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as long as basal joint, third and fourth joints about equal 
in length, twice as long as second, the fourth tapering to 
its extremity, which is terminated by a slightly curved, rather 
elongate chitinous claw or hook. The last three joints of the 
legs are furnished with a sparse fringe of small bristly spines on 
inside. 
Described from one specimen. Arizona. 
A luminous larva was reported to me, in the spring of 1892, 
as numerous in the Mimbres country, in Grant County, New 
Mexico. No specimens, however, were obtained. 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF GUADALUPE ISLAND. 
BY F. FRANCESCHI. 
The Island of Guadalupe has been botanically explored first 
in 1875 by Dr. Edward Palmer, and second by Prof. E. L. Greene 
in 1886, Dr. Palmer having made a short visit there and collected 
again in 1889. For a newcomer there was in consequence but. 
little hope to find anything that had escaped such experienced 
and diligent observers; the more so as it was well known that 
the work of extermination of that most interesting flora, due to 
the wonderful increasing of wild goats there, had gone on 
unabated these last ten or twelve years. My purpose in visiting 
the island, rather than the hope of adding to the number of the 
plants registered already by Dr. Palmer and Prof. Greene as 
belonging to Guadalupe, was to gather more information on the 
present state of vegetation on the island, and full particulars on 
the appearance, the habit, the flowering, and fruiting of many 
of the trees and shrubs peculiar to Guadalupe, of which a few 
have been sparingly introduced in gardens, and others well 
deserve to be. For detailed accounts on the palm, the cypress,. 
the pine, and the oak of Guadalupe, as well as on the most note- 
worthy shrubs, I must refer to papers sent to “‘Garden and 
Forest,” of New York, and to the ‘‘ Gardener’s Chronicle,’’ in 
London. A few remarks of a more general character will, I 
hope, be found of interest as preceding the list of plants I was 
able to collect there during December and part of January last. — 
