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line angular, produced on the veins in the male, etc." This 

 is exactly true of anona, but in the male of galbina there is 

 not really a basal white line or band, but rather the whole 

 base is white, outlined by a brownish angular line. 



It remains only for me to point out the differences which 

 easily distinguish the two species. In anona the antennae of 

 male is brown and of female, bright orange, In galbina both 

 male and female have pale orange antennae. In the male of 

 anona the brow r n color predominates ; in galbina there is more 

 white. In anona the white median band in the male touches 

 or even partly surrounds the ocellus ; in galbina the white 

 band is separated from the ocellus by a streak of brown. In 

 the secondaries of the male, in anona the basal area where it 

 touches the outer third of brown (crossed by ,a white band) 

 forms a gently curved line, corresponding with the median 

 band in the same situation in the female. In galbina this band 

 is more easily seen even though the base is whiter, and it has 

 a sharp bend or angle which considerably narrows the brown. 

 But the dominant feature in both sexes is that galbina has a 

 pale or yellowish (buff) margin to all four wings, while anona 

 shows a well defined brown outer margin. The females of 

 the two species are more similar than the males, but galbina 

 has the base of the secondaries practically the same color as 

 the outer third, while in anona the base is conspicuously 

 lighter. 



Note on Phasmidae. 



BY A. N. CAUDELL, Washington, D. C. 



My friend, Mr. Rehn, of Philadelphia, has called 1113- atten- 

 tion to the establishment of the phasmid genus Lcptynia by 

 Pantel in 1890, with Bacillus hispanica Bol. as type. This 

 genus would invalidate my recently described Parabacillus 

 had I correctly referred />. hispanica to it ; but, in doing that, 

 I seem to have been in error. While in general these genera 

 are very close, the antennal characters will suffice to separate 

 the Old World Leptynia from the New World ParabaciUus. In 

 the former the ante-nine are distinctly segmented, and IKIVC 



