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Form very slender. Fastigium with the emargination between the two 

 processes rectangular ; vertex rather flattened. Eyes extending forward 

 quite a distance beyond the fastigial processes, short diameter. of the eye 

 rather less than the interspace between the two. Basal joint of the an- 

 tennae with an obtuse-angulate node on the lower surface, these organs being 

 slender and elongate. Pronotum rounded, elongate, the lateral angles 

 not at all marked, a median sulcation extending over the posterior two- 

 thirds ; posterior portion produced and scutellate , lateral lobes with the 

 margin subrotundate, the posterior portion diagonally trimmed. Tegmina 

 very slender, the anterior border slightly emarginate. Wing very much 

 elongate, the apex slightly rounded anteriorly, the area of the radial veins 

 apically with irregular polygonal cells. Spines on the anterior femora 

 three in number on the inner side, four on the outer ; on the anterior tibise 

 five in number on each margin, decreasing in size distally. Posterior tibiae 

 with the spines on the superior margins increasing in number distally. 



General color pale pea-green, a brilliant line of emerald green decora- 

 ting the median region of the pronotum. Eyes chestnut, the ovipositor 

 suffused apically with same tint. Body and limbs touched with pale 

 yellowish. 



Measurements : 



Length of body 16.5 mm. 



Length of pronotum 3.7 '* 



Width of pronotum 1.7 " 



Length of tegmina ' ... 12.2 " 



Greatest width of tegmina 3 " 



Length of wing 19.5 " 



Length of hind femora 10.5 " 



Length of ovipositor - • • 3-5 " 



Two specimens of this species from Porto Rico, collected in 

 1898 by Mr. Busck, were submitted to me by Mr. A. N. Can- 

 dell. They are identical with the type, thus giving a consid- 

 erable range to the species. 



Out of Due Season. 



By John H. Cook, Albany, N. Y. 

 That the season of 1902 was a most remarkable one from 

 the lepidopterist's point of view, I think no one will deny : 

 and that such a season, with its unusual rainfall and generally 

 moderate temperature should have affected appreciably the de- 

 velopment of many of our insects, especially of the more sus- 

 ceptible Lepidoptera, is hardly to be wondered at. I have 

 made some notes on a few of the species to be found in the 



