Mar., '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. IOI 



line throughout posterior margin of mesoscutellum, a transverse line 

 connecting lateral lobes and an elongate spot each side near middle, yel- 

 low ; apex of metascutellum and a spot on each side lobe are yellow ; 

 abdomen black, a minute yellow spot on middle at base of segments 4 

 and 5 ; 6, 7, and 8 faintly yellow on the posterior margin. Wings hya- 

 line ; hindwings with a large black apical mark, much like that of G. 

 grattis, but its inner margin is irregular and prolonged on middle, and 

 'eaves three pale spots, the apical one containing a minute dark dot. 

 Between the subcosta and radius is a series of black spots nearly reaching 

 to base of wing, and the longitudinal veins are marked interruptedly with 

 black. The forewings are marked all over with black spots ; the pos- 

 terior apical margin is faintly black, and there are two large irregular 

 subapical spots connected together, and a large spot on the middle of the 

 posterior margin. There is a series of spots, more or less connected, 

 between the subcosta and radius, also between median and cubital veins, 

 several on the posterior margin and many small ones elsewhere on the 

 wings, especially beyond the large subapical spots. Nearly all of the 

 veins are marked With black, the cross-veins mostly in the middle. 



There are 7 cross-veins before origin of the radial sector in the fore- 

 wings, only i in the hindwings ; about 12 branches to the radial sector in 

 the forewings. 



Expanse 74 mm. 



One specimen from the Baboqtiivari Mountains, Arizona 

 (Snow). Professor Snow informs me that he has another 

 specimen. 



Discovery of Blood-sucking Psychodidae in America. 



BY D. W. COOUILLETT. 



Among the members of the family Psychodidse the genus 

 Flebotonnis (or Pklebotomus, as it has been unwarrantedly 

 amended) is the only one known to partake of the blood of 

 man and other animals after the manner of mosquitoes. Up 

 to the present time this genus has been recorded only from the 

 southern part of Europe. Its occurrence on the western con- 

 tinent is now herewith recorded for the first time. In the 

 summer of 1905 Mr. H. S. Barber captured two specimens of 

 an undescribed species on Plummer's Island, Maryland, and 

 in the following year Messrs. Barber and E. A. Schwarz col- 

 lected specimens of a second species in Guatemala, in both of 

 which localities the blood-sucking propensities of the females 

 were fully demonstrated. Both of these species differ from 



