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not moths? The importation of bananas here has increased 

 enormously of late years, and a corresponding increase is noticeable 

 in the number of odora taken. Further confirmatory evidence 

 might be found in the food habits of the odora larvae if these were 

 better known. 



A somewhat parallel case is the occurrence of the large southern 

 grasshopper, Dictyophorus reticulatus Thunb. , near Rochester, 

 N. Y., from whence I have received, through the kindness of 

 Mr. A. E. Romer of this city, a full grown example. When 

 captured it was in company with several others of its kind near 

 one of the large nurseries for which that city is famous. In this 

 case it seems reasonable to presume a cluster of eggs had been 

 introduced with southern nursery stock, probably imbedded in 

 the earth attached to the roots, and the prolonged warm weather 

 had enabled them to perfect their growth. As it is not included 

 in Prof Smith's Catalogue of the Insects of New Jersey it is very 

 unlikely that it could survive our severe Winters and become a 

 member of our fauna. 



A NEW SPECIES OF NYSSONIDvE. 



BY WILLIAM J. FOX. 



Bothynostethns distinctns n. sp. 



^ . — Black, shining; clypeus, sides of face, space between antennae, 

 posterior orbits and sides of metathorax, with silvery pubescence ; tubercles, 

 post-scutellum, line on anterior tibiae, spot on intermediate and posterior 

 tibiae yellowish white; head finely punctured, clotlied with moderately long, 

 pale brown pubescence; face with a well marked, longitudinal central im- 

 pressed line, which extends from between the base of the antennae almost 

 to the lower ocellus, the front presents before the anterior ocellus and at 

 the sides of the posterior ones, a deep slit or furrow, the lateral furrows ob- 

 lique, anterior margin of clypeus, in the middle, with two large, separated 

 teeth; between the teeth and the lateral angles of the clypeus are situated 

 two much smaller teeth; third joint of antennae shorter than either the 

 fourth or fifth, the fourth is slightly longer than the fifth; joints 8-10 are 

 about equal; eyes diverging toward the vertex, the inner margin slightly 

 bent inward above the centre of the face; prothorax emarginate above in 

 the middle, with a yellowish white, narrow line, interrupted at the emar- 

 gination; beginning behind the emargination of the prothorax are two 

 parallel, strongly marked lines, extending to the centre of the dorsulum; 

 scutellum sparsely punctured, with a median impression, which is more 

 distinct posteriorly; the suture between the dorsulum and scutellum deep 

 and broad, the sides denticulate; post-scutellum divided by a median im- 



