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Bonnetii, has hitherto been known. We have in the state of New-York an 

 insect of this kind which may frequently be met with upon grass and on wil- 

 lows in lowland meadows, from the beginning of August till the end of the 

 season. I have hitherto supposed this to be the JBonnetii; but now, when I 

 come to compare a number of specimens with Mr. Kirby's description, it be- 

 comes plain to me that this is a distinct species, and I therefore name it in 

 honor of the distinguished British entomologist who has furnished to the Lin- 

 naean Transactions a valuable paper upon some of the insects of this group. In 

 all the species of j^notia several oblique veinlets of a blood red color appear 

 along the outer sides of the wing covers towards their tips; but our New-York 

 species differs from the Bonndti, in that the wing covers have no tint of yel- 

 low, and none of their veinlets are black. The veins and veinlets are pallid, 

 and for the most part are broadly margined with pale brown, which color also 

 forms an irregular band before and another behind the middle, leaving large 

 whitish hyaline spots in the intervals. The rib vein commonly shows three 

 or four blackish alternations forward of its middle, and there is also a short 

 black streak upon the middle of the inner margin. The wings are whitish 

 hyaline with a blue iridescence, and their veins are slender and whitish with 

 the veinlet at the apex of the outer discoidal cell robust, black, and slightly 

 margined with brown. The thorax is pale yellow, smooth and shining, with 

 tnree elevated white longitudinal lines. Length 0.15 to tip of the wings 0.26; 

 width 0.45. 



Two other species of this genus are known to me, the distinctive marks of 

 which may here be stated. They are the same size with the preceding. 



112. Anotia Burnetii is much nearer related to j^. Bonnetii, the three vein- 

 lets in the disk of its wing covers being blackish, but it is readily known from 

 the other three species by a black stripe above along the middle of the three 

 first segments of its abdomen. It is white, its wing covers milky white and 

 subhyaline, with faint clouds of a more dusky tinge forming about three imper- 

 fect bands. A single specimen was captured by Albert Gallatin Burnet, upon 

 ash bushes beside Henderson river in Illinois. The insects of this genus hence 

 appear to inhabit low humid situations, whilst those of the genus Otiocerus, 

 according to my observations, all occur upon bushes growing in dry uplands. 



113. j^notia Rolertsonii is very similar to the Burnetii, appearing to differ 

 only in having the tips of its antennae and its feet blackish or dusky and the 

 back of its abdomen white without any blackish discoloration. Two speci- 

 mens sent me from west of Arkansas, by \V. S. Robertson. 



I here subjoin a short account of two other singular insects pertaining to 

 this family, as I have for several years been sending specimens of them abroad 

 with merely the name by which they are ticketed in my private collection 

 appended to them. They are most nearly related to the Caliscelis Bonelli of 

 Latreillc, an Italian species very rare in colleotions, for a specimen of which I 

 am indebted to Dr. Signoretof Paris. This insect is commonly made the type 

 of a distinct tribe or sub-family by authors, it differs so promineitly from all 

 its kindred. Twenty years ago an insect possessing similar distinctive char- 



