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SYNONYMICAL NOTE IN AECOPHORIDAE. (Lep.) 



BY CARL HEINRICH. 

 SANTUZZA KUWANII Heinrich - ANCHONOMA XERAULA Meyrick. 



In a letter of May 4, 1920, Mr. Edward Meyrick informed me 

 that my Santuzza kuwanii, described in an earlier number of 

 this journal (Froc. Fnt. Soc. Wash., Vol. 22, pp. 43-47, 1920), 

 is a synonym of Anchoncma xeraula Meyrick (Bomb. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc., Vol. 20, pp. 143-144, 1910). To enable him to pass with 

 certainty on the identity of the two, since 5. kuwanii was de- 

 scribed from Japanese and A. xeraula from Indian and western 

 Chinese material, I sent him a paratype of my species which he 

 has since definitely determined as A. xeraula. Both the generic 

 and the specific names (Santuzza and kuwanii) will therefore fall 



NEW SPECIES OF PERTHALYCRA AND OSMODERMA. (Col.) 



H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa. 

 Perthalycra Carolina, new species. 



Oblong oval, moderately convex, above finely punctured and with sub- 

 recumbent pale pubescence, head and thorax shining, elytra less so. Color 

 yellowish testaceous to castaneous, head darker, an ill-defined blackish 

 discal spot sometimes present on each elytron. Head broad, punctuation 

 moderately close and rather fine, sparser on the front which is flattened or 

 a little concave, clypeus convex or tumid, separated from the front by a 

 decided impression along the suture, anterior margin straight, the angles 

 acute, labrum moderately deeply bilobed. Eyes prominent, rather small, 

 coarsely granulate, hairy. Antennal club usually darker than the stem. 

 Pronotum a little less than twice as wide as its median length, punctuation 

 rather fine but very distinct, moderately close, scarcely more crowded laterally, 

 sides beaded and fimbriate, moderately rounded, more rapidly convergent 

 in front of the middle, all the angles strongly rounded, base slightly sinuate 

 each side, broader than the apex and with a fine distinct marginal bead, 

 apex broadly emarginate. Scutellum subtriangular, punctured, rounded at 

 apex, about one-fourth wider than long and approximately one-seventh the 

 length of the elytra. Elytra at base subequal in width to the thorax, con- 

 jointly very slightly narrowed and barely arcuate to about the middle, thence 

 strongly rounded to their apices so as to form an obtuse reentrant angle at 

 the suture. Punctuation fine, regularly disposed and without strial arrange- 

 ment. Pygidium finely closely punctured and hairy. Body beneath finely 

 punctured and pubescent. Legs punctured, moderately stout. Anterior 

 tibiae broad, apex sinuately subtruncate, bearing two short spines on its 

 lower margin, outer margin finely crenulate, with a large apical tooth, the 

 length of which is about equal to the adjacent tibial width and above which 



