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with a black dorsal line and black sutures. Legs black ; posterior tliiglis witli 

 rather short hairs, tufted near the base. Alutse yellowish. Wings slightly 

 brownish ; second transverse vein somewhat oblique and arched. — From the 

 North of France. 



As tliese pages are passing into the hands of the printer, a paper by 

 Mr. Meade has been received in which the above species is noticed, 

 and some additional facts in relation to it given. It was reared in 

 England last summer from cabbage-plants which were represented as 

 infested with the ''grubs of the cabbage-fly." If the very probable 

 identity of the species with 31usca floralis is established, then, accoi'd- 

 ing to Zetterstedt and Schiner, it also embraces in its food-plants 

 the radish {Rajyliamis saiivus). 



Cliortopliila betariim n. sp. 



Four examples of this species — one male and three females — were 

 among the material submitted to ]\[r. Meade. They were unknown 

 to him, and believed to be undescribed. I therefore give them a name, ' 

 and present the following description : 



Smaller than P.floccosa, and of about the size of C. hetce; the aver- 

 age expanse of wings of five examples is 0.4 inch. The thorax and 

 abdomen are gray, intermediate in shade to P. floccosa and C. letcB. 



The thorax has a broad 

 dusky mesial stripe with a 

 narrower one on each side, 

 while the abdomen is with- 

 out line or spots. In the 

 male, the narrow front of 

 the head is silvery-white. In 

 T. .-, ITT- * u . 1 c • r. the female, the space be- 



Fio. 61. — Wing of a beet-leaf miner, CeoRTOPHiLA ' _ ^ 



BETARCM ; enlarged 15 diameters, twecu the cyes is bi'oad, ex- 



ceeding one-third the width of the head ; the frontal band is black, 

 except a cresceutiform portion just above the antenna, which is red ; 

 the lateral borders and front beneath is whitish ; the bristles of the 

 borders are quite stout; the arista is hairy to the tip, the hairs rather 

 long ; the antenna and palpi are black. The wings are more rounded 

 apically and less prolonged than in the as.sociated species (form and 

 venation shown in Fig. 01); slightly brown in color ; thecostal margin 

 distinctly spined from the base to the axillary vein, with the two 

 spines anterior to the latter point but slightly exceeding the others in 

 length.* The legs are black ; the hind femora and tibiae with strong 

 bristles. 



Described from eight examples — 2 5's and G ? 's. 



*P.fioccosa has these spines strong and long — the outer one the longer. 



