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bined with the apparent absence of other specimens in collectors' 

 cabinets separable from known species and recognizable under that 

 description, the suspicion has prevailed that flaviguttula might have 

 to be regarded as a synonym. An inspection of the material in the 

 National Museum at Washington on which Gibson and Wells' paper 

 was based, discloses a considerable number of specimens placed over 

 the name label O. flaviguttula Goding, three of which, all females, 

 appear to be substantially identical, and to agree very closely with 

 Goding's description of that species. One, shown by the Museum 

 records to have been taken in Central Missouri by Riley and bearing 

 locality label " C. Mo.," bears a pin label in what is believed to be 

 Dr. Ashmead's handwriting designating it as O. flaviguttula God'g., 

 and on the lower left-hand margin appears the abbreviation " Godg 

 detn," which would seem to be interpretable as " Goding's determi- 

 nation." The other two bear locality labels " Md. R. R. Uhler Col- 

 lection," and " Mass." respectively. In my own collection there is a 

 specimen, also a female, which appears to be identical in species with 

 them, taken by me at Bronxville, N. Y., July 4, 191 1. There is no 

 other described Ophiderma to which they can be assigned; and the 

 above script makes it fairly certain that this species should be recog- 

 nized under Dr. Goding's designation, and that the name should not 

 be sunk into synonymy as has been suggested. 



For the convenience of students to whom the original description 

 (published in Vol. Ill of Bulletin Illinois State Laboratory of Natural 

 History) may be inaccessible, I herewith transcribe it, as well as a 

 characterization of my Bronxville specimen above referred to: 



" 0. flaviguttula n. sp. 



" Female. — Head triangular, yellowish ; eyes prominent, dark brown ; ocelli 

 equidistant from each other and the eyes, red ; convex, densely pubescent. 

 Prothorax with very slight median carina, densely pubescent, an irregular yel- 

 low patch starting at lateral border and extending upwards and forwards, 

 midway between base and apex ; an irregular band at base, concolorous with 

 head, extending along sides in a greenish gray line ; otherwise dirty brown, 

 lightly punctured ; apex of posterior process not reaching apex of tegmina. 

 Tegmina sub-coriaceous at base, lightly punctured, basal half and apex brown. 

 Below yellow, feet and legs brown. Length 6.2 mm. 



" Described from one specimen from Illinois (Stromberg). Type in au- 

 thor's collection." 



