34 Journal New York Entomological Society. [\o1. v. 



Smynthurus macgillivrayii, s[). nov. 



Length .9 mm. Pale yellowish, whitish below, a black stripe each side start- 

 ing from the eye and running back to the base of the anal tubercle, on the abdomen 

 it is very much maculose, broader, and connected to the one on the opposite 

 side ; legs and furcula pale hyaline. Body clothed with short fine simple scattered 

 hairs, those on the abdomen recurved. Antennas rather long and slender, the first 

 joint no longer than broad, the second twice as long, the third as long as both 

 together, the fourth twice as long as the third, indistinctly subdivided into eight or 

 nine joints, the basal one the longer; legs of moderate length, slender, apparently 

 but one claw and a tenent hair at tip; at the tip of the abdomen near the base of the 

 anal tubercle there is on each side a distinct conical apparently corneus horn or 

 tubercle, seen from above they project somewhat outward; furcula of moderate 

 length, the denies longer than the diameter of the anal tubercle, with some fine hairs 

 below, the mucrones remarkably short and weak, about one-fourth as long as the 

 denies and very much smaller in diameter, minutely serrate below. 



Several specimens swept from weeds on Harbor Hill, L. I., N. Y., 

 in May. Readily recognized by the pattern, and the tubercles at tip 

 of the abdomen. 



NOTE ON MELITTIA SATYRINIFORMIS Hiibner. 

 Bv Wm. Beutenmuller. 



Melittia sn/yriitifor/nis HObn'ER, Zutrage Exot. Schmett. 1825, III, p. 176, 

 453, 454 ; BoiSDUVAi., Suites a Buffon, Nat. Hist. Lepid. 1874, p. 471 



^■Egeria cticurbitce Harris, New England Farmer, Vol. VH, 1828, p. 33 ; Am. 

 Journ. Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXXVI, 1839, p. 310 ; Ins. Inj. Veget. ist Ed. 1841, 

 p. 232; 1. c. 2d Ed. 1852, p. 253; 1. c. 3d Ed. 1862, p. 331 ; 1. c. 4th Ed. 1863, p. 

 330; DouBi.EDAY, Harris' Corresp. 1869, p. 161; Scudder, Harris' Corresp. pp. 

 360, 385; Riley, 2d Rep. Nox. Ins. Mo. 1870, p. 64; Reed, Rep. Ent. Soc. On- 

 tario, 1871, pp. 99-90; Thomas ( ist Rep.), 6th Rep. Nox. Ins. 111. 1878, p. 41 ; 

 Martin, (Thomas' 5th) loth Rep. Nox. Ins. 111. 1S81, p. 107; Saunders, Ins. Inj. 

 Fruit, 1883, p. 361. 



Trochiliuni ceto Westwood, Cab. Orient. Ent. 1848, pi. 30, fig. 6. 



Melittia ceto Walker, Cat. Lepid. HeL B. M. pL VIII, 1856, p. 66 ; Morris, 

 Synop. Lepid. N. Am. 1862, p. 335 ; Grotk, Check List of Moths, 1882, p. 10 ; 

 Hy. Edwards, Ent. Amer. Vol. Ill, 1888, p. 223; Beutenmuller, Ann. N. Y. 

 Acad. Sciences, 1890, p. 20; Smith, Cat Ins. N. J. 1890, p. 228; Rep. Ent. 

 N.J. 1891, p. 385; I.e. 1893, P- 503; Econom. Ent. 1896, p. 259. Kellicott, 

 Can. EnL Vol. XXIV, 1892, p. 43 and 209; Insect Life, Vol. V, 1892, p. 82. 



Melittia cucurbittz Walker*, Cat. Lepid. Het. B. M. p. VIII, 1856, p. 66 

 (as var.? ceto); Packard, Guide Study of Insects, 1869, p. 279 (and other editions); 

 BoisDuvAL, Suites a Buffon, Nat. Hist. Lepid. 1874, p. 469; Cook, 13th Rep. St 

 Bd. Agricul. Mich. 1875, p. 116; Coleman, Papilio, Vol. II, 1882, p. 50; Hulst, 



* Walker places cucurbita as a var.? of ceto. 



