Dr. Brendel's Descriptions of New Paelaphidx. 189 



COSMOSOMA, Hiibner. 

 Cosmosoma omphale. 



Cosmosoma omphale, Hiibner, Samml. Ex. Sch. Vol. 2, Lep. II, Sph. I, Tap. 



III. Glauc. P. Hyal. :',. figs. 1—4. (1806.) 

 JE'/cria omphale, Say, Am. Entom. Vol. 2, p. 42, PI. 19, lower figure. (1825.) 



Id. ed. Lee. (1859.) 

 Ghwcopis (Cosmosoma) omphale, Harris, Cat. N. A. Sph. Sill. Journ. Vol. 36, 



p. 317. (1839.) 

 Glaucopis omphale, Walker, C. B. M. Part I, p. 168. (1854.) 

 Cosmosoma omphale, Clemens, Proc. Acad. N. S. Phil. p. 544. (1860.) 



The specimens from Cuba agree with Hiibner's and Say's figures. I 

 have also received specimens of this species from Mexico. Say, Har- 

 ris and Walker record their material of C. omphale from Florida. In 

 addition, Dr. Clemens gives " Mexico, near Jalapa." The validity of 

 the genus Cosmosoma seems to me indisputable, and Dr. Clemens (loc. 

 cit.) has given a thorough diagnosis of its characters. 



Habitat— Cuba, (Poey). Coll. Eut. Soc. Phil. 



Number 132, Poey's J\IS. Catalogue. 



Under the Number 521, and with the determination "Laemocharis 

 seleeta," Prof Poey sends several specimens of a species which difi'ers 

 structurally from Cosmosoma, by the abseuce of the discal fold of the 

 primaries, but is otherwise closely allied to that genus. The species 

 is variable, judging from this material, and none of the specimens ac- 

 curately agree with Dr. Herrich-Schaifler's figure (Exot. Sch. fig. 256) 

 under this specific name. In the present arrangement of the Cuban 

 genera, this form should precede Cosmosoma, following Eunomia. For 

 the moment, I leave these specimens undetermined. 



Descriptions of some New Species of Pselaphidae. 



BY EMIL BRENDEL, M. D. 



FUSTIGER Lee., n. gen. 

 The description of the genus Art torus shows us an insect of the 

 family of Clavigeridre differing from Olaoiger by having eyes, and the 

 antenna; consisting of but one joint, and even that joint was said to 

 stick in the head without any articulation. Subsequently, several spe- 

 cies of Articerus were described, which have not only a true articula- 

 tion, but even two joints. These are A. brazeliensis, A. syriacus, and 

 a new species from East Tennessee. As all these do not agree with 

 the original Articerus, it was right to define them more properly. Ac- 

 cordingly Dr. John L. LeConte separated the genus Fustiger from Ar- 

 ticerus. 



