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two upper ones small, the apical one present and nearly as long as the 

 others. Hind tarsi long and slender, the first and second joints subequal 

 in length. Tip of abdomen very gently enlarged, the last ventral segment 

 acuminate and in the middle carinate, the apex entire ; supra-anal plate 

 scutellate on basal half, attenuate and bent gently downwards on apical 

 half ; cerci long and slender, directed backwards and bowed inwards dis- 

 tally. Mesosternal lobes with their inner edges rounded and about one- 

 half as widely separated as the width of one of the lobes. Prosternum 

 long, the spine located near its front edge, short, blunt and directed 

 gently to the rear. 



Length of body, % , 54.5, of antennae, 21.5, of fastigium, 9.75, of prono- 

 tum, 8, of tegmina, 27, of hind femora, 19 millimeters. 



Habitat. — Taken at Pozo Azul, Costa Rica, Central America, 

 in June, by C. F. Underwood. (Collection of L. Bruner.) 



From the general appearance of the insect, its somber color, 

 its gently concave breast, the long and slender tarsi and strong 

 claws, etc., it is surmised that it has the habit of clinging to 

 the stems of plants in shady places. The female is without 

 doubt much larger, and is apt to have peculiar modifications of 



the ovipositor. 



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A Review of a Review. 



By Henry Skinner. 

 Dr. Dyar, in the Journal of the New York Entomological 

 Society, p. 207, December, 1905, devotes eleven lines and three 

 words to telling the readers of the Journal what he knows about 

 a supplement * published by myself. He says : "' It is so7ne- 

 what bristling with typographical errors and blunders, but we are 

 used to that sort of thing from Philadelphia.'' The Washington 

 editor of the New York Journal could have used the space to 

 better advantage by pointing out those blunders and the ento- 

 mological world would have been the gainer thereby. Review 

 by innuendo is of no use to anyone except to vent spleen. I 

 don't know whether the words " but we are tised to that sort of 

 thing from Philadelphia " is a gratuitous insult to me or to all 

 the Philadelphia entomologists, including the illustrious dead. 

 Now Dr. Dyar has been laboring under a hallucination in 

 relation to what he is pleased to call my position in regard to 



* A Synonymic Catalogue of North American Rhopalocera. Supplement No. i. By 

 Henry Skinner. 



