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ish below, fringed with reddish brown hair; tarsi with black granules; 

 two pairs of prominent yellow tibial spines. Primaries light chestnut, 

 with yellow basal spot and yellow streak at basal part of median; reddish 

 basal tint of inner margin. Fnnges concolorous. Secondaries vitreous, 

 opalescent; costa, nerves, discal spot, terminal lines and fringes of light 

 chestnut. The discal spot is a mere short streak of cross-vein in light 

 chestnut; reddish brown tints. Below as above, the light chesnut shad- 

 ing into reddish brown, yellowish basal area of primaries and along costa 

 to about its centre, where reddish granules appear along subcostal. Ex- 

 panse of wings 39. mm. Length of body 13. mm. 



Hab. — Florida. Type 9 coll. B. Neumoegen. 

 Very near vS". castaneum Hy. Edw. , but easily distinguished by 

 the abdominal segments and vitreous secondaries. 



Alcathoe caudatum ab. walkeri nov. ab. — Antennae black, with light 

 yellow inner edges and tips. Head, eyes, thorax, abdomen, caudal ap- 

 pendage and anal tuft, intensely black. Legs and their hairy tuft dark 

 black, with yellow tips of tarsi, the latter being yellowish in front pair. 

 Wings the same as in typical (^, but of an intense lustrous black. 



Type S coll. B. Neumoegen. Obs. also coll. Doll and Walker. 



Mr. I. V. D, Walker, of Jamaica, L. I., to whom I dedicate 

 this splendid aberration, was the first one to discover it about a 

 year ago. Since then Mr. Doll has raised two more identical 

 specimens from a number of typical males. If it were not for 

 this fact and the typical wings, this insect could be easily taken 

 for a different species. 



Sannina exitiosa var. Inminosa nov. var.— Head, collar, fringes of pa- 

 tagise as well as all abdominal segments of the brightest yellow. Prima- 

 ries, costal, subcostal, vein 8, as well as basal part of median, the entire 

 interior margin and the outer edge of discal, of a metallic golden reflec- 

 tion; highly opalescent. Secondaries, costa, marginal line, as well as all 

 veins of the most beautiful metallic golden sheen, which, united to the 

 opalescence of wings, gives it the appearance of golden sunlight playing 

 on a ground of mother of pearl. Below, the same beautiful metallic gol- 

 den reflection on highly opalescent wings. 



Types (males), coll. B. Neumoegen. Obs. also coll. J. Doll. 

 Words cannot adequately describe this magnificent $ varia- 

 tion, raised in a number of examples by Mr. Doll this year. 



Many specimens of beetles have two eyes on each side of the head, one 

 superior to the other. — Newspaper. 



