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yellowish brown hair; palpi well developed, club-shaped, pale brownish 

 yellowish, black, hairy; occiput cinereous, gray hairy, with a black band 

 from vertex to centre, and the orbital margins with a fringe of black 

 bristles. Thorax black, brassy-cinereous pollinose, leaving four more or 

 less well denned black vittae; thorax bristly and hairy, humeri and pleurae 

 cinereous; scutellum blackish at base, apical portion broadly ochreous, 

 with an apical strongly decussate pair of macrochaetae and three lateral 

 pairs, the intermediate one short. Abdomen moderately broad, ovate, 

 covered with short bristles; first segment somewhat shortened, black, 

 without macrochaetae; second to fourth segments pale brassy cinereous, 

 leaving the hind margins and a median vitta shining black; second seg- 

 ment very faintly reddish on sides, venter silvery pollinose; a median 

 marginal pair of macrochaetae on second segment and a lateral marginal 

 one; about ten marginal on third segment; anal segment with macro- 

 chaetae interspersed with bristles. Legs black, femora and tibiae faintly 

 silvery; femora hairy, tibiae with some strong bristles; hind tibiae with a 

 fringe of bristles on outer edge, a strong bristle beyond the middle and 

 one or two at tip longer than the rest; claws and pulvilli elongate, the 

 pulvilli smoky whitish. Wings longer than the abdomen, moderately 

 wide, without costal spine, grayish hyaline; tegulae yellowish gray, halteres 

 dark brownish. Length 7 mm.; of wing, 6 mm. 



Described from one specimen. Guanajuato, Mexico. 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



[The Conductors of ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS solicit, and will thankfully receive items 

 of news, likely to interest its readers, from any source. The author's name will be given 

 in each case for the information of cataloguers and bibliographers.] 



In the future all papers received for publication in the News will be 

 printed according to date of reception. 



THE List of Lepidoptera of Boreal America, by Prof. J. B. Smith, has 

 reached 5042 numbered species to date; will be completed by Oct. i, 1891. 



Mr. LEVI W. MENGEL, of Reading, Pa., who went as entomologist to 

 the West Greenland Expedition sent out by the Academy, has returned, 

 and brought home a collection of about four hundred insects. 



WE have heard that Prof. J. B. Smith sailed for Europe September i6th. 

 We wish him a pleasant voyage, and have no doubt but what he will come 

 back laden with entomological facts picked up in the museums of Europe. 



Prof. R. R. ROWLEY, who has contributed a number of very interesting 

 articles to the NEWS, has been appointed professor of Natural History in 



