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sexes. The secondaries are also much deeper smoky brown than in 

 obliqua and show very little of the ruddy tinge found in the latter 

 species, especially in bred specimens. The size is considerably smaller, 

 the $ 's averaging 38 mm. and the 2 's 47 mm. as compared with 45 

 mm. and 53 mm. respectively for obliqua. 



Our type series consists of 6 $ and 6 9 , one pair of which we 

 figure (PI. XII, Figs. 1, 2) as well as a pair of obliqua (Figs. 3, 4) 

 from Long Island, N. Y., for the sake of comparison. Cotypes (2 $ 

 2 2 ) are in the collection of Mr. Brehme. 



Nocloa pallens Tepper. (PI. XIII, Fig. 9). 



This species was placed by Smith in the genus Aedophron Led. 

 although at the time he stated that it differed in having no claws on 

 the front tibiae. It was characterized as possessing heavy wooly 

 thoracic vestiture, unspined tibiae and a conical frontal projection. 

 Tepper's description (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. X, 215/16) states that 'the 

 wings are dirty white with a narrow smoky median band and a fine 

 dark t. p. line; the secondaries are of a uniform pale color.' Judging 

 by this description and the structural characters given we believe that 

 pallens can be none other than a rather worn specimen of nesaea Sm., 

 placed by Hampson in the genus Nocloa Sm. which is characterized 

 by conical frontal protuberance and unspined tibiae without claws ; 

 fresh specimens of nesaea are olive green but worn and faded ones 

 are a dirty white color just as Tepper states; the median band agrees 

 and in some specimens a fine dark t. p. line (which is really the outer 

 border of a pale line in fresh specimens) is faintly visible. The type 

 of pallens should be in the Tepper Collection, but a list of types we 

 have received from the Michigan Agricultural College makes no men- 

 tion of this so it is possibly destroyed. Pallens is a desert species, 

 described originally from S. Calif., but extending north on the eastern 

 side of the Sierras as far as Pyramid Lake, Nevada and possibly even 

 into Eastern Oregon. We figure a 9 from the borders of the Mohave 

 desert. 



RODRIGUESIA ORNATA Ottol. 



We have carefully examined the type in the National Museum and 

 find that in maculation, squammation, and structure it is an exact match 

 of Chalcopasta hozvardi with the exception of the palpi which are 

 strongly upturned and entirely different to those of howardi. Although 

 we could find no trace of glue or shellac we strongly incline to the 



