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Color: Head (except vertex) dark brown, vertex deep brownish- 

 yellow, eyes black, ocelli dark-red ; mesonotum and metanotum brown- 

 ish-yellow ; rest of thorax and abdomen (lark brown ; legs mostly whit- 

 ish except for a brown cloud over the upper half of the tibiae and the 

 lower part of the femora; wing veins fuscous; fore-wings with just a 

 suggestion of an indefinite fuscous band in center of wing parallel to 

 the marginal and sub-marginal veins. 



Male. Unknown. 



Described from ten female specimens reared by Prof. C. H. 

 T. Townsend from H. minor on cotton from Chaquira, Dept. 

 of Piura, Peru, Aug. 9 and 10, 1910. Five slides, balsam 

 mounts. 



Type specimen, one of three on slide labeled: Chaquira Aug. 

 lo-'io T. 



Prof. Townsend notes the following from live specimens: 

 "Fresh specimens show the head inflated and with whole of 

 wide front light yellow ; a little of face is yellow, but broad 

 cheeks are blackish ; prothoracic scutum with silvery anterior 

 margin, pale yellow posteriorly-directed inwardly-oblique 

 lateral border, and two light yellow fasciae immediately behind 

 same and separated from each other by a black hair-line, the 

 binder one much the wider. Rest of thorax and all of abdo- 

 men shining black." 



In this genus we have what appears to be a two-jointed 

 scape. The first joint may or may not be movable, but it is at 

 least separated from the head by a distinct suture. The writer 

 has noted this peculiarity in other genera, particularly in Signi- 

 phora, and Prof. Townsend 'notes it in some undescribed 

 species from the montana of Peru. As yet no literature has 

 been found upon this subject which is one which should be in- 

 vestigated by those interested in this and allied groups of the 

 superfamily. 



Monograph of Aleocharinae. (Coleop.). 



We learn through the Pomona Journal of Entomology that Dr. A 

 Fenyes, of Pasadena, Cal., is monographing the Aleocharinae (Sta- 

 phylinidae) for the Genera Inscctorum. 



