Novemlier, igoo. 



PS y CUE. 



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Agallia tenella O. & B. 



Agallia pfoducta Baker. The very 

 distinct genitalia of the 9 will at once 

 distinguish this species. Both were de- 

 scribed from Vera Cruz, probably from 

 the same locality. The name prodiicta 

 could not stand in any case as it is pre- 

 occupied by the preceding species. 

 Baker failed to mention how many 

 specimens the description was based 

 upon, a very important point, both with 

 regard to the accuracy of the determina- 

 tion and the amount of variation to be 

 allowed for. In this case, that he pos- 

 sessed one specimen of each sex, may 

 be told by the description, but in his 

 anoijtala the same omission exists, and 

 the female alone is described, probably 

 from a single example, the only distinc- 

 tive feature being genitalia that might 

 easily be the result of accident or imper- 

 fect development. 



Agallia oculata V. D. 



Male genit;ilia : — pl.ites longer and nar- 

 rower than in tenella, slightly, laterally emar- 

 ginate at the base and enclosed by the swollen 

 pygofers, the long, bhintly-ionnded, uptnrned 

 tips pressed so closely together that the suture 

 is scarcely visible. 



The male genitalia were not described 

 in our synopsis of the group for lack of 

 material. A. oculata is now known from 

 Calif, and Mexico City, Mex. 



Agallia reticulata n. sp. 



Form of iio'rella — hut much smaller; 

 lawny olive with ivory white markings and 

 reticulations. Length 3 mm. ; width i ram. 



Vertex and face pale creamy yellow, a line 

 on vertex just inside either eye, an oblique 

 dash on either side the white apex, some- 

 limes curving outward on the posterior mar- 

 gin, black; the ocelli, a pair of spols above 

 them, a median line somelimes abbreviated 

 to a third spot in line with Ihe other two. a 

 spot above each antennal pit and the lateral 

 margins of the front, tawny orange. Prono- 

 tuni tawny olive, the posterior margin nar- 

 rowly light, lateral margin broadly so, a 

 fitiger-like light process running from the 

 humeral angle towards the inner corner of 

 the e^-e, a broad median light stripe running 

 forward from the posterior margin and tri- 

 angularly widening on the disc and then 

 truncalely narrowing, continued as a round 

 spot, the entire stripe divided by a slender 

 tawny stripe, the nnugins of the white stripe 

 sometimes narrowly lined with fuscous. 

 Elytra tawny olive, the veins and nvnner- 

 ous vein-like reticwlations broadly white in 

 strong contrast. 



Genitalia; ultimate ventral segment of ? 

 long, with a distinct median carina, the pos- 

 terior margin in two evenly rounded lobes; 

 male valve short, truncate, plates small, tri- 

 angular. 



Described from twelve specimens 

 from Hayti ((Jrew) taken in Jan. and 

 Feb. This species may be readily 

 known by the reticulate veined elytra. 



Agallia clitellaria n. sp. 



Form of //07-ellti but much smaller, smaller 

 than irtii:ulala, narrow wedge-shaped. 

 Black with light testaceous markings on 

 head and pi'onotum and a lemon yellow 

 saddle on the elytra. Length 2.5 mm. 



Vertex and face black, a large pentagonal 

 spot surrounding a small, round, black one 

 at tip of vertex, a row of three small spots 

 between this and the e\'e on either side, an 

 oval spot on the base of the front, another 

 on the disc, a triangular spot just inside the 



