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GONIOCTENA, Redt. 

 G. pallida, Linn., is found on willows and poplars. It is .25 in. 

 long, yellowish-testaceous, the top of the head and a thoracic spot of 

 variable size (usually attaining the base) blackish. Under surface of 

 body dark, especially towards the middle, tip of abdomen and sides of 

 thoracic segments paler. Legs pale, elytra yellowish or reddish, occasion- 

 ally nearly piceous, sometimes spotted with black, sometimes immaculate 

 or with only a trace of the spots. 



Phyllodecta, Kirby. 



The Canadian species of Phyllodecta seems to be the same as the 

 European P. vulgatissima, Linn. It is of oblong-ovate form, not very 

 convex ; bluish, greenish or bronzed ; thorax distinctly, not very closely, 

 punctured ; elytra punctato-striate. Legs black ; antennae black, except 

 the basal joints, which are more or less piceous or ferruginous. Length 

 about .18 in. There are also existent records of P. vitellmce, Linn., but 

 no specimens have been seen by us, and Dr. Hamilton, to whom we 

 wrote for further information, has expressed the opinion in a letter that 

 all of the Eastern forms belong to the one species. Linnaeus has 

 described vitellifue as being a shorter, less oblong form than vulgatissima. 

 The descriptions of some of the older English writers probably confound 

 more than one species, according to the word of Dr. Hamilton, who 

 doubts the occurrence of the true vitellince in North America. 



NOTES ON APHILANTHOPS AND DESCRIPTION OF A 



NEW SPECIES. 



BY S. N. DUNNING, HARTFORD, CONN. 



Ap/iilani/iops Bakefi, n. sp. 



(^ . Length, 8.5-10 mm.; of anterior wings, about 6-7 mm. Black 

 with bright yellow markings. Head nearly quadrate, a little wider than 

 high, closely and finely punctate. Eyes entire, elongate oval, inner 

 margins parallel, inclined to light olive green. Ocelli in a triangle, the 

 first a little larger than the last two, and located at the base of a slight 

 cavity. A small cavity back and on the outer side of each of hind ocelli. 

 Head covered with a sparse growth of long whitish pubescence, becom- 

 ing thicker on face and back of eyes. Clypeus yellow and rounded, with 

 two distinct lobes, each just inside of an imaginary line drawn straight 

 down from base of antennse, also a small but less distinct lobe between 



