﻿66 Journal New York Ent. Soc. [Voi. in. 



TWO CALIFORNIA PHALANGIDS. 



By Nathan Banks. 



Eurybunus spinosus, sp. nov. 



Length 7 mm.; femur I 3 mm. Grayish brown above, a blackish mark on 

 each side of base of abdomen outlining a paler central stripe ; sides and venter gray, 

 minutely dotted with silvery ; eye tubercle with a white stripe above ; femora I and 

 III brown, with a pale ring on middle; tibire I and III brown, mottled with pale ; 

 femora and tibise II and IV whitish, with irregular brown spots; all metatarsi pale, 

 tarsi ringed with brown at false articulations ; palpi pale, spotted with brown, black 

 at tips. Eye-tubercle low, smooth ; two small elevations on anterior margin of 

 cephalothorax, but bearing no spinules ; a transverse row of small spinules behind 

 eye-tubercle ; about eight transverse rows of spinules on the abdomen ; femora and 

 patellx tipped with some spinules; legs and palpi clothed with short stiff black 

 bristles ; no false articulation in metatarsus I, one in tibia II ; last joint of palpus 

 straight, once and one-half as long as preceding joint, palpal claw without teeth. 



Habitat : Los Angeles, California. 



Mitopus californicus, sp. nov. 



Length 7 mm.; femur 1,4 mm. Grayish above, indistinctly mottled with white 

 and brown ; vase-mark not distinct ; femora and tibire with brown bands near base 

 and tip. Some spinules grouped in front, and some on each side of cephalothorax 

 eye-tubercle about its diameter from anterior margin, two rows of spinules above ; 

 basal joints of legs with five rows of prominent spinules ; and a row on each seg; 

 ment of the body ; pailpi short, last joint slightly curved, longer than three plus four, 

 palpal claw smooth ; no false articulations in any tibiae, one in metatarsus I ; tibia 

 II much longer than metatarsus II. 



Habitat : Los Angeles, California. 



Similar to the eastern M. montamts Banks, but not so strikingly 

 marked, and tibia II is much longer than metatarsus II (a trifle shorter 

 in M. montamis'). 



NOTES ON DREPANID LARVAE. 



By Harrison G. Dyar, xA.. M. 



We have four genera of this interesting little family in North 

 America, and each is represented by probably but a single species ; at 

 least there seem to be only four different larvre.* The moths greatly 

 resemble Geometrids in appearance and habits, but differ in venation. 

 The larvK differ from all their allies in the absence of the last pair of 



*See Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. XXIV, 492, where Dr. Packard quotes the 

 observations of Mr. S. L. Elliot, that the larvx of O. rosea and O. irrorata are 

 alike. 



