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Notes. Described from the following series: 



Male holotype, Colorado county, Texas, June 24, 1922; Mrs. Grace Wiley, 



collector. 

 Female allotype, Colorado county, Texas, June 24, 1922; Mrs. Grace Wiley, 



collector. 

 Paratypes as follows: 



2 9 $ Raleigh, N. C, July 10, 1902; F. Sherman, jr., collector. 



$ Mound, La., November 6, 1918. 

 9 Aberdeen, Miss.; Dr. Carl Drake. 



3 9 9 and IS Leiand, Miss., September 16, 1921; C. J. Drake. 



9 Creve Coeur Lake, Mo., May 15, 1911; J. F. Abbott. 

 $ Dime Box, Tex., July 20, 1911; C. T. Atkinson, collector. 

 17 ,J 5 and 22 9 9 Gainesville, Fla., June 19, 1918; Carl Drake. 



Holotype and allotype in University of Kansas museum; para- 

 types in collection of Dr. Carl Drake, J. R. de la Torre Bueno, and 

 the author. 



This species has been named for Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno, 

 who pointed out its structural characters in 1905.* It has also 

 been named by some workers R. fusca P. B., and by at least one 

 R. nigra H. S. It is clearly impossible for it to be either. The error 

 of considering it R. fusca P. B. has been due to the inadequate de- 

 scription of R. fusca P. B. and to the fact that the original text with 

 illustration has not been accessible to many, if any, American stu- 

 dents of this group. By taking Palisot de Beauvois' figure of his 

 R. fusca and comparing it with the species above described, it will 

 be seen at once that the species are not the same. The long, slender 

 limbs, the great eyes, the long thorax, the relative position of the. 

 tooth on the front femur, and the relation in length between femora 

 and tibiae of the legs, preclude the possibility that Palisot's artist 

 had R. buenoi, sp. new, before him. The front legs of R. fusca P. B. 

 are stout, not exceedingly slender. The median tooth of front femur 

 is nearer the middle than in R. buenoi, sp. new. The anterior part 

 of prothorax is less than twice the swollen part. The middle femora 

 and tibise are nearly the same length as they are in R. americana 

 Montd., for instance, and not considerably different in length as in 

 R. buenoi. The hind femora are considerably shorter relative to the 

 abdomen in R. fusca P. B. The tarsus of R. fusca P. B. is larger, 

 being one-fifth as long as its tibia and not one-sixth as in R. buenoi 

 sp. new. In other words, its proportions fit another American spe- 

 cies, but not R. buenoi. 



This species is not R. nigra H. S., for R. nigra H. S. has uni- 

 formly short respiratory tube of three-fourths inch and measures 



*See Can. Ento., vol. XXXVII, p. 188; 1905. 



