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Two examples bred from larvae in stem of Artemisia and 

 another labelled " bred probably from oak,'' but I think this is a 

 mistake. I have the species also from Las Vegas, New Mexico, 

 May 5 and June 6 (T. D. A. Cockerell) and Wilgus, Cochise 

 Co., Arizona (Dr. Barnes). 



Phalonia unistrigana, n. sp. 



Wings elongate and rounded, palpi short. Ground color white, over- 

 washed on the fore wings irregularly with faint ocherous, the white re 

 maining in patches in and below cell, on internal margin and in a trans 

 verse band at outer third of wing. A narrow, broken, oblique black- 

 brown line, directed from middle of inner margin to outer third of costa, 

 not reaching inner margin, broken centrally, the lower part forming a 

 rounded bar, the upper part more diffuse; a series of diffuse, irregular, 

 dark dots in apical portion, in some specimens confined to apical margin, 

 in others spread as far as tornus and situated on white ground color. 

 Hind wing dark gray, fringe paler except at anal angle. Expanse, 

 18-22 mm. 



Three 9?, June 9. Also a male from Flagstaff, Arizona. 

 (Schwarz and Barber.) 



Type. No. 6741, U. S. National Museum. 



Besides the species listed anove, there are eight other species 

 of Pyralids, mostly Phycitinae, and all but one females. Their 

 position can therefore not be determined and they will have to 

 await mates before being described. One of them is very strik 

 ingly marked. 



The paper was discussed by Messrs. Howard and Ashmead. 

 Mr. Ashmead mentioned a new and curious Mutillid collected 

 by Messrs. Schwarz and Barber in Arizona. He said that 

 special efforts should be made to collect wingless females of 

 Mutillidae in association with the males, as it was almost im 

 possible to determine them when taken singly. 



The following paper by Mr. Caudell was read by the Record 

 ing Secretary : 



NOTES ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF BLATTID^E. 

 By A. N. CAUDEI.L. 



During the past year two attempts have been made to deter 

 mine the type species of the Linnaean gecus Blatta. In Ento 

 mological News, Volume xiii, page 101, Mr. James A. G. Rehn 

 applied the process of elimination to the problem, only non-exotic 

 species being considered in accordance with Canon xxiii of the 



