262 NATHAN BANKS. 



at base the slender lower appeiidao;es (harpes) are longer than the tenth ventral 

 segment, and a little more than one-half as long as the upper appendages. 



One specimen from Piano, Texas, July (Tucker). 

 In size and appearance like B. mexicanus, hut in that species the 

 lower appendages (harpes) are as long as the superior appendages. 



LTMNEPHILID^. 



Anabolia a.!>iSiinili!ti n. sp. — Face pale yellowish, with yellow hair, and 

 a row of black bristles each side near eye; palpi paler; vertex yellowish-brown, 

 ocelli rather large, the discal bristles between ocelli; the posterior warts small 

 and low; basal joint of antennse brown, beyond yellowish, narrowly annulate 

 with brown ; pronotuni rather prominent, with many black bristles, and long 

 yellow hairs; thorax brown, with a broad pale median stripe; abdomen yellow- 

 ish-brown, appendages pale; legs pale yellowish, with black spines, the spurs 

 1-2-3, those of leg II and III very long and slender, the subapical on III, about 

 one and one-half its length from tip; beneath femur I is a narrow black line. 

 Wings very much like those of Anabolina diversa, of a brownish yellow tinge, 

 with yellow and black hairs, the stigmal region brownish, and all behind cubitus 

 (and sometimes a little in front of it) is mottled with brown, the cubitus and anal 

 veins are very dark, other venation brown, interrupted with pale. Forewings 

 long and slender, apex rounded, discal cell longer tban pedicel, first apical about 

 width on discal, fourth as wide as third at base, fifth barely in front of the anas- 

 tomosis. Expanse 26 mm. 



Prescott, Arizona. 



Although the spur-formula is like Ecclisopteri/x, the insect is 

 difierent in many other characters. 



Anabolia nigriciila n. sp. — Head black, palpi pale; basal joint of an- 

 tennae deep black, rest of antennae brown, annulate with pale, a pale streak in 

 vertex each side close to eyes; thorax black, with a broad median stripe of white 

 pollen, prouotum rather paler above; abdomen brown, apex black, appendages 

 yellowish. Legs yellowish, spines black, spurs rather short, a black streak be- 

 neath at base of femur I. Wings brown or almost black, venation black, inter- 

 rupted with pale, stigma rather darker, cubitus and anal veins broadly black, an 

 oblique hyaline spot at thyridiura and one at arcuhis, elsewhere there are many 

 very small pale dots, especially on anterior half and on the apical part of wing. 

 Hindwings with the stigma dark. Discal cell of forewings longer than the pedi- 

 cel, first apical its width on discal, fourth fully as wide as third at base, fifth 

 about one-half its width back of anastomosis. Expanse 29 mm. 



Clear Creek, Colorado, September lOtli ; Florissant, Colorado. 



Liiimiepliiliis rohweri n. sp. — Face pale, with yellow and black hair; 

 l>alpi pale; vertex brown, with some yellow hair, a transverse yellow wart each 

 side behind ; antennae yellowish, faintly annulate with brown, basal joint with 

 some black hair; pronotum yellow, with yellow hair; thorax yellow-brown, 

 abdomen darker brown ; legs yellow, with black spines. Wings mostly hyaline. 



