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Southern California. A single specimen bred August 15, 1890, 

 from a Tortricid (?) larva that lives in a nest formed by fastening sev- 

 eral leaves together, on Solanmn doiiglassi. 



Clausicella tarsalis, sp. nov. 



5 — Head black, front at vertex one-half wider than either eye, vitta next the 

 antennae sub equal in width to either side of the front, frontal bristles descending 

 about to middle of second antennal joint, two pairs of orbital bristles ; face perpen- 

 dicular, in profile evenly concave, the sides bare, each one-ninth as wide as the 

 medi n depression, ridges bristly on the lower fourth ; cheeks nearly one-third as 

 broad as the eye-height. Antennae black, as long as the face, the third joint two and 

 one-half times as long as the second, twice as long as broad ; arista thickened to 

 slightly beyond the middle, the penultimate joint nearly half as long as the last one. 

 Proboscis black, the last section three-fourths as long as height of head, palpi black, 

 sub-clavate. Thorax black, gray pollinose, with four dark vittce, three post-sutural 

 macrocliKtae; scutellum black, bearing two long and a short lateral, also a very 

 small apical pair of macrochset^e. Abdomen shining black, bases of the last three 

 segments white pollinose ; first segment without dorsal m crochietre, second with a 

 marginal pair, third with a marginal row of eight, the fourth with a marginal row of 

 six. Legs black, claws and pulvilli shorter than the last tarsal joint, front tarsi 

 much wider than the middle ones. Wings hyaline, third vein with a few bristles at 

 the base, the others bare, apical cell open at the wing-tip, hind crossvein nearly per- 

 pendicular, about midway between the small crossvein and the bend, the latter 

 arcuate. Length 3 mm. 



Illinois. A single specimen from Dr. W. A. Nason. 

 Clausicella antennalis, sp. nov. 



$ — Differs from the above description of tarsalis only as follows: Third 

 joint of antennae five times as long as the second, greatly broadening to the apex 

 which is truncated, three-fourths as broad as long ; arista thickened on the basal 

 three-fourths, the penultimate joint nearly as long as the last one. Front tarsi not 

 dilated. Length 3 mm. 



Southern California. A single specimen, in February. 



Emphanopteryx theutis Walk. Syn. Emphanopte7-yx eumyothy- 

 7- aides Town. 

 The latter description was founded on a female, not male, as the 

 author supposed. Both sexes are before me from the same locality as 

 Townsend's type (Ithaca, N. Y., from Mr. F. H. Chittenden). The 

 male has no orbital bristles and the femora are more or less black, as 

 Walker describes them. I have also examined three specimens from 

 Franconia, N. H. (Mrs. A. T. Slosson), and ten from Illinois (Dr. W. 

 A. Nason). 



