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externally ; labials scarcely longer, last joint shining black, except at ex- 

 treme base, long, a little inflated, but the apical half thinner. Prothorax 

 yellow, as broad as long, a little narrower in front, with two broad black 

 stripes, each of which includes a yellow dot in front, and another behind 

 them ; meso- and meta-thorax yellow with two interrupted black longi- 

 tudinal bands and some spots ; sides below the wings black with yellow 

 stripes and dots. Abdomen of male very slender, much longer than 

 wings, 40 m.m., blackish-brown, shortly villous, three basal segments dull 

 yellowish above, with a fine dorsal median black line, the other segments 

 black, with a fine yellow dorsal line ; appendages testaceous, more yel- 

 lowish at base and tip, with long black hairs and bristles, long, but shorter 

 than the segment before last, straight ; between them below a very short 

 triangular yellow plate ; abdomen of female as long as wings, stouter, en- 

 larged and compressed to the tip; same coloration; genitals yellow; 

 upper part inflated, with many strong black spines ; below two very short 

 cylindrical yellow appendages. Legs yellow, largely sprinkled with black, 

 with numerous hairs ; tip of tibiae and of all joints of tarsi black ; spurs 

 brown, as long as the two basal joints ; claws brown. Wings hyaline, 

 thickly and almost equally covered with small brown dots, which are all 

 at the base of the small forks, and on base and tip of the transversals ; 

 veins brown interrupted with white ; pterostigma larger, bright yellow ; 

 apical half of costal space with forked veins ; wings around and on the 

 veins hairy. 



Length of body, male, 42 to 46 m.m.; female, 28 m.m.; exp. al, 55 

 to 60 m.m. 



Hab., San Luis, Mexico ; September and October, Dr. Palmer ; three 

 males and six females. I think there is no doubt that this is the species 

 described by Walker after one male. 



NOTE ON LATE PAPERS ON THE NOCTUID^E. 



BY A. R. GROTE, A. M. 



My last paper in the Proceedings of the Am. Philosophical Society, 

 Philadelphia, contains a number of typographical errors, the most serious 

 of which I corrected subsequently by an " errata " in a later volume, not 



