130 Flo7^a of Guadalupe Island. [zoe 



as long as basal joint, third and fourth joints about equal 

 in length, twice as long as second, the fourth tapering to 

 its extremity, which is terminated by a slightly curved, rather 

 elongate chitinous claw or hook. The last three joints of the 

 legs are furnished with a sparse fringe of small bristl}' spines on 

 inside. 



Described from one specimen. Arizona. 



A luminous larva was reported to me, in the spring of 1892, 

 as numerous in the Mimbres country, in Grant County, New 

 Mexico. No specimens, however, were obtained. 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF GUADALUPE ISLAND. 



BY F. FRANCESCHI. 



The Island of Guadalupe has been botanically explored first 

 in 1875 by Dr. Edward Palmer, and second b}" Prof. E. L. Greene 

 in 1886, Dr. Palmer having made a short visit there and collected 

 again in 1889. For a newcomer there was in consequence but 

 little hope to find anything that had escaped such experienced 

 and diligent observers; the more so as it was well known that 

 the work of extermination of that most interesting flora, due to 

 the wonderful increasing of wild goats there, had gone on 

 unabated these last ten or twelve years. My purpose in visiting 

 the island, rather than the hope of adding to the number of the 

 plants registered already by Dr. Palmer and Prof Greene as 

 belonging to Guadalupe, was to gather more information on the 

 present state of vegetation on the island, and full particulars on 

 the appearance, the habit, the flowering, and fruiting of many 

 of the trees and shrubs peculiar to Guadalupe, of which a few 

 have been sparingly introduced in gardens, and others well 

 deserve to be. For detailed accounts on the palm, the cypress, 

 the pine, and the oak of Guadalupe, as well as on the most note- 

 worthy shrubs, I must refer to papers sent to ' ' Garden and 

 Forest," of New York, and to the "Gardener's Chronicle," in 

 London. A few remarks of a more general character will, I 

 hope, be found of interest as preceding the list of plants I was 

 able to collect there during December and part of January last. 



