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' Female. Length, 5 mm. Differs from the female in the sculpture of 

 the metanotum being finer, the carina on the posterior face weaker, 

 tegulae and venation pale brown, and the clear wings. 



Type locality: Lee County, Texas (Fedor), April and 

 May (G. Birkmann); other locality, Angelsea, New Jersey, 

 August 4. 



Type in collection of S. A. Rohwer; paratypes with Rev. G. 

 Birkmann and New Jersey Agricultural College. 



ADDENDA. 



Tachysphex similans, new species. 



Female. Length, <>.-"> mm. Very like similis Roh., but differs as 

 follows: The produced portion of the clypeus vvith a deep narrow 

 notch in the middle; metanotum striato-granular : longer spur of hind 

 tibia? equal in length with the basitarsis: punctures of the pygidium 

 sparser, and the wings with a pale brown tinge. 



Type locality: Fedor, Lee County, Texas, May 29, 1898 

 (Rev. G. Birkmann). 



7ype in the Rohwer collection. 



The above description is added here because of close rela- 

 tionship between similis, which occurs both in Texas and 

 New Jersey, and similans, which has been found in Texas 

 only. 



THE LARVA AND FOOD-PLANT OF GLYPTOCERA 

 CONSOBRINELLA ZELLER. 



[Lepidoptera, Pyralidae.] 

 BY HARRISON G. DYAR. 



The larvae of this phycitine occurred upon the leaves of 

 Viburnum lentago at Lincolnville, Maine, in August. The 

 larva first spins a small tube, usually from the tip of the leaf, 

 then webs up the leaf. Often there is more than one larva in 

 the same web, but with separate tubes. The tube is of frass, 

 loosely webbed, and reaches beyond the curled part of the 

 leaf. Later they eat the whole leaf, often webbing to the 

 stem and cutting the midrib. 



Larva. Head pale brown, slightly mottled, withdrawn well into 

 joint '1. Cervical shield large, black, dull. Thoracic feet black. Body 

 striped with vinous purple, the stripes separated by narrow, irregularly 

 edged grayish white areas. The lines are dorsal, subdorsal, upper and 

 lower lateral, stigmatal ; subventral area grayish, with two fainter purple 

 lines. Tubercles minute, black. Anal plate greenish, not lined. 



The larvae spun in September and the adults issued the 

 following spring. 



