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help. To Mr. Erdman West and Mr. Breeder our thanks are due 

 for the photographs. 



Explanation of Plates X, XI, XII. 



Fig. i. A nursery patch of Hibiscus moscheutos during the winter. 



Fig. 2. Acontia delecta adult. 



Fig. 3. Acontia delecta with wings folded. 



Fig. 4. Gelechia hibiscella adult. 



Fig. 5. Larvae of Acontia delecta. 



Fig. 6. Petioles injured by larvae of Rhccboscelis tenuis. 



Fig. 7. Work of larvae of R. tenuis in hibiscus stems, showing larva in 

 one of the left. 



Fig. 8. Cocoon of Sagaritas dubitatus with shrivelled larval skin attached. 



Fig. 9. Work of larva of Papaipema nitela. 



Fig. 10. Feeding (large holes) of Rhcrboscelis tenuis. 



Figs. 11 and 12. Galls of Apion hibisci. 



Fig. 13. Stem split to show cavity occupied by larva of Apion hibisci. 



Fig. 14. Gall of Neolasioptera hibisci. 



Fig. 15. Stem split to show cavity in pith occupied by larvae of Neolasi- 

 optera hibisci. 



Fig. 16. Feeding of Chcctocnema quadricollis. 



Fig. 17. Flower buds injured by Scudderia texensis. 



Fig. 18. Leaf cut and rolled by larva of Gelechia hibiscella. 



CICADAS OF THE GENUS CACAMA, WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF SEVERAL NEW SPECIES. 



By Wm. T. Davis, 



New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 



In Genera Insectorum Mr. Distant lists Cacama maura Dist. from 

 Mexico and Yucatan; and both Cacama dissiniilis Dist. and Cacama 

 longirostris Dist. from Mexico. These three species were described 

 in 1881 in Biol. Centr.-Amer., maura and longirostris under the 

 generic name of Proarna, and dissimilis as a Cicada. Uhler's Pro- 

 arna valvata described from Texas and Arizona in 1888 in Ento- 

 mologica Americana, is listed in that genus in Genera Insectorum, 

 but Mr. Van Duzee removed it to the genus Cacama in 1915 (Jour- 

 nal N. Y. Ento. Society). In the Transactions of the San Diego 



