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4. kappa Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 92, Sept., 1874; ? retroversa 



Morr., Proc. Bost. S. N. H., 157, Dec. 1874. Kansas; 

 Mo-; Texas. 



5. figurata Harvey, Can. Ent. 7, 117. California. 



6. induta Harvey, Bull. B. S. N. S. 2, 274. Texas. 



7. incomitata Harvey, Can. Ent. 7, 136 ; id. Bull. B. S. N. S. 3, 6. 



Texas. 



8. fort is Grote, n. s. Nevada. 



9. picina Grote, n. s. California. 

 Charadra pa/a/a, n. s. 



£ . Eyes hairy ; antennae bipectinate, testaceous. Gray ; black and 

 white. Aspect of a Raphia. Anterior line black, .widely outwardly bent, 

 irregularly arcuate. A black median shade line ; a black dash on sub- 

 median space connecting the oblique propinquitous median lines. Stig- 

 mata whitish, black-ringed with central 'dot and streak; sub-equal. 

 Subterminal line sinuate, black, indented opposite the cell, followed by a 

 white shade. Hind wings pure white with the fringes. Thorax gray. 

 Ocelli present. Expanse 38 mil. Colorado. 



Slighter than the other species and differing decidedly by the more 

 even and oblique transverse dines. 



Our four species of Charadra Walk., a North American genus allied 

 to the European Trichosea ludifica, differing by the pectinate antenna; of 

 the male, the longer palpi, the ornamentation and color, may be catalogued 

 as follows : deridens Guen. ; dispulsa Morr. ; palata Grote ; propinquilhiea 

 Grote. No species are known from California ; Mr. Morrison's decora is 

 Central American, its given locality incorrect ; it may be the Diphthera 

 cavillator of the British Museum Lists. 



ENTOMOLOGY FOR BEGINNERS. 



Some Fungi-Eaters. 



I1Y W. HAGUE HARRINGTON, OTTAWA, ONT. 



It is related by a celebrated traveller and naturalist that, in the dreary 

 islands of Terra del Fuego, the only vegetable food to be obtained by the 

 wretched inhabitants, with the exception of a few berries, is a fungus 

 which grows in great abundance on certain trees. This fungus appears 



