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domen, yellowish brown, or "dilute cinnamomeus" of Renter. The 

 ocellate spot on the clavus and the pruinose bands across the corium) 

 are quite similar to noctuans but the ground color is lighter. 



Dr. Renter, 1910, placed the genus Sericophanes in his di- 

 vision Cremnoccphalaria, a group having the claws destitute 

 of arolia. Perhaps Dr. Renter had poor material from which 

 to work since the present writer finds after observations on 



Fig. i. Sericophanes noctuans. showing the claws and type of arolia. 



Fig. 2. Largidea davisi, tarsus and claws, showing type of claws and absence of arolia. 



several specimens with the aid of the binocular microscope 

 that the claws bear free arolia with converging tips (fig. i). 

 This type of arolia places the genus close to Pilophoriis and 

 Ceratocapsus and in the tribe Orthoiylim of Mr. Van Duzee's 

 recent tables. 



Sericophanes noctuans new species. 



Larger and darker colored than ocellatus. but otherwise bearing a 

 close resemblance. 



$. Length, 3.6 mm. Head: width across the eyes .71 mm., width of 

 vertex .28 mm., length .45 mm., height at base .37 mm. ; eyes large and 

 coarsely granulated, height .43 mm., dark purplish brown in color ; 

 jiiLiae. lorae, and tylus reddish brown, the jugae showing red most 

 plainly; vertex dark chestnut like the pronotum, smooth shining, ca- 

 rina nearly horizontal and turning forward at each side to meet the 

 eye, slightly depressed bordering the carina; base of the tylus with a 

 prominent hair at each side. Rostrum scarcely attaining the posterior 

 margin of the hind coxae, yellowish brown, basal segment dark brown, 

 the apex blackish. 



Antennae: segment I, length .25 mm., yellowish brown, with three or 

 four prominent hairs on the inside; TT, length 1.25 mm., yellowish 

 brown, slightly darker toward the apex : IIT, length .88 mm., dark fus- 

 cous to blackish, brownish at the base ; IV, length .60 mm., slightly flat- 

 tened, dark purplish to blackish ; all the segments with very fine pale 

 pubescence. 



