106 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. iv. 



(Gundlach), San Jose del Cabo, Mex. (Cal. Acad. Sci., through L. 

 Bruner) and Nicaragua (Shimek-L. Bruner). Saussure says it occurs 

 in Cuba, Mexico and Brazil. 



Nemobius mormonius, sp. nov. 



Head flavo-testaceous, marked slightly with fuscous, not very full ; antennse 

 flavous, inclining to testaceous, sometimes a little infuscated ; maxillary palpi flavoUs, 

 the last joint only about half as long again as the penultimate, its apical third infus- 

 cated. Pronotum flavous, much marked and blotched with fuscous, especially in the 

 central portion of the disk and at the lower margin, equal, less than half as broad 

 again as long, clothed sparsely with moderately long black hairs. Tegmina no longer 

 than head and prouotum together, covering only half of the abdomen, apically trun- 

 cate, black, with the veins, a humeral stripe, and both inner and costal margins pallid. 

 Legs testaceous, more or less infuscated. Ovipositor much longer than head and 

 pronotum together, much shorter than the hind femora, very feebly arcuate, slender, 

 the apical blades distinctly enlarged at the brse, long, tapering regularly and gently 

 to a very fine point, delicately but not very closely serratulate. Length of body, 7 

 mm.; of hind femora, 4.75 mm.; of ovipositor, 3.5 mm. 



2?, and one nymph. St. George, Utah, April (E. Palmer). 

 Nemobius toltecus. 



Nemobius toltectts Saussure, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1859,316; Id. Miss. Scient. 

 Mex. Rech. Zool. VI, 386 (1874). 



See the remarks under the next species. 



The tegmina cover the abdomen in the $ , but only about one-half 

 of it in the 9 , and in both wings are wanting. Originally described 

 from Mexico (Oaxacais specified by Saussure in 1874), I have seen spe- 

 cimens only from the same country — Orizaba, Jalapa and Tepic, all 

 through Prof. L. Bruner, the last from the collections of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Nemobius mexicanus. 



A'cniobius mexicanus Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus. I, 57 (1869). 

 Nemobius sp. Bruner ! N. A. Fauna, VII, 266 (1893). 



It would seem impossible to determine Walker's species with any 

 certainty without reference to his type. His description is about equally 

 applicable to the present species, and to N. toltecus, but I have regarded 

 this as more probably Walker's species from his description of the head, 

 which cannot apply to N. toltecus, while Saussure's description seems 

 to exclude the present species. The essential distinctions between the 

 two are given in my table. 



The $ tegmina cover the abdomen, but those of the 9 are shorter 

 and wings are wanting in both. It was originally described from 

 Oaxaca, Mex.; Bruner's specimen, as quoted above, comes from Pana- 



