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form a narrow pale or yellowish oval with a black central line ; this line often broken 

 into two black dots and sometimes diffused so as to fill the entire spot. Secondaries 

 blackish smoky in both sexes. The t. p. line of primaries is continued as a crenu- 

 lated blackish line across the wing, and is outwardly bordered by a more or less well- 

 marked diffuse whitish shading. The s. t. line of primaries also is continued across 

 the secondaries as a narrow pale or whitish line preceded by a slightly darker shad- 

 ing. A series of black terminal lunules followed by a pale line at base of fringes. 

 Beneath blackish, powdery, all wings with a discal spot, the outer lines of both wings 

 more prominently reproduced. 



Expands, .90-1.00 inch -= 22-25 t^^- 



Habitat. — Long Island, New York, July 24, August 11 ; Chester, 

 N. J,, August 28, Jamesburg, N. J., Oak Ridge, N. J., August 7 ; 

 New Brighton, Penn., July 19-August 2. 



Nine males, six females most of them in good condition. The Long 

 Island and Oak Ridge specimens are from Mr. E. Shoemaker ; the 

 New Brighton specimens are from Mr. H. D. Merrick, the others are 

 from the college collection. 



This species belongs ■wxth.factiosalis in type of maculation ; but is 

 much smaller, quite different in color and varies in a different direc- 

 tion. In well marked males the tendency to a white band following 

 the t. p. line across both wings is often conspicuously shown and on 

 the secondaries some females are almost as well marked. This char- 

 acter is also the most obvious distinctive feature when a series is under 

 observation. 



NOTES ON COLEOPTERA. 



By W. Knaus, 

 McPherson, Kansas. 



For the past ten or twelve years, the writer has been on the look- 

 out for Sicyobius brousii, described by Dr. Horn in 1884. Season 

 after season the vines of the wild gourd, Cticumes pcrennis, were exam- 

 ined for this Cerambycid, but always without success, until June 6, 

 1908, when I was at Lindsborg, fourteen miles north of McPherson. 

 On that day, while waiting for a train, I went south along the Smoky 

 Hill River, just beyond the city limits, and on examining a gourd vine 

 was so fortumate as to find a single specimen of this modest little gray 

 and white insect. A careful inspection of all the gourd vines in the 

 vicinity did not disclose any further specimens. 



Four days later, while in Ashland, Clark County, I took this species 



