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coxfB : coxEe with a small, acute tubercle before : tarsi, terminal 

 joiut dusky. 



Length about one-fifteenth of an inch. 



I observed a number of the pupre of this insect, congregated 

 together on the under side of a leaf of the buttonwood {P/afanus 

 occklaitalis L.) They were of a blackish color, and adhered to 

 the leaf in a vertical [274] posture, by the extremity of the ab- 

 domen. Came out last June. 



This is much like E. damirornia Kirby, which, however, has 

 a shade in the middle of the wings ; antennae not shaded in the 

 middle, and the posterior thighs of the female are dusky in the 

 middle. I have five females, but not one male. 



The last joint of the antennae is evidently divided into three 

 segments. 



3. E. niRCiNUS. — Black, with sparse, long hairs ; feet and base 

 of the tergum yellowish. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body black : antenna? yellowish ; terminal joints dusky : mouth 

 yellowish : thorax, head and wings at base, with long sparse 

 hairs : wing-scale honey-yellow : tergum on the basal disk yellow- 

 ish : feet, including the coxse, pale yellow : venter on the disk 

 yellowish. 



Length over one-twentieth of an inch. 



Quite distinct from the preceding by the long hairs of the 

 head and thorax. 



PEIIILAMPUS Latr. 



P. PLATIQASTER. — Blackish; face impunctured. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



Body brassy-blackish, punctured : head polished, impunctured 

 before : occiput somewhat lineated transversely ; before the eyes 

 a little punctured : thorax with a glabrous, polished line each 

 side : scutel short, obtuse, rounded, slightly emarginate at tip : 

 wings hyaline ; nervures brown ; tergum quadrate, angulated 

 each side, simply arcuated above, shining blackish : feet blackish, 

 with a tinge of green : tarsi yellowish. [275] 



Length about three-twentieths of an inch. 



DiflFers from P. Injaltnus nob. by color; and in that species the 



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