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femur brown, a little fallon at base ; tibia blackish externally, with a nar- 

 row ring, and a spot more apical yellow ; tarsus black, base of last joint 

 yellow ; spurs brown, as long as the three basal joints, pointed, curvate in 

 demi-circle, but not fractured ; claws brown, after a short, larger base, 

 suddenly curvate. Abdomen strong grayish black,' base whitish villous ; 

 end of abdomen black. Wings large, hyaline, similar to A. occitanica ; 

 veins black interrupted with yellow ; space between sub-costa and median 

 and space between the fourth and fifth vein nearly filled with brown dots ; 

 some brown apical dots on the small forks of the veinlets ; some brown 

 shadows on the hind margin after the oblique vein ; hind wings a little 

 longer ; space between sub-costa and median a little spotted, and a 

 brown spot on the end of the hyaline space between fourth and fifth vein ; 

 the pterostigma of all wings yellow, internally with a black dot, costal 

 space of front wings in the apical half or two-thirds with a double series 

 of irregular cells ; costal space of hind wings with undivided ante-cubit- 

 als ; all wings moderately pointed, hind wings slightly sinuated before tip 

 on hind margin ; all wings on tip with a series of small gradate veins be- 

 ginning behind the pterostigma, running down in a curve in the middle of 

 this part of the wing and ending opposite to the tip ; in the fore wings 

 are between 15 to 9, in the hind wings 7 gradate veins. 



Length of body 47 to 50 m.m. ; length with wings, 64-75 ni-ni. Exp. 

 al. no to 130 m.m. 



Hab. — Newbern, North Carolina, coll. by Oi'dway, presented by Mr. 

 S. H. Scudder ; Millin,Scriven Co., Georgia, near Ogechee River, coll. by 

 H. K. Morrison; Crescent City, Florida, raised by Mr. H. G. Hubbard. 

 The three specimens before me are all females. I have seen besides 

 three females. The type of Prof. Burmeister, from South Carolina, coll. 

 by Zimmermann.* As far as known to me, this specimen was the only 

 one known to exist in Europe till 1867. I have seen it only after the 

 publication of my Synopsis. Further, a female from Florida in Mr. S. 

 Henshaw's coll., and a female from Sandy Hook, New York, in Mr. H. 

 Edwards's coll. As the first specimen described and figured by Drury in 

 1770 is said to be from New York, Mr. Edwards's specimen is especially 

 interesting. He found it in a small inn, inside near the window, last 

 summer. Mr. L. Cabot told me that he had seen this species several 



* The type of Hurmeister is described by E. Tascheuberg, Zeitsclir., LS79, p. 1'2U. 

 It should have been stated Caxad. Entom., vol. xix., j). HI, that the type of l\ par- 

 dalinus Burni. has been described 1. c. p. 184. 



