May 1891.] 



PSl'CHE. 



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base of the antennae, two orbital bristles out- 

 side each row ; a long pair of bristles directed 

 backwards on the vertex, and a shorter pair 

 directed forwards on the ocellar area; the 

 front golden on each side, this color extend- 

 ing as far down on the cheeks as do the frontal 

 bristles, the rest of the cheeks and face gray; 

 facial ridges with bristles extending fully or 

 'more than half way up the face; antennae 

 not quite so long as the face, blackish, second 

 joint short, the third joint nearly or quite 

 three times as long as the second; arista 

 black, two-jointed, the basal half thickened; 

 vibrissae somewhat removed from the oral 

 margin; proboscis blackish, palpi light red- 

 dish-yellow, black bristly; lower cheeks dark 

 gray, with black bristles; occiput ashy, gray 

 pilose, with black bristles on the borders. 

 Thorax above leaden gray, with four black 

 lines, with numerous black bristles becoming 

 longer behind, and covered with short black 

 hairs; humeri and pleurae gray, the bristles 

 and short hairs of the dorsum extending be- 

 low on the sides of the thorax ; scutellum dull 

 gray, darker at the base, covered with short 

 black hairs, and with eight marginal macro- 

 chaetae, the longest pair reaching the base of 

 the third abdominal segment, a shorter de- 

 cussate pair between them. Abdomen ovate, 

 first segment black above; second and third 

 segments leaden gray, densely covered with 

 short black bristles, each one arising from 



an opaque black dot; anal segment obscure 

 golden pollinose, edges of segments black; a 

 dorsal pair of weak macrochaetae near the 

 hind margin of the first segment, a stronger 

 pair on the second, four pairs on the third, 

 and about twice as many on the anal segment ; 

 venter dull gray, anal segment obscure gol- 

 den as above, incisures and median line black. 

 Legs black, femora and tibiae black bristly; 

 claws short, pulvilli dusky. Wings grayish 

 hyaline, fourth vein without wrinkle or 

 stump, third vein bristly above and below at 

 its origin; tegulae white, halteres dusky 

 brown. 



Length of body 7 to 7 4 mm ; of wing 5^ to 

 6 mm. 



Described from three specimens, bred 

 from larvae of Clisiocampa sylvatica- 

 Orono, Maine. I believe I am right in 

 referring this species to Phorocera, al- 

 though in some specimens the bristles 

 on the facial ridges do not extend more 

 than halfway up the face. This species 

 seems to be near Tachina {Masicera) 

 armigera Coquillett (Insect life, 1, 

 332), which however is said to have 

 the eyes bare. I would not be sur- 

 prised if the latter should prove to be a 

 Phorocera. 



Edwards's Butterflies of N. America. 



The eleventh part of the Butterflies of 

 North America, just issued, is in every way 

 equal to its predecessors. For the first time 

 in this third series, each of the three large 

 quarto plates, with the accompanying text, 

 is given up to a single and relatively little 

 known species of butterfly, two of them to 

 species of Satyrinae, a group which nowhere 

 in the world has found so complete a treat- 

 ment as in America, at the hands of our 



author. Excepting for thejintermediate larval 

 stages of Satyrus meadii, every single stage 

 of the creature's life is ^represented, usually 

 by more than a single ^gure, and all in that 

 exquisite and finely exact style we have be- 

 come accustomed to in this work, but which 

 can never be too highly praised or too fully 

 appreciated. Such illustrations lie at the very 

 foundation of the exact knowledge of butter- 

 flies, and are the key to any proper under- 

 standing of their real relationships. 



The butterflies treated of are Afatura 



