1906] 
SCHAEFFER— XEW DASCYLLIDAE 
115 
Hiiaohuca Mts., Arizona, July 25, one male. 
Tliis species differs from te.rana by the smaller, more widely separated eyes, 
rami of antennal joints shorter, scutellum distinctly impressed in front and 
without denticles on the basal margin; this latter character and the granulate- 
punctate head separate it also from the two (’entral-Ainerican species. 
The genus Larlinodactyla is closely related to Piilodaclyla, from which it is mainly 
distinguished by the last joint of maxillary palpi being very elongate and somewhat 
cultriform, and the third very small. The apical joint in the male is cleft on the 
inner side and s])ongy within, the insect apparently having the power of distending 
it at will as Mr. Champion suggests. 
If the figure* of the maxillary jtalpus is correct, the two species above described 
differ also from the two Mexican species in the third joint being inserted at the sitles 
near base of the last joint ; the palpi having thus somewhat the form of the antennae 
of certain species of Lachnosterna. 
Or.\ tex.vx.v Champ. Biol. Cent. -\m. Col., vol. Ill, pt. i, ]i. (104 (note). 
This name is given to the Scfrfc.s troherti of Dr. IIorn,j- which, according to Mr. 
Chamjiion, is distinct from the iNIexican species. 
Or.v troberti Gufr. Rev. et iMag. Zool. 18(31, p. 545. 
I have a s])ccimen from Brownsville, Texas, which agrees with the description 
of this species and also nearly with the figure given in the Biologia,t except that 
the elytra are brownish testaceous and not yellow and the third dark elytral stripe is 
narrowly confluent with the apical dot. I am unwilling to give the single specimen 
a new name on these variable differences, as it othcrwi.se closely agrees in form, 
markings, etc., with the ^lexican insect. 
The genus Ora is closely allied to Scirtes from which it is separated by the posterior 
coxae being contiguous in front only, posteriorly separated by the interco.xal proce.ss; 
the thorax and elytra explanate and acutely margined. 
Scirtes plagiatus new species. 
Ovate, reddish testaceous, head, thorax and an obliciue lateral stripe on each 
Cent. Am. vol. Ill, pt. 1. pi. 27. fig. 25a. 
t Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., vol. VIII, p. 102. pi. 1. fig. 15. 
t Biol. Cent. Am. vol. III. pt. 1. p. 603, tab. xxvi. fig. 24. 
