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the galls and descended about % inch into the ground in the cage, 

 where they spun small brown, flat, oval cocoons, resembling in shape 

 very much those of the Nepticula on apple. The moths issued during 

 May of the following year. 



Neolophus punctellus, n. sp. 



Antennae simple in both sexes, thick, with closely set whorls of short 

 scales which give an appearance of serration ; ochreous gray. Labial 

 palpi in the males long, slightly recurved, reaching vertex, closely 

 appressed to the face; in the females much shorter, porrected, terminal 

 joint deflected. The palpi are slightly lighter than the head and 

 thorax, which are covered with light fuscous white-tipped scales; 

 thorax smooth. Fore wings appear pearly, light, whitish fuscous, 

 irregularly and sparsely dotted with black scales; under a lens it is 

 seen that the scales are of different shades of brown, each tipped with 

 very light, nearly white, slate-color, except the few deep black ones, 

 which are slightly metallic. Cilia blackish brown. Venation normal, 

 with 12 veins, 7 to termen just below apex, 8 and 9 stalked, ib furcate 

 at base. Hind wings ochreous brown, with 8 veins, all separate ; 3, 4, 

 5, 6, and 7 nearly equidistant and parallel from the end of the cell; a 

 forked discal vein to vein 4 and to just below vein 6. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous above. Under side of body whitish. Legs whitish, sprinkled 

 with fuscous; tarsal joints dark brown, tipped with white. 



Alar expanse, c?, 19 mm. ; ?, 24 mm. 



Hot Springs, Ariz., (E. A. Schwarz) ; Las Cruces, New 

 Mexico (T. D. A. Cockerell). 



Type. No. 9905, U. S. National Museum. 



A pretty species, which can not be confounded with any other 

 American anaphorid, and is easily recognized by the pearly- 

 black dusted fore wings. 



Doctor Hopkins remarked on the genera and species of bee 

 tles in this country, particularly in the West, which are very 

 closely allied or identical to European forms. 



Doctor Hopkins reported, also, on the work of the bupres- 

 tid beetle Agrilns bilineatus Web. in oak defoliated by the 

 gipsy moth (Porthetria dispar L.), in Massachusetts. 



Mr. Knab presented some notes on the habits of the larva 

 of Sayomyia punctipennis Say, a dipterous insect of the family 

 Corethridse, allied to the mosquitoes. In the discussion which 

 followed, remarks were made on the habits of the larvae of 



