1868. 435 [Scuddor. 



Mr. S. H. Scudcler observed that he h;id receive A similar 

 tAvigs fi-om Mississipjii, together with a specinieyi of the 

 insect reported to have hiid the egg ; it proved to be an un- 

 described species of JLiphidhtni; he did not knoAV of any 

 similar observation excepting one published last month by 

 Mr. S. I. Smith, in the Proceedings of the Portland Society 

 of Natural History. Mr. Smith has found a specimen of the 

 conical headed grasshopper, Conocephalus ensigei\ with its 

 ovipositor forced down between the root leaves and the stalk 

 of a species of Andropogon. 



Dr. Ilagen remarked that he had been examining the 

 Pseudoscorpions of America and comparing them Avith 

 European species sent to him by Dr. Menge. Chelifer muri- 

 catus of Say proved to be identical Avitli the European C. 

 cancroides. He had determined eight species, one, hitherto 

 undescribed, resembling C. onacidatus Menge, belonging to 

 the genus Chthonius ; four, belonging to the genus Chelifer ; 

 two, one of Avhich was ne\A', referable to Chernes; and one 

 belonging to Pelorus. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder presented the folloAving description of a 

 neAV Butterfly from Florida : — 



Theela Juanita. Head black; a circular pearly Avliite spot 

 Iwtween the antenna, another just behind the summit of tlic eyes, 

 a lonsT and slender one in front of, and another behind the eyes; 

 base and centre of the palpi Avliite; basal half of antennic l)laek (re- 

 mainder broken) ; a transverse plume of mingled black and Avhite 

 hairs on the vertex, behind which is a collar of shorter Avhite hairs; 

 thorax and abdomen Avell sprinkled above with bright Ijlue scales on a. 

 brownish ground; thorax beneath black; a white dot on the pleura at 

 the base of either wing; legs black Avith occasional Avhite scales; abdo- 

 men beneath orange. Wings above blackish-broAvn ; primaries pro- 

 fusely suffused with bright blue (steel blue by reflected light) on tlie 

 basal half, especially along the middle of the Aving, but not betAveen 

 the divarications of the median nervure ; fringe black tipped Avith 

 gray; secondaries someAvhat suffused Avith bright blue, especially along 

 the area occupied by the median nervure and its divarications; there 

 are tAvo long tails; the upper is the extension of the middle median 

 nervulc, the loAver, which is tAvice as long as the other, is the continua- 



