38 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



just below the knee. Caudal femur bears seven teeth beneath, the^ 

 first large, small, large, small, small, large, large ; 7th is largest, tri- 

 angular, 6th is highest, towering, 3rd is as high as 1st but not so 

 wide ; 2nd, 4th and 5th subequal. Funicle 1 longer than the pedicel^ 

 a half longer than wide, 7th somewhat longer than wide. 



The male differs in having the antennal club brown like the rest 

 of antennae, the abdomen is yellowish brown except above at apex, 

 and the caudal femur bears beneath but four large teeth, 4 largest, 1 

 smallest, acute, the other two towering. Also the caudal tibiae are 

 dark metallic. 



Described from one male, numerous females reared from an 

 egg-mass of a mantid. Palo Secco, British West Indies, March, 

 1914 (F. W. Urich). 



T?/j9cs.— Catalogue No. 20,138; U.S.N.M., one male, three 

 females on tags, a caudal femur, and an antenna of a female on 

 a slide. 



Paraleptomastiix notatus, n. sp. 



Female. — Length, 1*20 mm. Like abnormis in structure, gener- 

 ally. 



Black, the wings lightly dusky throughout ; apex of pedicel and a 

 stripe across the scape a little before the apex, silvery white, the club 

 suffused with yellowish white (sometimes dirty yellowish white) ; 

 legs white, the tibiae yellow, the caudal legs black except the tibiae 

 more or less at base ; middle coxge dusky, the cephalic silvery white ; 

 middle femur black dorsad at apex ; venation black ; head densely 

 punctate, the thorax velvety scaly, the scutellum somewhat coarser, 

 the scutum with short silvery pubescence ; tegulee large, white. 



Scrobes distinct, forming a triangle, the area scaly. Frons moder- 

 ately broad. Pedicel a little longer than funicle 1 which is subequal 

 to 2 and 3, each about thrice longer than wide ; 6th a half longer 

 than wide, a little shorter than club 1. Marginal vein subequal to- 

 the stigmal, a third shorter than the long post-marginal, over four 

 times longer than wide. Hairless line of fore wings short, closed, the 

 wings finely ciliate caudad and proximad of it. Axillae rather broadly 

 joined. 



Caudal tibiae and tarsi sometimes yellow. 



Described from ten females reared from Pseudococcus hakeri on 

 grape, Fresno, California, March 23rd, 1915 (E. L. Nougaret). 



Types.— Catsilogue No. 20,139, U.S.N.M., five females on a 

 slide. 



NOTES ON SOME OF THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF THE 

 BPtlTISH LINE IN FEANCE. 



By Captain H. Douglas Smart, E.A.M.C. 



(Continued from p. 14.) 



My observations of the moths are extremely disconnected^ 

 but some of them may be of interest. Of the Sphinges I cark. 

 speak of only four species : 



