236 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



A NEW XIPHIDIUM FROM FLORIDA. 



BY A. P. MORSE, WELLESLEY, MASS. 



Xiphidium gracillimum, sp. nov. — Very slender. Brown above, face 

 and sides greenish, wing veins purple ; a conspicuous dark brown mid- 

 dorsal stripe on the head and pronotum, bordered by broad pale bands, 

 sometimes with dusky or purplish markings on the cheeks, sides of 

 pronotum and middle of face. Antennae brown, extremely long and 

 slender. Eyes very prominent, in side view circular in outline. 

 Fastigium of the vertex ascending, strongly advanced (about the length 

 of the eye seen from above), very narrow (about one-fourth the distance 

 between the eyes), its sides parallel or slightly convergent. Lateral lobes 

 of the pronotum usually triangular in outline by the exceptional reduction 

 of the anterior ventral angle and the straightening of the posterior margin, 

 which forms a line with the hind margin of the posterior process, the 

 humeral sinus distinct but shallow. 



Anterior tibiae with 5 or 6 pairs of spines. Hind femora slender, 

 unspined below, the genicular lobes spined. Sub-genital plate of male 

 truncate ; cerci slender, the internal tooth broad at base, slender and 

 acuminate at tip, the apical portion of the cercus elongate, two or two and 

 a half times as long as wide, with the distal half strongly depressed and 

 tapering to a narrow, rounded point, its sides a little sinuous, sub-parallel. 

 Ovipositor of female straight, about two-thirds as long as the hind femora, 

 and barely passing their tips, slightly widened in the middle portion, 

 tapering evenly to an acute point, with the ventral margin a little more 

 convex than the dorsal. 



Antenna: J, 40-58 ; £ . -. Body: ^ , 12-14; 9, 15- Post, 

 fern.: J , 10. 5-12; ?, 13. Teg.: £, 14 5~ x 7 5 ?. : 8-5- Ovip.: 8. 

 Cerci of S > *-5- Total (vertex to tip of wings): J, 21.5-25; $, 27 

 mm. 



One <$ , April 4, Capron, Fla. Four g , one ?, Biscayne Bay, Fla., 

 Mrs. A. T. Slosson. All from the collection of Mr. S. H. Scudder. 



Montreal Branch, Entomological Society of Ontario. — At the 

 recent annual meeting the following have been elected officers for the 

 ensuing year : 



President — G. Chagnon. 



Vice-President — C. Stevenson. 



Librarian and Curator — A. E. Norris. 



Treasurer and Secretary— George A. Moore, 24 Lome Ave., Montreal. 



Council — Henry H. Lyman, A. F. Winn, Dwight Brainerd, 



