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early in June. The body of the female is short and thick, and 

 covered with dense hairs. The head is smaller than usual in 

 the saw-fly family, being smaller than in Cimbex, its near ally, 

 and is short and narrow. The palpi are white. The antennae 

 are club-shaped, 7-jointed, the terminal joint being bulbous, 

 though less swollen than in Cimbex ; the second joint is slen- 

 der, considerably larger than the others, and somewhat flattened 

 and angulated ; they are blackish, reddish-brown at the tip of 

 the terminal joint. The body is dark metallic olive green, and 

 the wings are a little clouded, with pale, reddish veins, while 

 the middle of the costa is a little darker. The second segment 

 of the abdomen is yellowish-white, and the legs are white, the 

 hind femora being dark beneath, while the terminal joints of all 

 the tarsi are dusky, especially those of the fore legs, those of 

 the hind pair being livid white. The under side of the abdo- 

 men is paler on the edge of the segments. The specimen de- 

 scribed is from the collection of Mr. James Angus, of West 

 Farms, N. Y. The body of the male, which has not been de- 

 scribed, and of which we reared a single specimen, is rather 

 slenderer and a little longer than that of the other sex, and it 

 difl"ers in having the second segment of the abdomen concolor- 

 ous with the rest of the body, and the wings are more distinctly 

 clouded. The abdomen is darker on the under side than in the 

 female. The latter is .35 of an inch in length, and the male 

 measures .40 of an inch. 



The Lilac Botj/s. — A species of -^geria, the jE. syringce of 

 Harris, has been found by Mr. Angus to be quite destructive to 

 the lilacs about New York. He has found numbers of the cast 

 chrysalid skins projecting out of the limbs in which the borers 

 lived. I have detected, in a portion of a branch sent by him, a 

 new Botys, one of the snout moths. The moth appeared the 

 2d of June. Its larva had bored a passage about two inches in 

 length through the pith, and spun a cocoon of fine pith-chips 

 lined with silk on the inside. The long, slender, brown chrys- 

 alis lay in the middle of its burrow. 



The moth, for which I would propose the name Botys syring- 

 icola, is peppery gray with bright yellow markings, while the 

 under side of the wings is pale yellow. The head and body 

 are pale gray, with a yellowish tinge, white on the under side 

 of the body and under side of the palpi. The antennae are pale 



