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conspicuous dark grey line marking the inner edge of the extradiscal 

 lines. In the hind wings there are two extradiscal dark grey bands, the 

 other lines being represented by faint indications only. Discal spots on 

 all wings black, diffuse ; marginal lines black, very distinct. Legs greyish 

 white, the anterior pair banded with black, posterior pair wanting. Ex- 

 panse 26 mm. 



Type. One specimen from Final Mountains, Arizona, July 

 9, 1900. 



In coloring this species recalls E. nevadata Packard, but in 

 the present species the large costal blotch over the discal spot 

 which is so conspicuous in nevadata and its allies is wanting. 

 The wings in helena are also much rounder, the outer margins 

 being very full. In the shape of the wings and the arrange- 

 ment of the markings, but not in color, this species rather 

 nearly agrees with E. togata (Hu'bner) of Europe. 



Autolyca doylei, a new Phasmid from So. America. 



BY A. N. CAUDELL, Washington, D. C. 



Male. Elongate, black, not shining, unarmed ; the entire insect, inclu- 

 ding the legs and antennae, covered with inconspicuous, fine, short black 

 hairs. Head as broad as long, the posterior half of the top and sides 

 yellowish ; antennae black, longer than the body. Pronotum about one- 

 fourth longer than broad ; mesonotum about one and one-half times as 

 long as the pronotum and but slightly longer than the metanotum, inclu- 

 ding the intermediary segment, which is not quite as long as the metano- 

 tum proper. Abdomen apically much swollen and, in the only specimen 

 seen, curved strongly upward ; segments 1-6 quadrate or barely elongate, 

 the three terminal segments transverse ; the scoop shaped ventral pro- 

 cess of the seventh segment is broad and reaches to the tip of the abdo- 

 men ; cerci stout, clavate and incurved, as long as the terminal segment 

 of the abdomen and descending from beneath that segment at nearly 

 right angles. Legs black, except the ventral surface of the tarsi, which 

 is yellowish brown ; anterior femora not noticeably curved at the base ; 

 all the tibiae areolate below and slightly longer than their respective 

 femora and not quite twice as long as their tarsi ; all the femora, as well 

 as the tibiae, dully and inconspicuously carinate, the posterior femora 

 reaching nearly to the apex of the sixth abdominal segment. Length : 

 pronotum, 4 mm. ; mesonotum, 5.5 mm. ; metanotum, including the 

 intermediate segment, 5 mm. ; anterior femora, 13 mm. ; intermediate 

 femora, 10.5 mm.; posterior femora. 15 mm.; width, head, 3.5 mm.; pro- 

 notum, 3.5 mm. ; basal segment of the abdomen, 3 mm.; apical segment 

 of the abdomen, 4.25 mm. 



