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Orbicular wanting. Fringes concolorous. Hind wings pale yellowish 

 white, sub-pellucid. Beneath with distinct discal black spot visible above; a 

 dark waved exterior line and indications on costa of a sub-terminal line ; 

 costal region shaded with fuscous. Fore wings dark with a waved per- 

 pendicular exterior line and a sub-obsolete sub-terminal line. 



Expanse 26 m. m. Hab. Texas. M. von Meske, No. 2,611. 



Graphiphora rubrica, n. s. 



$ . Thorax yellowish fuscous or gray. Collar marked by a faint 

 black line. Superior wings of a yellowish gray, suffused sometimes with a 

 ruddy brown tinge ; a black dash at base of fore wings. T. a. line gem- 

 inate, waved ; outer line black, more prominent on inferior border. T. p. 

 line geminate, faintly black, commencing on costa above the reniform, 

 boldly exserted and passing to the inferior border of wing directly in a 

 line with the internal border of the reniform and terminating in a black 

 dash. Sub-terminal commencing with a yellowish white apical patch and 

 continuing as a clearly cut even yellow line to the inferior angle ; orbicu- 

 lar spot oval, concolorous, light annulus, oblique ; reniform concolorous 

 with a black spot in the lower portion, light ringed, with inner margin 

 most expressed. Costal margin with black and white markings ; fringes 

 concolorous with sub-terminal line ; inferior portion of wings nearly con- 

 colorous with thorax. Inferior wings whitish, discal spot and arcuated 

 line black ; terminal line a series of black dashes ; beneath same lines, 

 only more marked. 



Expanse 32 m. m. Hab. Rafael, Cal., April, No. 4, M. v. Osten 

 Sacken. 



The distinctive character of this species is the pale even sub-terminal 

 line arising from a pale apical patch. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



egg-feeding mites. 

 Dear Sir, — 



In the February number (p. 22) you quote Dr. Hagen as saying that 

 " in the whole European literature I have not been able to find anything 



