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lowing two antennal joints, the mandibles, except apex, the tegulae, the 

 legs, except the posterior femora medially and the coxae, reddish brown; 

 clypeus rounded laterally, with sparse, shallow, punctures, its anterior 

 margin armed with three widely separated teeth, the middle tooth largest; 

 just above the antennae there is a strong, transverse ridge; the antennae 

 are situated just beneath each end of this ridge, and are therefore widely 

 separated; front with very large, deep, in some places confluent punctures, 

 the punctures becoming less strong on the vertex and are sparse and 

 shallow on the cheeks. Thorax punctured as on the front, on the sides 

 and beneath with silvery-sericeous pile; scutellum with an impressed line, 

 the punctures sparse; postscutellum with the posterior margin produced 

 into a strong angle; metathorax subopaque, with a medial impressed line, 

 with a few oblique, widely separated striations towards the sides, the 

 metapleurae with indistinct, shallow punctures; wings fuscous, with a vio- 

 laceous reflection, which is especially strong on the apical portion, brown- 

 ish along the costa, stigma yellowish, nervures black, second submarginal 

 cell very narrow at the top, the third submarginal cell broader above than 

 beneath; legs clothed with silvery pile. Abdomen clothed with sericeous 

 pile, the petiole much swollen medially, and is contracted before the apex, 

 a little broader than high, and with large, sparse, punctures above, the 

 pedicle of the second segment takes up less than a quarter of the seg- 

 ment, the base of the pedicle black; the remainder of the abdomen 

 claret-brown, shining, smooth above, beneath with large, sparse punctures. 

 <3\ Differs from the female as follows: the clypeus is entirely yellow, 

 the medial tooth not so large; the third antennal joint black, and is more 

 than a third longer than the fourth, joints 10-12 reddish, the hook black; 

 the eye emargination is narrower; the medial impressed line of the scu- 

 tellum is stronger; the legs without any trace of yellow; the second sub- 

 marginal cell is broader above than in the female. Length 9cT J6 mm. 



Three specimens, one female, two males. Collected by Mrs. 

 Annie Trumbull Slosson, near Punta Gorda, So. Florida. It is 

 most closely allied to Z. azteca S., from which it differs by the 

 transverse ridge behind the antennae. It differs from Z. Poeyi 

 S. , from Cuba, by the toothed clypeus and the shorter pedicle of 

 the second abdominal segment. 



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Collecting Butterflies in the Yosemite Valley. 



By HARRISON G. DYAR. 



My wife and I spent four months of last year in the Yosemite 

 Valley, Cal., to enjoy the grand scenery and the pure air of the 

 Sierra Nevada and make collections of the Lepidoptera of that 

 region, and it has occurred to me that some notes of our expe- 

 riences might interest the readers of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



