November — December I'^qii.) 



PSYCHE. 



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these have the posterior lower angle rec- 

 tangulate, the extreme angle rounded, the 

 lower margin barely angulate, the hinder 

 portion subhorizontal, its anterior slightly 

 ascending; metasternal lobes in $ about 

 three fourths as far apart as the mesosternab 

 in the 5 as far apart, subquadrate with con- 

 vex sides. Tegmina slender, coriaceous 

 throughout, but nowhere densely and less 

 densely apically, rather densely reticulate on 

 the basal half, normally supplied with spuri- 

 ous veins, the vena intercalata rather feeble 

 and irregular but present, the vena media 

 and vena discoidalis both furcate, the vena 

 axillaris impinging on the vena analis. 

 Radiate veins of anal field of wings normal, 

 not incrassate. Hind femora slender, longer 

 ( ^ ) , or slightly shorter ( $ ) , than the abdo- 

 men ; spurs of hind tibiae as in Acrolo- 

 pkittis', hind tarsi of normal length. 



It will be seen from these details, 

 tiiat, notwithstanding the different char- 

 acter of the dorsal portion of the meta- 

 zona the close relationship of Acrocara 

 and Aa-olophitus is clear. Two speci- 

 mens are known to me, which may be 

 separated as follows : — 



Lateral margins of frontal costa conver- 

 gent at base ; fastigium of vertex as viewed 

 above not projecting bej'oud the middle of 

 the eyes by more than their distance apart 

 at this point; middle half of wing occupied 

 by a broad dark band pulchellnm. 



Lateral margins of frontal costa converg- 

 ent at base ; fastigium of vertex as viewed 

 above projecting beyond the middle of the 

 eyes by considerably more than their dis- 

 tance apart at this point; almost the entire 

 wing dark macnlipenne. 



Bruner's Pedioscirtetes p7ilchella 

 (Proc. U. S. nat. mus., 1890, v. 12, 

 60-61, pi. I, fig, 10) of which he has 

 considerately sent me the female type 

 for examination, belongs in this genus ; 



the other species has not before been 

 described. 



ACROCARA MACULIPENNE. 



Pedioscirtetes maculipennis Bruner, 

 Ms. 



Dull brownish olive green ; head, thorax, 

 and legs sparsely and thinly pilose. Head 

 dull shining silvery white with a faint green- 

 ish tinge; two obliquely vertical pale green 

 bands pass downward and more or less back- 

 ward from below the eye and from the pos- 

 terior margin of the same, the former fading 

 and dispersed below; vertex with a similar 

 broad median band, merging into dark brown 

 anteriorly; frontal carina luteous, the sulcus 

 infumated below and more or less greenish. 

 Antennae blackish brown, the apical and 

 basal joints and the inner side of the impunc- 

 tate joints reddish luteous. Prothorax with 

 the dorsum olivaceo-fuscous, both front and 

 hind margins and lateral carinae rather 

 broadly ferrugineo-testaceous, the latter 

 sometimes becoming pallid on the prozona; 

 lateral lobes with varying shades of brown 

 and olivaceous, the whole margin testaceous, 

 the prozona with inferior and median pal- 

 lid longitudinal stripes of varying width. 

 Tegmina mottled with light and dark brown, 

 the former prevailing on the basal, the latter 

 on the apical half, arranged on the basal half 

 in transverse, irregular, on the apical half in 

 subparallel, oblique blotches and bars. Wings 

 blackish fuliginous with a slight olivaceous 

 tint, glistening and with purplish reflections, 

 the extreme base like the basal half of the 

 dorsum of the abdomen bronze green, the ex- 

 treme tip narrowly margined with sordid 

 white, the veins everywhere black and in the 

 anal area narrowly margined with pallid. 

 Hind femora with two strongly oblique, rath- 

 er broad pale bars; hind femora dull luteous, 

 obscurely banded with fuscous in the middle, 

 next the base, and at the apex, the apical 

 half of the spines black. Other legs obscure 



