422 



PSTCHE. 



M arch 1S93. 



head (except a few nude places as the sides 

 of front, top of vertex and thelabrum medi- 

 ally), the thorax densely, legs, dorsal segment 

 one in front, and 1-4 on sides, the fifth and 

 sixth entirely and the greater part of ventral 

 segments, with dense fulvous or golden- 

 ochraceous pubescence, darkest on top of 

 thorax; fore-wings on basal half sub-hyaline, 

 or with a yellowish tinge, the apical half 

 bluish-black, first recurrent nervure, uniting 

 with the second transverse-cubital nervure, 

 first submarginal cell the smallest, the third 

 largest, marginal cell very long and narrow, 

 hind wings subhyaline. Length, 22 mm. 



Las Cruces, N. Mex. {Aug. 21, C. H. Tyler 

 To-wnsend). Will be at once distinguished 

 by the extremely low position of the ocelli 

 and the bluish-black wings. 



Miscellaneous Notes. — The West Afri- 

 can moths figured on Plate 10 in the present 

 number illustrate Dr. W.J. Holland's article; 

 they are the following. Fig. 1. Lomodonta 

 erythrina; 2. Heteronygmia stigmatica; 3. H. 

 argiloides; 4. H. clathrata; 5. H. arctioides; 

 6. H. basibrunnea; 7. Laelia hypoleucis ; 8. 

 L. ocellata; 9. Aroa nigripicta ; 10. Dasychira 



sublutescens ; 11 D. ruptilinea ; 12. D. congia 

 Druce; 13. Aroa lata; 14. Heteronygmia 

 hypoxantha; 15. H. rhodapicata ; 16. Artaxa 

 nigra; 17. Laelia lignicolor; 18. Euproctis 

 Reutlingeri; 19. Euproctidion Gabunica; 20. 

 Artaxa mesomelaena; 21. A. parallela; 22. A. 

 discipuncta; 23. A. palla ; 24. A. melaleuca ; 

 25. A. rotundata; 26. A. apicipuncta; 27. 

 Balacra rubricincta ; 28. B. glagoessa; 29. B. 

 damalis ; 30. Casphalia nigerrima ; 31. Anace 

 monotica ; 32. A. parachoria ; 33. Apisa cana ; 

 34. Alpenus multiscripta. 



In the line of J. B. Smith's studies on the 

 mouth-parts of Diptera, Dr. S. W. Williston 

 in the Kansas University quarterly for Janu- 

 ary describes these organs in the Apioceri- 

 dae and allied families. 



An illustrated and descriptive list of the 

 galls, 88 in number, found in the vicinity of 

 New York, is given by W. Beutenmuller in 

 the Bull. Amer. mus. nat. hist., v. 4; 42 are 

 hymenopterous, 34 dipterous, 11 hemipte- 

 rous and 1 arachnidan. 



Details of the anatomy of certain species of 

 Orthoptera are given by J. B. Smith in Bull. 

 90 of the New Jersey experiment station. 



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