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in enlarged water color paintings and named the female silvcstrii 

 (as it could be taken for a male of a large size), and described it 

 as follows : 



Smilia camelus Fabr. var. silvestrii, new variety. 



Differs from 5. camelus by the smaller size but has the same dark brown 

 color as the male. It has the same shape of dorsal crest as camelus, which is 

 highest anteriorly, sloping to the apex, Ijefore which the contour is slightly 

 simulated. Pronotum toward the base lighter, becoming very dark posteriorly, 

 starting in front of the margin of the transverse yellow band. Head and 

 front part of the pronotum with testaceous markings, very dark, punctured. 

 Tegmina hyaline, with the venation reddish brown, very dark at the apex, 

 which is rather broadly and deeply infuscated. Legs testaceous. 



Collected with two males by Professor Silvestri in the Catskill 

 Mountains, Otis Summit, on June 22, 1908. The males were of the 

 common size, but the hyaline vitta had more or less the color of the 

 transverse band. At the American Museum of Natural History I 

 have seen one male, with the infuscated' part of the tegmina very 

 pale. Professor J. B. Smith was kind enough to let me have two 

 females collected on July 4 and 7 at Lakehurst, N. J. These have 

 the transverse yellow band quite strongly mixed with green. From 

 the Rampo Mountains, N. Y., and collected June 12. I received from 

 Mr. C. Schaeffer one female of the same color as the Florida speci- 

 mens, only in size somewhat smaller. Mr. Engelhardt collected on 

 June 26 last year at Rockaway Beach, L. I., two males of camelus. 

 During the same season in July Air. Watson collected at Greenwood 

 Lake, N. J., a number of camelus, of which I received one male of 

 common size and form, but four females of different varieties. One 

 of these is somewhat darker and has the transverse band of guttata 

 in very reduced markings ; another somewhat lighter has the mark- 

 ings only slightly indicated and two fail to show the least indication 

 of these markings and have the prothorax of a uniform brown, 

 although in form they resemble camelus. 



