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behind which the surface is minutely, longitudinally striate while in front, 

 and passing over on to the front it is transversely striate ; front, except at 

 upper border, scarcely striate, very minutely punctate ; antennse over- 

 hung by a slight ridge ; clypeus rather long, widening toward tip ; \oras 

 oval, slightly more elongate than in lurida, the margins of genae meeting 

 clypeus by a narrow margin. Pronotum short, sides rounded, carinate, 

 posterior border scarcely concave, transversely striated ; scutellum with 

 very faint punctures and impressed lines. Elytra broad, narrowing slightly 

 beyond the middle, with narrow appendix. 



Color: vertex yellow, except anterior margin which is invaded by the 

 broad frontal band which extends between the ocelli, enclosing one at 

 either end, and which is broken at the center by a narrow line ; face below 

 the frontal band uniformly light yellow in the 9, and with broken semi- 

 arcs and borders of clypeus and lora? fuscous in the $ ; eyes, except for 

 narrow yellow margin, brown ; ocelli yellow ; pronotum yellow with broad 

 transverse fuscous band, broader in ^ than in 9 5 scutellum yellow ; elytra 

 brown in 9 fulvous in <j\ the claval border in both deeply fuscous and 

 apical part of clavus bearing in each a conspicuous yellow spot, forming 

 with its fellow an oval sutural spot ; apex with deep fuscous border in 

 both sexes, costal border in 9 whitish hyaline, in <$ fuscous. 



Beneath : 9 light yellow, $ with pleural pieces fuscous ; legs light 

 yellow. 



Genitalia : 9 last ventral segment rather short, lateral lobes rounded ; 

 a median semi-circular lobe faintly carinate ; pygofers with scattered short 

 bristles near apex, scarcely exceeded by ovipositor. J\ valve with a me- 

 dian, short, broad lobe, black ; plates elongate-triangular ; outer margin 

 straight, with a fringe of short hairs. 



Two specimens received from Mr. F. M. McElfresh, Cham- 

 paign, 111. ; the female labeled " Marion Co., Ark., June 27, 

 1897," and the male " Morgan Co., 111., June 29, 1892." 



It is a large and striking species, and must be rather rare to 

 have escaped notice heretofore. While there is quite a differ- 

 ence in size and some difference in color markings between the 

 male and female as well as a wide difference in the recorded 

 localities of capture, they possess so many striking points of 

 agreement that I cannot doubt their affinity. 



SMITHS' LIST. 



By H. H. NEWCOMB. 



Now that Prof. J. B. Smith's List of the L,epidoptera of 

 Boreal America is out of print would it not be wise, before 

 another list is published, to obtain an expression of opinion 



