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THE ENTOMOIiOGIST 



proximad, since there is considerable white below the knee. Also 

 the marginal vein is somewhat longer than the stigmal, the proxi- 

 mal four funicle joints are black (not yellowish-brown), and the 

 pale portions of the legs and antennas are white (not yellow). Also 

 funicle 1 is a little wider than long, not quadrate, and 6 is about 

 the same, yet much larger than 1. These are all minor differences, 

 and the species was named with caution and yet from North 

 American material. 



The above variety is described from three females reared 

 from Lepidosaphes ulmi, Manchester, Eng., A, D. Imms. 



T^jjc— Catalogue No. 19633, U.S.N.M., two females on a 

 slide. 



Apparent males bore a very long solid club and the legs 

 nearly entirely black ; the antennae about 5-jointed. 



6. Apterotrix longiclava, n. sp. 



Female. — Length, 0.60 mm. 



Black, the vertex, caudal margin of scutum, scutellum and 

 parapsides yellow. Fore wings with a smoky cross -stripe from the 

 marginal and stigmal veins. Legs pallid dusky (caudal legs black), 

 the knees, tips of tibige, and the tarsi pallid yellow. Antennae dusky, 

 filiform, yet the long 3-jointed club is indicated ; pedicel longer than 

 any funicle joint; funicles 1 and 3 subequal, each a-half longer than 

 wide, funicle 2 abruptly shortened, somewhat wider than long ; 

 club joints elongate, 3 conical and a little shorter, 1 and 2 each 

 about twice the length of funicle 3, over thrice longer than wide. 

 Longest marginal cilia of fore wings over half that wing's greatest 

 width, slightly shorter than the longest cilia of the hind wind, the 

 latter bearing three lines of discal cilia and infuscated proximad. 

 Stigmal vein nearly parallel with the costal margin. 



The male differs in having the antennae stouter, the first and 

 third funicle joints longer, not much shorter than the club joints, 

 which are somewhat shorter ; pedicel shorter, shghtly longer than 

 wide ; funicle 2 much wider than long. Flagellum striate. 



Described from a pair on a slide reared from Lepidosaphes 

 ulmi, Manchester, Eng., A. D. Imms. 



Ti/jjes. — Catalogue No. 19634, U.S.N.M., the above speci- 

 mens with the types of Coccophagus hrittanicus. 



I doubt if the characteristic of this genus will hold. 



NOTES AND OBSEKVATIONS. 



The Eesting-Habit of Hippaechia semele. — Other than Mr. 

 Arkle's entertaining account of an entomological visit paid in July, 

 1890 ('Entomologist,' xxiii. pp. 363-366), and occasional notes 

 scattered through the pages of our magazines, I am not aware of 

 any special literature dealing with the Lepidoptera of Merioneth. 

 I am unable to determine, therefore, whether Hipparchia semele 



