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Atrophopalpas angusticornis n. sp. cf .— Eyes light brownish; frontal vitta 

 dark brown, narrow; sides of front, face and cheeks silver>'-white, except 

 brownish prae-genal area; antennae grayish black, second joint more or 

 less rufous apically, arista blackish; proboscis dark brown, palpi appar- 

 ently grayish; occiput cinereous, silverj' on edges, gray-hairy. Thorax 

 silvery, with four black vittae, scutellum silver>', clouded with blackish. 

 Abdomen shining black, segments two to four narrowly silvery white at 

 base, all segments very faintly silvery, anal segment light rufous; first 

 segment with a lateral macrochseta surrounded with bristles, second with 

 a lateral one and a median marginal pair, third with a marginal row of 

 about six, anal with marginal row of eight. Legs black, front and middle 

 femora faintly silver>' below, pulvilli fuscous. Wings grayish hyaline, 

 tegulae translucent white; halteres pale brownish at base, knobs luteous. 

 Length of body 4% mm.; of wing t,% mm. 



Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson). 



Myothyria vanderwnlpi n. sp. (^ (?). — Eyes light brownish; frontal vitta 

 blackish, narrow, one-third width of front; front hardly one-third width 

 of head, equilateral, face widened; two orbital bristles; sides of front, 

 face and cheeks dark cinereous, slightly silvery; antennae and arista black, 

 third antennal joint about two and one-half times as long as second; pro- 

 boscis brownish, fleshy, not as long as hight of head; palpi brownish, 

 testaceous at tip; occiput blackish, thinly black-hairy. Thorax black, 

 cinereous pollinose, scutellum black. Abdomen black, bases of second 

 to fourth segments silvery-white; first two segments with a lateral pair of 

 macrochsetae, the second with a median marginal pair; third with a mar- 

 ginal row; anal with several lateral submarginal, and a median discal pair. 

 Legs black, claws and pulvilli very short. Wings grayish hyaline, with 

 costal spine, tegulae nearly white, halteres blackish, tawny at base. Length 

 of body 3% mm.; of wing 3^ mm. 



Described from one specimen; So. Florida (Robertson). 



ENTOMOLOGIZING IN MEXICO. 



By W. S. Blatchley, Terre Haute, Ind. 



(Continued from page 114, Vol. Ill, No. 4) 



Other interesting and typical tropical forms were the Helicoiiias 

 with their brilliant colors and long and narrow wings. As many 

 as a dozen of them were often seen fluttering about a clump of 

 flowers, and four or five would at times be captured with a single 

 scoop of the net. The Neonymphas were also well represented, 

 two or three species being found everywhere flying close to the 

 ground with that queer jerky flight so characteristic of the mem- 

 bers of that genus. Among the Nymphalidae, however, the spe- 



