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HYMENOrTERA. 



Fisr. 151. 



and were curled on the leaf. They eat out the edge of the 

 leaf of the butternut tree. Sometime during August, two 



cocoons were spun between the 

 leaAxs, but I did not succeed in 

 raising the saw-fly. On describing 

 the larva, in a letter to Mr. E. Nor- 

 ton, he kindly sent me alcoholic 

 specimens of larva? (without the 

 woolly substance, which dissolves 

 and disappears in alcohol) found 

 feeding on the hickoiy, which are 

 apparently, from the comparison of 

 alcoholic specimens, identical with the Butternut Selandria. 

 The adult fl^^ (Fig. 151, $, a, cocoon), he has named S. caryce, 

 of which he has kindly furnished 

 me with the subjoined description.* 

 AUantus is closely related to Se- 

 landria, both in its structure and its 

 habits, but differs in having the an- 

 tennoe short and somewhat clavate. 

 A. basilaris Say is a commo]! species. rig. 152. 



The Pine saw-fly, Lophyrus, may be known by the feathered 

 antennge of the male. L. ahietis Harris (Fig. 152, female) 

 infests the lir and pitch-pine. The male is black above and 

 brown beneath, while the female is j-ellowish brown above, 



* Selandria caryce Xorton, nov. sp. (Belonging to tribe 2. Under wings with one 

 middle cell. Div. A. Antenna; filiform, short). 



Female. Color shining black. The pro- and mesothorax and scutellum rufous, 

 the apex of the latter black; the nasus and legs white, with their tarsi blackish; the 

 base of coxas and a line down the ujtper side of the legs black. Antennte short, 

 the second joint as long as the first; tlic four final joints together, not longer than 

 the two preceding. Nasus slightly incurved. Claws of tarsi apparently bifid, 

 Wings subviolaceous. Lanceolate cell petiolate, the first submedial cell above it, 

 with a distinct cross vein. Under wings with one submarginal middle cell (all 

 other species have this cell discoidal), the marginal cell with a cross nervure, and 

 all the outer cells closed by an outer nervure, which does not touch the margin. 

 The submedial cell extended nearly to margin. Length, .25 of an inch. Expanse 

 of wings .40 of an inch. 



" The male resembles the female, but the imder wings are without middle cells. 

 The larvre feed upou the leaves of the hickory (Juglans squamosa.) They ai"e 

 found upou the lower side of the leaf, sometimes fifteen or twenty upon one leaf, 

 which they eat from the outer extremity inward, often leaving nothing but the 

 strong midribs. They cover themselves wholly with white flocculent tufts which 

 are rubbed off on being touched, leaving a green twenty-two legged worm, about .75 



