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Length, apex of head to apex of abdomen 4.70 mm. ; to the tips of 

 wings 6.20 mm. 



Holotype S . Southern Pines, N. C, August 10, 1917. A. H. 

 ]\Ianee. it 



Allotype 5 . Southern Pines, N. C, late August, 1917. A. H. 

 Manee. 



Paratypes 2$ $ . Southern Pines, N. C, June, 1909. Z. P. 

 Metcalf. 



Catonia lunata n. sp. 



This species may be recognized by its small size, blackish color and 

 broad strongl}^ produced vertex with the frons brown with a broad 

 transverse pale band in the middle and a shorter pale bar at the apex. 



Vertex strongly produced but little narrowed anteriorly; frons 

 broad, not much narrowed at the base or at the apex ; wings strongly 

 punctate. 



Color : General color l)lackish ; vertex pale yellow, with two 

 elongate dashes next the inner margins of the eyes and two near the 

 median carina anteriorly ; frons brown, the lateral margins alternate 

 with black and ivory white, the transverse band broad ivory white, a 

 small iwory white bar along the clypeal margin ; clypeus mostly pale ; 

 pronotum with the carinse broadly pale, leaving small blackish spots 

 in the compartments; mesonotum blackish, with the carinte pale and 

 a few small tawny spots ; fore wings blackish fuscous variegated with 

 ivory white ; venter largely tawny yellow, legs brownish fuscous ; ab- 

 domen blackish. 



Length, apex of head to apex of vertex 4.00 mm. ; to the apex of 

 the wings 4.30 mm. 



Holotype $ . Swannanoa, N. C, August 29, 1919. H. Osborn 

 and Z. P. Metcalf. 



Allotype $ . Paradise Kej'S, Florida. 



Paratypes 1$. Paradise Keys, Florida. February. In Ihe col- 

 lection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 1 $ . Tyngsboro, 

 Mass. 1 9 , Bay Shore, Long Island. In the collection of Mr. C. E. 

 Olsen. 



