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line angular, produced on the veins in the male, etc. ' ' This 

 is exactly true of a7iona, but in the male of galbma there is 

 not really a basal white line or band, but rather the whole 

 base is white, outlined by a brownish angular line. 



It remains only for me to point out the differences which 

 easily distinguish the two. species. In ajiojia the antennae of 

 male is brown and of female, bright orange. In galbma both 

 male and female have pale orange antennse. In the male of 

 anona the brown color predominates ; in galbma there is more 

 white. In a7io7ia the white median band in the male touches 

 or even partly .surrounds the ocellus ; in galbina the white 

 band is separated from the ocellus by a streak of brown. In 

 the secondaries of the male, in aiiona the basal area where it 

 touches the outer third of brown (crossed by a white band) 

 forms a gently curved line, corresponding wnth the median 

 band in the same situation in the female. In galbina this band 

 is more easily seen even though the base is whiter, and it has 

 a sharp bend or angle which considerably narrows the brown. 

 But the dominant feature in both sexes is that galbina has a 

 pale or yellowish (buff) margin to all four wings, while a7iona 

 shows a well defined brown outer margin. The females of 

 the two species are more similar than the males, but galbi7ia 

 has the base of the secondaries practically the same color as 

 the outer third, while in a7io?ia the base is conspicuously 

 lighter. 



Note on Phasmidae. 



By a. N. Caudell, Washington, D. C. 



My friend, Mr. Rehn, of Philadelphia, has called my atten- 

 tion to the establishment of the phasmid genus Lepty7iia hy 

 Pantel in 1890, with Bacillns hispa7iica Bol. as type. This 

 genus would invalidate my recently described Parabacillus 

 had I correctly referred B. hispa7iica to it ; but, in doing that, 

 I seem to have been in error. While in general these genera 

 are very close, the antennal characters will suffice to separate 

 the Old World Lepty7iia from the New World Parabacillus. In 

 the former the antennee are distinctly segmented, and have 



