORITS, Esch.

C. mimeticus, n. sp. — Black, moderately shining, sparsely clothed with
yellowish pubescence. Head minutely punctuate, frontal margin slightly re-
riexed. Antennae black, nearly as long as head and thorax. Thorax longer
than wide, sides very feebly arcuate, hind angles not divergent, disc moder-

148 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

ately convex, densely and very minutely punctulate. Scutellum black. Ely-
tra broader at base than thorax, sides moderately arcuate and gradually nar-
rower to apex, surface striate, striae punctured, intervals moderately convex,
finely punctured,- color black with large rufous humeral space, involving the
epipleurae and extending obliquely on its inner edge from below the scutellum,
nearly half the length of the elytra. Body beneath black, moderately shining,
densely punctulate and sparsely pubescent. Femora piceous, tibiae and tarsi
piceo-rufous. Tarsal claws simple. Length .34 inch; 8.5 mm.

Closely allied, in color, to G. togatus, but differs from all our species
in the scarcely arcuate sides of the thorax. The thorax is very
slightly narrowed in front.

One specimen from California, in the cabinet of Dr. LeConte, ob-
tained during his recent visit in Europe from M. Thevenet.

AGRIOTES, Esch.
A. Tlievenetii, n. sp. — Black, subopaque, very sparsely clothed with short
pale yellowish pubescence. Head black, coarsely punctured. Antennae nearly
as long as head and thorax, pale rufous, joints 2, 3, 4 subequal. Thorax longer
than wide, moderately convex, densely, coarsely and equally punctured, sides
at middle nearly jmrallel, at anterior angles strongly rounded, hind angles
acute, slightly divergent and moderately carinate. Elytra nearly twice the
length of thorax and at base not wider, sides feebly arcuate and gradually nar-
rowing to apex; surface finely striate, strife coarsely punctured, intervals flat,
sparsely punctured, punctures submuricate; color of elytra black, humeral
space rufous extending obliquely on its inner margin from the sides of the scu-
tellum to the middle of the sides. Body beneath black, densely punctured, the
punctures coarser on the prothorax. Coxal plates strongly dilated within.
Legs rufous. Length .34 inch; 8.5 mm.

Abundantly distinct from any Agriotes in our fauna, resembling A.
limosus in form, sculpture and size. In color it strongly resembles
Gardiopliorm mimeticus, and the degree of resemblance is such that
by a casual examination the species might be confounded.

Specimens from California obtained by Dr. LeConte from M. The-
venet, of Paris, to whom it is dedicated.

iniOVHS. Esch.
It. Crotehii, n. sp. — Black, moderately shining, thorax with slight tinge
of bronze, elytra with large humeral red space, surface sparsely clothed with
very short yellowish pubescence. Head slightly bronzed, coarsely punctured,
margin of front rounded and slightly reflexed. Antennas as long as head and
thorax, black, joints 2 and 3 together slightly longer than the fourth. Thorax
longer than wide, sides moderately arcuate and converging in front, near the
hind angles slightly sinuate; hind angles slightly divergent, finely carinate;
surface slightly bronzed, densely and coarsely punctured. Elytra subde-
pressed, black with large rufous humeral space; sides nearly straight gradu-
ally convergent, and at terminal third rounded to apex ; surface striate, striae
coarsely punctured, intervals moderately convex and punctulate. Body be-

AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 149

neath black, shining and moderately punctured. Prosternal sutures in front
canaliculate. Legs black. Length .42 — .48 inch ; 11 — 12 mm.

This species must be referred to the group with L. minis, Lee., and
L. U/kni, Horn, it differs from the former by the sides of the thorax
being more rounded and the hind angles slightly divergent, and from
the latter by the anterior angles not suddenly narrowed in front. The
rufous humeral spot is large, involving a narrow space across the en-
tire base of the elytra; the inner margin of the rufous space is along
the third stria and extends along it one-third the length of the elytra,
then obliquely backwards to the lateral margin, involving the epi-
pleurae, along which it extends to the tip.

Two specimens are before me from the collections made by Lord
Walsingham, in Oregon, and kindly loaned by Mr. G. R. Crotch, to
whom I take very great pleasure in dedicating it.

HYPOBHAGl S, Thorns.
H. gilensis, n. sp. — Elongate oval, black, moderately shining. Head
densely and evenly punctured. Antennae dark brown, outer three joints some-
what paler. Thorax trapezoidal, as long as wide at apex, base one and a half
times broader, apex trnncate narrowly margined with rufous, anterior angles
obtuse, sides straight, hind angles slightly reflexed ; surface less coarsely punc-
tured than the head, punctures finer and more distant along the- middle,
denser, and more elongate at the sides. Elytra with rows of fine punctures,
the inner two nearly obsolete, especially at base, outer rows slightly elevated,
intervals finely punctulate; surface more shining along the middle. Body be-
neath dark brown, shining, punctured less densely in front, more densely at
the sides and tip of abdomen. Legs piceo-rufous, sparsely punctulate. Sub-
mentum % with slight fossa and brush of hairs. Length .30 inch ; 7.5 mm.

The elytra are slightly broader at base than the thorax, with the
sides moderately rounded and gradually narrowing. The form of the
thorax is very nearly that of the figure of costnlatus, Thorns. (Ann.
Ent. Soc. France, 1860, pi. iii.). The male has but two joints of the
anterior tarsi dilated and pubescent beneath. This is the largest
species in our fauna.

One specimen collected south of the Gila River in Arizona.

H. opuntite, n. sp. — Elongate oval, sub-opaque, black, anterior margin
and sides of thorax paler. Elytra with rows of moderatety coarse punctures,
the outer four slightly elevated, intervals sparsely and obsoletely punctured.
First two joints of anterior tarsus of male dilated and pubescent beneath.
Length .22 inch; 5.5 mm.

This species resembles closely the preceding, but the thorax is less
broad behind. The rows of punctures are coarser, and the inner rows
entire and very distinct. The punctulations of the intervals are much
finer and more obsolete. The form of the two species in almost ex-

150 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

actly the same, the present one is more opaque and transversely more
convex. Several immature specimens are ferruginous.

Collected at Camp Grant, Arizona, under fallen Opuntia.

The species of Hyporhagus are separated by apparently feeble,
though very constant characters. The two species above cited, while
differing greatly to the eye, are very difficult to describe as distinct.
From an examination of our species (Lecontei, Thorns., being unknown
in nature) the following remarks have been prepared to still further
assist in their identification.

Body very shining.

Anterior tarsi % three joints dilated and pubescent piiiictulatiis.

********* (Lecoutei.)

Body feebly shining, sub-opaque.

Three joints of anterior tarsi % dilated and pubescent.

Sides of thorax slightly arcuate. Surface sub-opaque. Strise composed of
moderately coarse punctures, the inner rows coarser and more distinct
than the outer. Epipleurse black, smooth, unistriate; inflexed portion
of elytra rufous, finely rugulose within and opposite the hind coxse not

wider than twice the epipleurse opacultis.

Two joints of anterior tarsi % dilated and pubesent.
Elytral rows composed of moderately coarse punctures, intervals with
nearly obsolete punctulations. Surface sub-opaque. Epipleurse opposite

hind coxae as wide as inflexed portion of elytra 0|mntiiC.

Elytral rows composed of fine punctures, the inner two and scutellar row
nearly obsolete or not distinguishable from the punctulations; intervals
distinctly but finely punctulate, evenly over the entire surface, which is
feebly shining. Epipleurse opposite the hind coxse slightly narrower

than the inflexed portion of elytra gilcnsis.

II Lecontei, Thorns., is unknown to me. It resembles punctulatus
in form and in having the sides of thorax arcuate. It differs in hav-
ing the thorax more feebly punctured and the elytral rows of punc-
tures more distinctly impressed. It is said to be from California, but,
judging from the form of the three species that have occurred in the
western fauna, the locality seems doubtful.

SPHAIiMA, n. g. (Pythidse).
Mentum quadrate, slightly broader than long, ligula scarcely visi-
ble, rounded in front. Last joint of maxillary palpi oval, truncate at
tip. Mandibles concealed beneath the labrum, arcuate and bifid at tip.
Labrum transverse, feebly emarginate. Head broad, cylindrical be-
hind the eyes, epistoma broadly rounded, feebly truncate at middle.
Antennae as long as head and thorax and slightly thicker toward the
tip ; joint 1 moderate, 2 — 5 obconical, joint 2 shorter, and 3 longer
than the others, 6 — 10 oval, broader than the preceding joints; joint

AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 151

11 elongate oval, subacute at tip. Eyes lateral, round, entire and
moderately prominent. Thorax quadrate, broader than long, lateral
margin acute. Elytra elongate parallel and at apical fourth gradu-
ally narrowed to tip. Epipleurae scarcely longer than half the elytra.
Legs moderate. Anterior coxae oval, moderately prominent and con-
tiguous, but without distinct trochantin. Middle coxae with distinct
trochantin. Tibiae slender, spurs minute. Body elongate, glabrous.

Allied to Pi/tlio, Cry-modes, etc., but differs from all by its sub-
quadrate, acutely margined thorax. Their affinities may be expressed
in the followiug table :

Anterior coxfe contiguous; intercoxal process of prosternum short.

Middle coxse contiguous; meso- and metasternum not meeting PytliO.

Middle coxae separated; meso- and metasternum joined.

Mandibles concealed; thorax acutely margined Sphalma.

Mandibles prominent; margin of thorax rounded Prioguathus.

Anterior coxse distinctly separated; intercoxal process long.

Head slightly constricted behind the eyes forming a neck Boros.

Head not constricted, stout Crj modes.

The genus Sphalma was known to me at the time of the prepara-
tion of my revision of the Tenebrioindae. The only specimen then
known (see Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. xiv., 254) was in the cabinet
of Mr. Ulke, and was inaccessible to me at that time. The only
peculiarity of the insect retained in memory was the contiguity of the
anterior coxae. Through the kindness of Mr. H. Edwards, of San
Francisco, I have been presented with a specimen, from which the
preceding diagnosis has been prepared. The open anterior coxal
cavities forbids its reference to the Tenebrionidae.

S. quadrioollis, n. sp. — Moderately elongate, sub-depressed, piceous,
shining. Head coarsely but sparsely punctured. Antennae piceo-rufous.
Thorax subquadrate, slightly broader than long, apex and base truncate, sides
very feebly arcuate, margin acute; surface moderately convex, sparsely and
evenly punctured. Elytra broader at base than thorax, sub-parallel attenuate
and obtusely rounded at apex, moderately convex, sparsely but irregularly
punctured, the junctures becoming obsolete towards apex. Body beneath pi-
ceous, shining, sparsely jiunctured. Legs piceous or rufo-piceous. Length .36
inch ; 9 mm.

Specimens in my cabinet and that of Mr. Ulke, from California.
The insect is about three times as long as the width of the elytra at
base.

152 GEO. H. HORN, M. D.

ABJDRECTOR, n. g. (Chrysomelidse).

Form elongate oval, as in Diabrotica 12-punctuta. Surface gla-
brous. Head short, eyes round, prominent. Front vertical with very
deep transverse fossa below the eyes, above which is a short very
prominent transverse plate emarginate on its free edge. Labium
transverse, emarginate. Antennae moderately long, equal to two-
thirds the body, first joint long, slender, sec-
^~*r~-£^(^>~&^fy<. ond short, scarcely one-fourth as long as the
* \\ first, third joint as long as the first, broadly

\) dilated at distal end and deeply emarginate
in front, fourth joint half as long as the third,
broadly dilated at distal end and deeply notched, joints 5 — 11 slender,
of usual form and gradually increasing in length, the last joint acute
at tip, these joints together one-third longer than joints 1 — 4. An-
terior coxae contiguous. Tarsal claws with broad basal dilatation.

This genus is proposed for a Chrysomelide of the tribe Galerucini,
allied to (Jerofoma, from which it differs in the deformity of the third
and fourth antennal joints, the vertical and deeply excavated front.
The frontal excavation is deep, extending from one side of the head to
the other and slightly divided at middle by a slight ridge, the ridge
forming the lower margin of the fossa is moderately prominent at its
extremities and with a small tubercle at middle; above the fossa and
forming its upper boundary at middle, is a short plate projecting at
right angles to the front and emarginate on its free edge. The form
of the antennae is represented in the accompanying diagram and as the
specimen is a male and the articulation between the third and fourth
joints freely movable, it is probable that this structure has similar uses,
to that for which the deformed joints of the male antennae of Collops
are applied, that is for holding the antennae of the female in copu-
lation. In every other respect the insect is a Cerotoma.

A. sexpunctatus, n. sp. — Pale yellow, glabrous, shining; elytra with
a humeral, median and subapical small black spot on each side. Head
pale yellow, occiput slightly darker, antennae pale yellow. Thorax similaF in
form to Cerotoma caminea, smooth, sparsely punctured. Elytra oblong, broader
behind the middle, shining, with three small black spots externally, surface
sparsely and irregularly punctured. Scutellum piceous. Body beneath pale
yellow, hind coxse and sides of pectus piceous. Legs pale yellow, hind femora
tipped with piceous. Length .22 inch; 5.5 mm.

One male from Texas. Less robust than Cerotoma caminea and
similar in form to the spotted species of Diabrotica.

TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 153

HY1HENOPTER4 TEXAJfA.

BY E. T. CRESSON.

The present memoir is intended to contain a list of all the species
of hymenoptera known to me from Texas, excepting those belonging
to the families Chrysididae, Formicidse and the smaller Chalcididae,
which have not been studied.

Besides the material in the collection of this Society, I have had
placed at my disposal for determination and study, the splendid collec-
tion of Mr. Gr. W. Belfrage, made in Bosque Co., the fine collection
in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., made by
Mr. J. Boll, in Dallas Co., and a small collection of Mr. L. Heilig-
brodt, made in Travis and Bastrop Counties. To these gentlemen,
and also to Dr. H. Hagen, of the Cambridge Museum, I feel greatly
indebted for the valuable assistance they have rendered me in the
preparation of this work.

Of the nineteen families studied in this paper, over six hundred
species are enumerated, nearly three hundred of which appear to be
new, and are herein described.

Unless otherwise indicated, the types of the new species are to be
found in the collection of the American Entomological Society, which
has been considerably enriched by liberal donations made by the
above named gentlemen.

TENTHREDINID.E.

Cimbex americana, var. Ulmi.

Cimbex americana, Leach, Zool. Miscel. iii. p. 104; Norton, Trans, Am. Ent.
Soc. i.,p. 40.

One % specimen. (Boll.)

Abia Kennicotti.

Abia Kennicotti, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 47 ; iv. p. 77.
One % specimen. (Belfrage.)

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Acordulecera dorsalis.

Acordulecera dorsalis, Say, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist, i., p. 200.
Three % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Ptenos texanus.

Ptilia texana, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii., p. 367.
Ptenos texana, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent Soc. iv., p. 77.
Ten % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Ptenos niger.

Ptenos niger, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 77.
Nine % specimens. (Belfrage.)

Ptenos nigropectus.

Ptenos nigropectus, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 77.
Six £ 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Hylotoma abdominalis.

Hylotoma abdominalis, Leach, Zool. Misc. I ii-, p. 123; Norton, Trans. Am.
Ent. Soc. i., p. 66.

One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)

Hylotoma miniata.

Hylotoma miniata, Klug, Berl. Mag. vi., p. 298. Norton, Trans. Am. Ent.
Soc. i. p. 70.

Three specimens. (Belfrage ; Boll.)

Hylotoma rubiginosa.

Hylotoma rubiginosa, Beauv. Ins., p. 98, pi. ix. fig. 5. Norton, Trans. Am.
Ent. Soc. i., p. 72.

One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.) The legs of this specimen are en-
tirely black.

Neinatns chlorens.

Nematus chloreus, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 224 ; iv., p. 80.
One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)

t: in |»li.v I us Bollii.

Emjihytus Bollii, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 80.
One 9 specimen. (Boll. Mus. Comp. Zool.)

Hemichroa albidovariata.

Hemichroa albidovariata, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 81.
Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Hemiehroa fraternalis.

Hemichroa fraternalis, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. SI.
One % specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.)

Selandria inwquidens.

Selandria inazquidens, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 84.
Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

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Selandria albicollis.

Selandria albicolhs, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 85.
One % specimen. (Belfrage.)

JIaerophya excavata.

AUantus excavatus, Norton Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil, i., p. 143.
Macrophya excavata, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 266 ; iv. p. 86.

One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)

Tenthredo nimbipeiinis, Norton.

£. — Deep black, smooth and polished, much slenderer than atroviolaceus ;
mandibles with a large white spot, tips reddish ; antennae longer than head and
thorax, slender; wings large, blackish, strongly violaceous, apex paler; legs
slender, anterior knees within, their tibiee within, and the four anterior tarsi
more or less except tips of joints, pale luteous; abdomen long, flattened, sub-
fusiform, apex obtusely pointed. Length .50 — .55 inch.

Three specimens. (Belfrage.)

Lophyrus AbSetis.

Lophyrus Abietis, Harris, Treatise on Insects, p. 376.
One 9 specimen. (Boll.)
Lophyrus ftilva.

Lophyrus fulva, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv., p. 86.
One 9 specimen from Comal Co.
Xyela ferruginea.

Xyela ferruginea, Say, Long's 2d Exped. ii., p. 310. Norton, Trans. Am. Ent.
Soc. ii., p. 349.

One 9 specimen. (Boll.)

Xyela wnea.

Xyela cenea, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 86.
Five % specimens. (Belfrage.)

Tremex columba.

Sirex columba, Fabr. Syst. Ent., p. 325.

Tremex columba, Drury, Ins. ii., p. 78. Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii., p, 364.
Three S 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.)

ICHNEUMONID^.

Ichneumon viola.

Ichneumon viola, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 137.
One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)
Ichneumon subcyaneus.

Ichneumon subcyaneus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 148.
One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)
Ichneumon agnitus.

Ichneumon agnitus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 151.
One 9 specimen. (Boll.)

156 E. T. CRESSON.

Ichneumon cferuleus.

Ichneumon cctruleus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 149.
One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)

Ichneumon zebratus.

Ichneumon zebratus, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 299 9 •
% . — Differs from the $ as follows : — The entire face beneath antennae is pale
lemon-yellow; antennae entirely black, except scape beneath which is pale
yellow; posterior tibiae have the apical half black, and the basal half whitish,
as well as the bases of their tarsi.

One % specimen. (Boll.) A very handsome species.

Ichneumon comptus.

Ichneumon comptus, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 229.
One % specimen. (Boll.)

Ichneumon iusolens.

Ichneumon insolens, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i., p. 302.
Two % specimens. (Boll; Heiligbrodt.)

Ichneumon Belfragei, n. sp.

% . — Deep black, shining ; sides of face and of clypeus, dot on tegulae an-
teriorly, short line beneath, and the scutellum, white ; mesothorax with rather
close, deep punctures; scutellum subconvex; metathorax opaque, with well
defined carinae, central area lunate; wings uniformly pale fuliginous, nervures
and stigma black, areolet triangular; anterior tibiae pale in front; abdomen
shining, closely punctured ; second, third and base of fourth segments yellow-
ish-ferruginous. Length .50 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Q. W. Belfrage.) Closely allied to electus,
Cress.

Ichneu inon trogiformis.

Ichneumon trogiformis, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 175.
Four % $ specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.)

Ichneumon propitius, n. sp.

% . — Yellowish-ferruginous or honey-yellow ; face, clypeus, mandibles and
anterior orbits, pale yellow; antennae long, pale ferruginous beneath, blackish
above, with a broad yellowish-white annulus above the middle, scape pale be-
neath ; prothorax blackish anteriorly, the anterior margin pale yellow ; mar-
gins of mesothorax blackish, as well as entire scutellar region and anterior and
posterior margins of pleura and centrally beneath; scutellum yellow, convex,
shining; metathorax blackish at apex, carinae sharply defined, a short sub-
acute spine on each side, central area quadrate, extending to base; wings
hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma fuscous, areolet triangular; legs slen-
der, four anterior coxae yellowish beneath, apices of posterior pair, tips of their
femora, apical half of their tibiae and tips of their tarsi black, basal half of their
tibiae yellow; abdomen opaque, densely sculptured, base of first segment and
extreme apical margins of second and third segments black and shining.
Length .30 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) Closely resembles some of

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the variaties of instabilis, Cress., but is much smaller and with the an-
tennae and legs differently colored.

Ichneumon rubicumlus.

Ichneumon rubicundus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 176.
Three % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Trogus obsidianator.

Trogus obsidianator, Brulle, Hym., p. 299.

One £ specimen. (Boll.)

Cryptus laticeps, n. sp.

% . — Black; head broader than thorax; face hroad, with a cuneiform mark
on each side, two dots on the middle, clypeus, mandibles except tips, dot be-
neath eyes, palpi, scape beneath, anterior margin of prothorax, tegulae, short
line beneath, and the scutellum, all white; metathorax rugulose, with sharply
defined carinae; wings hyaline, stigma black, areolet rather large, pentagonal ;
legs, including coxse, pale ferruginous, anterior coxae and trochanters pale, tips
of posterior femora, their tibiae and tarsi blackish; abdomen very slender at
base, apical segment with a white spot at tip above, and preceding segment
with a narrow apical white line. Length .35 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Cryptus americanus.

Cryptus americanus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. PhiL iii., p. 297.

One 9 specimen. (Heiligbrodt.)

Cryptus exulans, n. sp.

%. — Black, subopaque, densely punctured, covered with a short thin pale
pubescence; head small, eyes prominent, apical margin of clypeus deeply con-
stricted, shining; antenna? long, joints 9 — 12 white above; thorax less densely
punctured than head, somewhat shining; scutellum convex, shining; meta-
thorax large, rugose, posterior face obliquely flattened, a transverse subarcuate
carina near base and a short oblique one on each side of posterior face; wings
uniformly smoky-hyaline, nervures black, areolet broad 5-angular, side nerv-
ures parallel; legs black, pale sericeous, anterior tibiae more or less pale,
second and following joints of posterior tarsi white; abdomen polished, rufo-
castaneous, first segment long, slender, arcuated, apex slightly dilated and con-
vex above, the stigmata not prominent, third and following segments with a
short thin appressed pale pubescence. Length .50 inch.

One specimen from Comal Co. Besembles americanus, Cress.

Cryptus extrematis.

Cryptus extrematis, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 304.
One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)

Cryptus nuncius.

Cryptus nuncius, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 237.
Several % 9 specimens. (Belfrage ; Boll.) Mr. Belfrage hatched,
in October, 120 £ 9 specimens of this species from a pupa of Telea
polyphemus.

158 E. T. CRESSON.

Crypt us ineertus.

Cryptus ineertus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 306.
One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.) Differs from the type only by the
second abdominal segment having a transverse impressed line near
the base, which may be an imperfection.

Cryptus albirollaris.

9 . — Pale ferruginous ; head black, anterior orbits, clypeus, spot beneath
eyes, spot on mandibles and basal joint of palpi, white; antennae slender,
black, with a broad, median, white annulus ; anterior margin of prothorax
broadly white, a black spot on each side; two longitudinal stripes on meso-
thorax, confluent behind, and scutellar region, black; tegulae, spot beneath,
scutellum and postscutellum, white; metathorax with two transverse sinuate
carinae, and a minute subacute lateral tubercle; wings hyaline, slightly dusky
at tips, areolet moderate, 5-angular, side nervures nearly straight, making the
cell nearly quadrate ; tarsi whitish, dusky at tips; three apical segments of
abdomen black; ovipositor longer than abdomen. Length .42 inch.

One specimen from Comal Co. Closely allied to atricollaris, Walsh,
differing principally by the abdomen being black at tip.

Cryptus calipterus, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 234.

9- — Ferruginous; head not wider than thorax, narrowed beneath eyes;
clypeus transverse, convex at base, depressed at tip; mandibles bifid and
black at tip ; antennae rather slender, ferruginous, apical third black, joints
3 — 6 long, subequal ; metathorax broadly truncate and subexcavated behind,
with a rather prominent lateral carina; wings yellow, a broad black or fuligin-
ous band a little before middle, and a broad band of same color covering apical
third, enclosing an elongate triangular yellow spot; posterior wings with two
black or fuliginous bands; four anterior legs pale ferruginous, posterior tibiae
black at tips; abdomen oblong-ovate, first segment rather suddenly dilated at
apex, third segment with a narrow black baud at base; ovipositor longer than
abdomen, sheaths black. Length ,47 — .55 inch.

%. — Elongate, slender, rather paler than 9 > ^ ace yellowish; a transverse
mark behind insertion of antennae and a spot inclosing ocelli, black; antennae
long, porrect, fulvo-ferruginous, slightly dusky at apex ; posterior tibiae black,
with basal third pale yellow, as well as their tarsi which are dusky at tips; ab-
domen long, slender, shining, thickened towards apex, first segment slender.
Length .40 — 65 inch.

Several % 9 specimens examined. (Belfrage ; Boll ; Heiligbrodt.)
This and the two following species so closely resemble each other that
they may easily be confounded; but upon careful comparison they are
easily separated. Calipterus is distinguished by the antennae having
no pale annulus, by the posterior wing having two fuliginous bands,
and by the sheaths of ovipositor being black.

TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 159

Cryptus sororius, n. sp.

%. — Differs from calipterus as follows: — Thorax shorter, more robust and
more gibbous; head broader, face shorter, median swelling more prominent;
antennae with a yellow, not well defined, annulus about the middle; areolet of
anterior wing more pentagonal than quadrangular ; posterior wings yellow, with
apex only fuscous; legs and abdomen more robust, first segment of latter much
broader at apex; ovipositor shorter, the sheaths concolorous with abdomen.
Length .47 inch.

Two specimens. (Belfrage.) Easily distinguished from calipterus
by the more robust form, by the shape of areolet and by the color of
posterior wing and sheaths of ovipositor.

C'ryptus bnccatus, n. sp.

9- — Differs from calipterus 9 as follows: — Head broader than thorax, sub-
quadrate, cheeks swollen; clypeus flat and very transverse, apex truncate;
mandibles pointed, not bifid; antennae shorter and more robust, with joints
short and compact, joints 8 — 11 lemon-yellow above ; metathorax scarcely trun-
cate behind, with lateral carina subobsolete ; areolet smaller, 5-angular ; pos-
terior wing yellow, with apex and posterior margin fuliginous; posterior tibia?
not black at tips ; first abdominal segment gradually, not suddenly, dilated to
apex; sheaths of ovipositor pale fulvous. Length .50 — .58 inch.

% . — Differ from calipterus % as follows: — Head larger and buecate ; antenna?
black, with a fulvous annulus beyond middle; the triangular yellow spot
beyond stigma on anterior wing much reduced; posterior wing yellow only at
base and on costal margin; legs darker in color, posterior femora and tibia?
uniformly reddish-brown, the latter with a yellowish sericeous pile; tarsi lute-
ous, with fuscous incisures, terminal joint rufous; abdomen shorter, more
robust and subclavate, apex more or less blackish. Length .55 inch.

Several % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) Easily distinguished fro n
either of the preceding species by the large, subquadrate head, swollen
cheeks and short, more robust antennae.

C'ryptus comalensis, n. sp.

9 . — Head and thorax dull ferruginous, opaque, abdomen paler; minutely
sculptured; antenna? blackish above, with a rather broad yellowish annulus
about the middle; metathorax abrupt behind, the posterior face transversely
rugose, above finely sculptured, with two transverse, sinuate, rather indistinct
carina?; wings dark fuscous, slightly violaceous, areolet rather small, 5-angu-
lar; legs ferruginous, tarsi paler, coxa? and trochanters fuscous; first ab-
dominal segment smooth and shining, apex broadly dilated, with prominent
lateral tubercles; basal margin of second segment narrowly black, the third
with a black band occupying the basal fourth of the segment; ovipositor about
one- half the length of abdomen, piceous, sheaths ferruginous. Length .50
inch.

One specimen collected in Comal Co.

160 E. T. CRESSON.

Joppidinm rnbriocps, Walsh, MS.

9. — Deep black, smooth and polished; head ferruginous, face paler; an-
tennas citron yellow, scape reddish, flagellum blackish at tips; tegulae brown;
metathorax rugose, sparsely pubescent laterally; prothorax sometimes tinged
with reddish-brown ; wings broad, blackish-fuliginous, with a strong aeneous
reflection, areolet large, quadrate; four anterior legs honey-yellow, femora
darker towards base, coxae black, trochanters piceous, posterior legs black,
their tarsi yellow, dusky at tips; abdomen slender at base, gradually dilated
towards apex, which is sometimes tinged with brownish; ovipositor more than
half the length of abdomen. Length .55 inch.

% . — Much more slender; vertex and occiput black; antennae long, bright
citron yellow," tips of flagellum dusky; bases of intermediate femora black, in-
termediate tarsi dusky; abdomen very slender, especially at base, smooth and
polished. Length .50 inch.

Four % 9 specimens. (Belfrage ; Boll.)

Joppidinm apicale, n. sp.

9. — Head dull rufous, blackish at base of antennae, which are yellowish,
darker at base and black on apical third; thorax entirely black, except a dull
rufous spot on each side of prothorax anteriorly; tegulae pale; metathorax
rounded, deeply punctured, pubescent; wings blackish-violaceous; coxae, pos-
terior trochanters and femora black, remainder of legs yellowish-ferruginous,
posterior tibiae and tarsi paler; abdomen shining, ferruginous, first and second
segments, except narrow apical margin, black, base of third segment blackish;
ovipositor about one-half the length of abdomen. Length .45 inch.

One specimen collected in Comal Co. Quite distinct from rubriceps
by the color of the legs and abdomen.

I'll j gadenon texanus, n. sp.

% . — Black, head and thorax with short, pale pubescence; mandibles rufo-
piceous, palpi whitish ; antennae black above, brown beneath, scape yellow be-
neath ; thorax shining, with sparse, not deep, punctures; metathorax very
rough and uneven, with sharply defined carinae, posterior face deeply exca-
vated, lateral angles very prominent and obtuse; tegulae rufo-piceous; wings
hyaline, faintly tinged with yellowish, areolet 5-angular; legs honey-yellow;
four anterior coxae at base and posterior pair except tips, black ; four anterior
coxae beneath, tips of posterior pair, anterior trochanters, two posterior pair ex-
cept dusky spot above, and four anterior tibiae and tarsi, whitish; posterior
tibiae pale, bases and tips dusky, their tarsi blackish ; abdomen smooth, shining,
ferruginous or rufo-ferruginous; first segment above with two sharply defined
longitudinal carinae, becoming obsolete before reaching apex, which is con-
siderably dilated, sometimes the base of this segment is more or less blackish;
apex of abdomen pale ferruginous. Length .28 — .33 inch.

Seven % specimens collected in Comal Co.

IMij gadeuon intermedins, n. sp.

9 . — Subrobust ; head and thorax black, abdomen and legs ferruginous,
smooth and shining; spot on mandibles and palpi pale; antennae fusco-fer-
rugiuous, paler at base, incisures of joints dusky, scape swollen, three basal
joints of flagellum about equal in length, each being nearly as long as scape,

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remaining joints very short; metathorax truncate behind, posterior face con-
cave, lateral angles prominent ; tegulae pale ; wings hyaline, areolet rather large,
5-angular, the upper apical nervure hyaline; legs subrobust, and including the
coxae entirely ferruginous; abdomen rather broad, ovate, smooth and shining,
first segment black at base, broadly dilated at apex; ovipositor about three-
fourths the length of abdomen. Length .20 inch.

Two specimens. (Belfrage.) This species seems to be intermedi-
ate between vulgaris, Cress., audpusillus, Cress., being less robust than
the former, and more robust than the latter; in coloration it resem-
bles both species.

Phygadeuon timidus, n. sp.

£ . — Slender, shining; head, antennae and thorax black; palpi pale; most
of mandibles and scape beneath ferruginous; antennae long, slender; meta-
thorax rounded, with distinct elevated lines, forming a large central area, and
with small acute lateral tubercles; tegulae pale; wings hyaline, areolet small,
irregularly 5-angular; legs, including coxae, pale ferruginous, bases and tips of
posterior tibiae, their tarsi and tips of four anterior tarsi black ; abdomen
slender, first segment long, narrow, black, longitudinally aciculated; second
segment blackish ferruginous on disk and narrowly so at apex; third segment
entirely and most of fourth and fifth ferruginous; sides of the latter and the
apical segments black. Length .20 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) This may possibly be the
male of the preceding species.

Hemitcles conspicuus, n. sp.

9- — Ferruginous; apex of antennae and tips of mandibles blackish; scu-
tellum gibbous; pleura finely rugulose; metathorax unarmed, rugulose, with
tolerably well defined longitudinal elevated lines, apex truncate, sides with
sparse, short, pale pubescence ; wings shorter than usual, hyaline, anterior pair
with three fuscous bands, viz.: a narrow one at base of first submarginal cell,
a very broad one extending from base of stigma nearly to apex of marginal cell
and rounded beneath, the third one narrowly margining the apex; areolet
marked by a hyaline spot, second recurrent nervure nearly straight; posterior
wings hyaline, apex fuscous ; legs long, slender, concolorous with body; abdo-
men petiolate, depressed, fuscous towards apex ; three basal segments finely
longitudinally aciculated, the fourth smooth and shining; apical segments
with pale pubescence; first segment broadly dilated at apex; ovipositor about
one-half the length of abdomen. Length .30 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) A very handsome and
conspicuous species: the broad middle baud on anterior wing has a
rounded appearance.
Hemiteles utilis.

Hemiteles utilis, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii., p. 326.
One $ specimen. (Belfrage.)

Pezomachus texanus.

Pezomachus texanus, Cress. Can. Ent. iv., p. 64.

Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

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162 E. T. CRESSON.

jVfesostenus introitus, n. sp.

^ . — Slender, black; face, anterior orbits, suddenly dilated on each side of
lower ocellus, broad posterior orbits, clypeus, labrum, mandibles except tips,
and palpi white; antennse long, slender, black, with rather narrow white an-
nulus, indistinct beneath; collar, spot on disk of mesothorax, tegulae, spot be-
fore, short line beneath, spot before each intermediate coxae, scutellum, a line
on each side anteriorly, postscutellum, large spot behind posterior wing, and a
large spot on metathorax above, occupying the apical three-fouths, white or
yellowish-white; wings hyaline, dusky at apex, areolet minute, quadrate; legs
long, slender, honey-yellow; four anterior coxae, anterior trochanters and spot
on posterior coxae behind, pale yellow; posterior trochanters above, apices of
their tibiae, and their tarsi, except second and third joints (which are white),
black; tips of four anterior tarsi dusky; abdomen long, narrow, with basal
half of first segment and a rather narrow continuous band at apex of all the
segments except the last, yellowish-white, terminal segment with a whitish
spot. Length .40 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.)

Mesostenns discoidalis, n. sp.

£. — Black, shining; eyes large and prominent; orbits, broad on cheeks,
face, spot on mandibles, and palpi, white ; clypeus convex, tinged with honey-
yellow; antennae as long as body, slender, black ; scape beneath and a very
broad annulus on flagellum, white ; collar, upper margin of prothorax, discal
spot on mesothorax, scutellum, band behind postscutellum, tegulse, dot be-
neath, pleura except broad anterior margin, flanks of metathorax and a large
mark above, enclosing at apex a black spot, whitish ; metathorax with a trans-
verse carina before middle, posterior face transversely wrinkled ; wings hya-
line, areolet very minute, quadrate; legs long and slender, pale honey-yellow,
four anterior coxae and anterior pair of trochanters whitish, with an exterior
dusky stripe; posterior coxae with an exterior black stripe: extreme apex of
posterior tibiae, including spurs, and basal fourth of first joint, black ; re-
mainder of posterior tarsi pure white; abdomen slender, polished, first segment
white with a median black band, remaining segments black with a continuous
apical white band; ovipositor half the length of abdomen. Length .38 inch.
One specimen. (Cull. G-. W. Belfrage.)

Mesostemis paludal us. n. sp.

'J, . — Head and thorax black; all beneath antennae, anterior orbits, space
beneath eyes, mandibles except tips, palpi and scape beneath, yellowish-white :
head narrow, scarcely wider than thorax, face broad, clypeus with no distinct
basal suture, mandibles broad; antennae nearly as long as body, slender, black
above, the scape short and subglobose, flagellum pale fulvous beneath ; meso-
thorax deeply punctured, with the longitudinal lines deeply impressed ; col-
lar, upper lateral margin of prothorax, discal spot on mesothorax, scutellum,
tegulae, line beneath and pleura beneath, white; metathorax very uneven, ob-
liquely truncate behind, with prominent lateral angles, ferruginous laterally,
black at base and centrally, whitish down each lateral carina, a smooth, shi-
ning, quadrate central area, before which is a sharply defined transverse
carina; wings hyaline, iridescent, areolet minute, quadrate; legs honey-yel-
low; four anterior coxae, anterior trochanters and joints 2 — 4 of posterior tarsi,

TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 163

white; extreme tips of posterior femora, apical third of their tibiae, and first
and last tarsal joints, black; abdomen narrow, shining, ferruginous, the three
apical segments black. Length .35 inch.

One specimen from Comal Co. A very distinct species.

Mesostenus dejcctus, n. sp.

9- — Head and thorax dull black, legs and abdomen dull ferruginous; an-
terior margin of labrum white j mandibles piceous ; palpi pale; antennae
black, with joints 8 — 10 white above; mesothorax densely, rather finely punc-
tured, surface even; scutellum shining, subconvex; metathorax coarsely ru-
gose, with a prominent, obtuse, whitish, lateral tubercle, and a well defined,
transverse carina near base, before which the surface is much less coarsely
sculptured; wings fusco-hyaline, areolet subquadrate, apical nervure obsolete ;
legs and abdomen uniformly ferruginous, the latter subsericeous, first segment
shining and broadly dilated at apex; ovipositor not more than half the length
of abdomen. Length .50 inch.

Two specimens from Comal Co.

Mesostenus thoracicus.

Mesostenus thoracicus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 314.
One $ specimen. (Belfrage.)

Mesostenus gracilis.

Mesostenus gracilis, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 314.
One £ specimen. (Belfrage.)

Mesostenus pertinax, n. sp.

9-— Head, pro- and mesothorax and anterior portion of pleura black;
orbits, broad on cheeks, face except a median black dot, clypeus, mandibles
except tips, palpi, upper lateral margin of prothorax, two abbreviated lines on
disk of mesothorax, scutellum, postscutellum, tegulee, and three spots on
pleura, the lower one large and oblique, white ; metathorax and posterior part
of pleura, honey-yellow; a large triangular mark behind each posterior wing,
a spot on flanks of metathorax, and a broad, almost circular, line on posterior
face, white; pleura beneath pale honey-yellow; antennae slender, blackish
above, with a narrow whitish annulus, beneath pale on basal half; mesothorax
with middle lobe rather prominent; metathorax with posterior face trans-
versely wrinkled and with short obtuse lateral tubercles; wings hyaline,
faintly dusky at extreme tips, areolet small, 5-angular, apical nervure hyaline;
legs honey yellow, anterior coxa? and trochanters whitish, posterior tarsi whit-
ish between base and apex ; abdomen entirely honey-yellow or pale ferrugi-
nous, smooth and shining; ovipositor very short. Length .30 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) Allied to thoracicus and
gracilis.
Mesostenus arvalis, n. sp.

9 .—Honey-yellow, vertex, occiput and mesothorax more or less, tinged
with fuscous; face and orbits whitish; antennae black, with a narrow white
annulus about midway, scape pale beneath ; prothorax pale with whitish mar-
gins and a transverse black band behind the head; mesothorax with deeply
impressed lines; pleura pale, with indistinct whitish spots; tegulae whitish;

164 E. T. CRF.SSON.

metathorax with indistinct elevated lines and very prominent obtuse lateral
tubercles which are white, posterior face concave and transversely wrinkled ;
wings hyaline, areolet small, quadrate, apical nervure hyaline; legs uniformly
honey-yellow, anterior coxse and joints 2 and 3 of posterior tarsi whitish;
apical segment of abdomen with a white spot. Length .35 inch.

Three specimens. (Belfrage.)

Mesostenus longicaudis, n. sp.

9- — Slender, uniformly ferruginous, shining; antennae long and slender,
black, with part of joints 7 and 8 white above, three basal joints ferruginous;
middle lobe of mesothorax convex and prominent; metathorax rounded, de-
pressed on posterior face, rugulose, a well defined arcuate carina near base,
enclosing on each side at base a smooth space; wings fusco-hyaline, areolet
very narrow longitudinally; legs long and very slender, posterior tarsi slightly
dusky; abdomen long, slender polished; ovipositor more than twice the
length of body, pale ferruginous, sheaths black. Length of body .40 inch, of
ovipositor one inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Q. W. Belfrage.) A very remarkable spe-
cies.

Arotes decorus.

Accenitus decorus, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 248 9 •
One % specimen. (Boll.)

Thalessa lunator.

Pimpla lunator, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii , p. 162.
Three % 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.)

Ephialtes tuberculatus.

Ichneumon tuberculatus, Fourcr. Grav. Ich. Eur. wi., p. 228.
One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)

Pimpla maiira.

Pimpla maura, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Hi., p. 145.
Two 9 specimens from Comal Co.

Pimpla texana.

Pimpla texana, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 145.
One 9 specimen from Comal Co.

Pimpla tenuicoriiis.

Pimpla tenuicornis, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 267.
One 9 specimen from Comal Co.

Pimpla amiulipes.

Pimpla annulipes, Brulle. Hym., p. 102.
Three % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Pimpla indagatrix.

Pimpla indagatrix, Walsh, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, iii., p. 146.
Two % specimens. (Belfrage.)

TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 165

Pimpla conquisitor.

Pifnpla conquisitor, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 232.
Three 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Pimpla inquisitor.

Pimpla inquisitor, Say, Contrib. Macl. Lye. i., p. 71.

One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)

Pimpla notauda.

Pimpla notanda, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 148.
Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Pimpla sangninipes, n. sp.

9- — Black, head and thorax closely and finely punctured; metathorax
finely pubescent, opaque and finely rugose, transversely striated medially;
antennae slender, setaceous, piceous; tegulae black; wings subhyaline, nervures
and stigma black, the latter pale at base, areolet subrhomboidal ; legs robust
and, including coxae, sanguineous, four posterior tarsi more or less obfuscated;
abdomen robust, densely and coarsely punctured, except narrow apical mar-
gins and two or three apical segments which are smooth and shining; oviposi-
tor about half the length of abdomen. Length .45 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) Easily distinguished from
all the other known N. A. species by the legs being entirely bright red.

Pimpla petulca, n. sp.

9. — Long, slender, black, shining, feebly puuetured ; mandibles brown
with a white spot on. each; palpi white; antennas short, brown-black above,
brown beneath, whitish towards base; sides of mesothorax, scutellum and
pleura, except anterior margin, sanguineous; tegulae and short line before,
white; wings hyaline, nervules and stigma fuscus, the latter pale at base, areolet
subrhomboidal; legs slender, two anterior pairs, including coxae, white; their fe-
moraabove fulvous, theirtibise at tips andapexof tarsal joints blackish ; posterior
coxae and femora bright fulvous, their trochanters and knees white, their tibiae
pale, except a stain before middle, and their tips as well as the tarsi black;
abdomen long, slender, closely and finely punctured, sides of segments 3 — 5
swollen; ovipositor longer than body, rufous, sheaths black with long pubes-
cence. Length .35 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) Closely allied to notanda,
Cress., from which it differs by the four anterior legs being mostly
white.

Pimpla animosa, n. sp.

9.— Black, polished; palpi white; antennae pale testaceous, paler at base
beneath and darker above; tegulae white; pleura with an iridescent reflection,
flanks and apical margin of metathorax, and small ill-defined patch on each
side of pleura before middle coxae, sanguineous; wings hyaline, iridescent,
nervures and stigma black, areolet incomplete, having outer nervure obsolete:
legs slender, fulvo-ferruginous, anterior pair pale yellow, with white tro-
chanters, middle tibiae fuscous with median white aunulus, posterior tibiae
black, with narrow annulus at base and broad one at middle, white, their tarsi

166 E. T. CRESSON.

white with tips of joints black ; abdomen dilated, depressed, dark rufous, base
of the first, narrow apical margins of segments 2 — 5 and the following seg-
ments entirely, black; segments 2 — 5 each with lateral transverse swelling;
apical segments polished; ovipositor about half the length of abdomen, sheaths
black with long pubescence. Length .30 inch.
One specimen. (Coll. Q. W. Belf'rage.)

Polyspliincta texana.

Polysphincta texana, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 149.
One 9 specimen from Comal Co.

Lampronota parva.

Lampronota parva, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 163.
Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Euxorides aiiiericanus.

Eu.vorides americanus, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 167.
One 9 specimen from Comal Co.

Xylonomus australis.

Xylonomus australis, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii., p. 167.
One 9 specimen from Comal Co.

Labena grallator.

Cryptus grallator, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i., p. 236.
Five % 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll; Heiligbrodt.)

Mesoleptus bicolorattis, n. sp.

% . — Head and thorax black; legs and abdomen, except first segment,
honey-yellow; antennae long, slender, brown, scape beneath testaceous : head
transversely ovate; thorax subopaque, somewhat gibbous anteriorly; scutel-
lum raised, convex; tegulee testaceous; wings hyaline, iridescent, stigma
large, black, pale at base, areolet 5-angular, incomplete, the outer nervure
being obsolete; legs long and slender; abdomen slender, petiolated, first seg-
ment gradually dilated at apex, which is margined with honey-yellow.
Length .25 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Mesoleptus clelicatus, n. sp.

% . — Ferruginous, abdomen paler; head transverse, subbuccate ; face
moderately broad, eyes ovate, rather prominent; clypeus flat, shining, tips of
mandibles black; antennae long and slender; mesothorax rounded above,
with well-defined carinse, forming on the disk a large irregular area; pleura
protuberant beneath ; wings large, ample, hyaline, iridescent, stigma large,
black, pale at base, marginal cell broad, areolet subtriangular, legs very
slender, rather paler than body, tips of posterior tibise slightly dusky ; abdo-
men narrow, slender, subdepressed, first segment gradually and but slightly
dilated at apex, lateral tubercles not prominent. Length .23 inch.

Two specimens. (Belf'rage.)

TEXAN nVMENOPTERA. 167

Jlcsolcptus? strigosns, n. sp.

% . — Long, very slender, honey-yellow; head subglobose, cheeks swollen,
tips of mandibles and flagellum of antennae, black, the latter long and testace-
ous; thorax elongate, narrowed into a neck anteriorly; metathorax as long as
pro- and mesothorax combined, subconvex above and transversely striated ;
mesothorax subtrilobate; wings rather short, narrow, hyaline, beautifully
iridescent, stigma narrow, marginal cell very long, lanceolate, areolet small,
complete, subquadrate; legs long- and slender, posterior coxae unusually long,
apices of four anterior tarsi dusky, posterior tarsi dusky with basal half of third
joint white, spurs of posterior tarsi unequal; abdomen long and slender,
slightly and gradually widened from base to apex, first segment almost cylin-
drical, smooth and polished, the remaining segments finely punctured. Length
.30 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) A very elongate slender
form, with rather short narrow wings; it will probably form a new
genus.
Jlesoleptus? rotundiceps. n. sp.

% .— Minute, honey-yellow, incisures of thorax blackish; antennas long,
slender, dusky; head large, subrotund, emarginate posteriorly, cheeks large,
swollen; wings hyaline, iridescent, stigma large, pale at base, areolet 5-angu-
lar, incomplete, the outer nervure obsolete; legs rather long, slender; abdo-
men slender, petiolated, depressed, apex stained with fucous. Length .12 inch.
One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Jlesolcptus ? stiginaterus, n. sp.

% . — Small, entirely honey-yellow, smooth and shining, thorax and apex
of abdomen darker; head transverse, eyes and ocelli unusually prominent;
tegulae pale; wings ample, hyaline, iridescent, stigma large, broad, blackish,
pale at base, marginal cell large, subtriangular, areolet incomplete; legs
slender; abdomen slender, petiolated, petiole long, rather slender. Length
.IT inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.) This has much the ap-
pearance of a winged male of the genus Pezomachus.

Bassus sycophanta.

Bnssits sycophanta, Walsh, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii., p. 112.
Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Exochodes texana. n. sp.

^, . — Differs from me.vicana only as follows: — Size much smaller; antennae
paler; sides of prothorax, mesothorax and pleura entirely, flanks of metatho-
rax and two spots at base above, black; wings hyaline, not yellowish, apex
slightly dusky, a very small petiolated areolet: a spot on posterior coxae be-
neath, as well as base within, and their femora, tinged with dusky, but not
black at tips. Length .35 inch.
One specimen from Comal Co.

Exoclius atrocoxalis.

E.cochws atrocoxalis, Cress. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii., p. 114.
One specimen. (Belfrage.)

168 E. T. CRESSON.

Evoclius evectus, n. sp.

9. — Black, smooth and shining ; face, line on each side of antennae, man-
dibles, palpi, spot beneath eyes and a spot at summit, lemon-yellow : apex of
scutellum piceous, a slender transverse yellowish line on postscutellum ; tegu-
I33 brown, with a white spot in front; a slender line beneath tegulse and a
large cuneiform spot in front, yellowish ; sometimes the pleura has a yellowish
line on anterior margin; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma blackish, no
areolet; metathorax with a large, subquadrate central area; legs short, robust,
femora much swollen, especially posterior pair, yellowish-fulvous, four anterior
coxse more or less yellow, tibiae whitish, apices of intermediate pair dusky,
apical third of posterior pair fuscous, tarsi whitish with tips of joints some-
times dusky; abdomen smooth and polished, slightly pubescent towards apex.
Length .30 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) Closely allied to pall ipes,
Cress.
E.voclins texaims, n. sp.

% . — Black, shining, with a very short, pale golden, sericeous pile, more
obvious in certain lights; face, clypeus, space beneath eyes and palpi, lemon-
yellow; mandibles blackish-brown; thorax flattened above, very finely punc-
tured; scutellum flat, polished, lateral margin carinate; metathorax shining,
with six longitudinal carinas, two on disk, short and approximate, and two
on each side, apex truncate; tegulas whitish; wings hyaline, nervures and
stigma black, no areolet; legs short, robust, uniformly bright ferruginous,
femora incrassate; abdomen shining, closely and finely punctured, first seg-
ment with four longitudinal carinas, those on disk approximate; second seg-
ment witb three longitudinal carinas, the central one continued on the third
segment nearly to apex, the lateral one not quite reaching the middle of same
segment. Length .28 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) Allied to cariuatus, Cress.

Hetopius Ilagcuii, n. sp.

9. — Black, with short, pale glittering pubescence, especially on cheeks
and sides of thorax; face white, with a central longitudinal black spot; nar-
row anterior orbits, clypeus, labrum, spot on mandibles, another beneath eyes
and palpi, white; a black dot on each side of clypeus; antennas entirely black
except a dot on scape beneath ; mesothorax closely and rather coarsely punc-
tured; scutellum with a transverse, subcordate white spot at tip; spot on
tegulas, a line immediately beneath, and a cuneiform spot further beneath,
white; wings hyaline, nervures and stigma black; areolet rhomboidal, shorter
than in pollinctorius ; legs black, tips of four anterior femora, their tibise ex-
cept line behind, their tarsi except tips and basal half of posterior tibife, white ;
abdomen entirely black, coarsely punctured, with coarse deep strise on disk of
segments 2 and 3 ; first segment with two prominent longitudinal carinas, more
sharply defined near base; venter whitish. Length .52 inch.

One specimen. (Boll. Coll. Mus. Coinp. Zool.) A very distinct
species, distinguished at once from pollinctorius, Say, by the immacu-
late abdomen and banded posterior tibiae. The % , of which I have oue
specimen from Massachusetts, differs only by the longer antennae, by

TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 169

the face being entirely white, by the four anterior femora being white
before and the posterior tarsi being white except at tip of joints.
This fine species is dedicated to my friend Dr. H. Hagen in
acknowledgement of the valuable assistance he has rendered me in
the study of texan hymenoptera.

Exetastes bioculatiis, n. sp.

% .— Head and thorax black; metathorax, legs and abdomen ferruginous;
clypeus except base, mandibles except tips, and palpi, whitish; antennae with
basal half black, middle with whitish annulus occupying about six joints, be-
yond this the joints are brown; two broad sublunate spots on mesothorax
anteriorly; scutellum, postscutellum, tegulae, dot before and spot beneath,
white; metathorax rugose, tinged with yellowish above; wings hyaline, apex
faintly dusky ; four anterior coxae yellowish- white, posterior tarsi white, base
of first joint, the one or two terminal joints and apex of tibiae, blackish ; abdo-
men short, slender, smooth, polished, entirely ferruginous. Length .35 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G\ W. Belfrage.) May be the £ of decolor-
afus, Cress.

Exetastes Scutellaria.

Exetastes scutellaris, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 279.
Two % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Exetastew faseipennis.

Exetastes faseipennis, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 278.
Four 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

OplllOU 1BISM -1'111'UIII.

Ichneumon macrurum, Linn. Mant., p. 540.

Two specimens. (Boll.)

Ophion bilineatus.

Ophion bilineatus, Say, Macl. Lye, p. 75 ; Bost. Journ. i., p. 248.

Numerous % 9 specimens. (Belfrage; Boll; Heiligbrodt.)

Ophion bifoveolatus.

Ophion bifoveolatus, Brulle, Hym., p. 139.
Four % specimens. (Belfrage.)

Trachynotus texanus, n. sp.

9. — Dull ferruginous; orbits whitish in front, pale behind, a black spot
beneath base of antennae; antennae black, scape ferruginous; mesothorax ru-
gose, with a lateral yellow line ; scutellum yellowish, scutellar region blackish ;
pleura beneath and extreme sides of metathorax black; wings faintly dusky,
iridescent; legs ferruginous, anterior coxae and trochanters pale, posterior
knees and tarsi fuscous; abdomen dull ferruginous, fuscous above and at apex,
base of first segment yellow; ovipositor longer than first abdominal segment.
Length .35 inch.

Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) Closely allied to ejuncidus, Say.

TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. IV. (22) NOVEMBER, 1872.

170 E. T. CRESSON.

i: \4M-h i I ii m nigrovarium.

Exochilum nigrovarium, Brulle, Hym., p. 172.
One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)

Thyreodon morio.

Ichneumon morio, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii., p. 180.

One $ specimen. (Boll.)

A nomalon magniceps, n. sp.

£. — Black; head large, much wider than thorax, broadly emarginate be-
hind, with full prominent cheeks; face, anterior orbits, lower part of cheeks,
clypeus, mandibles except tips, and palpi, pale yellow ; antennae two-thirds the
length of body, entirely pale orange-yellow ; mesothorax, scutellum, tegulae
and sometimes a large spot beneath wings, ferruginous; metathorax coarsely
reticulated, sometimes tinged with rufous on disk and at apex; wings uni-
formly dark fuliginous, with a brassy reflection, discoidal cell not contracted
at base; legs black, anterior pair entirely, intermediate femora in front, their
tibiae except tips, their tarsi, basal half or two-thirds of posterior tibiae, and
more or less of their tarsi, ferruginous or yellowish-ferruginous; abdomen en-
tirely black, first segment swollen at tip. Length .85 inch.
Two specimens. (Boll.)

Anomalon pallitarse, n. sp.

% . — Deep black, shining ; anterior orbits, clypeus except central black spot,
spot on mandibles, and palpi, yellowish ; antennas two-thirds the length of
body, orange-yellow, their basal joints black, scape yellow beneath; metatho-
rax coarsely reticulated, with a shallow longitudinal central furrow; wings
uniformly fuliginous, discoidal cell contracted at base; legs black, line on an-
terior femora in front, their tibiae, intermediate tibiae in front and all the tarsi,
pale yellow; sometimes the posterior tibiae are palish at base; abdomen en-
tirely black, first segment not swollen at tip. Length .80 inch.
Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Anomalon orbitalis, n. sp.

%. — Black, shining; anterior orbits, cheeks, face, clypeus, mandibles ex-
cept tips, palpi and scape beneath yellowish; antennae about half the length
of body, pale ferruginous, black at base; tegulee ferruginous : metathorax finely
reticulated, with a deep longitudinal central furrow; wings uniformly fuligi-
nous, discal cell contracted at base; four anterior legs pale yellow, their femora
honey-yellow, intermediate coxae black at base; posterior legs black, their tro-
chanters, basal half of tibiae, and their tarsi, yellow; first, second and upper
half of third abdominal segment pale honey-yellow, remainder black, disk of
second segment not swollen at tip. Length .60 inch.
Three specimens. (Belfrage.)

Anomalon fulvescens.

Cre.ma.stus fulvencens, Cress. Froc. Ent. Soe. iv., p. 285.
Two S specimens. (Belfrage.) Color honey-yellow or pale fer-
rugiuous, with vertex, anterior middle of mesothorax and tip of abdo-
men black.

TEXAN HrMENOPTERA. 171

Anomalon melleum, n. sp.

J. — Small, slender, uniformly honey-yellow; face, clypeus, mandibles
except tips, palpi, lower posterior orbits and four anterior coxae and trochanters,
pale lemon-yellow; antennae very slender, as long as body, dusky at tips; a
black dot on anterior middle of mesothorax; metathorax pale at tip, slightly
depressed medially; wings hyaline, iridescent, discoidal cell long, contracted
at base; tips of posterior tibiae and of all the tarsi, dusky; abdomen paler at
base, first segment not swollen at tip, venter yellowish. Length .30 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G-. W. Belfrage.)

Anomalon metallicum.

Anomalon metallicum, Norton, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, i., p. 364.
One % specimen. (Boll.)

Hesoehorns nniformis, n. sp.

9. — Honey-yellow or rufo-ferruginous; face pale; orbits whitish, as well
as spot on mandibles, and palpi; tips of mandibles black; antennas long and
very slender, entirely pale honey-yellow; mesothoracic lines faintly im-
pressed; scutellum prominent, convex; metathorax rounded, with distinct
elevated lines; tegulse and dot in front yellowish-white; wings hyaline, iride-
scent, nervures pale, stigma sometimes fuscous, pale at base, areolet large,
rhomboidal; legs pale yellow, posterior coxae, femora and tips of their tibiae,
honey-yellow, tarsal tips dusky; abdomen polished, apex more or less dis-
colored; ovipositor very short. Length .30 inch.
Two specimens. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.)

Mesochoriis electilis, n. sp.

£> , — Black, shining; face, orbits, cheeks, clypeus and mouth, pale fer-
ruginous; antennae entirely black, except incisure between joints 2 and 3,
which is whitish ; metathorax with distinct elevated lines; tegulse and spot
beneath, pale; wings hyaline; legs, including coxae pale ferruginous, posterior
tibiae paler, their tips and knees blackish, all the tarsi more or less obfuscated;
abdomen polished, first and second segments black, a large pale yellowish-fer-
ruginous spot covers apex of second and most of third segments; apex of third
segment blackish; remainder dull ferruginous; ovipositor short. Length .20
inch.

Two specimens. (Belfrage.) Resembles luteipes, Cress.

Paniscus geminatus.

Ophion geminatus, Say, Contrib. Macl. Lye. i., p. 76.
Numerous % 9 specimens. (Belfrage.) This species varies much
in size.

Campoplex expertus, n. sp.

% . — Black; face, cheeks, pleura and metathorax with short silvery pile ;
most of mandibles and palpi yellowish-white; antennae entirely black; meso-
thorax densely sculptured, without impressed lines; metathorax with a finely
impressed central longitudinal furrow; tegulae white; wings hyaline, areolet
large, slightly petiolated; coxse black; anterior legs, intermediate tibiae and
tarsi pale yellow; four posterior trochanters and femora honey-yellow; pos-

172 E. T. CRESSON.

terior tibiae except base, and most of their tarsi blackish ; base of the tibiae and
spurs pale ; abdomen pale ferruginous, extreme base of first segment and disk
of second, not reaching apex, black. Length .42 inch.
Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Cainpoplex foellus, n. sp.

% . — Differs from expertus only as follows : — Base of anterior femora, inter-
mediate femora except apices, posterior trochanters, femora, apical two-thirds of
their tibiae and their tarsi except base of first joint, black ; first and second ab-
dominal segments entirely black. Length .42 inch.

Var. a. — Areolet smaller, two apical segments of abdomen black.
Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Li in ueria corrupta, n. sp.

9. — Dull black; face, cheeks, pleura, metathorax and coxae with short
silvery pile; mandibles brown at tips ; palpi whitish ; antennae entirely black :
mesothorax opaque, densely and finely sculptured; metathorax without dis-
tinct elevated lines, apex slightly excavated; tegulae white ; wings hyaline,
areolet small, petiolated ; legs ferruginous, coxae and trochanters black; abdo-
men ferruginous, fourth and following segments subcompressed, base of first
segment black, apex swollen, smooth and shining; ovipositor not longer than
first abdominal segment. Length .43 inch.
One specimen. (Coll. G. VV. Belfrage.)

I.i in ueria illepi<la, n. sp.

% . — Black, opaque; head and thorax densely sculptured, clothed with a
very short yellowish pubescence, longer and very dense on metathorax: man-
dibles dull rufous at tips; palpi and tegulae dull yellow; metathorax roughly
sculptured, with a shallow central groove; wings subhyaline, dusky at tips,
areolet minute, petiolated ; coxae and trochanters black, four anterior femora
honey-yellow, their tibiae and tarsi pale yellow; posterior legs black, their fe-
mora reddish within and extreme base of their tibiae and of their tarsi pale;
abdomen very broad, and compressed at tip, ferruginous, basal two-thirds of
first and second segments and apical margin of second, black; venter yellow-
ish. Length .45 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.)

Iiiiuueria iiifesta, n. sp.

9 . — Black, feebly punctured, and with a very short pale glittering pube-
scence, very dense on metathorax; spot on mandibles, palpi, scape beneath
and tegulae yellowish-white; metathorax finely sculptured, with a well-defined
central groove; wings hyaline, dusky at tips, areolet minute, petiolated ; legs
pale ferruginous, coxae black, trochanters and four anterior tibiae and tarsi pale
yellowish, extreme tips of posterior femora, their tibiae and tarsi fuscous, ex-
treme base of tibiae and their spurs whitish ; abdomen subcompressed at tip,
ferruginous, first and second segments except tips, and base of third black;
venter pale; ovipositor very short. Length .38 inch.
One specimen. (Coll. (i. W. Belfrage.)

TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 173

Linmeria fnra. n. sp.

9- — Black, minutely punctured, rather shining, with a very short, fine,
whitish pile: face flattened, subgranulate; mandibles large, orange-yellow,
black at base and apex: scutellum subconvex, polished; metathorax short,
posterior face deeply and longitudinally excavated, a bisinuate carina near
base, enclosing on efcch side a smooth semicircular space ; tegulse white ; pleura
shining, with a lateral shallow excavation ; wings dusky hyaline, nervures
and stigma black, areolet rather large, triangular, not petiolated ; femora
bright rufo-ferruginous, posterior pair robust, four anterior tibise more or less,
and their tarsi except tips of joints, pale yellowish, extreme base of posterior
tibise, their spurs and extreme base of tarsal joints, whitish: abdomen robust,
convex, subclavate, smooth and sericeous, with pale pubescence, first segment
smooth and polished, apex swollen ; venter pale; ovipositor half the length of
abdomen. Length .35 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Linmeria aiimiline*.

Mesoleptus annulip.es, Cress. Troc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 257.
One 9 specimen. (Belfrage.)

Linmeria obseura.

Mesoleptus obscurus, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii., p. 261.
Three 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Linmeria rirali*. n. sp.

% 9- — Black, opaque, clothed with a short pale glittering pubescence;
mandibles except tips, palpi and tegulse white; scape beneath honey-yellow;
metathorax rounded above, with sharply defined elevated lines, forming a
large elongate central area; wings hyaline, areolet small, triangular, petio-
lated; legs pale ferruginous, trochanters of 9 an d f° ur anterior eoxse and tro-
chanters and anterior tibise and tarsi of % whitish; extreme tips of posterior
tibise and of their tarsal joints of 9> and their tarsi entirely of % , fuscous: ab-
domen subcompressed at tip, ferruginous, base of first segment of £ , and first
segment except apex, and base of second of 9 > black: apex of first segment
rather suddenly swollen behind middle; ovipositor of 9 half the length of ab-
domen. Length .20 — .25 inch.

Two specimens. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Charops tibialis, n. sp.

% . — Black, clothed with short pale pubescence; mandibles, palpi, scape
beneath and tegulse white ; scutellum broad, flat, pubescent ; metathorax short,
subexcavated behind, coarsely sculptured; wings hyaline, iridescent: legs
black, two anterior pairs except coxae ferruginous, their trochanters whitish.
posterior tibise with a very broad whitish annulus nearly reaching base; abdo-
men very slender at base, broad, compressed and truncate at apex. Length
.25 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

174 E. T. CRESSON.

Porizon audax, n. sp.

% . — Black, shining; face, orbits slightly interrupted at summit of eyes,
clypeus, mandibles except tips, scape beneath, and tegulae, lemon-yellow; an-
tennae approximate at base, longer than head and thorax, black or brown-
black; mesothorax sparsely punctured; pleura and metathorax laterally with
short pale sericeous pile, the latter with well-defined elevated lines; wings
short, broad, fusco-hyaline, clear at tips, stigma large, black, with a pale spot at
base; legs honey-yellow, posterior coxae black, four anterior coxae beneath and
their trochanters lemon-yellow, posterior tibiae and tarsi more or less obfus-
cated ; abdomen dark honey-yellow, the first and basal two-thirds of second
segment black. Length .35— .40 inch.
Four specimens. (Belfrage ; Boll.)

Porizon orbitalis, n. sp.

9 . — Black, subopaque, thorax densely and rather coarsely punctured; orbits
broad beneath eyes and interrupted opposite ocelli, mandibles except tips, and
tegulae, lemon-yellow ; apical margin of clypeus and scape beneath, rufous ;
antennae approximate at base, longer than head and thorax, black ; metatho-
rax with well-defined elevated lines, sides with silvery pile; wings hyaline,
large, blackish, with a pale dot at base; legs ferruginous, four posterior coxae
black, four anterior legs yellowish in front, tips of posterior tibiae and tarsi
fuscous ; abdomen pale ferruginous, first and second, and a spot at base of third
segments, above black; ovipositor two-thirds the length of abdomen. Length
.40 inch.

%. — Face, clypeus, most of mandibles and scape beneath, lemon-yellow;
posterior tibiae and tarsi darker; third abdominal segment entirely ferruginous.
Three specimens. (Belfrage.)

Porizon hyalinipennis, n. sp.

9- — Black, shining; orbits, clypeus, mandibles except tips, spot on scape
beneath and tegulae, pale lemon-yellow; tip of clypeus tinged with honey-yel-
low; antennae longer than head and thorax, black; thorax distinctly but not
coarsely punctured ; pleura and metathorax with fine whitish pile, the latter
more coarsely punctured, with well-defined elevated lines ; wings whitish hya-
line, nervures pale, stigma large, black, pale at base; four anterior coxae, all
the trochanters and base of tarsi, pale yellow, posterior coxae and tips of their
tibiae black, tarsal tips fuscous; abdomen robust, pale ferruginous, first and
second segments above black; venter lemon-yellow; ovipositor longer than
first abdominal segment. Length .38 inch.

% . — Face yellow ; four anterior legs paler; apical segment of abdomen more
or less marked with black above.

Four specimens. (Belfrage.) Kesembles orbitalis, but is much
less coarsely punctured and with clearer wings.

Porizon stigniaterus, n. sp.

£ 9 • — Black ; spot on mandibles, extreme base of wings, venter of 9 > aQ d
clypeus and tegulae ot £,, lemon-yellow; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures
and stigma blackish, the latter large and conspicuous; legs dull honey-yellow,
tinged with fuscous, coxae and trochanters black, base and apex of posterior

TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 175

tibiae and tarsal tips fuscous; abdomen subrobust; ovipositor nearly as long as
abdomen. Length .30 — ,32 inch.
Eight specimens. (Belfrage.)

Porizon la oil is. n. sp.

9 . — Long, slender, honey-yellow or pale ferruginous ; head lemon-yellow,
two spots behind antenna?, sometimes confluent, spot covering ocelli, occiput
and tips of mandibles, black; antennae longer than head and thorax, black or
brown-black, scape yellowish ; thorax more or less tinged with yellow; meso-
thorax generally with a broad central black stripe, margined laterally with
lemon-yellow; collar, tegula? and scutellum pale yellow; pleura beneath and
base of metathorax above more or less black, the latter with well-defined ele-
vated lines, the dorsal surface finely transversely striated; wings hyaline,
iridescent, nervures and stigma pale fuscous; legs long and slender, pale
honey-yellow, coxae, trochanters and knees more or less pale yellow, base and
apex of posterior tibia? and tips of tarsal joints fuscous; abdomen long and
slender, base of first, basal two-thirds of second and spot at base of two or three
following segments black; venter yellow; ovipositor as long as abdomen.
Length .30— .33 inch.

% . — Rather more slender, eyes larger, thorax more varied laterally with pale
yellow; the black on metathorax extending to apex; pleura with a black spot
on each side anteriorly ; first and second segments of abdomen except tips and
more or less of base of remaining segments black.

Several specimens. (Belfrage.)

Porizon macer, n. sp.

2 . — Head black, lower part of face, orbits, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, tegu-
lae and scutellum, lemon-yellow; antennae as long as head and thorax, black;
thorax rufo-ferruginous, a broad central stripe on mesothorax, scutellar region,
base of metathorax and tip above, the extreme sides, spot beneath wings and
pleura beneath, black; metathorax minutely and strongly punctured, with
well-defined elevated lines, posterior face transversely striated ; wings hyaline,
iridescent, stigma large, pale fuscous; four anterior legs yellow, posterior pair
honey-yellow, with pale trochanters, base of their coxae black, base and apex
of their tibia? and most of their tarsi fuscous; abdomen long, slender, yellow-
ferruginous, first and second segments above except tips and base of third seg-
ment black, apical segments dusky above ; ovipositor three-fourths the length
of abdomen. Length .30 inch.

%. — Black: face, orbits, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, scape beneath, tegulae
and scutellum, pale yellow; antennae as long as abdomen ; lateral margin of
mesothorax, prothorax except lateral middle, and, long oblique stripe on each
side of pleura, yellow-ferruginous; legs ferruginous; base of abdominal seg-
ments 3 — 5 above and apex black. Length .26 inch.

Three specimens. (Belfrage.) This may be nothing more than
an extreme variety cf facilis.

Porizon ? agilis, n. sp.

£> . — Ferruginous; spot enclosing ocelli and* two large spots on occiput,
fuscous; mandibles white with black tips; antennae blackish, scape ferrugi-
nous ; spot on mesothorax in front and on each side posteriorly, scutellar region

176 E. T. CRESSON.

and metathorax above except apex, black; metathorax with sharply-defined
elevated lines ; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma fuscous; legs
pale yellow, tinged with honey-yellow, especially posterior coxae and femora,
base of posterior trochanters, stripe od sides of their femora, base and apex of
their tibiae and their tarsi except base, fuscous ; tibial spurs white; posterior
femora with a short acute spine between middle and apex; abdomen slender,
first segment except, base and second segment except apex blackish; apical
segments dusky above; venter pale yellow; ovipositor as long as abdomen.
Length .20 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Porizon? delicatiiK, n. sp.

^ . — Pale honey-yellow; head much broader than thorax, eyes large and
prominent; face, orbits, clypeus, mandibles except tips, and scape pale lemon-
yellow, middle of face tinged with honey-yellow; antennae three-fourths as
long as body, dusky ; thorax uniformly pale honey-yellow; metathorax with
distinct elevated lines; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma pale
fuscous; legs slender, pale yellow, white at base, tips of posterior tibiae dusky ;
abdomen more or less black at base of all the segments above, especially that
of second segment. Length .20 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

< remasl us piceus, n. sp.

J. — Shining piceous-blaek ; mandibles except tips white; orbits and tip
of clypeus honey-yellow; metathorax with well-defined elevated lines; tegulae
and extreme base of wings yellowish-white; wings hyaline, iridescent, ner-
vures and stigma pale; legs dull honey-yellow, tinged with ferruginous, pos-
terior coxae black, their tibiae and tarsi more or less obfuscate; abdomen
polished, piceous, paler at apex; venter with pale bands; ovipositor porrect,
two-thirds the length of abdomen. Length .16 inch.
One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Eiphosoma texaua, n. sp.

9- — Black; orbits, face, clypeus, mandibles, palpi, scape beneath, collar,
prothorax except lateral triangular black spot and upper central margin, two
stripes on metathorax, scutellum, four stripes on metathorax, the lateral one
interrupted near base, tegulae, angular line beneath, spot beneath posterior
wings, an oblique forked line on each side of pleura and a spot beneath, all
very pale yellowish-white; antennae short, black; mesothorax with large dis-
tinct punctures; metathorax slightly excavated centrally; wings hyaline,
areolet minute, petiolated : four anterior legs white, their femora pale honey-
yellow, stripe on trochanters behind and tips of tarsi, black; posterior coxae
white, black within and black spot on outside, their trochanters black, white
at tips, their femora rufo-ferruginous, white at extreme base and apex and with
a black annulus before each, femoral tooth very small, their tibiae and tarsi
black, extreme base of tibiae, a broad median annulus and spurs white; abdo-
men pale rufo-ferruginous, basal half of first segment white, a spot on middle
of first segment, the second and dorsal edge of remaining segments except apex,
black; ovipositor two-thirds the length of abdomen. Length .50 inch.
One specimen from Comal Co. A very distinct species.

TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 177

PHARSA.LIA, n. gen.

Same form as Eipho&oma, rather more slender and roughly sculp-
tured as in Trachynotus ; head transverse, not wider than thorax,
buccate; antennae short, not longer than head and thorax; thorax
gibbous, subtruncate anteriorly ; scutellum broad, flat, with a broad
deep central groove; metathorax longer and
more pointed at apex than in Trachynotus,
with a deep central groove ; legs as in
Eijjhosoma, except that the posterior femora are shorter and unarmed,
their tibiae and tarsi shorter and more robust; abdomen as in
Eiphosoma, except that it is rather longer and more slender; wings
short and very narrow, with the neuration as represented by the ac-
companying figure, the dotted lines of which indicate very indistinct
nervures.

Pharsalia texana, n. sp.

9- — Black, face with silvery pubescence; cheeks, pleura and metathorax
entirely covered with a dense, appressed silvery pile; anterior orbits, all be-
neath antennae, lower part of cheeks aud scape beneath, whitish ; vertex and
occiput rugose; antennae not longer than head and thorax ; mesothorax coarse-
ly rugose; scutellum deeply excavated centrally; metathorax coarsely reticu-
lated, central groove deep and shining; wings hyaline; four anterior legs
bright honey-yellow, their coxae and trochanters, base and apex of tibiae, and
tarsi at tips, white; posterior coxae black, their trochanters with basal half
white and balance black, their femora black above, ferruginous beneath, their
tibiae ferruginous, white at base, below which is a narrow black annulus, their
tarsi blackish ; abdomen nearly three times longer than head and thorax
together, black, apex of third segment, and the fourth and fifth entirely except
dorsal ridge, ferruginous; ovipositor very short. Length .50 inch.

One specimen. (Belfrage.)

In the collection of the American Entomological Society there is
another species belonging to this genus, from West Virginia, which
I have named P. virginiensis. It is a % , having the eyes larger than
in $ and face much narrower, especially beneath; the color is nearly
altogether black, the cheeks, pleura and metathorax densely silvery;
the anterior orbits, margin beneath eyes and mandibles whitish; an-
tennae entirely black; the scutellum broadly concave; anterior legs
honey-yellow, with coxae beneath, tibiae, and tarsi except tips, white ;
intermediate legs fuscous, with annulus at base of tibiae, and tarsi ex-
cept tips, whitish; posterior legs black, with basal half of trochanters
and annulus near base of tibiae white ; abdomen more slender than in
texana and entirely black. Length .5(1 inch.

TRANS. AMER. ENT. S0C. IV. (23) NOVEMBER, 1S72.

E. T. CRESSON.

BRACONID.E.

Perilitns vulgaris.

Perilitus vulgaris, Cress. Can. Eat. iv, p. 83.
Three % $ specimens. (Belfra»e; Boll.)

Opius bruunciventris, n. sp.

% . — Black, shining ; clypeus, mandibles and scape beneath honey-yellow;
antennae as long as body, brown-black ; metathorax roughly sculptured ; tegulae
honey-yellow; wings faintly dusky, iridescent, stigma blackish, broad lanceo-
late; legs entirely pale honey -yellow; abdomen dejiressed, smooth and shi-
ning, pale brown, first segment black, lateral margins raised. Length .12
inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G-. W. Belfrage.)

Eubadizon niaculiventris, n. sp.

^ . — Pale honey-yellow, darker above; antennae as long as body, dusky at
tips; metathorax with a large square black central spot; tegulae whitish;
wings hyaline, beautifully iridescent, nervures and stigma dusky; tips of four
posterior femora above, tips of their tibiae, and a band near base (which is
pale) and their tarsi except base of joints, fuscous; first and second abdominal
segments above except lateral margins, black, middle of remaining segments
fuscous or blackish. Length .20 inch.
One specimen from Comal Co.

Phylax melleus, n. sp.

£ . — Honey-yellow, tborax beneath, legs and abdomen beneath paler; an-
tennae much longer than body, dusky towards tips which are very slender and
involute ; mesothorax slightly trilobed, and with the pleura dark honey-yellow;
metathorax slightly roughened above; wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures
dusky, stigma very pale, second cubital cell small, quadrate; legs slender, pos-
terior pair darker, the tarsi dusky; first abdominal segment larger than
second, sides nearly parallel, sides of second segment narrowly yellowish, apex
of abdomen compressed, truncate, ovipositor short. Length .25 inch.
Three specimens. (Belfrage.)

Macrocentrus imperils, n. sp.

9. — Pale honey-yellow, shining; eyes large, prominent, black; tips of
mandibles and band across vertex, blackish; antennae longer than body, very
slender, the five or six basal joints blackish; mesothorax strongly trilobed.
middle lobe blackish centrally, side lobes dusky; metathorax very finely rugu-
lose; wings hyaline, beautifully iridescent, nervures dusky, stigma pale; ab-
domen long, slender, apex dusky, first segment slender, with lateral tubercles
prominent; ovipositor as long as body, honey-yellow, sheaths pilose, fuscous.
Length .30 inch.

Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Macrocentnis delicatus, n. sp.

^ 9 — Slender, pale honey-yellow; spot enclosed by ocelli, and tips of
mandibles blackish ; eyes prominent, black ; antennae longer than body, very
slender, curled at tips, base more or less dusky, incisures of joints fuscous;

TEXAN Hl'MENOPTERA. 179

mesothorax strongly trilobed ; sometimes the scutelhim, metathorax above and
basal segments of abdomen above are more or less dusky; wings pale yellow-
ish-hyaline, iridescent, nervures fuscous, stigma pale yellow; thorax paler be-
neath; legs slender, yellowish-white, paler at base, tips of tibiae and of tarsi
faintly dusky ; abdomen longer than head and thorax, smooth, apex more or
less dusky, lateral tubercles of first segment not prominent; ovipositor of 9
generally much longer than body, honey-yellow, sheaths pilose, fuscous.
Length .25 inch.

Three specimens. (Belfrage.) This is a very variable species and
occurs in the Eastern, Middle and Western States and also in Mexico.

Helcon texanus, n. sp.

$. — Black, shining, metathorax, most of pleura, posterior legs and abdo-
men ferruginous; antennae longer than head and thorax, curled at tips; meta-
thorax rugose; wings pale smoky hyaline, a broad transverse angular streak
beneath base of stigma; posterior coxae, trochanters and femora ferruginous,
tips of tarsi rufo-testaceous, posterior femora unarmed; abdomen polished, ex-
cept first segment which is finely and longitudinally roughened ; ovipositor
longer than body. Length .38 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Ichneutes abdomiualis, n. sp.

9.- — Black, shining, thinly clothed with a pale sericeous pile; antennas
stout, brown-black, sericeous; wings uniformly fuliginous, two or three pale
spots beneath stigma, nervures and stigma black; legs stout, yellow-ferrugi-
nous, coxae and trochanters black, tarsi fuscous at tips ; abdomen yellow-ferru-
ginous, strongly pale sericeous. Length .18 inch.
One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.)

Toxoueuron seminigrum.

Tenthredoides seminiger, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 291.

One 9 specimen. ( Belfrage.)

Sigalphus texanus, n. sp.

9 . — Black, vertex and cheeks shining, face pubescent; palpi and four or
five basal joints of antennae honey-yellow; thorax subopaque, sides of meso-
thorax shining; metathorax with a central longitudinal carina, apex truncate,
lateral angles subacute; tegulae piceous ; wings hyaline, apical half faintly
dusky, stigma black ; legs ferruginous, tips of four posterior tibiae and their
tarsi blackish; segments of abdomen completely coalite, longitudinally acicu-
lated to near apex where the surface is granulated, apex deeply emarginate.
Length .15 — .17 inch.

Three specimens. (Belfrage.)

Chelonus texanus, n. sp.

9. — Short, broad, robust, black, opaque, with a pale sericeous pile; face
transversely striated; clypeus smooth; mandibles tinged with ferruginous;
thorax rugose ; scutellum and tegulae shining; metathorax coarsely reticulated,
truncate behind, with prominent acute lateral angles; wings hyaline, dusky
on apical third, stigma blackish; legs honey-yellow, coxae, trochanters and

180 E. T. CRESSON.

base of posterior femora black; abdomen broad ovate, coarsely granulated,
rounded at tip, base with two sharply defined carinse converging posteriorly
and a lateral honey-yellow spot; venter honey -yellow at base. Length .20 in.

Two specimens. (Belfrage.)
Clielonus electus, n. sp.

% 9> — Black, opaque, densely and finely granulated, with a short, pale,
glittering, sericeous pile, dense on the face of the % ; clypeus shining, tips of
mandibles yellowish ; metathorax abrupt and excavated at tip, lateral angles
prominent; tegulse piceous; wings hyaline, dusky on apical half, stigma
black; anterior femora except base, apex of intermediate pair, four anterior
tibiae and base of tarsi, posterior tibiae except base and apex, and base of their
tarsi, honey-yellow; abdomen with two whitish spots, sometimes confluent
forming a broad band at base where the surface is more or less longitudinally
rugose, and having a short longitudinal carina on each side, apex rounded.
Length .17 inch.

Two specimens. (Coll. G-. W. Belfrage.)

Oielonus coniiectens, n. sp.

9. — Black, opaque, subsericeous ; head densely punctured, clypeus shi-
ning, finely punctured, apical margin smooth and polished; mandibles yellow-
ish, palpi dusky; scape ferruginous; thorax shining, coarsely punctured ; scu-
tellum sparsely punctured; metathorax rugose, deeply excavated posteriorly,
lateral angles very prominent, subacute; pleura with large confluent punc-
tures; tegulse piceous; wings hyaline, apical half dusky, stigma blackish; legs,
including coxae, honey-yellow or ferruginous, jxisterior trochanters, tips of their
tibiae and their tarsi except base, fuscous, remainder of tibiae and base of tarsi
pale; abdomen sericeous, confluently punctured or somewhat coarsely granu-
lated, base above with two large yellowish-white spots confluent anteriorly.
Length .19 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Clielonus cautus, n. sp.

9 • — Black, subsericeous, head and thorax somewhat shining, feebly punc-
tured; tips of mandibles and palpi testaceous; scutellum polished ; metathorax
coarsely reticulate, truncate and excavate behind, lateral angles rather promi-
nent, obtuse; tegulae pale piceous; wings subhyaline, darker on apical half,
stigma fuscous; legs black, all the trochanters, anterior femora except base,
four anterior tibiae, their tarsi except tips, posterior tibiae except tips and base
of their tarsi yellowish ; abdomen finely and longitudinally sculptured, a large
yellow spot, rounded posteriorly, occupies nearly the basal fourth of the seg-
ment; apex of abdomen rounded, with a deep transverse shining incision.
Length .15 inch.

Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Chelomis luticinctiis, n. sp.

9. — Elongate, black, somewhat shining, subsericeous: head and thorax
above finely punctured ; mandibles and scape beneath dull ferruginous; scu-
tellum shining; lateral angles of metathorax not prominent; pleura coarsely
punctured; wings uniformly pale fuliginous, iridescent, stigma black; legs
ferruginous, coxae, tips of posterior tibiae and of the tarsi black; abdomen

TEXAN HYMENOPTERA. 181

elongate, narrower than usual, minutely and longitudinally sculptured, serice-
ous, a broad honey-yellow band occupying the basal third, apex rounded.
Length .19 inch.

Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Chelonus minimus, n. sp.

9. — Black, opaque, finely sculptured, subsericeous ; tips of mandibles and
palpi reddish ; elypeus shining; metathorax with two central carina? enclosing
a shining space, apex truncate, lateral angles not prominent; tegulee piceous ;
wings hyaline, dusky at tips; legs black, tibiae and tarsi pale testaceous; ab-
domen entirely black, densely and minutely sculptured, longitudinally so at
base, apex rounded. Length .10 inch.
Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Phanerotoma tibialis.

Sigalphus (Triaspis) tibialis, ~H.aU. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil, iv., p. 203.
One % specimen. (Belfrage.)

9Iicro<lus thoracicus, n. sp.

% 9. — Large, robust; head broad, black, clothed with a short yellowish
sericeous pubescence, cheeks prominent, shining; face broad, roughened, de-
pressed on each side of middle ; elypeus broad, sparsely punctured, anterior
margin and small space on disk polished; labrurn yellow; middle of mandi-
bles reddish ; paljM pale yellow; antennae not quite as long as head and thorax,
honey-yellow, tips black; prothorax except lateral black margin, mesothorax
entirely, scutellum except large black spot on summit, scutellar region, and
tegulae, dull honey-yellow or ferruginous; mesothoracic lines deeply im-
pressed; pleura black, polished; metathorax rough, opaque black, clothed
with a rather dense yellowish pubescence ; wings yellow, the apex beyond
radial and cubital cells fuscous, nervures and stigma yellow, areolet minute,
triangular; legs robust, yellow, more or less tinged with honey-yellow, coxae,
base of trochanters, anterior femora behind, intermediate pair except tips, and
posterior pair except extreme tips, black ; posterior tibiae honey-yellow at tips ;
abdomen short, shining, pale yellow; apical half of first segment and apical
margin of second and third segments, sometimes interrupted centrally, black;
apical segments more or less ferruginous; second segment with a deep trans-
versely impressed line before apex and another, less deep, near base; oviposi-
tor of 9 nearly as long as abdomen. Length .35 — .40 inch.
Seven specimens. (Belfrage.)

Microtias texanus, n. sp.

%. — Slender, black, shining, with a short pale sericeous pile; head small,
subtriangular; mesothorax strongly trilobed; metathorax coarsely reticulated,
flanks rugose; wings blackish, with an irregular hyaline streak through first
cubital cell and beneath areolet, which is triangular — as usual; legs black,
four anterior tarsi except terminal joint white; posterior coxae and femora
sanguineous, tibire and tarsi fuscous, varied with yellowish; abdomen short,
narrow, entirely sanguineous, polished; first segment with lateral margin and
disk carinate on basal half; second segment with a broad deep fovea on each
side at base. Length .30 inch.
Two specimens. (Boll.)

182 E. T. CRESSON.

Microdus nigriceps, n. sp.

%. — Pale sanguineous; head, antennae, spot behind postscutellum, pleura
beneath, four anterior coxae, all the trochanters, tips of four anterior tibiae.
posterior pair except middle, and all the tarsi, black; anterior margin of
elypeus and tips of mandibles reddish; mesothorax trilobate; metathorax
coarsely rugose; wings dark fuscous, a large irregular hyaline spot beneath
stigma, continued beneath areolet, which is minute, triangular and petiolated;
abdomen polished, first segment with a prominent lateral tubercle near base,
second segment with two deep basal foveas. Length .30 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Microdus verticalis, n. sp.

9. — Yellow-ferruginous, shining, head small, triangular; a large spot on
vertex covering ocelli and continued on occiput, a spot beneath base of each
antenna, apex of elypeus, most of mandibles and a spot on each side above
base of same, black; antennae as long as body, slender, entirely black; meso-
thorax strongly trilobed; metathorax rounded, rugose; wings dark fuscous,
with an irregular hyaline streak beneath stigma, areolet minute, petiolated ;
tips of posterior tibiae and four posterior tarsi fuscous; abdomen as in nigriceps ;
ovipositor as long as abdomen. Length .35 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. Gr. W. Belfrage.) This may be the 9 of
nigricpps.

tl ■< -rodus pygmseus, n. sp.

9. — Small, black, shining; head, mesothorax, pleura and apex of abdo-
men polished; metathorax with two .approximate discal carinas; wings hya-
line, faintly dusky, nervures and stigma fuscous, areolet minute, petiolated ;
legs honey-yellow, coxae, posterior trochanters, tips of their tibiae and all the
tarsi blackish; posterior tibiae pale, with a dusky spot before base; abdomen
with two basal segments subopaque, densely and minutely sculptured, base of
second segment with two deep fovese and a central transverse, rather deeply
impressed, subarcuate line; ovipositor longer than abdomen. Length .15 inch.

% . — More shining than 9 '< ^ e S s P a l er > &U tne coxae, trochanters and base of
femora black; abdomed entirely polished.

Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Ischius lseviventris, n. sp.

% . — Slender, black, shining; head subrotund ; mandibles and palpi brown ;
antennae nearly as long as body; wings hyaline, costal nerve black, nervures
and stigma pale; legs pale honey-yellow, coxae and most of trochanters black;
base of anterior femora, tips of posterior pair, tips of their tibiae and all the
tarsi dusky; abdomen piceous-black, polished ; venter pale. Length .15 inch.
One specimen. •(Belfrage.) A specimen from Dacota has the ab-
domen, except first segment, pale brown.

Agathis exoratus, n. sp.

% . — Yellow-ferruginous, smooth, shining ; head more or less varied with
black; mandibles, palpi, antenuaa^entirely, collar above, tegulae, scutellar re-
gion, postscutellum, metathorax exctept lateral spot, pleura beneath, four an-
terior coxae, all the trochanters, extreme tips of posterior femora, and their

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tibiae and tarsi, black ; sometimes the posterior tibiae has a median pale annu-
lus; lobes of mesothorax each with a shallow longitudinal groove; metathorax
coarsely reticulated; wings dark fuscous, areolet quadrangular; abdomen
smooth and polished. Length .30 inch.
Two specimens. (Belf'rage.)

Agathis vulgaris.

Agathis vulgaris, Cress. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, iv., p. 295.
Two 9 specimens. (Belfrage.)

Agatliis iucabilis, n. sp.

% 2. — Differs from vulgaris principally by the four anterior legs being
mostly black ; the color of the head varies from almost entirely yellow-ferrugi-
nous to entirely black; the coxae also vary in the same way; the posterior
tibiae is entirely black. Length .25— .30 inch.
Five specimens. (Belfrage; Boll.)

Agathis ruforipes, n. sp.

9- — Black, shining; face not as much prolonged as usual; metathorax
opaque, rugose above, with a smoother rounded space on each side of middle :
wings uniformly dark fuliginous, areolet small, quadrangular, stigma blackish;
legs honey-yellow, coxae, trochanters, apex of posterior tibiae, and their tarsi
except base of first joint, black; first abdominal segment opaque, rugulose, the
second more or less tinged with reddish, depressed centrally, remaining seg-
ments polished; ovipositor rather longer than abdomen. Length .18 inch.
Three specimens. (Belfrage.)

Microgaster croceipes, n. sp.

% 9. — Deep black, shining, tips of mandibles and palpi dull yellowish;

metathorax coarsely reticulated, with a well-defined central and lateral carina ;

wings pale fuliginous, subhyaline at tip, stigma large, black, areolet complete,

large; legs, except coxse, orange-yellow; abdomen polished. Length .20 inch.

Sis specimens. (Belfrage.)

Microgaster maculipcnnis, n. sp.

% 9 .—Black ; clypeus, mandibles, palpi, scape beneath and tegulae honey-
yellow: metathorax as in croceipes; wings yellow, apex pale fuliginous, a
fuliginous cloud beneath stigma and another covering discoidal cell, stigma
yellow, apex black, areolet minute, complete ; legs and abdomen honey-yel-
luw, tips of posterior tibiae and tarsi entirely, fuscous; abdomen polished, sides
of first segment pale yellow, Length .23 inch.

Four specimens. (Belfrage.) A very handsome species.

Bracon epictis, n. sp.

J. — Black, smooth and polished, sparsely clothed with a whitish pube-
scence; head very full behind the eyes; face smooth, even ; posterior orbits
and mandibles more or less tinged with reddish; scape dilated at apex, with
the margin somewhat reflexed anteriorly ; thorax impunctured; wings black-
ish, a hyaline spot beneath insertion of first and second cubital cells, the latter
quadrangular, twice longer than broad, nervures and stigma black ; legs en-
tirely black, sericeous with pale hairs; abd.omen broad ovate, shining, pale

184 E. T. CRESSON.

sanguineous, incisures deeply impressed ; first segment yellow medially, disc
prominent and convex, a broad shallow depression on each side, with a longi-
tudinal carina between the median prominence and the lateral margin; second
segment very large, with a small triangular prominence on basal middle, on
each side of which is a large, broad, deeply impressed fovea, and a transverse,
deeply impressed line across the middle of the segment, broad on the disc and
furcate laterally; ovipositor longer than abdomen. Length .40 inch.
Two specimens. (Belfrage.)

Bracoii rugiceps, n. sp.

9. — Differs from epicus as follows: — Head smaller, less full behind the
eyes ; face opaque and coarsely rugose; scape simple ; a honey-yellow spot be-
neath each eye; the disc of median prominence on first abdominal segment
with two elongate foveae ; the second segment has a flat rhomboidal promi-
nence on basal middle, the tip of which is carinate and prolonged posteriorly
nearly to the middle of the segment, with a deep fovea on each side and a deep
oblique line on each side of basal middle, ending in a deep fovea near lateral
margin; the transverse median line is furcate as in epicus. Length .40 inch.

One specimen. (Coll. G. W. Belfrage.)

Braron simplex, n. sp.

J. — Black, smooth and polished; head very full behind the eyes; face
with a median tubercle below antennae and two deep foveae above clypeus, and
between them two longitudinal depressions, the two tubercles at base of an-
tennse very prominent and tinged with reddish, and the lateral carinae between
base of antennae and eyes also very prominent; excavations of vertex very
deep and separated by a sharp carina; upper anterior orbits and middle of
mandibles reddish; scape elongate-quadrate, both base and apex reflexed ; disc
of metathorax tinged with reddish; wiugs as in epicus, except that they are
paler at tip, and the second cubital cell rather longer, with its basal nervure
more oblique; legs black, sericeous with pale hairs, apex of trochanters be-
neath sanguineous; abdomen oblong-ovate, much narrower and more de-
pressed than that of epicus, shining, pale sanguineous; first segment with a
deep longitudinal groove near lateral margin, the disc subconvex, orange-yel-
low, margined and carinate laterally; second segment with a large cuneiform
prominence on basal middle, the tip accuminate and prolonged posteriorly
nearly to the transverse groove, with a profound depression on each side, me-
dian transverse line very deep, subcrenulate and simple — not being forked
laterally, on each side near base a broad irregular shallow depression, and a
small lateral fovea behind the transverse groove; remaining segments smooth
and even, not incised, the terminal segment with a broad shallow depression ;
ovipositor as long as body. Length .45 inch.

One specimen from Comal Co. Very distinct from the two preced-
ing species by the sculpture of the head and abdomen.

Bracoii orbitalis, n. sp.

% 9 • — Black, smooth and shining ; head not unusually full behind the
eyes; face smooth, with a