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coccinata Grt., rare; ilia Cram., common; parta Gn., common; 

 unijiiga Walk., rare; briseis Edw., rare; conaimbeyis Walk., 

 rare; caraQn., common; amatrix Hbn., rare; tristis Edw., rare; 

 epione Dru., common; antinynipha Hbn.. rare; serena Edw., 

 common; habilis Grt., common; innubens Gn., common; v. C, 

 scintillans G. & R., rare; palcogama Gn., common; v. A, pha- 

 langa Grt.. rare; neogama S. & A., common; stibnata Grt., 

 common; piatrix Grt., rare; nebulosa Edw.. rare; ywflfz//z Strk., 

 rare; robinsonii QxX.. , rare; reteda Grt., rare; v. h, Jlebilis Grt., 

 rare; 7;/flf7<a S. & A., rare; lacrymosa Gn., rare; v. D, paidiiia 

 H. Edw., rare; insolabilis Gn. , rare; obsaira Strk., common; 

 V. A, residua Grt., rare. 



I have followed in the footsteps of Prof John B. Smith for my 

 classification of this list, and no matter how much I dislike the 

 system of his Rhopalocera, I find his system for the Heterocera 

 is the best that we ever have had for the American student up to 

 the present time. 







A NEW SMYNTHURUS. 



By F. L. Harvey, Orono, Me. 



Smyntharas 6-macnlata n. sp. — Deep blue-black, with four couspicuous 

 enamel-white spots on the body and two smaller ones between the eyes, 

 located as shown in the cut. The posterior pair of spots on the body 

 largest, both pairs on the body somewhat reniform in outline with the 

 sinuses on the dorsal side. Antennae and legs paler, shaded with purple. 



Eye patches conspicuous and darker than 

 '!^.^3*vte«sgi:5^[i'^j;y3i3=^^ the coloring of the head. Head broader 



than long, nearly in the ratio of 3:2. Body 

 broad behind, where the breadth about 

 equals the length, abruptly narrowing 

 from the broadest part to the last seg- 

 ments. Antennae slender, nearly two- 

 thirds the length of the body and head. 

 The joints in the ratio of 2:3:4:8, and el- 

 bowed between the third and fourth. The 

 terminal segment composed of about nine 

 subjoints. Elater long, slender, the 

 branches of the fork widely spreading, 

 second and third joints equal, the terminal segment conical, slender and 

 ending in a point. Legs rather long and stout; claws large. 



Measiireinents. — Total length .7 — i mm. Parts of a full grown specimen 

 about as follows: head .2 mm. long, .3 mm. broad; antennce, 6 mm.; ratio 



