2i8 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, 



those of their host, but possess a thinner, almost diaphanous wall. 



Sapyga aculeata Cress, affected 7)^ per cent. 



Photopsis ? affected 5 per cent. 



Stelis sexmaculata Ashm. affected 5 per cent. The cocoons 

 of this species are all somewhat alike in texture, are 4 lines long, 

 of an oblong shape, with rounded ends and of a gray opaque 

 color. Appended is Mr. Ashmead's description of this new 

 species. 



STELIS Panzer. 



Stelis G-macnlata Ashm. n. sp. 9 • — Length 5 mm. Black, clothed with 

 a griseous pubescence, denser on pleura and face ; the first, second and 

 third abdominal segments each with two oblong white spots. Wings 

 subfuliginous. the second recurrent nervure almost interstitial with the 

 second transverse cubital nervure. Head opaque, closely punctate; thorax 

 and abdomen also punctate, but shining. 



Comes nearest to S. feeder alis Smith, which, however, has only 

 two white spots on the abdomen. 



NOTES ON THE WHITE CALLIMORPHAS. 



By Harrison G. Dyar. 



Mr. O. D. Foulks has sent me some of the Callimorpha men- 

 tioned as C. vestalis on page 298 of the November number of 

 the News. They prove to be fulvicosta, and the specimens 

 grade into reversa and not lecontei. The series now before me 

 suggests a change in the synonymy given by Mr. Neumoegen 

 and myself (Jour, N. Y. Ent. Soc. i, 1 59-161). At that time 

 we did not recognize vestalis, but wrongly identified the form as 

 fulvicosta, and consequently renamed the true fulvicosta as var. 

 dicplicata. Mr. Foulks' specimens are H. reversa, var. djiplicata^ 

 N. and D., but the recognition of vestalis will correct the syn- 

 onymy as below. I differ from Mr. Lyman and Prof Smith (see 

 Check List, 1891) in not considering three white forms, consita, 

 fulvicosta and vestalis as of specific rank. That they are varie- 

 ties is proven in the case o{ fulvicosta by Mr. Foulks' specimens, 

 and is indicated in the case of vestalis by examples from Mr. J. 

 S. Faaborg, of Clinton, Iowa. 



The larvee of only two species of Haploa are known with any 

 certainty, and it is to be hoped that special efforts will be made 

 to discover the rest. 



