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4; 8 about as long as 5. Length of insect, without ovisac, 2^2 mm. 

 Ovisac moderate, white, distinctly ribbed. 



Hab. — Embudo, New Mexico, Sept., 1897, on sage-bush ( Artemisia ), 

 together with Dadylopitis lichicnsioides, Ckll. (new to N. M., empty sacs 

 only found), and Lecaniodiaspis artemisice, Ckll., MS. ( 5 scale 3 mm. 

 long, reddish ochreous, tuberculate, dull, thoracic region with two promi- 

 nent transverse crests ; antenmi? apparently absent in adult, in younger 

 examples represented by small rounded bristly prominences, without 

 visible joints.) 



At Embudo I found also Orthezia nigrocincta, Ckll., on Gutierrezia 

 high up on the cliff. With the two new species just described by Prof. 

 Tinsley, and the present insect, New Mexico now possesses five species 

 of Orthezia. O. artemisice is nearest to O. annce, but the latter has the 

 lamellcX less definitely formed, and differs also in the antenniv. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



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Mailed January 10th, 1898. 



