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area, while in other specimens these are brown in color. These eye- 

 spots are renifomi and are much larger than those of the two related 

 species (pi. 55, fig. 9). Margin (pi. 55, fig. 3) composed of closely 

 set and evenly rounded teeth, each one with a minute circular pore 

 at its base. Dorsum with many small circular pores arranged as 

 shown in the figure. The submarginal row of pores forms a fairly 

 even line around the case. That part of the dorsum between these 

 pores and the marginal teeth is not striate (pi. 55, fig. 3), though the 

 mesal portion of the dorsum is. Suture separating the thorax and 

 abdomen evenly rounded on each side. Vasiform orifice (pi. 55, 

 fig. 4) usual, longer than broad, and almost entirely fiUed by the 

 operculum. On the leaf the case is jet black and there is apparently 

 no waxy secretion of any kind. 



Adult male. — Color yellowish or slightly brownish, with dusky 

 appendages and dark brown eyes. Eyes not divided, but the upper 

 and lower eyes joined by six or eight lenses in pairs or triplets 

 (pi. 55, fig. 8). Antemiae with proportions as sho's\Ti in figure 7, 

 plate 55; segment III imbricated and with two distal sensoria; each 

 of these is usually armed with a central process. Segment V with 

 a distal sensorium and segment VII with a sensorium near its middle. 

 Forewing with smoky brown markings, as indicated in the figure 

 (pi, 55, fig. 10). Hindwing uniform pale smoky. Claspers 0.128 mm. 

 long, shghtly curved, somewhat pubescent, and armed with a number 

 of stout spines, as shown in plate 55, figure 6; outer distal edge form- 

 ing a rather distinct prong, and the inner portion with a distinct 

 double lobe. Penis (pi. 55, fig. 5) with a distinct shoulder. Length 

 from vertex to tip of claspers 0.72 mm. to 1.04 mm. 



Adult female. — Similar in general character to the male. Length 

 of antennae 0.396 mm. Average length from vertex to tip of cauda 

 0.92 mm. ; length of forewing about the same. 



Described from males and females, pupa cases, and eggs in balsam 

 mounts. 



Type.— Csit. No. 19200, U.S.N.M. 



ALEUROPLATUS (ALEUROPLATUS) OVATUS, new species. 



Plate 56, fig. 1; plate 53, figs. 8, 9. 



One lot only of this species is in the collection. It was taken on 

 Berheris trifoliata at College Station, Texas, by Wilmon Newell, in 

 March, 1912. 



Pupa case (pi. 56, fig. 1). — Size 0.96 by 0.624 mm. Shape oval, 

 broadest across the thorax; caudo-lateral margins more or less 

 straight. Abdominal segments distinct, reaching almost to the 

 margin. Suture separating the thorax and abdomen recurved 

 cephalad about on line with the third thoracic segment. Margin 

 composed of evenly rounded shallow teeth; comb of the thoracic 



