80 Journal New York Entomological Society. fVoi. xxv. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 

 Plate 3. 

 Fig. I. Anthrax californicus n. sp. 

 Fig. 2. Atuhra.v halcyon Say. 



Plate 4. 

 Fig. 3. Abdomen of A. californicus from above. 

 Fig. 4. Abdomen of A. nigripennis n. sp. 



Wing of A. nigripennis. 



Wing of A. halcyon (local variety). 



Plate 5. 

 Anthrax effrena Coq. 

 Anthrax arethusa var. aiitiiiiinaiis n. var. 



Plate 6. 

 Fig. 9. Anthrax alpha O. S. 

 Fig. 10. Anthrax yellowstonei n. sp. 



Plate 7. 



Fig. II. Anthrax arethusa O. ,S., Abdomen. (Redrawn from Osten 

 Sacken.) 



Fig. iia. Anthrax arethusa Wing. (Redrawn from Osten Sacken.) 



Fig. 12. Anthrax pa:c>logaster O. S., Abdomen. (Redrawn from Osten 

 Sacken.) 



Fig. 12a. Anthrax poccilogaster, Wing. (Redrawn from Osten Sacken.) 



Fig. 13. Antennae of A. fuliginosa Loew. 



Fig. 14. Antennae of A. californicus n. sp. 



Fig. 15. Antennae of A. pilosa n. sp. 



Fig. 16. Antennae of A. alpha O. S. 



Fig. 17. Antennae of A. ceyx Lw. 



Fig. 18. Antennae of A. arethusa var. autumnalis n. var. ■ 



Fig. 19. Antennae of A. yellotvstonei n. sp. 



Fig. 20. Antennae of A. effrena Coq. 



Fig. 21. Antennas of A. nigripennis n. sp. 



Fig. 22. Wing of A. fuliginosa Lw. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Cardiola obscura Grav. on Staten Island. — I found this aleocharid 

 beetle in some numbers under a pile of decayed weeds in my garden 

 on December 5. Mr. A. S. Nicolay very kindly mounted the speci- 

 mens for me and sent some to Dr. A. Fenyes, by whom the identifi- 



