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work among the innumerable dangers of virgin land, the prices 

 of " rare spp." will gradually fall. 



And yet there are reasons why many tropical American 

 butterflies will always be things beyond lists and treasures, — 

 but " that's another story," as says the Jungle Book man. 



Two New Species of N. American Stenopelmatinae. 



By James A. G. Rehn. 

 Stenopelmatas terrenas^ n. sp. 



Type : 9 , Texas. Coll. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Related to 5". histrio Saussure but differing in the much 

 larger size, the spine formula of the caudal tibiae and the 

 caudal constriction of the pronotum. In the latter respect it 

 approaches S. longispina Brunner, but the comparative size of 

 the femora and tibiae immediately differentiates it from that 

 .species. 



Head with the vertex globose, slightly narrower than the extreme 

 width of the pronotum; front with the apex subrotundate ; eyes small, 

 pyriform. Pronotum with the cephalic portion broad, the caudal por- 

 tion constricted ; cephalic and caudal borders emarginate centrally, the 

 cephalic portion with a strong intermarginal sulcus ; cephalic shoulder 

 broadly rounded. Abdomen almost twice as long as head and pronotum. 

 Cephalic femora short and thick, unarmed, the median pair slender but 

 of the same length. Cephalic tibiae with two spurs on the caudal border, 

 the apical spurs long, reaching almost to the extremity of the second tar- 

 sal joint. Median tibi:e with 3 to 4 spurs on the borders, apical spurs 

 only half as long as the first tarsal joint. Caudal femora very robust, 

 reaching to the extremity of the seventh abdominal segment ; tibiae 

 slightly shorter than the femora, bearing two spines on the external mar- 

 gins, four on the internal margins, dorsal surface of the tibicc flat, central 

 pair of apical spurs short, less than half as Umg as lateral apical spurs, the 

 longest internal apical spine cfiualling the first joint of the tarsus in length. 



General color dull ochraceous-brown, the apical spurs of the tibiic and 

 the mandibles tipped with black. Abdominal segments posteriorly mar- 

 gined with pale ochraceous. 



Measurements : 



Total length 30 mm. 



Length of pronotum . 6.5 " 



Cephalic width of pronotum . . 8, " 



* In alluHion to the Mexican name ' 'nif^a del tierra" (child of the earth), 

 applied to upecies of this genus in the Southwestern United States. 



