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length, cylindrical but a little flattened, about one-eighth of an inch in 

 diameter; the body is hard, solid, and not easily crushed; the mandibles 

 large, sharp, and powerful enough to draw blood ; the colour is pale yellow 

 with the head piceous. It is very active. The beetle breeds in pine stumps 

 which have been cut two or three years and have dried out ; the 

 larvse devour the solid wood always in a vertical direction, two or three 

 dozen of them being frequently found in a stump six or eight inches in 

 diameter, the inside of which is mostly reduced to powder by the time 

 they are ready to pupate. I took the beetle from February to May, and 

 it may possibly disclose at all times during the year. 



This species is probably not confined to pine, as I took it frequently 

 quite remote from any pine, under boards, bark, etc., and I strongly 

 suspect that it breeds in roots, etc., after the manner of some of the 

 Elaterid larvte called " wireworms." 



TWO NEW HESPERIDS. 



BY HENRY SKINNER, PROF. ENTT., ACAD. NAT. SCI., PHILADELPHIA. 



Pamphila Howardi, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands 1.50 inches. Upper side : Superiors tawny with a 

 fuscous border a little more than one-eighth inch in width ; there are 

 from one to four small subipical tawny spots in the fuscous border ; at end 

 of cell a dark spot which may or may not be connected with the stigma; 

 stigma rather more than an eighth inch in length, very narrow and 

 unbroken, and extending to inner margin. Inferiors have the same 

 fuscous border and tawny central area. Under side : Superiors with tawny 

 central area and border same as upper side ; there is a large triangular 

 spot extending into the wing from the base. The tawny colour above 

 this spot is of a darker hue than that below and outside of it. Inferiors 

 very light brown, generally with four or five very faint tawny spots in 

 the central area. 



The females are larger, without the stigma and have the under side 

 of inferiors immaculate. Described from eight specimens in my own col- 

 lection and four in that of the U. S. National Museum, thFough the courtesy 

 of Prof. L. O. Howard. They are all from Florida ; two being from 

 Georgiana, on the Indian River ; exact locality of others unknown. This 

 species has usually been confounded with viator, but is really nothing like 

 it. The species belongs to the arpa, palatka, Aaroni, viator group. It 



