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much larger and rather longer than the preceding; face on each side of ocelli 

 channeled; a ridge, channeled through the centre, passing down between an- 

 tennae; claws with a strong inner tooth near middle. The whole body shining 

 black, palpi and legs below knees whitish, anterior legs tinged with rufous, 

 hinder tibiae blackish at tip; wings hyaline, a smoky cloud passes across upper 

 wings from base of stigma to tip of inner apical cell and from thence along lan- 

 ceolate cell to base of wing ; outer cross-nervure of lower inner underwing cell 

 coincides with that above it. 



Faruaington, Conn. Four % specimens. 



Paehylota varicolor, n. sp. 



P .—Length 0.48; br. wings 0.94 inch. — Color shining black, with the abdo- 

 men, except at base, yellow red ; a blackish band, broken in middle, across 

 first and second segments; the anterior angle, basal plates and base of venter, 

 white ; wings violaceous-brown, their basal third clear. Head not as wide as 

 thorax, closely ciliate with greenish-cinereous hairs ; antennae short, not as 

 long as to scutel, clavate, densely ciliate with cinereous hair, seen from the 

 side a slight process near the base of third joint beneath ; all the palpi 4-jointed, 

 the second and third maxillary globose; ocelli nearly in a straight line, or an 

 obtusely flattened triangle. Head and body polished, pleura smooth, with a 

 patch of grey hair in middle. Abdomen rather long, rounded. Legs stout; 

 tibiae simple, with end spurs; tarsi with processes beneath, first joint nearly as 

 long as all the rest, joints 2 — 4 short and stout; claws strongly cleft. Upper 

 wings long, marginal appendix large, first submarginal cell prolonged on the 

 costa; second receiving the first recurrent nervure on the first cross-nervure, 

 and the second near its middle ; third cell twice as long on the marginal vein, 

 its outer cross-nervure bent in the middle nearly to a right angle with a short 

 incomplete nervure arising from its outer angle; lanceolate cell petiolate, its 

 petiole long; under wings not appendiculate, with two inner cells, the upper 

 cell bent outward, with an incomplete nerve as in the upper wing; a small 

 lanceolate cell at base of wing. 



Mexico. Two specimens. (Coll. Am. Ent. Soc.) 



Pristiphora i«leiiti<lem. 



Pristiphora identidem, Norton. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i, p. 77. £> • 

 Pristiphora idiota, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i, p. 77. £, . 



These prove to be the same species. Mr. W. C. Fish. (Packard's 

 Guide, p. 217) bred the larvae on the Cranberry on Cape Cod, Mass. 

 Larva with seven pairs of abdominal feet, (20-footed), long, cylindrical, 

 smooth, about 0.30 inch in length; when full-grown dark green, with 

 two lighter green stripes running from head to the tail ; head of a 

 lighter color. Cocoons were spun June 20th, at the surface of the 

 ground ; imago came forth June 29th. 



Nematus tralineatus, Norton. 



Larva. — 20-footed, slender, bright green, palest at head and tail, with five 

 rows of black dots down the back, the outer row on each side irregular and 

 with intervals; another row of black dots on each side above the feet; the three 

 anterior pairs of feet black at the base, middle and tip. 



Farmiugton, Conn. First seen upon the Weeping Willow {Salix 



