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marginal cell and crossing to a small extent the third longitudinal 

 vein, but being exactly limited by this vein near the apex of the 

 wing ; the costal cell is tinged with brownish-gray as far as a 

 little beyond the humeral crossvein ; the stigma has the same 

 color, but this is sometimes more blackened, especially towards 

 its end; the last section of the fourth longitudinal vein converges 

 in its whole course towards the third vein and approaches it con- 

 siderably towards its end; shows, however, hardly any perceptible 

 curvature ; the fifth longitudinal vein does not quite reach the 

 margin of the wing. 



Hob. District of Columbia, New York, Illinois, Connecticut 

 (Osten-Sacken). 1 



Observation. Wiedemann gives a description of the male of 

 this species which might easily lead to the conclusion that he had 

 before him a species different from the one I have just described. 

 According to his statement, the male has, on the posterior margin 

 of the penultimate abdominal segment, a saturate yellow cross- 

 band. But as Wiedemann's collection contains as Ortalis notala 

 the very species which I described under this name and as, among 

 a considerable number of males which I have before me, not a 

 single one is provided with such a crossband, I am compelled ta 

 come to the conclusion that Wiedemann mistook the sex of the 

 specimen from which he drew his description ; he may have had 

 before him a female the ovipositor of which was bent under the 

 abdomen. 



4. E. nitidiventris n. sp. 9 . Nigro-viridis, nitida, abdomine 

 feminse toto seneo-viridi et nitidissimo, pedibus gilvis, tibiis anticis totis 

 posterioribusque adversus apicem infuscatis, tarsis adversus apicem 

 fusco-nigris, alarum maculis duabus nigris, altera costali minuti, alterft 

 apicali trigonal, cellulze costalis basi lutea, stigmate ex luteo cinereo. 



Shining black-green, the entire abdomen of the female metallic-green, very 

 shining. Feet saturate yellow, the entire fore tibiae and the posterior 

 ones towards their tip, infuscated ; tarsi brownish-black towards the 

 tip ; wings with a small black dot on the middle of the costa and with 

 a larger triangular spot at the apex of the wing ; basis of the costal cell 

 clay-yellow; stigma yellowish-gray. Long. Corp. 0.140.15; long. al. 

 0.14-^-0.15. 



1 Mr. Riley gave me a male specimen of E. notata which he bred from 

 the pulp of an osage-orange (Madura). 0. S. 



