132 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Aslimeadiella ecJiinocerei^ n. sji. 



9. — Length about 5^ mrn.; black, with white hair, yeUowish on 

 inner side of tarsi ; legs black ; tegiilce shining piceous. Similar to H. 

 Cddorum Ckll., but distinguished by its narrow face (facial quadrangle 

 much longer than broad), densely punctured mesothorax and strongly 

 punctured abdomen. The eyes are broader in proportion to their length. 

 As it is rather difficult to appreciate these characters without specimens of 

 caciorum to compare, I give measurements : 



Length to breadth of facial quadrangle as 85 to 72. 



Length to breadth of eye as 85 to 42. 



Hab. — Flagstaff, Arizona, at flowers of Eckinocereus, June 12, 1909 

 (F. C. Frait). 



Diadasia piercei^ n. sp. 



Like D. afflicta (Cresson), but a little larger, the legs dark ferrugi- 

 ' nous, and the area of metaihorax dullish, microscopically sculptured, not 

 smooth and brilliantly shining as in afflicta. Female with abdomen very 

 broad (considerably broader than in afflicta), with the sooty-brown scopa 

 of hind legs very long and loose. Tegube in both sexes rich ferruginous ; 

 male with the hair on disc of second abdominal segment not wholly pale. 

 The end of the male abdomen is formed as in D. afflicta, not as in D. 

 biiuheiciilata. D. anstralis opimtice often has the scopa of hind legs as 

 dark as in piercei, but then it has the hair at the apex of the abdomen 

 tawny-fulvous, not chocolate as in piercei. The second submarginal cell 

 m pierce i \s, narrow and parallel-sided. 



Hab — Corpus Christi, Texas, at flowers of Opuntia, March 18, 1908, 

 one male -= type (IV. D. Fierce) ; Beeville, Texas, at Opwitia, April 30, 

 1896, 4cC's, I 9 f'J/rzMz//;. 



A species of the Lower Austral Zone, 



SMERINTHUS CERISYI KIRBY. 

 Mr. WoUey Dod's interesting note in the March number has caused 

 me to look up the name of this species. In Kirby's "Fauna Boreali- 

 Americana : Insecta," p. 301, there is a description given of his species 

 which he names "■Smeri7itlnis cerisyi, Cerisy's Smerinthus." Unfortu- 

 nately, in Smith's and Dyar's lists the name is incorrectly given as ^'cerysii." 

 The species is evidently named after a Mr. Cerisy, who probably was one 

 of Sir John Robertson's party that collected the insects described by Mr. 

 Kirby. It is to be hoped that the name will be correctly given in any 

 future lists that are published. — [C. J. S. Bethune. 



