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is present in nearly all examples. Fringes colored as in primaries, paler 

 basally, and sometimes tinged with brown. Discal dots dusky, oval, very 

 faint. Beneath silvery gray, dusted with black atoms. On primaries these are 

 heaviest along costa and at outer margin. Extra discal, if present, is not 

 prominent. Discal dots small, white. Intervenular dots at margin reproduced 

 as above, but all white. Marginal line hardly apparent. Secondaries have 

 extra-discal strongly reproduced, black, heavier toward inner margin and much 

 more serrate than above, externally bordered with white. Discal dots large, 

 oval, jet black, frequently pupilled with white. 



Type: male and female from Eureka, Utah, May 21, 1909, with 

 co-types. Thirteen males and 5 females are retained in my own col- 

 lection. The latter from same locality taken in 1909 and 1910 with 

 the exception of one male from Stockton, Utah, August 3, 1902, re- 

 ferred to previously. This may represent a fragmentary second 

 hrood at that period. The rest of my co-types were captured between 

 May 7 and June 14. As grouped they present a marked contrast in 

 black and gray to modcstus. pcplaroidcs and gigantcus, with their 

 rusty browns and reddish hues. 



The genitalia as shown in the figure differ a little from those of 

 modcstus. but seem to me even shorter and broader. 



THE OCCURRENCE OF THE MYMARID GENUS 

 MYMAR HALIDAY IN NORTH AMERICA. 



By a. a. Girault, 

 Urbana, III. 



The type genus of the family Mymaridre has been found to occur 

 in England, Germany, Austria, perhaps Italy in Europe and from the 

 islands of Saint Helena (Africa) and Ceylon (Asia; Mymarilla West- 

 wood), but has never been recorded as occurring in the western 

 hemisphere. However, I have found in the collections of the United 

 States National Museum a single tag-mounted female specimen of a 

 species of the genus from Pennsylvania, which I have been fortunate 

 in transferring without injury to a slide mount of xylol-balsam. The 

 specimen is excellently preserved and represents a typical species of 

 the genus, the fore wings with long, slender petioles, the small, paddle- 

 like blade portion at the apex with very long, delicate marginal cilia. 



