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beneath the pronotum. Legs long and stout; anterior tibiae armed 

 above with three spines on the outer side, the inner side unarmed; 

 hind femora very heavy on the basal three-fifths, the apical portion 

 slender, armed beneath with several short, stout, sharp, triangular, 

 backward-directed spines; plantulas of the posterior tarsi scarcely half 

 as long as the basal segment of the tarsus, convex and black, beneath 

 light in color and deeply concave. Abdomen large and plump, no dorsal 

 carina evident; cerci about three times as long as broad, rounded and 

 very slightly incurved, the inner tooth situated much beyond the 

 middle near the tip; as compared with that portion of the cercus be- 

 yond it the tooth is about the same width basally, a little longer and 

 much sharper, being acute apically and there curved a little inwards 

 and considerably downwards; tubgenital plate roundly notched apically, 

 the styles stout, nearly four times as long as broad; last dorsal segment 

 of the abdomen mesially projecting considerably backwards and deeply 

 cleft, the angles long and slender, being fully four times as long as the 

 mesial width; in the allied species mitcKelli and haldemanii these angles 

 are no longer than broad . General color yellowish brown, probably green 

 in life. The pronotum is margined posteriorly above with a solid deep 

 black band nearly 2 mm. broad; the abdominal segments, except the 

 last, are margined posteriorly with reddish brown; all the spines of 

 the legs with the tips black. 



Female. Very like the male in general structure, indeed almost ex- 

 actly like that sex except that the pronotum is more generally infus- 

 cated above, not only behind on the disk as in the male. This is very 

 probably a variable character. The ovipositor is stout, less than the 

 hind femora in length and curved strongly upward, the apex blackish. 



Measurements Length, pronotum, male, 12 mm., female, 11 mm.: 

 posterior femora, male, 31 mm., female, 31 mm; ovipositor, 19 mm.; 

 width, hind femora at widest part, male, 7 mm., female, 7 mm. 



Type: Male (Cat. No. 13554, U. S. Nat. Mus.), Alice, 

 Texas, August 28, 1908, on Opuntia. J. D. Mitchell, col- 

 lector. 



Paratype: Female, same data. 



Mr. Busck showed specimens of the common European 

 tineid moth, Sivamwierdamia pyrella Villers, bred and col- 

 lected at light by him at Monaduock Lake, New Hampshire, 

 last summer, and stated that this is the record of this genus 

 in America. 



He also presented a series of the West Indian tineid moth 

 Ereunetis minuscula Walsingham, which he had bred from 

 mummy fruits of loquat, received through Mr. Sasscer from 

 Miami, Florida. He stated that he had bred this species this 



