200 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [October, 



In volumes xxi and xxii of the " Canadian Entomologist," will 

 be found an annotated catalogue of the Arctiidae, in which the 

 genera are described in some detail and the venation of the lead- 

 ing types is figured, and to this I would refer the student for 

 further information concerning this family. 



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STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICAN MEMBRACID/E, II. 



By F. W. CODING, M.D., Ph.D. 



PUBLILIA Stal. 



Publilia bicinctura n. sp. Similar to modestns Uhler; more depressed 

 and slender, with t\vo diagonal white bands. Head broadly oval, un- 

 equal, blackish brown, with three smooth, slightly elevated, light spots, 

 arranged in a triangle; eyes black; prothorax light green, with two whitish 

 bands, the first originating near middle of inferior border passes diago- 

 nally forward and upward, crossing the median carina in the sulcus, the 

 second starting about midway between the first and the apex parallel to 

 it; both are narrowly bordered with dark brown, and several longitudinal 

 lines of the same color mark the surface posterior to the first band; apex 

 more attenuated than in its congeners; base of prothorax with .a short, 

 impressed, black line above each eye; tegmina clear, veins white; below 

 piceous, upper surface of femora black. Legs otherwise light brown. 

 Abdomen dark brown. Length 5 mm. 



Described from two males and two females. Collected by Prof. 

 Gillette in June and August, on Glycyrrhiza lepidota. 



Hab. Fort Collins, Colorado. 



One example had the bands obsolete, and two had the dorsum 

 largely ferruginous (types in coll. F. W. G.). 



STICTOCEPHALA Stal. 



Stictocephala gillettei Godg. $. Differs from $ as follows: impressed 

 lateral line extends from base of tegmina to apex of thorax; lateral 

 carinas meet at about the middle, and apex is less curved. Head grass- 

 green, surface unequal; prothorax clouded with yellow; tegmina trans- 

 parent with a tinge of green, and densely punctured; chest .very pale 

 green; femora yellow, covered with hairs; tibia; marked with brown, tarsi 

 light brown. 



Collected by Prof. Gillette at Trinidad, Col., May 14, 1892. 



HELIRIA Stal. 



Heliria scalaris Fin. rf. Castaneous, speckled with yellow. Head 

 yellow, mottled with castaneous, very broad between eyes, which are 

 black, ocelli nearer each other than the eyes; prothorax castaneous, mot- 

 tled with yellow, anteriorly with the yellow predominating, densely punc- 



