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less dense ciliation distad, the longest marginal cilia about three- 

 fourths the greatesfwing width. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Described from a single female captured by sweeping in a 

 jungle-pocket, June 4, 1913. This species is certainly one of the 

 most remarkably coloured mymarids known. 



Habitat. — Australia, Nelson, North Queensland. 



Type. — The above specimen on a slide. 



Genus Gonatocerus Nees. 

 1. Gonatocerus competi Girault. 



A single very pale female of this species was taken on May 

 29, 1913, at an elevation of 1,500 feet, forest. Nelson, North 

 Queensland. A round spot is present on the base of the scutellum. 



(To be continued.) 



A NEW GENUS AND A NEW SPECIES OF 

 LEPIDOPTERA FROM ARIZONA. 



BY WM. BARNES, M.D., AND J. MCDUNNOUGH, PH.D., DECATUR, ILL. 



Having had occasion to examine the types of the species de- 

 scribed as Mamestra antonito Barnes (Can. Ent., vol. 39, p. 14, 1907), 

 we were surprised to find that the cf and 9 types represented 

 respectively two entirely different species, structurally widely apart, 

 neither of which could remain associated with the genus Mamestra, 

 or Polia, as it is now called by Hampson. 



The d^ type, labelled Barathra antonito, which we figured in 

 our "Contributions," vol. I, no. 4, pi. VI, fig. 6, and from which 

 the original description was drawn, has hairy eyes, a fact which 

 led to its being placed in Mamestra; the mid and hind tibi« are, 

 however, distinctly spined, which would throw it into Hampson's 

 subfamily Agrotince, and associate it with the two genera, Ala 

 Stand, and Trichorthosia Grt., the only two described genera 

 combining hairy eyes and spined tibiae; of these Ala contains 

 several Heliothid-like moths from Central Asia which have 

 nothing in common, apart from the above mentioned features, 

 with antonito Barnes; parallela Grt., the type of the genus 

 Trichorthosia is, as the name implies, rather Orthosian in appear- 



January, 1915 



