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pale s. t. line, and at about the middle is a narrow smoky transverse line. 

 Beneath smoky brown, paler toward base. A smoky median line, a 

 brown discal spot and a vague outer pale transverse line : all variable in 

 distinctness. The antennae of the male are pectinated, the branches 

 setose and shorter than in the other described species. The legs are 

 defective in the single example before me, but one remaining fore leg indi- 

 cates the usual brushlike tuftings. The antennae in the female have the 

 joints marked and furnished with well-defined lateral bristles. 



Expands i-i.io inches =25-27 mm. 



Hadif at— Winnipeg, Manitoba; Centre, N. Y., July 4, 1879. 



Seven specimens are before me, i male and 6 females, all more or 

 less imperfect, having met with hard usage in transit. All but one were 

 collected by Mr. A. W. Hanham, who has others, and does not find the 

 species uncommon. 



One female was taken by the late W. W. Hill, of Albany, and bears 

 a label in Mr. Grote's handwriting : " Probably new : too poor to serve 

 as type." The specimen reached me some years ago for determination, 

 but has not until the present time found fellows to which it could be 

 referred. 



The new form differs at once from the other species of Philometra 

 by its dark sooty brown primaries, and from all the species in the sub- 

 family by the contrasting black reniform. The palpi are more sickle- 

 shaped than usual in this genus and more as in Zanclognatha, to which I 

 was inclined to refer the species until the male came to hand ; but the 

 antenna? do not show the peculiar nodosity at basal third, which is 

 always present in that genus. 



ASPIDIOTUS CONVEXUS, Comst. — A CORRECTION. 



BY C. L. MARLATT, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The pioneer work done by Prof Comstock on the Coccidte of 

 America has put all workers in this group of insects under lasting obli- 

 gation to him. It was inevitable, however, that, taking up a new sub- 

 ject and handling a vast amount of material for the first time, mistakes 

 should have occurred. An instance in point is the curious mixing up of 

 the material which occurred in the case of the description of the species 

 known as Aspidiotus convextts, Comst. 



In October, 1880, Prof Comstock brought from Mr. Ell wood 



