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A comment as to the generic differences is unnecessary, but 

 there are two more specimens, % and $ , which were discovered 

 in FrankHn County, Pa., by my friend, H. Ulke, who kindly 

 loaned them to me a year ago; they are in his cabinet, and may 

 bring these genera still nearer together. 



Rhezidms intermedins n. sp. 



Uniformly brown. Length of rf 1.5 mm.; $ 1.66 mm. 



$ . — Head as transverse as in Oropus, somewhat punctulate. Antennae, 

 without the last joint, as long as the width of the head, the last joint as 

 long as the first and second together. Eyes very much smallfer than in 

 Oropus; occiput perpendicularly declining toward the neck in an angu- 

 lated line from the sides to the middle of the base. Prothorax little wider 

 than the head with a twice interrupted median sulcus and a straight trans- 

 verse sulcus, which is triangularly dilated in the middle, ending in pubes- 

 cent foveae laterally situated inside of a slightly ovate depression, the base 

 strongly punctured, the disc slightly uneven, impunctate; no crenulation 

 or a spine at the sides. Elytra as in Oropus. Abdomen at the base in 

 the middle depressed, the depression divided by a short carina; the bor- 

 ders of the first visible segment divergent; the first three visible segments 

 equal, one-quarter of their width long, fourth and fifth shorter; ventrals 

 nearly equal in length. 



^. — Has the ninth and tenth joints of the antennae shorter, more trans- 

 verse, and the last longer than in the female. Head, prothorax and elytra, 

 more visibly punctulate. Eyes somewhat larger. Prothorax with the 

 median sulcus not interrupted, but abbreviated in the anterior third. Ab- 

 domen as in the female, but the junction of the fourth and fifth segments 

 transversely impressed. 



NOTES ON ARKANSAS LEPIDOPTERA. 



By R. R. Rowley, Fort Smith, Ark. 



Five hundred miles to the southwest of Curryville, Mo., where 

 the writer has spent half a score of years in the study of Ento- 

 mology and Geology of a most interesting region, is the " Bor- 

 der City," Fort Smith, Ark. A residence here since the middle 

 of September has given him but limited opportunity to enter into 

 the study of nature, but he could not, if he wished, close his eyes 

 on the fairy-like creatures that flit from blossom to blossom in this 

 city of flowers. The first finds were two splendid larvae of that 

 magnificent moth, atheroma regalis, on a persimmon tree, where, 

 from indications, a number of other caterpillars had been feeding; 

 two larvae of Eacles hnperialis on maple; two of Ceratomia 



